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Cultural celebrations of death examined, displayed at the Anthropology Museum “Celebrations of Death,” a new exhibit for the Anthropology Museum, opened March 3, 2005. The exhibit’s thirteen stations ex­ plore how people of various cul­ tures conceive of and cope with death. Some time around 50,000 B.C., Neandertals in Europe and the Middle East began burying their dead with rituals and grave offerings. Since then, every society has developed its distinctive beliefs, ceremonies and obligations “Celebrations of Death” is now on display at the Anthropology Museum, located on the third floor regarding the dead. of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Building. Photos: Robert Whitehead/CSUSB “Celebrations of Death” ex­ plores how human beings conceive societies and places such as the ease the equally trying transition for of and cope with death. It is now on KwakiutI of British Columbia, rural survivors,” said Russell Barber, mu­ display in CSUSB’s Anthropology peasants in Greece, modern urban seum director and anthropology Museum, located on the third floor China, ancient Egypt, Victorian professor. of the College of Social and England, Buddhist Tibet, and the “Thus, a funeral and any other Behavioral Sciences Building. tribal peoples of West Africa. memorial ceremony is an intimate This exhibit samples the “Funeral ceremonies are mixture of sorrow, grief, joy and diversity, presenting information, designed partly to ease this hope. In death there is celebration, objects and pictures from different transition for the deceased, partly to as well as sadness.”

Dr. Jim Pierson retires usually have taken Department chair Every student who has majored several more from him. compietes three years in anthropology at CSUSB during Earlier this year, Dr. Pete Robertshaw completed the last thirty-four years has proba­ Jim decided to enter bly taken at least one course from the Faculty Early his three-year term as department Dr. Jim Pierson. Retirement Program. chair in the spring of 2005. And once a student has taken That means, although Since Dr. Robertshaw passed his Jim Pierson one course with Dr. Pierson, they Continued on page 6 performance review with flying colors, the Provost re-appointed Inside this issue him for another three years, his third term of office. Alumni news th Page 3 While Dr. Robertshaw was on Jim’s remarkable qualities Page 4 sabbatical leave in fall 2004, Faculty news Page 6 Dr. Russell Barber earned the CSUSB department's gratitude by serving as Archaeological field school Page 9 iiiiiriiiiT acting chair. 2 Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06

The new newsletter

he Anthropology Department has for many years produced a quarterly newsletter. TThe main purpose of this newslet­ ter was to provide current students with the schedule of classes for the next quarter. This information was supple­ mented with brief news of alumni and faculty, as well as such favorites as Russell Barber's "Gustatory Corner." However, with the rise of the internet, much of the information that current students desire can be delivered to them in a more timely fashion via e-mail and the depart­ ment's Web site. Therefore, the department The Anthropology Museum on the third floor of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences not only is home to informative exhibits by the Anthropology Department, but it also offers some spec­ decided to replace the old quarterly tacular views of the CSUSB campus and the surrounding mountains. newsletter with an annual newsletter Photo: Robert Whitehead/CSUSB that we hope will be both bigger and better. This is our first attempt at an annual newsletter. Please let us know what you think of it. And please send us your news, including digital photos, for inclusion in next year's newsletter. In the meantime, if you would like to read current news of the department, visit our Web site - http://csbs.csusb.edu/anthro. This site is usually updated a couple of times each quarter.

Anthropology faculty Dr. James C. Pierson (emeritus) Dr. Russell Barber 537-5504, SB-31 I 537-5523, SB-307 [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Peter T. Robertshaw Dr. Anne Bennett Department Chair 537-5520, SB-302F 537-5551, SB-327G [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Frances F. Berdan 537-5505, SB-309 Patricia Massei, ASC [email protected] 537-5502, SB-327 [email protected] Dr. Kathleen M. Nadeau 537-5503, SB-302D For advising in the major, please contact any full-time faculty [email protected] member during their office hours (preferably in person) or by phone or e-mail. Dr. Wesley A. Niewoehner 537-5567, SB-313 Newsletter editors [email protected] Dr. Pete Robertshaw Patricia Massei Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06 3

