Association for Africanist Anthropology AAA Annual Meeting 2016 Day / Session Title Individual Papers Location Time Wednesday November 16, 2016 ALTERITIES AND 2:00 pm Minneapolis IDENTITY The Biopolitics of Biotrade in South Africa: Pharmaceuticals, Extractive Geographies, Convention MANIPULATION IN and Labor Center AFRICAN CONTEXTS Christopher Morris (Clarkson University) Room 2:15 200H ‘Guinée New Generation’: Digital Literacies and the Mediation of Youth in Urban Guinea Clovis Berger (Rutgers University, Camden) 2:30 Maasai Identity in the 21st Century and the Culture of the Cow Allison Kotowicz (University of Wisconsin) 2:45 Ethnographic Musings: Gluckman, Bridges, and Situations Analyzed
Elene Cloete (University of Kansas) 3:00 Imagined Communities, Imaginative Zones: Raising Professional Class Urbanites in
3:45 PM 3:45 Between Globalized Imaginaries, Local Communities, and Material Practices - Anne Lewinson (Berry College)
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