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10:00 AM - Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony & Honors Forum Senior Recognition

12:30 PM - Senior Varsity Athlete Recognition Luncheon

2:00 PM - Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony

3:30 PM - Class of 2013 Parents Fund Ceremony

4:30 PM - President's Reception

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Inventing the Fetish: Voodoo, Religion, and the European Thing for African Objects

Location: Palamountain Hall: Emerson Auditorium

Date: 03/20/2013

Time: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Perez

Description:
Dr. Perez (Dartmouth College) is a scholar of Afro-Diasporic Religions who has conducted fieldwork among Lucumi communities. Her presentation will show how the European "thing" (as in "inexplicably strong feeling") for African objects winds up creating the fetish as a conceptual category (and constructs "fetishism" as a characteristic practice of Africans). This act of classification then informs the construction of Caribbean "voodoo" as the opposite of (modern, Western) "religion," a tendency that continues today in current representations of African-based traditions.

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Philosophy & Religion

Contact:
Dr. Gregory Spinner

Tags: anthropology art history philosophy religion

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