2009 Universities Across the Country

LIFE IN HALE : A Few Words from the Chair... Volume VIII As many of you may know, the recent national economic downturn has severely affected many state Summer 2009 universities across the country. Ironically, CU has been spared the worst effects because it receives only 9% of its annual budget from the State of Colorado. This reminds us how important student tui- tion, external research grants, and private contributions are for the future of Anthropology at CU Boulder. Fortunately, the department continues to enjoy high enrollments, active research agendas, and generous support from its alumni. The major philanthropic gifts we have received from Gregg Goldstein and Tom Lennon have made an especially important impact this year by providing our graduate students with fellowship and fieldwork support. If you are interested in exploring the op- tions for making an endowed donation or a legacy bequest to sustain the future of Colorado anthropology, I would be happy to discuss this with you. rooms and corridors of Hale. Meanwhile, it is high summer in the Rockies, and Hope you will find this edition at least 50% of our faculty and grad students are of CU Anthropology Press presently “in the field” in various parts of the intriguing and informative as world collecting data for their research projects, we make the transition from while our three-person departmental staff make paper & print to on-line web-

preparations for the Fall 2009 semester. We will based publication. Please

be joined by two new faculty colleagues (see send us your latest news so story below) and a fresh cohort of graduate and that we can share your sto- Dennis McGilvray undergraduate students to enliven the class- ries and stay in touch.

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Dr. Gerardo Gutiérrez Mendoza is coming to Dr. Jennifer A. Shannon will hold a joint ap- us from a tenured research position at the pointment with the CU Museum as Curator of Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superi- Cultural Anthropology, offering her a rare oppor- ores en Antropología Social in Mexico City, tunity to curate and teach. Shannon comes to us where he has worked for the last four years. most recently from a He has an MA in urban studies from El Colegio postdoctoral teaching de México and earned his PhD in anthropology fellowship at the Univer- in 2002 from the Pennsylvania State University. sity of British Columbia From 2002-2003, he held a prestigious post- and has also served as doctoral fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks. Gutiér- a lead curatorial re- rez’ research is focused on the archaeology, searcher and field- ethnohistory, and human ecology of prehis- worker for the panic and early colonial peoples of Mexico and Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of has received numerous grants, including from the American Indian. the Foundation for the Advancement of Meso- Shannon received her doctorate in Sociocultural american Studies, the Anthropology from Cornell University in 2008, New World Archaeological focusing on issues of rights and representation Foundation, and the Ful- among diverse indigenous peoples including bright Foundation. He has Canadian Inuit, Alaska Native, Australian Abo- a forthcoming book on riginal, Chicago urban Indian, and Kalinago Native history recorded in (Carib Indians of Dominica in the West Indies) the codices of Tlapa, communities. among numerous other publications. CU Anthropology Press Press Anthropology CU Inside this issue: How to contact us: Distinguished Speakers 2 • [email protected] Awards and Fieldwork 2, 9, 12-13 • 303-492-2547 FAX 303-492-1871 Alumni News 3 • CU Dept. of Anthropology Publications 3, 10-11, 13-14 233 UCB / Hale Science Bldg. 350 Stories from the CU Campus Presses 4-6 Boulder, CO 80309-0233

Degrees Awarded 7 Visit our website: Field Notes / Dispatches from the Field On the Web www.colorado.edu/anthropology 1 A WORLD OF With Very Special Thanks to Gregg Goldstein APPRECIATION We would like to extend and to Western Cultural Resource Management our sincere appreciation to all who have made The Goldstein Altman Graduate Research Awards are supported through a generous gift donations to the CU from CU Anthropology honors graduate Gregg Goldstein (BA 1994, pictured below at Foundation in Anthropol- right). They are intended to facilitate field research by graduate students in the field of cul- ogy’s name this year. tural anthropology. Please forgive us if we have inadvertently missed anyone. Goldstein-Altman Awards for fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology Magdalena Stawkowski—for dissertation fieldwork in Kazakhstan on the nuclear legacy in a post-Soviet context Rachel Fleming—for doctoral fieldwork in Bangalore, India on the lives of nurses who emigrate to Ireland Porter Bourie—for doctoral fieldwork in the anthropology of religion and ecology in Niger Marnie Thomson—for doctoral fieldwork on the question of refugee repatriation in Tanzania Kate Fischer—for PhD fieldwork on issues of coffee production, political economy and subjectivity in Costa Rica Chris Morris—for a feasibility study on post-apartheid politics surrounding Tom Lennon and Payson Sheets corporate bio-prospecting rights to HIV drug elements on the Afton, Jean C. Eastern Cape of South Africa Baily, Carol L. Gregg Goldstein Brown, Paul D. Brown, Siobhan C. In addition to their very generous support of our graduate program in general, Tom Lennon Bryant, Donna L. (president) and Charles Wheeler, of Western Cultural Resource Management, have formally Cameron, Catherine M. agreed to contribute three or four years of direct sponsorship to cover fees, books, and liv- Clark, Barton M. ing expenses for a particularly promising archaeology student from Nicaragua. DeLancy, Mary M. Dolder, Barbara F. Ellwood, Priscilla B. Jr. DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS & Guests Finnegan, Michael J. Frey, Rodney P. The Department hosted four renowned research scholars this year, several lectures in con- Goldstein, Gregg L. junction with the Center for Asian Studies, and co-hosted a major conference on Islam. Goodman, Linda

Greenway, Joan M. Hampton, O. Winston Steve Lansing, distinguished professor in the departments of anthropology and ecology Harwood, Susan G. and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, and research professor at the Santa Hays, Terence E. Hewes, Minna W. Fe Institute, offered a public lecture on “Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali” in Hoffman, J. Michael January. Lansing’s book by the same title won the 2006 Julian Steward Award for best book Jennings, Mark S. in ecological anthropology. Joyce, Arthur A. Dr. Barbara Mills (Ph.D. 1989, University of New Mexico) is a Professor of Anthropology Kitch, Sarah S. and an interdisciplinary faculty member with American Indian Studies. She has been teach- Lennon, Colette Lennon, Thomas J. ing at the University of Arizona since 1991, following two years on the faculty at Northern Levitch, Linda C. Arizona University. Her research interests include Southwest archaeology, Native American Mahaffy, Patrick J. ceramics, archaeologies of inequality (especially gender and colonialism), migration, iden- Matthews, Meredith H. tity, and heritage preservation. Her public talk on “The Archaeology of Social Networks and Minnis, Paul E. Memory Practices at Chaco Canyon, NM” was very well received. Nelson, Douglas R. Neupert, Mark A. Dr. Chris Kuzawa is a biological anthropologist with interests in developmental biology, Nordsiek, Janice M.H. evolutionary theory, and health. He received his BA in Anthropology from the University of Pauline Altman Foundation Colorado, Boulder and went on to receive his PhD in Anthropology and MsPH in Epidemiol- Paris, Linda M. ogy from Emory University. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropol- Ryland, Elizabeth G. ogy at Northwestern University, where he helped launch Cells 2 Society, a research center Sanburg, Delmer E. Jr. Sigal, Michael S. devoted to the study of social disparities and health. Spencer, Nancy J. Anna Tsing, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at the Univer- Stevenson, Joy sity of California Santa Cruz, is one of the most respected current scholars of Indonesia, Traylor, Robert S. environmentalism and globalization. Tsing is a professor of anthropology at Santa Cruz. Her Tully, Mary Sue current research focuses on scientific and commercial connections involving matsutake, an Watts, Warren R. Western Cultural aromatic wild mushroom appreciated in Japan and picked in forests across the Northern Resource Management Hemisphere. Tsing gave a public lecture entitled "Supply Chains and the Human Condition."

