ARC -- AYNI Conference

In conjunction with the Association for Religion + Intellectual Life (ARIL)
to be held in

The National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW, Washington DC.
Saturday May 2^nd, 1998

AYNI is a word from Quechua,
the language of the Inka empire, and the language of the present day millions of
Inka descendants who still inhabit the ghostly outlines of that conquered empire.
The word AYNI refers to the principle of reciprocity that governs all their social relations,
but AYNI is also an ontological premise about how the world is organized.
The ARC/ARIL conference will examine the subject broadly
and will include many forms of interacting duality in the art, myth, language,
and life of both the ancient and modern Andean worlds.

The Great Hall, National Building Museum	Schedule: 9:30am Coffee and Welcome: Susan Henshaw Jones, Pres. and Director, National Building Museum 10:00am Introduction: William J Conklin, moderator. Presentations: 10:15am Bruce Mannheim, "The Grammar of Reciprocity and Reversal in the Language of the Inka." 11:00am Tom Cummins, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Substance, Image and the Manifestation of the Andean Sacred." 11:45am Jeffrey Quilter, "Animism, Anamatism, and Animation in New World Thought and Culture."

	12:30pm -- 1:30pm Lunch 1:30pm Welcome: Nelvin Vos, President, ARC Presentations: 1:45pm William J Conklin, "Reading the Unwritten, Interactive Dualism in the Textile Traditions of the Ancient Andes." 2:30pm Catherine J Allen, "Directing the Flow of Life: Reciprocity in Andean Communities." 3:15pm David L. Miller, Program Discussant 5:00pm Reception: 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Apt. 1026

	Biographical Information about the speakers: Suggested Reading list (Including books by conference speakers): About the National Building Museum:

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