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KU ANTHROPOLOGIST

VOLUME 21 FALL 2008

Geisha Guys: IN THIS VOLUME Affect Economy in Tokyo’s Host Clubs

EDITOR’S NOTE 2 by Akiko Takeyama clubs, fantasy spaces spend hundreds—and in where mostly young work- some cases thousands—of LABORATORY 3

ing-class men facilitate dollars per nightly visit. OF BIOLOGICAL On September 26 a group of Japanese womens‘ roman- While piles of cash are ex- ANTHROPOLOGY graduate students, faculty tic and erotic fantasies. I changed in the club, a host FACULTY NEWS 4 members, family, and friends started with a video clip is filmed surreptitiously attended a special potluck from a Japanese TV docu- ―dating‖ clients at an Italian GLOBAL INDIGENOUS 5 NATIONS STUDIES dinner and discussion at my mentary on host clubs, restaurant. This 26-year-old home. It was wonderful to which showcased the ex ―number-one‖ host EXPLORING ARCHAEOLOGY 5 have such a diverse group of flashy looks and lifestyles brings in one client after AT KU AND BEYOND people come together from of some of Tokyo‘s so- another to the same restau- ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY: A 6 different sub-disciplines and called ―top-ranking‖ hosts rant, where he sits down at CONVERSATION WITH outside the department. A big and their extravagantly the same exact table and FELIX MOOS surprise was just how talented decorated workplaces. orders the same exact dish SUMMER ARCHAEOLOGICAL 7 some of our anthropologists each time. This mechanical, FIELD SCHOOL are in the kitchen. The food In the luxuriously yet affective dating— decorated club, a fruit plate THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL 8 was excellent. I‘m looking smoothed over with the RESEARCH CENTER costs about 100 US dollars forward to another dinner and host‘s witty conversation GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS 10 discussion like this. and a bottle of champagne and seductive masculine $1,000. Hosts are shown BOOK REVIEWS 14 I presented my cur- drinking up the bottles like RECENT GRADUATES 15 rent project on Japan‘s host fish. Their female clients (continued on page 2) Professor John Hoopes Receives Kemper Fellowship

Hieroglyphic text from the year twenty professors tion for critical thinking and Indigenous Nations Studies ancient Maya city of Tikal throughout the University the value of hard work. I'm Program at the University tells of an ‗arrival of strang- received awards. very cognizant of the his- of Kansas. Congratulations! tory of knowledge and try ers,‘ and so it seemed befit- When asked to discuss to help students appreciate ting that during John Hoopes‘ how he imparts his anthro- that, although they can ancient Maya class last Au- pological knowledge to the never step into the same gust, there too was an ‘arrival KU community, Professor stream twice, its always of strangers‘. While there Hoopes stated, ―Teaching worth a splash.‖ was no tribute made in the for me is all about exciting form of jade or exotic feath- students' imagination and Hoopes has been on the ers, Hoopes was awarded the encouraging a desire for faculty since 1989 and has Kemper Fellowship for learning while at the same also taken on the role of Prof. Hoopes is presented with the Kemper Fellowship, August 2008. Teaching Excellence. This time instilling an apprecia- Director for the Global Page 2

Editor’s Note by Anne Egitto You start working on the newsletter in comment on anthropological issues. August and before you know it, it is Other new items include This year has brought about some December! However, as anthropolo- book reviews, a peer-reviewed exciting changes to the KU Anthro- gists, we have a lot to say. Therefore, graduate paper award—winning pa- pologist. In previous years, back be- we have returned to printing the news- pers will be printed in the Spring fore many of us graduate students letter bi-annually. newsletter—and an anthropologi- were here, the KU Anthropologist cally themed cartoon. We hope you was published twice a year. In re- In addition to the usual gradu- enjoy the new look and the changes cent years this has not been the case ate and faculty updates, this newsletter in content. Lastly, thank you—this and I can certainly understand why. also features a new column titled newsletter could not have been com- Being only 16 pages long, the KU ―Anthropology Today‖ in which differ- pleted without your submissions. Anthropologist has this knack for ent faculty members will be interviewed consuming large quantities of time. and have the opportunity to discuss and 