2 GRAD TRACKS Where Are They Now? Marc Levine (PhD ’07) was named Assistant Curator of Mark Calamia (PhD ‘03) was hired by the Bureau of Land Archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science Management in Lake Havasu City, Arizona in February as and will curate a temporary exhibit on Genghis Khan that a Tribal Liaison on cultural resource management issues debuts in October 2009. Stand by for details in a Fall issue for nine tribal governments along and near the Colorado of the Hale Herald River. He developed 13 modular lessons for an online Carol Conzelman (PhD ‘07) was a visiting lecturer for the graduate-level course in environmental anthropology of- Anthropology Department at DU in 2008. She tied the knot fered through the University of North Texas last spring. with Frank Smethurst on a beach in Baja, Mexico, on Dec 2 Niki Garrett (MA “07) has been accepted to the University and now they are the proud parents of a netful of joy, of Minnesota Department of Anthropology PhD program “Mallory Dolores Smethurst, called Mallie after Carol’s ma- and will be working with Dr. Kieran in the Anthropology de- ternal great grandmother. Dolores is for Frank's favorite partment and Dr. Fox in the Geology department. river in southwest Colorado, also where we fell in love.” Shannon Gray (MA ‘07) and colleagues at Context The three fishermen will be residing in Telluride. Research launched a study called ‘The Grounded Con- Dana Whitelaw (prospective alum) “My job is going well; I sumer’ that was picked up by USA Today and Forbes think I found my niche in the non-profit/natural history mu- Magazine. Watch the video and download the full study, seum world.” which is meant to serve as a guide for business leaders in Mary Ann O'Rourke (BA ’81) is living in NJ with her hus- the new economy at www.thegroundedconsumer.com/. band and two sons. “Last May we completed a science “I think we also make a good case for why anthropology is project on the ancient Maya, which culminated in the exca- going to be even more important than before.” Please visit: vation of a simulated Mayan www.contextresearch.com site in our backyard, ably led Xiaomei Chen (MA ’06) now has a personal by professional archaeolo- website for some selected photographic work: gist Geof Purcell. We were www.chenxphoto.com joined by about a dozen James Stoutamire (PhD ‘69) After 6.5 years other kids from the area who as administrator for the Florida Department of were all so pleased to get to Environmental Protection’s Office of Sub- take part in a ‘real’ dig...my merged Lands and Environmental Resources, youngest son, James, hasn't Stoutamire is now the Chief of Staff and Legis- yet decided if he will be an lative Liaison for the Director of the Depart- archaeologist or a paleon- ment’s Division of Water Resource Mgmt. tologist, but he has time yet! Daniel Suelo http://men.style.com/details/features/ He wrote and illustrated his landing?id=content_9817&mbid=yhp&npu=1 DeLuca and Sudanese runners in the Bolder Boulder first paleontology book at the age of five.” We’d love to hear from you. Adrienne Zihlman (BA ‘62) Adrienne Zihlman, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS is being honored for her bold and pioneering work investigating human evolution. http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/ Hoffman, David M. 2009. “Institutional Legitimacy and Co- press_releases/text.asp?pid=3060 management of a Marine Protected Area: Implementation Laura DeLuca (PhD ‘02) was awarded a President's Fund Lessons from the Case of Xcalak Reefs National Park, for the Humanities Award of $5,000—together with Willem Mexico”. Human Organization 68:1, 39-54. Society for Ap- VanVliet in Architecture and award winning filmmaker Deb- plied Anthropology 0018-7259/09/010039-16. orah Fryer—to make a collaborative documentary film DeLuca, Laura M. 2009. “Transnational Migration, the Lost about the Lost Girls of Sudan, who will themselves share in Girls of Sudan, and Global Care Work”. Anthropology of the creative process. DeLuca and associates received ad- Work Review 30 (1):13-15. ditional grants from the Colorado Council of the Arts and Conzelman, Caroline S, Youngers C, Shultz J, Esch C, the Boulder Arts commission in February. To see clips and Olivera L, Farthing L. 2008. “Coca: The Leaf at the Center follow the progress of the film, go to: www.lilafilms.com/ of the War on Drugs.” In J. Shultz and M.Draper, eds., Dig- lostgirls.htm. DeLuca also won a 2008 Zonta Foundation nity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia’s Challenge to Glob- Grant to support homeschool education for Sudanese refu- alization, pp. 181-210. Berkeley: University of California gees as well as a History of Women in American grant from Press. Published first in Bolivia: 2008. Desafiando la glob- Harvard's Radcliffe Institute to collect oral histories of the alización: Historias de la experiencia boliviana. La Paz, Bo- Lost Girls of Sudan. She is currently a visiting scholar with livia: Plural Editores. Children, Youth and Environments: http:// Calamia, Mark A, Geraghty P, Bola E, Likuvai K, Reiner S. www.cudenver.edu/ACADEMICS/COLLEGES/ 2008. Indigenous Marine Taxa of Kadavu Province, Fiji. ARCHITECTUREPLANNING/DISCOVER/CENTERS/CYE/ Domudomu: A Scholarly Journal of the Fiji Musuem 21 Pages/index.aspx (1&2)7-69.

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WARILY AND OFTEN WRONGLY, THE WEST EYES ISLAM

The summer of 2009 has seen the conclusion of a two-year multi-disciplinary project on transnational conceptions of Islamic community that was conducted through the Department of Anthropology. The project was organized around the concept of the ummah, an Arabic term designating “Muslim community,” and was co-organized by Carla Jones (Anthropology) and Ruth Mas (Religious Studies). This project was the result of a $40,000 research grant funded by the University of Colorado that enabled the summer fieldwork for six faculty. The project was situated at the intersection of two increasingly but problematically opposed forms, the secular liberal nation and the notion of a global Islamic community. Encompassing seven field sites and five disciplines, the project brought together scholars who work in Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, France, Morocco and Yemen, locations largely outside of the Middle East yet which com- prise most of the world’s indigenous or diasporic Muslim populations. Perhaps one of the most unique components of the project was the researchers’ inquiry into the following question: how is it that the ummah, a conception built on the Arabic language idea of Islamic community and which is so traditionally rooted in Middle Eastern and Arab notions, has taken such hold in non-Arab countries? How does the idea of Is- lamic community circulate and what does it mean for Muslim citizens outside of the Middle East? The idea that Muslims feel a sense of unity through religious identity that somehow exceeds their attachment to the nation has reappeared in the past decade, especially since the attacks of 2001, but which is often described as an intrinsic trait of Islam.—Carla Jones