Darla Pimental, B.A. anthropology 2001, graduated Alumni news law school in May 2004 from the University of La Verne, Catherine Banker, B.A. anthropology and criminal College of Law. justice 1991 and M.A. interdisciplinary studies 1994, is a Heather Schaub, B.A. anthropology and liberal studies business development manager for Vector Resources, 2005, completed her senior honors thesis entitled Inc., where she assists school districts and other local “Bonobos, Chimpanzees, and Humans: How different are entities in developing funding sources for infrastructure they and what do those differences mean?” projects. She has served as a member of the steering Dr. Roberta Stathis, B.A. anthropology 1975 and M.A. committee for the Digital California Project, chair of the Education 1979, is president of Ballard & Tighe, a pub­ Electronic Learning Resources Subject Matter Commit­ lisher of tests and instructional materials for limited Eng­ tee for the Curriculum and Supplemental Materials Com­ lish proficient (LEP) students. Roberta has served as a mission and as liaison to the Commission for Technology member of Ballard & Tighe’s executive management in Learning. In December 2004 she was appointed by the committee for ten years. She also is the author and edi­ governor to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. tor of numerous articles, publications and books, among Brian Boggs, B.A. anthropology track A 2000, is work­ them social studies textbooks for English learners. ing as an archaeologist for Statistical Research Inc. in Linda Stockham, B.A. anthropology track B 1975 and Redlands, and is a graduate student in anthropology at M.A. Special Major 1987, is to have her poem "One CSU Fullerton. Grain of Sand" published through Pure Tragedy Literary Kari Courson, B.A. anthropology 2003, married Nicho­ Annual, December 2005, United Kingdom. In addition, las Houle Oct. 16, 2004, in Bloomington. Kari works in her one-act play "Crossing Bells" will be airing in the Bay the San Bernardino office of the Automobile Club of Area over KSFU-FM, as well as nationally over the public Southern California. She played for the Coyote softball broadcast satellite system, and globally on the web. To team from 1999-2000. check schedules to hear the radio broadcasts or on the Raulabel Gonzalez, B.A. anthropology track A 2000, web, go to http://www.shoestring.org/srthome.html and sports and facilities coordinator for Recreational Sports, click on appropriate choices. Linda will also have her was awarded the staff Golden Apple award from San one-act, one-man play Arctic Quest published in the Bernardino Mayor Judith Valles at a banquet at the Radis- August 2005 issue of Sweaterbrain Literary E-zine. son Hotel on March 24, 2005. Donovan Jeffcoat, B.A. anthropology track A 2003, Linda’s latest play, “Forgotten Souls”, has been selected tested and passed the initial examination for one of Ja­ for presentation in the North Park Playwright’s Festival pan’s oldest art forms, Araki Muninsai Ninamoto no 2005 in San Diego, CA. Hidetsuna Ryu laido. He is the first non-Japanese to pass Sarah Tait (Walker), B.A. anthropology 1987, is a re­ this test in nearly five years. tired probation officer for the San Bernardino County Daisuke Isogai, B.A. anthropology 2004, is a graphic Probation Department. designer making trophies and artifacts for memorials mainly in public relations. Justin LaFerriere, B.A. anthropology 2004, is teaching Colin Tansey, B.A. anthropology: at Options For Youth (a charter school) in Victorville history minor 2001, and his wife and working on his credential. He was also recently had a new addition to their family. married. Little Aidan (pictured at left) was Dori LaMar, B.A. anthropology 2005, completed her born June 25th, weighing 9 lbs. senior honors thesis titled “An Historical and Cross- I 1.8 oz. and was 22 1/2” long. Cultural Overview of the Veil in Islam: The Cases of Egypt and Iran from Pre-lslamic Times to the Present”. Dr. Robert M Yohe II, B.A. anthropology 1983, is an Jack Lape, B.A. anthropology track A 1996, graduated associate professor of anthropology at CSU Bakersfield. in January with an MPA in Marketing, and is working for He is also the director of the Laboratory of Archaeologi­ Farmers Insurance as a claims adjuster. He also got mar­ cal Science: Coordinator Southern San Joaquin Valley ried in March 2003, and he and his wife are expecting a Archaeological Information Ctr. He is currently involved baby. Congratulations! in the U.C. Berkeley Tell El-Hibeh Project in Egypt, serv­ Teresa Miller, B.A. psychology: anthropology minor 2005, has been accepted into the M.S. Program in Clinical ing on the research team as the project’s osteologist and Psychology at CSUSB. lithic analyst investigating the transition in mummification Fernando O’Campo, B.A. anthropology 2005, who practices from late Roman to Coptic times. received a McNair scholarship last year, has been ac­ cepted into the graduate program at SUNY Albany. 4 Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06

