I have to chime in...my Dad (Deetz) loved putting food in his hair or on
his face in formal settings...I remember him telling me about doing so
once at the Smithsonian. I miss him :)
> Yes, it is coming back to me, its coming back to me more after seeing
> the 1979 Nashville Program. I now remember:
>
> SHA 1979
>
> My most vivid memory was of Mel Thurman violently attacking the
> conference organizers at the Business Meeting because the conference
> was not perfect in all details. The conference chair started to stand
> up to defend himself when his colleagues wisely stopped him because
> they knew there was no defence when Thurman was in his attack mode.
> Perhaps one missing element were the Abstracts of papers and
> sessions. Does anyone know for sure?
>
> I also remember there was a rotating restaurant on top of the Hyatt
> Regency Hotel (or some building). It was the first time I was in such
> a structure and there were great views. You could see so far that it
> was even possible we could see into civilized states like, say, Ohio.
> I am not sure if the staff were paid employees or slaves. Remember,
> this meeting was a long time ago.
>
> Yes, Deetz actually showed up for this one unlike the meeting which
> he was suppose to preside over as the SHA President. He forgot to
> come to that one!
>
> Symposium:
>
> I do recall being very pleased that I was the last discussant because
> I had some brilliant, insightful concluding remarks. Unfortunately I
> can not remember one of them. Am looking for notes or a copy of the
> remarks if I wrote them out before the meeting.
>
> Did anyone make a tape recording of the session? Probably not.
>
> The Star Wars Session was very successful and a lot of fun. But the
> details . . . . . . After attending over 40 SHA meetings they all
> start to merge in ones memory.
>
> Bob Schuyler
>
>
> At 10:30 PM 12/3/2008, you wrote:
>>The March 1979 SHA Newsletter reproduced essentially the same
>> information,
>>with slightly less detail. No discussion or commentary on the
>> conference.
>>
>>My program and abstracts for this conference are missing from an
>> otherwise
>>complete set of conference programs dating from 1975 onwards. Spooky?
>>
>> I recall the Star Wars session in great detail though I admit I had
>>completely forgotten, indeed erased the memory, that certain individuals
>> had
>>commented on the South & Deetz 1977 books. No one can accuse me of 20/20
>>hindsight.
>>
>>I always wished Jim Deetz had published more on his brilliant notion of
>>developing a formula for assessing levels of domestic strife on the basis
>> of
>>sherd breakage. (Grin.)
>>
>>mcb
>>
>>On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Robert L. Schuyler
>><[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>
>> > Dan:
>> >
>> > I am sending my initial findings via HISTARCH because perhaps someone
>> on
>> > the list (Rick Sprague ?) can help with a problem I have encountered.
>> >
>> > The "Star Wars" Session was indeed in 1979 and I have that Program
>> (PROGRAM
>> > SHA CUA January 2-6, 1979 Nashville) which on page 4 (unnumbered)
>> reads:
>> >
>> > WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, January 3
>> >
>> > 1:00 Official welcome (Regency Ballroom) -
>> > Herbert Harper and George Fielder
>> >
>> > SHA SESSION 4: STAR WARS 79: Will the Pole Arm of Historical
>> Archaeology Be
>> > Fashioned from Nomothetic Metal or the Dream Dust of Structuralism:
>> Being a
>> > Review of the Recent Work of James Deetz and Stanley South (Organized
>> by
>> > G.P. Moran), Regency Ballroom
>> >
>> > 1:10 Introduction - Geoffrey P. Moran
>> >
>> > 1:20 "Sate of the Art/Science" - James Deetz
>> >
>> > 1:40 "Start of the Art/Science" - Stanley South
>> >
>> > 2:20 Review of "In Small Things Forgotten and Method and Theory" -
>> W.H.
>> > Adams
>> >
>> > 2:40 R. Dickens
>> >
>> > 3:00 COFFEE BREAK
>> >
>> > 3:20 W. Kelso
>> >
>> > 3:40 M. Leone
>> >
>> > 4:00 C. Redman
>> >
>> > 4:20 R. Schuyler
>> >
>> > 4:40 Cross-Examination and Rejoinders
>> >
>> >
>> *********************************************************************************
>> >
>> > The problem is that I can not find the 1979 Abstracts for the meeting.
>> Does
>> > anyone on the list have the Abstracts (papers)? Were there Abstracts
>> given
>> > out that year? Of course the discussants may not have had formal
>> papers. I
>> > am checking my own records on that question.
>> >
>> > Bob Schuyler
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 10:26 AM 12/3/2008, you wrote:
>> >
>> >> Dear Colleagues,
>> >> I'm keen, in a paper I'm writing, to discuss the so-called 'Star
>> Wars'
>> >> session/debate at the
>> >> SHAs circa 1978, which included contributions from Jim Deetz and Stan
>> >> South (among
>> >> others).
>> >>
>> >> As there is little or nothing published on the session, I'd be very
>> >> grateful if anyone who
>> >> was there could send their memories of the session to me by email (or
>> >> indeed, anyone
>> >> who wasn't there, but has opinions about its significance or
>> content).
>> >>
>> >> Any references to descriptions/discussions of the session in print
>> also
>> >> gratefully received!
>> >>
>> >> Many thanks in advance for your assistance and guidance with this,
>> >>
>> >> Dan Hicks
>> >> ........................................
>> >> Dr Dan Hicks MIFA, FSA
>> >> University Lecturer & Curator in Archaeology
>> >> School of Archaeology/Pitt Rivers Museum
>> >> University of Oxford
>> >> email: [log in to unmask]
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>--
>>Mary C. Beaudry, PhD, RPA, FSA
>>Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology
>>Department of Archaeology
>>Boston University
>>675 Commonwealth Avenue
>>Boston, MA 02215-1406
>>tel. 617-358-1650
>>
>>people.bu.edu/beaudry/Mary_Beaudrys_Research/Welcome.html
>
Kelley Deetz M.A.
Doctoral Candidate
PhD Program in African Diaspora Studies
UC Berkeley
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