See the full story by Clint Talbott in the CU Arts and Sciences online magazine at: http://artsandsciences.colorado.edu/magazine/2009/03/warily-and-often-wrongly-the-west-eyes-islam/

DENNIS McGILVRAY’S BOOK, CRUCIBLE OF CONFLICT is reviewed in the new A&S E-zine at: http://artsandsciences.colorado.edu/magazine/2008/11/crucible-of-conflict/ -->Arts and Sciences Launches E-Magazine “The College of Arts and Sciences is home to 900 faculty members and some of the university's greatest teachers. Their research is stunningly creative and their art is a wonder to view or watch. Our students challenge us and make us proud of their own accomplishments. Now, we are launching a quarterly e-magazine to keep our friends abreast of the college. We hope you enjoy it.” Please send comments to http://artsandsciences.colorado.edu/magazine/

CU FORENSIC SLEUTHING SUBJECT OF FILM “The identity of a man killed 130 years ago was immediately called into question, generated two exhumations, six separate trials and two rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court, one of them a land- mark decision on admissible forms of evidence. But the dead man’s name remained a mystery until a dogged University of Colorado law professor and a colorful CU-Boulder anthropologist teamed up to crack the case. Ernesto Acevedo-Munoz, an associate professor of film studies, and 10 CU film studies students made a film of the forensic sleuthing.” [Poster for the documentary at left.] Full story by Clint Talbott at: http://artsandsciences.colorado.edu/magazine/2009/06/cu-forensic-sleuthing-subject-of-film/

THE CU ANTHROPOLOGY FIELD SCHOOL Doug Bamforth was featured in CU’s online-zine in an interview about his field school: “Student Perspective: Hands on Learning at the Great Plains Archeology Field School. Students studying archeology at CU have a unique chance each summer to learn in the field at the full-credit Great Plains Archaeology Field School by surveying sites, finding new sites, excavating and processing recovered artifacts.” Read Clint Talbott’s complete interview at: http://www.colorado.edu/insidecu/editions/2008/9-23/story3.html

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13,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Cache in Colorado Shows Evidence of Camel, Horse Butchering

A crew of Boulder landscapers found their own ‘landscape littered with artifacts’ last February. What they had the foresight and care to preserve astonished everyone. “A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were used to butcher ice-age camels and horses that roamed North America until their extinction about 13,000 years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study.

“The study is the first to identify protein residue from extinct camels on North American stone tools and only the second to identify horse protein residue on a Clovis-age tool, said CU-Boulder Anthropology Professor Douglas Bamforth, who led the study. The cache is one of only a handful of Clovis-age artifact caches that have been unearthed in North America, said Bamforth, who studies Paleoindian culture and tools…” Jim Scottt’s full story and video clips at http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/1124c0243883c267a7759da4bc4a2902.html

The story was featured on a popular NPR broadcast, E-Town, where Bamforth and Mahaffy headlined with Michelle Shocked. Another excellent interview on Colorado Public Radio can be accessed at http://www.kcfr.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=234&target_pg=com_day&date=03/5/2009 Look for this story dated Thursday, March 5: “Landscaping Yields 13,000-Year-Old Hunting Tools.”

U.S. Rep. John Salazar Visits With CU Team at Chimney Rock Archaeological Area

July 2, 2009—U.S. Rep. John Salazar praised the efforts of federal, state and private groups, including University of Colorado at Boulder faculty and student archaeologists, who are working together to investigate and restore the Chim- ney Rock Archaeological Area near Pagosa Springs, Colo. The site is considered one of the most spectacular Ancestral Pueblo ruins in all of the Southwest.

Salazar toured Chimney Rock, believed to be an important religious and ceremonial center for the Pueblo people 1,000 years ago, on June 30. The 4,100-acre Chimney Rock Archaeological Area features two spectacular rock pinnacles, a Pueblo Great House, a ceremonial Great Kiva and a variety of other stone structures. The site is located at an altitude of 7,800 feet, high above the valley floor, and appears to have been sacred to the Pueblo elite who likely watched the moon periodically rise between the rock pinnacles.

Salazar, who visited with the CU-Boulder research team, said he wanted to get a first-hand look at the work archaeologists are doing at the site. Salazar helped to secure federal funding to preserve the Chimney Rock site through a congres- sional appropriations bill passed in December 2007. Salazar said Congress is studying Chimney Rock for possible designation as a national monument.

Story by Jim Scott continues with video at:

http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/662988bb4dc6b81df322f62a1e243433.html

A more recent story with video coverage of the five graduate students working Steve Lekson with National Geographic film crew at Chimney Rock site on the site appears on the CU News Center: http://colorado.edu/news/r/ d8e411224278f6967ab333307e9a3fde.html

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CU-Boulder Researchers Help Solve The Mysterious 1934 Disappearance of Explorer Everett Ruess in Utah At the heart of anthropology is a humanistic drive that transcends any one discipline of study. A cold case-turned-Southwest legend called Professor Dennis Van Gerven and graduate student Paul Sandberg to the aid of the long-bereaved family and put a ghost to rest for the kin of a Navajo witness to a murder. Using their anthropology tools and those of Kenneth Krauter in MCD Biology, they were able to identify the remains of an itinerant artist who disappeared more than 70 years ago.

CU-Boulder anthropology Professor Dennis Van Gerven, center, “The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, and Navajo Nation archaeologist Ron Maldano, right, at the Utah site where the remains of Everett Ruess were discovered in 2008. writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a burro and who has become a folk hero to many, has been solved with the help of University of Colorado at Boulder researchers and the National Geographic Society. The short, compelling life of Ruess, who went missing in 1934 after leaving the town of Escalante, Utah, has been the subject of much speculation. His story has spawned two documentary films, as well as plays, books, magazine and news- paper articles and a T-shirt line, and his name now graces an annual art festival in Escalante. An investigative article in the April/May 2009 issue of National Geographic Adventure by David Roberts, who had been probing the Ruess disappearance for years, indicates a Navajo man, Aneth Nez, told his granddaughter, Daisy Johnson, in 1971 that he witnessed the murder of a young white man near Bluff, Utah, in the 1930s by Ute Indians. Nez told her he buried the body in a crevasse on nearby Comb Ridge…”

The full story by Jim Scott continues with video clips at: http://www.colorado.edu/news/reports/ruess/ Excerpts from David Roberts’ National Geographic Adventure Magazine story can be found at: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/9904/story.html

A controversy erupted over the CU team’s findings when the Utah State Archaeologist challenged their conclusions, based on old dental records. Van Gerven countered, citing the sheer magnitude of Krauter’s data:

“Ken Krauter and Helen Marshall conducted one of the most complete and complex genetic analyses that have ever been done. They used a technique not yet available to the FBI,” who can ID rapists, murderers, or victims of crimes (such as the 9-11 fatalities) based on a mere 12-13 genetic markers. A defendant can be convicted or exonerated on this much DNA evidence. “Krauter and Marshall were able to extract over 600,000 genetic markers.” And the chips used in their research on this case are now on display at the corporate headquarters of the inventors.