An interview with Jim opportunities, course some years ago and have and implica­ incorporated into other courses as You obtained your BA at tions of being well. Sacramento State, so you're a Aboriginal in a What have been the high points Caiifornia native? contemporary (and maybe low points) of your I completed both a BA and an MA Australian city. career at CSUSB? at Sac State. I grew up in south­ What It has been very rewarding to be a western Colorado and came to direction(s) part of a very productive California in 1962. I lived with an did your re­ department, even if I haven't always aunt and uncle in Stockton and went search take done my share of producing, one to community college and then on I after you that has a deservedly excellent repu­ to Sac State in 1963. came to San Bernardino? tation on campus. Having a program Did you major in anthro at Sac I continued my interest in in which the four subfields are rep­ State? Why did you choose Aborigines and Aboriginal identity. I resented is great. It is also nice to anthro? also did a bit of research with a hear from students from years past I did major in anthropology. My real small religious group in the SB that anthro at Cal State made a interest was geology but Sac State mountains and began to use positive impact on their lives, what­ did not have a program in geology at "ethnographic" fiction in some of my ever paths their careers and lives the time. Since Sac State was my courses. That lead to some research took. The lowest point would be only real option for a four year col­ on the types of ethnographic infor­ when Frannie and I were the only lege, I tried to find a program in mation obtained by readers of tenure track people left in the which my background in biology and fiction, especially selected mystery department and the future of the geology would be relevant. A novels. program was in doubt. knowledgeable counselor suggested You have been working in re­ What do you think is the future anthropology. I began taking cent years on a topic you call of anthropology at CSUSB (and cultural anthropology courses and "Stolen Children." What's this perhaps in Southern found I liked them. I also enjoyed about? California)? the physical anthro and archaeology It refers most specifically to I am cautiously optimistic, especially courses but was not always able to American Indian and Australian because there seems to be a lot of go on the weekend field trips Aboriginal children who were student interest. The fact that the because of job responsibilities. removed from their cultures and department now has increased You did your PhD at Washing­ families as part of governmental offerings in all four subfields seems ton U? What made you choose assimilation programs. It has to me to be a very positive omen. I this university? developed out of my research in have never been able to figure out, Two things influenced my decision. Australia; a number of the people I however, why anthropology does First, I read a book by Jules Henry, a worked with were born in isolated not play a larger role in the cultural anthropologist at WU, in areas but were brought to the increased emphasis on which he made many positive refer­ Adelaide area as children to live in multiculturalism in academic ences to the university and institutional homes. Since many lost programs, not just here but in program. (I actually never took a contact with their families (one of general. It seems to me that people course from him, but he still played the goals of the removal), they from other disciplines either don't an important role in my remained in the area as adults. know what we do or do know what decision.) The second thing was the Aboriginal children throughout we do and consider it largely fact that WU offered me a TA posi­ Australia had similar experi­ irrelevant. tion and a tuition free scholar­ ences. Although they are now What plans do you have in ship. After my first year, I had a full known as "the Stolen Generations," mind for retirement? scholarship and did not have to TA. these people and their In the immediate future, I am going What was the topic of your experiences (the removals took to spend time working on the writ­ PhD dissertation? place from about 1900-the early ing projects that I have not It was based on research with 1970s) were generally unknown out­ completed. I plan to continue those Aboriginal residents in the area of side the Aboriginal populations. I same research interests. I also plan Adelaide, South Australia. It empha­ began using some of this information to spend more time in Colorado sized their backgrounds in the Cross-Cultural Child-Rearing and hope to travel. Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06 5