in their interviews with me. In these bursting of the country‘s ―bubble (continued from page 1) interviews, I as a researcher became a economy‖ in the early 1990s has in- feminine audience who feigned to ap- creasingly promoted entrepreneurial image—brings his clients back to the preciate hosts‘ masculine display. In my creativity, self-responsibility, and club repeatedly. interviews with female clients, I be- flexible labor. Consequently, hosting The video clip inspired a lot came like a friend of theirs, but I later has become an employment opportu- of laughs but also brought forth learned that they were friendly and co- nity for working-class men who do many methodological and theoretical operative not because they understood not fit into Japan‘s corporate system questions. Some in the audience and supported my research, but because and dream of instant wealth to effect were interested to know how I was they wanted to learn about what went their upward class mobility. At this able to conduct my research at such on backstage at the host club and also juncture of postindustrial consumer- an expensive establishment and also impress their hosts by handling their ism and neoliberal capitalism, com- if I did participant observation. Oth- interviews well. Thus, my interviewees modification of the male body, sexu- ers wanted to know how I was had their own agendas and, ality, and romantic relationships treated by hosts and female patrons. I accordingly, my positionality as a re- have become imaginable and even discussed my direct—and rather bold searcher shifted constantly from one idealized as a means to ―free‖ indi- for Japan—approach of contacting context to next. viduals from conventionally hege- monic middle-class conventions such the club owner and personally asking One question from the audience as corporate masculinity and self- for his permission to study the club. I sought to clarify how the host club phe- devoting femininity in Japan‘s mar- also addressed my ambivalent posi- nomenon fits in Japan‘s socioeconomic riage and family system. Thus, the tionality because of my insider and history, particularly its corporate- host club, which is still a subculture outsider status as a Japanese female centered social structure. I situate the and rarely represents the lives and researcher. My gender, age, and cul- host club at the nexus of Japan‘s neolib- experiences of most Japanese, none- tural capital impacted my relation- eral reformation and postindustrial con- theless epitomizes Japan‘s sociohis- ships with the hosts and the women I sumerism, where people consume not torical transformations in corporate met and interviewed. Hosts tended to only material objects but also signs, and family system, gender relations, be paternalistic and emphasized their images, and symbolic meanings. Ja- entrepreneurial masculine identities pan‘s neoliberal restructuring since the and labor and commodity forms.  Volume 21 Page 3