This compelling genetic evidence and their supporting skeletal analysis, “... can only mean one of two things,” Van Ger- ven asserted. “Either the skeleton is that of Everett Ruess, or some other unknown uncle of these people died and was buried on the Navajo reservation.” The genetic evidence alone is far stronger than any dental records could be, even if they were complete, which they are not for this case.

Van Gerven regards this investigation as the most satisfying of his career. In modern anthropology, researchers very rarely have a chance to delve where their discipline and legends meet, where an historical inquiry is embedded in a living culture. He would like to honor three heroes in this saga: Grandfather Aneth Nez, who risked his own life and all he owned ‘to rescue the body from the coyotes’; Denny Belson, who put the puzzle pieces together with Google and who exposed himself to great danger for the sake of his sister; and Daisy Johnson, who had the courage to convey her grandfather’s story to those who could help restore the world to balance.

Van Gerven’s detailed scientific rebuttal will soon be published in a professional journal. Keep an eye out for it.

Why wait a year? Dispatches from the Field by CU anthropologists are now on the Web at http://www.colorado.edu/Anthropology/news/index.html Get the latest! 6 Memory + Truth MATTERS September 25-26, 2009 at the University of Colorado at Boulder OF DEGREE Memory + Truth is a two-day interdisciplinary conference organized by graduate students in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. We invite graduate student participants from any and all disciplines with the aim of fostering Bachelor of Arts cross-disciplinary exchange and debate. What is the relationship between memory and Degrees with honors: truth? Why is one rendering of a past event called “memory,” another “history,” and a Summa Cum Laude: third “truth?” Far from being consigned to the dustbin of history, memory and truth mat- Robert Matthew Carney ter in the present, playing political, social, cultural, historical, and cognitive roles in the Brigid Sky Grund human search for a meaningful existence. Further details from the conference website Magna Cum Laude: at http://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/memorytruth/ Laura Anne Brubaker Kenaya Necole Camacho Brian Rayburn Head Cum Laude: Ryan Dean Gillum

Degrees with Distinction:

Katelyn Elizabeth Allen Erin Dean Bauman Samantha Woodbridge Breau Laura Anne Brubaker Theses and Dissertations Kari Nicole Burmaster Robert Matthew Carney James Ernest Loudon: Doctor of Philosophy Erin Elizabeth Cranmer The Parasite Ecology and Socioecology of Ring-Tailed Lemurs Brigid Sky Grund (Lemur catta) and Verreaux’s Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) Hannah Bess Harter Inhabiting the Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve Joshua Robert Kruger Michelle Sauther, advisor Sarah Elizabeth Llufrio Caitlin Pearl Schrepel Zonna Shay Barnes: Master of Arts Alexandria Christine Sedivy Social Identity and Ornamentation in the Ancestral Puebloan Southwest Lillian Jeanne Soderman

Amy Nicole Vreeland Traci Allison Bekelman: Master of Arts Evidence for a Positive Secular Trend in Obesity in Colombia Val B. and Helen W. Fischer Award:

Laura Anne Brubaker Richard Leslie Bender: Master of Arts Nutritional Status in Low-Income Colorado Schoolchildren: Investigating Rural/Urban Differences

William Porter Bourie: Master of Arts Religion and Ecology: A Survey of Anthropological Literature in West Africa

Erik Robert Erwin: Master of Arts Darna Dufour and Richard Bender Teaching Anthropology to Underprivileged and Underrepresented Minorities in Photo by Dennis McGilvray the Denver Area

Jessica Diane Hedgepeth: Master of Arts PhD The Domestic Economy of Early Postclasssic Rio Viejo, Oaxaca, Mexico: James Ernest Loudon Daily Practices and Worldviews of a Commoner Community MA Kathryn Megan Olszowy: Master of Arts Traci Allison Bekelman The Nutrition Transition in Women of Cali, Columbia: Richard Leslie Bender Changes in Nutritional Status Between 1987 and 2007 William Porter Bourie Erik Robert Erwin Hoang Mai Thach: Master of Arts Jessica Dianne Hedgepeth History of Research on Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkeys in Vietnam and an Analy- Kathryn Megan Olszowy sis of Their Daily Ranging Behavior in Khau Ca, Ha Giang Province Hoang Thach Mai

7 A Year in Anthropology

PROMOTIONS: Professor Catherine Cameron, Professor Dennis McGilvray

Dr. J. Terrence McCabe “...has been elected the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award after having been nominated for this award by the German scientist Prof. Dr. Michael Bolling, University of Cologne, Institut für Ethnologie. This award is conferred in recognition of lifetime achievements in research. In addition, the awardee is invited to carry out research projects of his own choice in cooperation with specialist colleagues in Germany.” You will find further information on this website:http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/7806.html. McCabe was also awarded a CU Faculty Fellow- ship for 2009-2010 for his project entitled: Complexity and Resilience in the Rangelands of Northern Tanzania. The project is designed to bring together 20 years of research among pastoral and agro-pastoral people in northern Tanzania within the emerging framework of resilience and complexity for coupled social/ecological systems. The end product will certainly be a set of articles and possibly a book. Carole McGranahan was selected to receive one of the new Provost’s Faculty Achievement Awards for her theoretical and ethnographic research on the Tibetan resistance. She also received a Center for Asian Studies grant to teach her summer study abroad course again in Tibet, summer 2011. In addition, McGranahan organized panels on the politics of ethnographic writing for both the AAA meetings in San Francisco, November 2008 and the Society for Humanistic An- thropology conference in Santa Fe, March 2009. Dennis Van Gerven scored the Undergrad Teaching Cup---again. For the third time in a distinguished career of teaching, Dennis Van Gerven was selected to receive the 2009 Teacher Recognition Award for Large Classes by the Herd, the student arm of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association. The program is based on student nominations and online voting and is the only award that is entirely student-generated. Cathy Cameron was joined by Kira Hall, our Linguistic Anthropology Associate Professor Attendant, and Marnie Thomson, Cultural PhD student, as fellows of the Center for the Humanities and Arts’ 2009-2010 Seminar on "Migration." The CHA selected three CU graduate students to participate in the seminar and six faculty members. Cameron continued to work in southeastern Utah during the last year, with Winston Hurst on the Comb Ridge Heritage Foundation, which has been generously funded by the Bureau of Land Management. She also stayed on as co-editor of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Kira Hall, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, won a 2009 Boulder Faculty Assembly award for teaching excellence. Hall specializes in sociolinguistics, and in particular the role of language in the construction of identity. In addition to teaching the highly popular undergraduate courses, Language and US Society, and Language and Gender, she teaches graduate courses in sociolinguistics, advises a large body of doctoral students and serves as program director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice. Details of the CLASP program at http://www.colorado.edu/ling/faculty/kira_hall/certificate.html Kira Hall and Michelle Sauther and her collaborators, Frank Cuozzo, Peter Michelle Sauther were Ungar and Nayuta Yamashita, have received a $200,000 NSF awarded Individual Growth grant to support their work entitled, "Intraspecific Variation in Grants from the CU Lead- Primate Dental Wear: The Role of Environment and Diet.” This ership Education for Ad- study, as part of their Beza Mahafaly Lemur Biology Project, vancement and Promotion will uniquely combine a direct understanding of primate behav- from a highly competitive ior, plant use, habitat differences, and plant food properties to field of applicants. better understand how these processes work together to cre-