Jim’s remarkable qualities (like the popular cross-cultural child rearing course) so we could poach on enrollments from bigger depart­ By Frannie Berdan ments. We did this without shame or conscience. He n the over thirty years that I have known Jim, I have really saved the department. And look at all of us now!! come to truly appreciate his many remarkable quali­ I was recently reminded of the quality of memory. ties. It is my special privilege to share a few of them Jim passed by my door the other day, said he was headed with you. for the snack bar, and did I want anything? Well, yes, if he I First is the quality of leadership. had an extra hand, I would like a coke. As I groped about Jim was chair of the anthropology de­ for some hard cash to pay for it, he deterred me, saying, partment when I interviewed (in "I'll pay. I owe you from last summer. I've felt guilty ever 1973) for the position I now hold. His since." This also highlights Jim's remarkable quality of exquisite leadership qualities were conscience. immediately evident to me when I I've always appreciated Jim's remarkable quality of found my interview being conducted steadiness. I can't recall the last time he missed a class, at the Wooden Nickel, over lunch and nor have I seen a "no office hours today" note on his a rousing game of pool. door. He may not be there, but at least he doesn't A second remarkable quality announce it to the world. There was a particular occa­ displayed by Jim is his ability to size up sion when I really did know (and appreciate) that stead­ ...... oeiuaii people. Associated with his first quality fast Jim was in his office. We had adjacent offices in the (leadership, in case you've forgotten), is his uncanny abil­ old student services building (now Sierra Hall). I was ity to size up people. For instance, when I was offered blithely typing away (on my typewriter, so you know the job, I immediately took it based on my experience at how long ago that was), facing a side wall that was lined the Wooden Nickel and in anticipation of future exciting with bookcases attached to the wall. It slowly dawned on billiard games. me that I was not looking at the books, but at the back One of Jim's particularly notable qualities is organiza­ of Jim's head. What was with that? Turns out that, from tion. As chair of the anthropology department, Jim dis­ the combined weight of our books, the entire wall had played extraordinary organizational skills and far-sighted slowly sunk into the foundation, at an uncomfortable, planning expertise. For instance, when I became a mem­ drunken angle. Jim was there, thank goodness. He noti­ ber of the department, he informed me that he now had fied the facilities people, who chastised us (in no uncer­ to find a new venue for the department meetings, which tain terms) for putting books on the bookcases. Neither had until then been held in the men's rest room. Jim nor I ever fully understood that. And now, to highlight his little-known skills as a tour And now, consider the quality of confidence: After a director. When Russell Barber was interviewed for the few years of just the two of us constituting the anthro­ position he now holds, one of Jim's responsibilities was pology department, Jim and I were so pleased with our to take Russell on a tour of lovely San Bernardino and accomplishments that we presented a jointly authored extol the virtues of this metropolis. This tour itinerary paper at a meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological included (I) a pass beside the wash where two people Association (1984). It was titled "Expanding Anthropol­ had drowned the previous year, (2) a quick drive by the ogy Beyond its Traditional Cultural Boundaries," active San Andreas fault, (3) views of scars from the smacking of uncontrolled and probably irresponsible im­ Panorama Fire, and finally (4) a jaunt past the Pussycat perialism. Those were the days! Cinema, where one of our more distinguished alumni And last but perhaps most remarkable, is Jim's wry, was at that time manager. dry sense of humor, often aimed directly at himself. If his Later, Russell admitted that he accepted the position classes have low enrollments, he claims that students based on us as his future colleagues. Good job, Jim. must have seen his SETEs; if you ask him if he's heading Further remarkable qualities demonstrated by Jim off to teach, no, he wouldn't call it teaching, but he was include dedication and perseverance: There was a time going to class. But we all know about Jim's expertise and when the anthropology department consisted of only Jim skill in teaching, recognized daily by his students and and me. And there was talk of eliminating the depart­ colleagues, and by the College through his receipt of the ment, or of merging it with other, larger departments. College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Neither option was acceptable to us, and I can think of Teaching Award. Well deserved, Jim! no one I would have rather struggled through those un­ Thank you for everything, Jim: Your collegiality, your certain times, than Jim. I think he was even more deter­ dedication to the department and its students, your mined than I to retain the integrity of the department, endlessly amusing comments, and most of all, your and he took on several completely new preparations friendship. 6 Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06

