Tuesday, April 1, 2003: 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Gwen Kennedy Neville is professor emeritus of sociology and
anthropology at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
In 1979, she became the first woman at Southwestern to hold
an endowed chair: the Elizabeth Root Paden Chair in Sociology.
She earned her master's and doctoral degrees in social and
cultural anthropology at the University of Florida. She taught
for nine years at Emory University in the Department of Sociology
and Anthropology, and the Candler School of Theology.
Professor Neville's work has focused on symbolic anthropology
of religion, culture and community. She has published two
books with Oxford University Press: Kinship and Pilgrimage:
Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant Culture and The
Mother Town. She is working on her third book for Oxford--Body
of Christ/People of God--which is about "the ways in
which symbolism of Protestant ceremonies and rituals use things
that are also Roman Catholic and take those and turn them
upside down or on their heads and make new things out of old
symbols."
The MARIAL Center
Emory West, 4th Floor, Room 415E
Open to the public
Refreshments will be served