ate variability in patterns of tooth wear. Russ McGoodwin was a participant at the symposium, "Coping with Global Change in Marine Social-Ecological Systems," which was held in Rome, Italy, July 8 - 11. The symposium's primary sponsors were Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (GLOBEC), Eur-Oceans, and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO/UN). The registered participants in- cluded more than 218 scientists and academics from more than 51 countries. Russ presented a paper titled "Building Adaptive Capacity in Fisheries Impacted by Global Change," and was also an invited member of the symposium's Distin- guished Closing Panel. Doug Bamforth is pleased to announce that the university gave him a dorm and 300 freshmen for Christmas. Someone nominated him for the position of director of the Sewall Residential Academic Program, and Todd Gleeson offered him the job just after Christmas. It cuts his Anthropology teaching in half and gives him responsibility for administering a program of small freshman classes and a substantial component of community outreach. Bamforth was awarded an A&S College Scholar Fellowship. The award buys out two classes to make room for a research project. Doug plans to use the fellowship time to finish a book on the Archaeology of the Great Plains that is under contract with Cambridge Univer- sity Press, and also to start analysis and write-up for two field projects on the Plains.

8 Kudos and more

The Archaeology faculty received a quarter million dollar grant from Mellon Foundation to develop a digital monograph series in archaeology. Payson Sheets has been serving as a Trustee for the University Press of Colorado, the lead press (out of 6) in this initiative. “If successful, this would make a much wider range of data available and could be expanded to cultural and biological anthropology.” For more details on the grant, see the CU Newsroom story at https://www.cu.edu/ content/mellonfoundationgrantfund%E2%80%98archaeologyamericas%E2%80%99ebookproject. Matt Sponheimer will be an invited speaker at a 50th anniversary symposium at the U.S. International University in Nai- robi in August entitled, “Half a Century after Zinj - Paranthropus boisei in Context.” This international Leaky celebration and following workshop in West Turkana, Kenya are sponsored by the Stony Brook Human Evolution Workshop. Gerardo Gutierrez, our soon-to-arrive colleague from Mexico, helped developed this web map of swine flu outbreaks worldwide. http://portal.salud.gob.mx/descargas/pdf/influenza/situacion_actual_epidemia_160709.pdf page 9. Kaifa Roland won an award from the Center to Advance Research and Training in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) to support her project on the Rocky Mountain Rastafari Ethnographic Project. Roland also spoke at an inter-generational panel on mothering, anthropology and fieldwork, held at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting with daughter Asha in tow. “When I am somewhere, my daughter’s going to be there. If she’s not welcome, I won’t be there,” said Roland. “I don’t know if I should consider that the Sarah Palin model…” she joked. Read more on the motherhood panel at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/11/25/anthro Dennis McGilvray, was invited to join the Center for Humanities and the Arts’ Visual Arts/Visual Science Seminar for Fall 2009, entitled “Renegotiating the Image”. Membership includes a research stipend. McGilvray also organized a panel for the Association for Asian Stud- ies conference on "Crucible of Conflict: Ethnic and Religious Ten- sions in Eastern Sri Lanka," Chicago, March 28, 2009 and at the Tamil Studies Conference in Toronto, May 23. Pat Lawrence, our senior Instructor in Anthropology, Peace and Conflict Studies, and the Baker RAP, accepted a full-time position with a German NGO (Arbeiter Samariter Bund) overseeing their social service projects in Sri Lanka. Among these ASB-funded projects is the childrens’ Butterfly Peace Garden in Batticaloa, where Pat has McGilvray eating curry with friends in Sri Lanka frequently served as a consultant in the past. Pat took up her new appointment in Sri Lanka on January 1, 2009. Steve Lekson has a few continuing projects in the Southwest: Pinnacle Ruin in southern New Mexico, Yellow Jacket in southwestern Colorado and Chimney Rock also in southwest Colorado. “Pinnacle Ruin appears to be a ‘Mesa Verde’ colony deep in southern New Mexico. Fieldwork at Pinnacle concluded summer of 2008; an NSF grant is supporting ongoing analyses, including a very wide ranging INAA of pottery and XRF of obsidian, both reported at the 2009 Society for American Archaeology meetings. We are also processing 14C and archaeomagnetic dates from Pinnacle Ruin and nearby sites,” said Lekson. “The Yellow Jacket project is an on-going analysis of the extensive collections from Joe Ben Wheat's excavations. Yel- low Jacket is the largest Mesa Verde site in southwestern Colorado. Dr. Wheat led excavations there from 1954 to 1991, but died before he could analyze and publish the data. We developed a lab class in collaboration with Crow Can- yon Archaeological Center. Undergraduates (with careful supervision!) analyze the pottery. This year we analyzed and databased 13,474 sherds from 5MT1 and 5MT3. That's about 5% of the sherds from Yellow Jacket. We will continue working on these huge collections in 2010 and beyond; currently the class is offered every spring, but we may start offering it every semester. We expect to begin publishing in 2011.” Lekson was invited to excavate two rooms this summer at Chimney Rock Pueblo, a spectacular Chaco Great House near Pagosa Spring, Colorado. The site has CU connections: Dr. Frank Eddy and many CU students worked there 1970-72, and Dr. Kim Malville wrote extensively on the archaeoastronomy of the site. He was in the field June 1 to July 3 with several graduate students—Brenda Todd, Alison Bredthauer, Jakob Sedig, Kellam Throgmorton, Erin Baxter, and recent MA Jason Chuipka—partially excavating two rooms that need to have fill removed for "stabilization" (i.e. preservation) of the site. The team of graduate archaeologists was led by PhD student, Brenda Todd. David Breternitz, despite a series of medical challenges, served as VP for the Institute of Archaeological Ceramic research and advised graduate student research, among other civic service. For the first time in 50 years, no publication! Herbert Covert and Dr. Hoang Minh Duc of the Center for Biodiversity and Development received an International Re- search Collaboration Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The project is titled: "Behavioral Ecology Of Sympatric Colobines: Niche Partitioning At Ta Kou And Nui Ong Nature Reserves" and the award is for $34,965.