Faculty news Anne Bennett: Conference paper, book there is now a Linguistic Anthropology requirement that is part of the major requirements. To fulfill this require­ review and camping with ALPACA ment, students must take either Language and Culture/ In the spring 2005 quarter, Dr. Anne ANTH 388 or Gender and Language/ANTH 380. Bennett gave a conference paper entitled In the spring 2006 quarter, Bennett will teach a new “The Crisis in Iraq and Its Effects on course, “Women in Middle East Society.” Syria-U.S. Relations” at the DC Santa Barbara’s Seventh Annual Conference on Russell Barber: Museum work cpntinues Middle Eastern Studies. With the opening of “Celebrations In summer 2005, a book review writ­ of Death,” the most recent exhibit at ten by Bennett appeared in the Middle The Anthropology Museum, Russell East Journal (of “A New Old Damascus: Barber has been able to devote his time Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria” by Christa I to a variety of tasks, mostly related to Salamandra). I the museum. As ALPACA faculty advisor, Bennett reports that the First, he has begun design of the highlight of the spring 2005 quarter was the Memorial next two exhibits. The first, Day weekend camping trip in Joshua Tree National Park. “Handwriting,” will deal with writing and its significance This trip was expertly organized by outgoing around the world. Scheduled to open in fall of 2006, this President Jennifer Clark, Secretary Amanda Clark, anthro exhibit will feature a Blackfoot winter count, Uzbekistani major Laura Chatterton and honorary ALPACA member armor inlaid with silver wire spelling out verses of the Richard Harsh. Thanks go to all of them for pulling it off. Koran, cuneiform tablets, Egyptian papyri, and much The weather was good (not as hot as it could have more. We anticipate that there will be a printed exhibit been!), the amateur rock climbing was a lot of fun, the guide for this exhibit, the first produced by the museum. food was plentiful, and a good time was had by all. The second exhibit, slated to open in spring of ALPACA membership is open to all interested students, 2007, will feature the Ellins collection, a recent donation regardless of major. If you have any questions about the to the museum by Stuart Ellins, a retired CSUSB psychol­ club, contact Bennett. ogy professor and collector of Native American art. Us­ Bennett recently added two new courses to the an­ ing the Ellins collection as its basis, this exhibit will ex­ thropology curriculum beginning in fall 2005: ANTH 380/ plore directions that contemporary American Indian art Gender and Language, and ANTH 334/Anthropology and is following and will be accompanied by a book-length Film. catalogue (the first catalogue to be produced by the mu­ Also for those students who declare themselves an seum). Planning on both of these exhibits and their ancil­ anthropology major in fall 2005 or anytime thereafter. lary aspects is well under way, with many stations already Continued on page 10 Frannie Berdan: Research continues in Mexico Jim Pierson retires Frannie Berdan continues her Frannie presented a paper on Continued from Page 1 research collaboration with re­ “Reconstructing Ancient Aztec Su­ Jim has officially retired, he will searchers from the Museo National per Glue” at the annual meeting of return each year for up to five years de Antropologi'a and Museo Tempio the Society for American Archae­ to teach three courses per year. Mayor in Mexico City, and the Brit­ ology in Salt Lake City, where she Thus, in 2005-2006 Jim will teach ish Museum in London. also served as a discussant for a ses­ two courses in the winter quarter The project centers on the use of sion on Mexican Gulf Coast archae­ and one in spring. copal in ancient and modern times, ology. The department held a dinner on and included fieldwork in Mexico She also recently completed two June 3 at the Delhi Palace restaurant last fall. articles for the children’s magazine in San Bernardino to congratulate While there, Frannie had the op­ Calliope. Jim on his retirement and to thank portunity to enter a recently- She is currently completing a him for his long service to the discovered burial crypt in the Temple jointly-authored manuscript on Eth­ department. of the Moon atTeotihuacan and ex­ nic Identity in Indigenous Mesoamerica, In this issue, look for an inter­ amine its contents (including a jade having recently signed a contract for view with Jim and text of Frannie mosaic figure, parts of which are the book with the University of Berdan’s speech in his honor on currently being analyzed by LAMA). Utah Press. June 3. Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06 7 Faculty news Wes Niewoehner and Neandertal research Dicker! Everson Professor Wes Niewoehner expanded class offerings in joins Cal Trans biological anthropology by teaching osteology and functional Dr. Dicken Everson accepted a anatomy for the first time this past winter. He will continue position with Caltrans last January. to offer the required biological anthropology lab. His current duties are to ensure Professor Niewoehner was invited to participate in a that Caltrans complies with state research symposium on Neandertals at New York and federal environmental laws, spe­ University this past winter that was co-sponsored by the cifically with regard to cultural re­ Human Origins group at New York University and the Max sources, such as historical and ar­ Plank Institute for Anthropology in Vienna. chaeological sites, historic land­ The participants were chosen based on their reputation as leading re­ scapes, and architectural treasures. searchers who apply new and unique methods for solving questions about the He sits on a number of project origins and fate of Neandertals. committees, which he generally de­ His presentation, titled "Putting Neandertal Hands in Their Proper Per­ scribes as amazingly dull, and con­ spective," focused on the similarities and differences of Upper Paleolithic, Ne­ ducts field and archival research in andertal, and modern human hand functional anatomy. He will publish the archaeology and history, which is paper in the edited volume New Perspectives on Neandertals that resulted much more to his liking. from the symposium. Dicken has continued to teach a His latest publication, "A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Late Pleis­ few night classes for local colleges, tocene Human Metacarpal I Base Shape," is a chapter in the peer-reviewed an option he says he will keep open, volume Modern Morphometries in Physical Anthropology. promising that he will never give up Professor Niewoehner also continues to author the instructor's manuals warping the minds of American for the textbooks Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Essentials of Physical youth. Anthropology. Although he enjoys his new and Kathy Nadeau has two papers published challenging position, he misses his students and colleagues at CSUSB, Kathy Nadeau's Against Globalization," forthcoming and likes to receive the news when paper Confucian­ in Urban Anthropology, Kathy writes his former students finish their de­ ism: Sacred or about a contemporary grees and start careers or graduate Secular?" will ap­ religious movement in the Philip­ school. pear in the forth­ pines that aims to transform society coming issue of into a more equitable, just, and envi­ egalitarian relationship between men East Asian Pastoral ronmentally-caring society. In and women exhibited in real social Review. particular, she looks at how the pro­ life. Kathy's argu­ gressive Christians (Catholics and While the European witch tales ment is that while Confucius ap­ Protestants) there are resisting stem back to the hysterical witch proached life differently than Jesus, unwanted forms of globalization hunts and inquisitions of medieval Mohammed and Buddha did, he (militarization, top-down times, the Philippine tales may have viewed all of life as sacred. He was development) by developing organic more to do with teaching children more interested in creating a socially farming communities that work for how to resist this-worldly vices such and environmentally just society in human and environmental rights. as selfishness, greed, jealousy, and the here and now, rather than talk­ Finally, Kathy is writing a paper the lust for power, and thereby, ing about matters of the spirit on gender and vampire mythology in transform themselves into noble, world. the Philippines. Her argument is that nurturing human beings. Yet, if religion is defined as a way Philippine witches are best The general category for witches of life that is grounded on a concept understood and defined, regionally, in the Philippines is aswang, although of a transcendental notion of god in the context of South and South­ different ethnic groups have (love) that is interwoven with, and east Asia, not Europe. European different names for creatures like emanating from all living things, then, witch stories, generally, put women the aswang, everyone seems to Confucianism is a religion. down, whereas in Southeast Asia understand the word aswang. In another paper, "Christians they are reflective of the greater Continued on page 8 8 Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06 Faculty news Pete Robertshaw’s Ugandan fieldwork and glass bead research

