Mary Ellin and others have raised excellent points.  Perhaps we could have a
session in this vein for SHA 2000?  I have been considering organizing a
session around the theme "Is culture dead in historical archaeology?"  This
theme is interesting to me since everything I read now struggles with
ethnicity, race, religion, class, socioeconomics, or even age and not
culture per se.  I find the writings of the members of the "culture studies"
group to be very provocative.  Perhaps I could combine these two themes into
one session, and we could attempt to present a set of papers by historians
and archaeologists grappling with the idea of culture?  We could then try to
get participants to deliver the session at Quebec and a major historical
conference.  I think the Western History Association meeting is at the same
time as the SHA, but I am open to suggestions...

What level of interest is there for this kind of session?

Tim
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Timothy Scarlett
University of Nevada, Reno
Department of Anthropology / 096
Reno, NV 89557-0096
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