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NEW TITLES from CU ANTHROPOLOGY

Crucible of Conflict Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka Dennis McGilvray

Crucible of Conflict is an ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. It is also the first full-length ethnogra- phy of Sri Lanka’s east coast, an area that suffered heavily in the 2004 tsunami and that is of vital significance to the political future of the island nation. Since the bitter guerrilla war for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka broke out in 1983, the easternmost region of the island has emerged as a strategic site of conflict. Dennis B. McGilvray argues that any long-term resolution of the ethnic conflict must accommodate this region, in which Sinhalese Buddhists, Tamil Hindus, and Tamil-speaking Muslims are each a significant share of the population.

Read more at http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi? template0=nomatch.htm&template2=books/ book_detail_page.htm&user_id=72219347457&Bmain.item_option=1&Bmain.item=15623

Duke University Press ISBN 978-0-8223-4161-1

Invisible Citizens Captives and Their Consequences Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Professor of Anthropology, with a chapter by Noel Lenski, Associate Professor and Chair of Classics

Throughout history, warfare and raiding forced captives from one society into another, forming an almost invisible stratum of many people without kin and largely outside the social systems in which they lived. Invisible Citizens explores the profound effects this mingling of societies and customs had on cultural development around the world. The contributors to this volume explore the remarkable range in the conditions and experiences of captives, from abject drudge to quasi kinswoman and from war captive to sexual concubine. Developing methods for identifying captives in the archaeological record are established in light of the silence that surrounded captive-taking and enslavement in many parts of the world. Read more at http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ upcat&CISOPTR=1226&CISOBOX=1&REC=2

University of Utah Press ISBN 978-0-87480-936-7

A History of the Ancient Southwest Stephen H. Lekson

According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the South- west has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about inter- pretations of what actually happened in the ancient past. While many works would have us be- lieve that nothing much ever happened in the ancient Southwest, this book argues that the region experienced rises and falls, kings and commoners, war and peace, triumphs and failures. Read more at https://www12.ssldomain.com/schoolofamericanresearch/sarpress/index.php? main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=121&zenid=0971cf1cb7cdf72435f1614806761 d36

SAR Press ISBN 978-1-934691-10-6

NEW AND FORTHCOMING TITLES from CU ANTHROPOLOGY

Due out in November: The Trashing of Margaret Mead Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy by Paul Shankman

Paul Shankman explores the many dimensions of the Mead-Freeman controversy as it developed publicly and as it played out privately, including the personal relationships, professional rivalries, and larger-than-life personalities that drove it. Providing a critical perspective on Freeman’s arguments, Shankman reviews key questions about Samoan sexuality, the alleged hoaxing of Mead, and the meaning of the controversy. Why were Free- man’s arguments so readily accepted by pundits outside the field of anthropology? What did Samoans themselves think? Can Mead’s reputation be salvaged from the quicksand of controversy? Written in an engaging, clear style and based on a careful review of the evidence, The Trashing of Margaret Mead illuminates questions of enduring significance to the academy and beyond. Read more at http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/4614.htm

University of Wisconsin Press ISBN 978-0-299-23454-6

Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan Excavations at the Bluff Great House Catherine M. Cameron

Chaco Canyon, the great Ancestral Pueblo site of the eleventh and twelfth centu- ries, remains a central problem of Southwestern archaeology. Chaco, with its monumental “great houses,” was the center of a vast region marked by “outlier” great houses. The canyon itself has been investigated for over a century, but only a few of the more than 200 outlier great houses—key to understanding Chaco and its times—have been excavated. This volume explores the Chaco and post-Chaco eras in the northern San Juan area through extensive excavations at the Bluff Great House, a major Chaco “outlier” in Utah. Read more at http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid1999.htm

University of Arizona Press ISBN 978-0-8165-2681-9

The Tao of Anthropology Edited by Jack Kelso [email protected]

At the core of an anthropologist's work is a willingness to explore societal structures, understand cultures within the context of environment, and communicate this knowledge to a wider audience. This collection of essays features senior professionals in the field sharing their personal stories and insights for the benefit of today's students. Read more at http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=KELSO001

University of Florida Press ISBN 978-0-8130-3262-7

11 Field Gallery Evolution: Here and Now—with Matt Sponheimer et al. This exhibit at the CU Museum featured the cutting-edge research of six CU scientists, including Matt Sponheimer, who approach the study of evolution from diverse directions, presenting multiple lines of evidence that converge to tell the story of life through time. Sponheimer also shared his research in a presentation at the Boulder Public Library on Discovering New Insights into the Lives of Early Human Ancestors.

Sponheimer has been featured in a number of educational television productions, including an Anthropology Telecourse on paleoanthropology that won the 2008 Los An- geles Area Emmy Award for Instructional Programming. Produced by Wadsworth/ Cengage, the course is entitled Physical Anthropology: The Evolving Human and was directed by Harry T. Hughes, who can be contacted at [email protected].

As in the Leaky celebration mentioned on page 9, Sponheimer will be rubbing elbows with heads of state in October, when he will be an invited speaker to the World Health Congress in Berlin. His expenses will be paid by none other than Volkswagen.

Sri Lankan Muslim students at a Muslim teacher training college, wearing the school's pink hijab uni- form. Photo also used by permis- sion of Dennis McGilvray on the L. Kaifa Roland German website Qantara.de at: has conducted extensive field http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-926/i.html research in Cuba. Her forthcoming book from Oxford University Press, Jonathan O’Brien and Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha, describes the Herbert Covert gave lec- shifting intersections of race, class, sexuality, and be- tures on a Friday afternoon longing. at the Center for Biodiversity and Development in Ho Chi Minh City. All were invited to Seminar dinh ky cuoi thang tai. Things got started at 2:00am Colorado time.

During summer 2009, Arthur Joyce co-directed Raising awareness an archaeological field project on the Pacific of endangered gibbons at the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, with CU alum Stacy Angkor Wat Half Marathon: Barber (now an Assistant Professor at the Uni- Herbert Covert (center), versity of Central Florida). The research involved PhD candidate Jonathan O’Brien excavation of the ceremonial center of the an- and wife Lisa. cient city of Rio Viejo. CU grad student Guy Hepp and alum Michelle Butler (now a Ph.D. stu- Mother and child: dent at UC-Riverside) also carried out pilot stud- black-shanked douc langurs from ies for their Ph.D. projects at two Formative pe- Ta Kou Nature Reserve, Vietnam, riod sites in the region. Pictured above, Art late February, 2009 Joyce coring pollen samples in Laguna Pastoria. Photo by Herbert Covert