Pete Robert- research at Trinity College, Dublin, destructive technique, allow Dr. shaw, the depart- under the supervision of David Tay­ Robertshaw and his colleagues to ment chair, took lor, a geography professor who has infer where the glass was made that ^ the fall quarter of worked with Dr. Robertshaw for was later turned into beads. 2004 as sabbatical many years. The results show that most of leave. He used Julius was awarded his Ph.D. ear­ the glass was made in various re­ Hjra this time to make lier this year and the team of Lejju, gions of South Asia, though some progress on Robertshaw and Taylor has written was made in the Middle East. Thus, alBilHll writing the final two articles that have been accepted we can reconstruct changing pat­ report on all his Ugandan archaeo­ for publication in international jour­ terns of trade between various Afri­ logical fieldwork, completing draft nals. can regions and ports in the Middle chapters on all his excavations and Among other things, these arti­ East and across the Indian Ocean the analysis of the pottery and other cles report the earliest evidence for during the centuries before the ad­ artifacts. bananas in Africa. Bananas were vent of European conquest. This enormous project is slowly first domesticated in New Guinea. At the end of 2004, Dr. Robert- Our new data indicate that they may moving towards completion. Dr. shaw's book. The Early Human have been introduced to Africa Robertshaw is waiting for other spe­ World, was published by Oxford (Uganda) before 3000 B.C., which is cialists to submit their reports on University Press. Dr. Robertshaw more than 2,000 years older than the animal bones, plant remains, and wrote the book with Jill Rubalcaba, the earliest previously known ar­ who has written historical fiction for isotope studies. He has also em­ chaeological evidence for bananas in children and lives in Maine. The ployed several graphics-design stu­ Africa. We expect a lively debate to book covers the California educa­ dents during the last couple of years ensue when their work is published. tion standards for early humankind, to convert hundreds of field draw­ Dr. Robertshaw has also contin­ which is taught in the 6th grade. ings into computer-based illustra­ ued to work on his glass bead pro­ The book is part of a series on tions suitable for publication. It will ject. This project, funded by the the World in Ancient Times aimed probably be at least one more year National Science Foundation, has at a 4th to 8th grade readership. before the final report is ready for resulted in the chemical analysis of The publisher expects the series to submission for publication. almost 1,000 glass beads found on be adopted as textbooks by Califor­ The last phase of Ugandan field­ archaeological sites across Africa nia and other states. work involved the collection of sedi­ that have been dated to between In December Dr. Robertshaw ment cores from swamps adjacent about A.D. 800 and 1600. spoke on the subject of "Africa in to the sites that Dr. Robertshaw The results of the chemical World Perspective: Lessons from excavated. These sediment cores analysis, undertaken at the Univer­ the Past" at a well-attended event of have been studied by Julius Lejju, a sity of Missouri using a non­ the World Affairs Council of the Ugandan paleobotanist, as his Ph.D. Desert.