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12 More Kudos Beverly Sears Jessica Lee spent the year doing her doc- Casey Sloan and Rachel Fleming won Awards toral research in Tanzania. ”Good times! The Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow- termites are working on overdrive. I think they ships for 2009-2010. Sloan is studying issues Anthropology was very are going to take over the world some day...“ of national identity and subjectivity in Indone- well represented in this Lee will stay on in Djibouti this fall, doing hu- sia. Fleming will be studying Hindi for her re- year’s awards: manitarian work with the blind population. search on a new wave of immigration: mi- Marni LaFleur was another award recipient grants who leave India to work as nurses in Hal Baillie who presented her research on the “Natural Ireland. Fleming was also granted a Ted Vol- Porter Bourie history and evolution of Madagascar lemurs.” sky Memorial Award to conduct her field- Jackie Broida * LaFleur was also awarded a scholarship from work.The Volsky award is a highly competi- Alicia Davis the Natural Sciences and Engineering Re- tive grant sponsored by alumni through the Jamie Dubendorf search Council of Canada in "Ecology and Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant Pro- Kate Fischer * Evolution" to pursue her research in Mada- gram. Jessica Hedgepeth * gascar. The NSERC Postgraduate Scholar- Mark Mitchell has been selected to receive a ship is the Canadian counterpart to the NSF Graduate School Dissertation Completion Lance Holly * Fellowship. Fellowship. This fellowship is for one semes- Kathy Kondor Magda Stawkowski won the CARTSS Al- ter of full support. All those publications paid Sarah Laundry bert E. Smith Grant for Social Science Re- off. Soon he can publish his dissertation, too. Meryleen Mena search on Sustainability, Security, and Sur- Michaela Howells was selected for a Gradu- Ricardo Moreno-Contro vival in a New Nuclear Age again this year. ate Student Teaching Excellence Award from Chris Morris Heather Williams was awarded the Frances the CU Graduate School. Colleen Scanlan Lyons Leon Quintana Graduate Fellowship for 2009. Marnie Thomson was one of three CU The Quintana endowment was established to graduate students selected by the Center for Jason Scott support promising women students, prefera- the Humanities and Arts as a CHA fellow for Carey Scheerer bly Hispanic or Native American, in complet- the 2009-2010 Seminar on "Migration." Nicole Smith * ing their dissertations in Anthropology. Casey Sloan Magda Stawkowski GRADUATE PUBLICATIONS Jordan Steininger

Mitchell, Mark D. 2008. “Making Places: Burned Rock Middens, Feasting, and Changing Marnie Thomson Land Use in the Upper Arkansas River Basin.” In: Scheiber and Clark (Eds.) Archaeological Carlos Torres Landscapes on the High Plains. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, pp. 41-70. Crystal Watson Mitchell, Mark D. 2008. “A Unique Northern Plains Ceramic Vessel in the Museum’s Lewis and Clark Collection”, Expedition 50:3, pp. 45-47. Fleming, Rachel C. 2009. “Creative Economic Development, Sustainability, and Exclusion in Rural Areas” Geographical Review, Special January issue on “Creative Cities.”

2009 Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant Awards

* Jacqueline Broida will use her grant to pay for tests at the genetics lab to determine if one Alice Hamilton Awards can extract good DNA from Dennis Van Gerven's Nubians. This, along with demographic and from the Colorado historical studies, will help us learn more about the Nubians and about ancient DNA. Archaeological Society: * Kate Fischer’s research focuses on bodily and structural violence in the coffee industry. She aims to understand how these forms of violence are experienced locally, how the need doctoral candidates to produce an export crop also produces specific kinds of subjects, and what Fair Trade certi- Brian Naze fication has to do with it. Kathryn Putsavage *Jessica Hedgepeth plans to investigate state-level involvement in the domestic economic activities of commoners in small-scale test excavations—directed by Drs. Arthur Joyce and Sarah Barber at the civic-ceremonial center of Río Viejo in Oaxaca, Mexico—using Late masters candidates Classic (A.D. 500-800) materials encountered in the excavations. Harold Baillie *Lance Holly will put his funding towards a summer research visit to the American Museum Jessica Hedgepeth of Natural History in New York City, where he will be examining ancient Puebloan arrow Lance Holly shafts from the 700-year old archaeological sites Chaco Canyon and Aztec Ruin. David Williams * Nicole Smith will use her funding for data dissemination and follow-up research on the effects of Maasai migrations to Tanzanite mines in northern Tanzania.

13 Selected Faculty Publications

Bamforth DB, Finlay, N. (Eds). 2008. Skilful Stones: Approaches to Knowledge and Practice in Lithic Technology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 15. (Special Issue). Cameron CM, Duff A. 2008. History and Process in Village Formation: Context and Contrasts from the Northern Southwest. American Antiquity 73(1). Covert HH, Le Khac Quyet, Wright BW. 2008 On the brink of extinction: conservation and ecology of the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus). Fleagle and Gilbert, eds. Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins. Springer Science and Business Media: New York, pp.409-27. Wright BW, Ulibarri LR, O’Brien JA, Sadler B, Prodhan R, Covert HH, Nadler T. 2008. It’s tough out there: variation in the toughness of ingested leaves and feeding behavior among four Colobinae in Vietnam. International Journal of Primatology. Published online: Sept. 20, 2008. Dufour DL. 2008. “Energy Expenditure Among Farmers in Developing Countries: What Do We Know?” American Journal of Human Biology 20: 249-258. Goldstein DM. 2009. The Perils of Witnessing and the Ambivalence of Writing: Everyday Violence in the Shanty- towns of Rio de Janeiro. In: Martha K. Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek, eds., Women Fielding Danger: Ne- gotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research. Boulder and New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., pp. 227-249. Goldstein DM. 2008. “Life or Profit?: Structural Violence, Moral Psychology and Pharmaceutical Politics” Anthro- pology in Action 14 (3): 44-58. Jones CM, Barker J, Lindquitst J, et al. 2009. Wanita Karir: Figures of Indonesian Modernity. Indonesia 87: 35-72. Joyce AA. 2008. Domination, Negotiation, and Collapse: A History of Centralized Authority on the Oaxaca Coast”. In Changing Cloud Formations: Late Classic/Postclassic Sociopolitical Transformations in Oaxaca, J. Blomster (ed.), pp. 219-254. Boulder: Univ. of Colorado Press. Joyce AA, Workinger A, Hamann B & Levine MN. 2008. The Archaeology and Codical History of Tututepec. In Mixtec Writing and Society Escritura de Nuu Dzaui. Jansen ME, & van Broekhoven LN (Eds.) Amsterdam: KNAW Press pp. 233-251. Joyce AA. 2008. Los Orígenes del Sacrificio Humano en el Periodo Fomativo en Mesoamérica. In Ideología Politica y Sociedad en el Periodo Formativo: Ensayos en homenaje al Doctor David C. Grove. Cyphers & Hirth (Eds.) Insitituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.” pp. 393-424. Lekson SH. 2009. Lost Cities, Prairie Castles: Mesa Verde, Manitou Cliff Dwellings, Bent's Old Fort and the Fort Restaurant. In The Archaeology of Meaningful Places, edited by Maria Nieves Zedeno and Brenda Bowser. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. McGoodwin JR. 2008. “Building adaptive capacity in fisheries impacted by global change: case studies from Ice- land and Alaska.” In Coping with Global Change in marine Social-Ecological Systems pp. 29. McGranahan CM, Sperling E (Eds). 2008.Tibet, India, and China. India Review 7(3) (Special Issue) Contributors include Jessica Falcone, Tina Harris, Elliot Sperling, and Tsering Wangchuk. Roland LK. 2008. After Fidel, Much the Same. Commentary for Transforming Anthropology 16(1):67-68. Sauther ML, Cuozzo FP. 2008. Somatic and dental variation in living, wild ring-tailed lemurs. Folio Primatologica 79: 58-78. Sheets PD. 2009. "When the Construction of Meaning Preceded the Meaning of Construction: From Footpaths to Monumental Entrances in Ancient Costa Rica". In Erickson, Snead and Darling (Eds.) Landscapes of Move- ment. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. Sheets PD. 2008. “Descubrimientos de Investigaciones Geofísicas e Arqueológicas al Sur de Joya, de Ceren.” In El Salvador Investiga Año 3 Edición No. 6. pp. 20-26. Sheets PD. 2008. “People and Volcanoes in the Zapotitan Valley, El Salvador.” In Living Under the Shadow: Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions. Grattan J and Torrence R (Eds.) Left Coast Press pp. 67-89. Sponheimer MJ, Lee-Thorp JA, de Ruiter D. 2008. Icarus, Isotopes and Australopith Diets. In Ungar P (Ed.) Evolu- tion of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable. Oxford Univ. Press, NY. pp. 132-149. Copeland SR, Sponheimer MJ, le Roux PJ, Grimes V, Lee-Thorp JA, de Ruiter D, Richards MP. (2008). Strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) of tooth enamel: a comparison of solution and laser ablation MCICPMS methods. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 22, 3187–3194. de Ruiter DJ, Sponheimer MJ, & Lee-Thorp JA. 2008. “Indications of habitat association of Australopithecus robustus in the Bloubank Valley, South Africa.” In Journal of Human Evolution 55 pp. 1015-1030. Codron D, Lee-Thorp JA, Sponheimer MJ, et al. 2008. “What Insights Can Baboon Feeding Ecology Provide for Early Hominin Niche Differentiation?” In International Journal of Primatology 29: 757-772. Walker DE. 2008. Kennewick Man: What Does the Future Hold? In Kennewick Man: Perspectives on the Ancient One. Burke, Smith, Lippert, Watkins, and Zimmerman (Eds.) Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

14 Tidbits

Open Anthropology Cooperative You are invited to join a new resource/community for anthropologists: the Open Anthropology Cooperative. The idea is to serve as a networking, conversation, and information site for anthropology/anthropologists in the digital age. It just launched (with Carole McGranahan as one of the founding members) and so the sky is the limit right now in terms of how the community will develop. If you’re interested in joining in, and turning this into something professionally useful for you, please do so. All are welcome---students, faculty, non-academic practitioners, etc. The link is: http://openanthcoop.ning.com/ Hale Then and Now Our irreplaceable IT wizard, Aubrey Burrows, assembled a marvelous slide show retrospective of our special historical building as a parting gift. Her absence will be felt like the benevolent ghostly presences reported to haunt our halls. En- joy the show at http://www.colorado.edu/Anthropology/about/hale.html Blog on You might also enjoy a new feature on our website: Dispatches from the Field. Anthropologists keep us abreast at http://www.colorado.edu/Anthropology/news/dispatches/index.html Volcanic Toast Much to his astonishment, and pleasure, a blue ribbon vodka has been named after Payson Sheets’ World Heritage excavation site. Ceren Vodka is brewed, distilled, and bottled in El Salvador, and distributed by a firm in Denver. So he and Chris Dixon were inspired to start their own brewery, but not for vodka. They are trying to figure out what those Cerenians did with over 10 metric tons of manioc tubers harvested all at once. In South America natives brew a rather potent beer from manioc, but it never has been recorded in Central America or Mesoamerica. They are having manioc brew pots made and fired in Fine Arts. They will examine the ceramic paste for chemical residues to see what seeps into it before they can start examining the ancient artifacts for those same chemicals. Importantly, they will try to avoid walk- ing around Hale under the influence during this fuming research. French Toast to the US Elections—a view from beyond the borders, by Crystal Watson (PhD Candidate) “I watched the events on streaming video through my computer. We celebrated with pizza "french" style (fried egg on top). Unusual, but actually quite good.” Stacey Barber (PhD ‘05)—a view of the elections from the Chad State: “This Florida resident did her job. And I didn’t even need to read the Voting for Dummies book first!” Colorado Tamil Superstar In what was definitely a career first, UCB cultural anthropologist and department chair Dennis McGilvray served as co- host of the annual Colorado Tamil Association Cultural Festival held at Chatsfield Senior High School in Littleton CO on May 9. The challenging part was that the evening's program was presented entirely in the Tamil language spoken in the South Indian state of Tamilnadu and in the northeastern part of Sri Lanka. Working in dialogue with his creative script- writer and co-MC, Sarmishta Ramesh, he introduced classical Tamil musical performances and Bharatanatyam dancers, as well as conducted a live quiz show with members of the audience, using the best colloquial Tamil he could summon from 30 years of fieldwork in Tamil-speaking areas of Sri Lanka. Members of the older generation nodded quietly, but the teenagers insisted in English that he was "awesome." Lucien Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, our former Ethnographic Film faculty (now at Harvard), recently premiered their documentary movie Sweetwater, at the Berlin Film Festival. The film, portraying the lives of Montana sheep ranchers, was noted in a New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/14/movies/14fest.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Berlin% 20Film%20Festival&st=cse Alas, Poor Yorick at DIA Dennis Van Gerven’s image is now featured on an illuminated CU advertisement at DIA, holding a skull. A surprise choice by CU Publicity. Welcome to Colorado and the CU Anthropology Department...sort of. Anthropoid Weekly—published by a group of Matt Sponheimer’s students as a term project. Link to file: https://rcpt.yousendit.com/684166072/981ba569c4df3abc1e71884fcb5c3e87 Chris Morris made the New York Times with his family’s 20 year-old Christmas tradition: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/fashion/18gag.html?_r=1&ref=fashion

BIRTHS: KNOT NEWS (Weddings): Traci Bekelman announced the birth of their son, Ari Liam Bekelman on Marnie Thomson and Matt Marnell Larry Ulibarri and September 20. He is a happy, healthy little guy. Chris Dixon and Lauren Riggers Uli Streiche Suzanne Kianicka became the proud mother of a new baby boy, Kilian Carol Conzelman and Frank Smethurst Finn, last September 14. Sarah Jennings and Greg Tyndall Tera Lucille Hicks arrived last August, to the delight of Tim and Keri. Carey Scheerer and Ryan Stanley Bryce VanRegenmorter made his debut May 25th. Good luck, Erin! Brenda Todd and Adam Reynolds

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