Kathy Nadeau’s research on Philippine witch legends

Continued from page 7 For example, Cebuanos use the unsuspecting pregnant women in uses her beauty to attract and wed word ungu for ghost witches who their homes; using an elongated young men; thus they provide her ride through the streets at night tongue, she sucks the hearts of fe­ with a constant food supply, and looking for children, which are their tuses or blood of unsuspecting vic­ there are other variants. favorite prey. tims. Also, aswangs don’t seem to be The Tagalogs describe the In the region of Capiz, there is limited to the Philippine islands. Manananggal as an older, beautiful the Mandurgo who is said to appear They follow on the heels of woman capable of severing her as a beautiful woman during day and Filipino migrants who work upper torso in order to fly into the as a foul-flying fiend at night. overseas. night with huge bat wings to prey on The Mandurugo or “bloodsucker" Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06 9 Summer 2005 archaeological field school enrolls 15 students full class of 15 students enrolled in the 2005 ar­ chaeological field school. The field school is Aorganized through a tripartite agree­ ment between CSUSB, the San Bernardino National Forest, and Statistical Research Inc. (SRI), which is a large private archaeological consulting company with offices in Redlands and Tucson. Staff from SRI teach the course and manage the camp, which is based in the National Forest. The students work on archaeological projects in the forest for the public good. The 2005 field school conducted archaeological surveys and Front row l-r: John Douglass (SRI), Tonia Boughamer, Cody Gertz, Wendell Thomas, Eric Chaffin, Laura undertook test excavations at a Chatterton, Matt Dorst, and Brian Boggs (SRI). Back row l-r: Kathleen Hull (SRI), Mary Fogel (volunteer), prehistoric site along Deep Creek, Cadie McCarthy (camp cook), Katherine Carter, and Jay Ross (volunteers), Vickie Jelley-Ponce, Christine northeast of Lake Arrowhead. Hajek, David Unruh, Barbra Dorman, E.J. Fogel (volunteer). Bill Feld (SRI), Dustin Bryant, Mike Wahl and The students camped near Deep Leandra Lea. Photo: Wyvonne Davis. Creek for the four weeks of the The field school also hosted visits Next year we plan to return for field school, spending their days on by a group of school children from more extensive excavations at the field work and their evenings the San Manuel Band and local boy same site which has been deemed to listening to talks on a wide variety scouts. be eligible for the state register of of topics. Prominent among this In 2005, our archaeological field historic sites and is threatened by a year's guest speakers was Earnest school was certified by the Register variety of activities. Siva, a Serrano elder who sang and of Professional Archaeologists. However, scholarship funds are spoke about the lives of his Ours is one of fewer than twenty needed to ensure that all CSUSB ancestors in the San Bernardino field schools that have been certified students who wish to take the field Mountains. nationwide. school can afford to do so.

ALPACA opens its membership to all interested students ALPACA is the anthropology student club and is During 2004-2005 ALPACA met once a month open to anyone who is interested, regardless of major. off-campus at various eateries across the Inland Empire The first order of business for ALPACA in fall 2005 sampling international cuisines from Vietnamese to was electing new officers. They are: Amanda Lloyd, presi­ Indian. We also met on-campus for a few brown bag dent; Eric Chaffin, vice president; Ted Goff, treasurer; lunch lectures including one given by graduating senior and Laura Chatterton, secretary. Since the beginning of Fernando Ocampo on the New World origins of the school year, ALPACA has been honing its bowling chocolate and one on Syria given by Professor Bennett. skills, sampling Iranian and Thai cuisine in local Inland Em­ Several ALPACA students organized a weekend trip pire restaurants, designing club T-shirts, and planning a during spring quarter to Santa Barbara to attend an popular culture field trip to Los Angeles on Jan. 6, which undergraduate anthropology conference. will include watching the taping of a game show. The highlight of the year's ALPACA activities was the If these activities sound fun to you, or if you have Memorial Day weekend camping trip at Joshua Tree some of your own ideas to offer and would like to meet National Park. We camped out for two nights in the other anthropology majors, get in touch with Anne Ben­ park, scrambling up the rocks, sitting around the nett, the ALPACA faculty advisor (abennett(@csusb.edu campfire, checking out petroglyphs, and having a good or stop by office SB302-F). time. 10 Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06 Anthropology Department seeks support of alumni and friends he department is very grateful to all those who continue much longer given the exigencies of state fund­ have given donations in the last year. ing to the university. Moreover, Dr. Russell Barber and many students do­ nate many hours of their time to each exhibition. TWe have been particularly fortunate this year in We also need more scholarship funds to support stu­ that we have not only received monetary dona­ dent fieldwork and travel, including the archaeological tions from several alumni and current students, but we field school. There is no substitute for hands-on field­ have also been given two important collections of arti­ work in archaeology; indeed, students who have com­ facts for our museum. pleted our field school have been hired very cfuickly after We also give thanks to the Archaeological Survey graduation to work as archaeologists. We also believe Foundation for their donation of scholarships to students that our students interested in cultural anthropology enrolled in our archaeological field school. As a result of should have more opportunities to travel abroad and this gift, nine students received scholarships this year that experience other cultures first hand. covered part of the activity fee that we must charge each For some students, of course, it can be difficult just to student in order for the field school to be financially vi­ find enough money to enroll in regular classes. Thus, able. scholarships to support anthropology students with lim­ Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to ited financial means are always most welcome. the department this year. We have several pressing If you would like to discuss making a donation to the needs. Even on a shoestring budget, it costs several department, please contact Dr. Pete Robertshaw thousand dollars for us to mount a new exhibition in the ([email protected] or (909) 537-5551) or simply send Anthropology Museum. We open a new exhibition once us a check. every 18 months. To date the costs have been borne entirely by the department, a situation that cannot Barber museum work Continued from page 6 StmtBy Jamie your Beck stuff in the job marketincluding culture, diversity, race/ designed and even under construc­ Companies such as Citicorp, racism, gender, child rearing, tion, fundraising to support the ex­ Hallmark, Intel, and Motorola are religion, beliefs/values, art, music, hibit guide and catalogue underway, hiring anthropologists to help them language and group interaction. and the Ellins catalogue planned and understand consumers and develop A holistic approach, coupled with partly written. With all particulars of new products and services. insight and a wide variety of skills, the exhibits, Sharon Yellowfly (as According to National Public make anthropologists marketable to always) is an active and valued part­ Radio, World Bank is looking to hire virtually every sector of the working ner. more anthropologists and fewer world. What most anthropology Second, there have been several economists over the next few years. majors forget is that the skills they collections donated to The Anthro­ The key to finding a career that are developing are transferable and pology Museum over the last few utilizes your anthropology degree is can spark the interest of potential months. They include a collection of employers. to market your skills, not your de­ masks and other ethnographic items A functional resume works best gree. mostly from Oceania, a major col­ Anthropology is the only major because it focuses on your skill sets. lection of Middle Eastern antiquities, that studies humanity from a histori­ A sample functional resume can be the Ellins collection, and a collection cal, biological, linguistic and cultural found at http://career.csusb.edu. of Himalayan artifacts. perspective to create a holistic ap­ If you are still a little unsure Third, in preparation for the proach to asking and answering about the job market, please contact catalogue to accompany the Ellins questions. Those who have studied the Career Development Center at exhibit, Russell is learning more than anthropology have insight on issues (909) 537-5250 or [email protected]. he ever imagined he would about LAMA continues its work book design, page layout, digital pho­ The Laboratory for Ancient Materials Analysis (LAMA) continues its re­ tographic processes, and printing. search into identifying ancient organic materials. The lab recently received Finally - and it almost seems like pigment and adhesive samples from a unique jade figure unearthed in a burial an afterthought in the midst of all crypt in the Temple of the Moon at Teotihuacan, Mexico. this museum activity - he is working The figure dates from around 300 AD. LAMA also has received samples on a few academic projects that for analysis from a colonial feather mosaic from the Museo de las Americas have been hanging fire for a while, in Madrid, Spain, and from two Classic Mayan mosaic masks from the Museo including a second edition of Doing National de Antropologi'a in Mexico City. Historical Archaeology. Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06 I I

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Department of Anthropology sponsored events During the spring quarter 2005, citizenry, and the Japanese American artist, Chizuko markets that fuel Judy Sugita de Queiroz gave a talk, government sponsored by our department, on initiatives. her water color paintings that re­ Also, in called the three years during World November 2004, War II when she and her family Dr. Walden Bello, were confined to an internment Chizuko Judy winner of numerous Sugita de Queiroz camp. Her original paintings were awards, including on display at the Pfau Library from May 23 to June I. the Alternative Peace Prize (2004) In November 2004, Dr. Emma “Camp Days” was one of several works by Chizuko and the New California Media Porio of the Department of Sociol­ Judy Sugita de Queiroz displayed at the Pfau Award for Best International ogy and Anthropology at Ateneo de Library. Reporting (1998), gave the manila University in the Philippines, pines.” Her presentation at CSUSB International Lecture “Empire and gave a talk at our campus concerned innovative structures and Resistance Today: An Asian “Reshaping Democracy: Innovations processes that result in democratic Perspective” during International in Local Governance in the Philip­ engagements between government. Education Week. 12 Anthropology Department Newsletter 2005-06 The Gustatory Corner: Vegeburgers

By Russell Barber flour, a whole wheat flour used for Creek Sanitarium Foods Company Vegeburgers are making graham crackers) advocated was marketing Protose, a common made for-literally- replacing meat with high-protein meat substitute of unclear origins those who wish to gluten from wheat. Various other (probably wheat gluten), and Nut- follow a vegetarian reformers advocated a vegetarian tose (a nut product of "cream diet but still crave diet, and this became part of com­ cheese consistency" that was billed that juicy ground mon practice in Seventh-day Adven­ as a meat substitute): their advertis­ beef. tism and various other new faiths. ing booklet includes a recipe for Though they have The true vegeburger, however, "Protose Steak With Onions," which hit the big time recently, they actu­ had to wait for the rise of the ham­ is really a vegeburger with onions. ally have been around for over a burger in the early years of the 20'^ By the 1950s, there were at least century. century. a dozen brands of vegeburgers, but The 19* century was even more At that point, vegetarian cook­ none were big sellers until the of a period of health faddism than books began advocating the mashing renaissance of vegetarianism that today. Medicine, new religions, re­ of cooked navy beans with olive oil began in the 1970s. formers, and others all competed and herbs, in a feeble attempt to The sky seems to be the limit, for the public's ear - and their replicate the ground meat patty for since McDonald's - that bastion of dollar. those who missed it yet were com­ American carnivory - introduced a As early as 1832, Sylvester Gra­ mitted to abstaining from it. vegeburger to their menu in 2003. ham (the popularizer of graham By the early 1910s, the Battle

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