Laboratory of Biological Anthropology

by Great Plains Diabetes Institute, Biology 20(6): 726-731. Dr. Michael Crawford KUMC) have applied for a pilot study Dr. Maged el-Zein, M.D. and doc- of LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes Research Programs toral candidate from Alexandria, in adults) in KUMC patients. CONY- Egypt has successfully completed his We are continuing several research CET of Mexico has awarded a post comprehensive examinations in the programs: (1) Genetic Susceptibility doctoral fellowship to Dr. Alvaro Diaz Genetics Program and is currently to Tuberculosis in Juarez and Chihua- -Badillo to map genes associated with writing his dissertation. hua populations of Mexico. Two pilot LADA. He is also a candidate for a 2- projects have been funded: one grant year Pew fellowship for research was awarded to Dr. Ravi Duggirala by within the LBA. a foundation associated with the Anne Justice has successfully com- Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Congratulations to Graduate pleted her MA thesis on the Anthro- Research; and one to Tom Weaver by Students from the LBA: pometric Variation in Aleut and Es- kimo Populations of the Pribilof Is- University of Arizona, entitled: ―A Bi Mark Zlojutro successfully defended lands and St. Lawrence, Island. She -national Assessment of the Disease his dissertation (Genetic Structure of was hooded at the MA ceremony this Burden of Tuberculosis in Mexican Eastern Aleutian Populations) on Sep- past May 2008. Indigenous Migrant Communities in tember 10th. He received an Honor‘s Sonora and Arizona.‖ Consortium pass and immediately began a 3-year member, Dr. Weaver, will be receiv- post-doctoral fellowship in the Depart- Dr. Rohina Rubicz and her family ing the Malinowski Award at the ment of Genetics at the Southwest forthcoming Society for Applied An- returned to Lawrence for the doctoral Foundation for Biomedical Research, hooding ceremony at the University thropology annual meeting. A 5-year San Antonio. His research on the ge- of Kansas Graduation. research joint US-Mexican grant pro- netics of schizophrenia is being super- posal on TB susceptibility is being vised by Dr. Laura Almasy. submitted through the SFBR by the Jay Sarthy, Self Fellow in the LBA, International Consortium for the is completing his Ph.D. dissertation Study of Tuberculosis to NIH in Janu- Phil Melton defended his dissertation on telomeric attrition and aging. He ary, 2009. on the Molecular Genetics of Chib- has been accepted at Northwestern chan-speaking populations of Central (2) A grant proposal was sub- th Medical School and plans to obtain an mitted this summer by KU and the America. On October 29 , this defense M.D. after his Ph.D. Jay will indeed was awarded an Honor‘s pass. No- University of Costa Rica (UCR) to the th become a man of letters! Physical Anthropology and the Inter- vember 10 Phil began his postdoc- national Programs of NSF. The KU toral appointment in the Department of researchers include PI, Michael H. Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Jasem Theyab spent this summer ana- Crawford and co-PIs Bart Dean and Biomedical Research, working on the lyzing mtDNA haplogroups and se- John Hoopes. The collaborators from genetics of heart disease under the quences from Bedouin, Iranian, and UCR include Drs. Jorge Azofeifa and guidance of Dr. Laura Almasy. Kuwaiti populations of Kuwait, under Ramiro Barrantes. If this proposal is the supervision of geneticist Dr. Suz- funded, the UCR administration has anne Al-Bustan at Kuwait University. committed to building a new labora- Kris Young has successfully com- tory for ancient DNA research in pleted her comprehensive doctoral Costa Rica. KU will focus on DNA examinations and has been awarded a Visitor: Professor Thomas Bouchard variation in contemporary populations postdoctoral fellowship in the Depart- (Director of the Twin Center, and the reconstruction of the genetic ment of Community Health at KUMC. University of Minnesota), gave the history of Central America. We hope This fellowship is scheduled to start as Clark Lecture for the Department of to determine the role Chibchan- soon as Kris defends her dissertation. Anthropology. He also visited the speaking populations played in the An article by Young, K, JH Relethford LBA for a discussion about research and MH Crawford ―Postfamine Stat- peopling of the Americas. collaboration on the genetics of voice ure and Socioeconomic Status in Ire- acoustics in MZ twins reared apart. (3) Professor Crawford and land‖ has appeared in the latest issue Dr. David Robbins (director of the of the American Journal of Human (LBA continued on page 12) Page 4 KU Anthropologist

Faculty News

Bartholomew Dean, with the assis- Majid Hannoum conducted field work collaborated with Silvia Salgado tance of a grant from Pines Interna- in Tangiers focusing on African clan- (UCR) in fieldwork at Nuevo Corinto, tional, traveled to Chihuahua, Mexico destine migration to Europe this sum- a Precolumbian village occupied for with Dr. MJ Mosher in May to initiate mer. Hannoum‘s recent publications over 2000 years. He is currently seek- a pilot study on nutrition and migra- include: "The Historiographic State" ing funding for additional fieldwork to tion associated with the KU-based in History and Anthropology, June begin in Summer 2008. International Consortium for the 2008 and "What is an Order of Time?" His recent research is repre- Study of Tuberculosis. In August, in History and Theory, October 2008. sented by, ―Sorcery and Trophy Head Dean directed KU‘s Study Abroad On August 22, Hannoum presented at Taking in Ancient Costa Rica,‖ in The Andean & Amazonian Worlds Pro- the Missouri Community College As- Taking and Displaying of Human Body gram to Peru. This included ethno- sociation, "Islam in North Africa." Parts and Trophies by Amerindians graphic expeditions and field-trips to (Richard J. Chacon and David H. Dye, the coast, Andes and Amazonia, as eds., 2007). Two articles should be well as scholarly presentations in Allan Hanson has published an article appearing soon: ―From Tiwanaku to Lima. titled ―What Would Jesus Do…If He Machu Picchu: Ushnus and the Archi- Were a Lawyer,‖ in the November/ In November, Dean was tecture of Creation‖ in Tiwanaku: An- December 2008 issue of The Human- named an Invited Professor at the Na- cestors of the Inca (Margaret Young- ist. It‘s based on his research on the tional School of Anthropology and Sánchez, ed.), and ―Violent Acts of evangelical right, particularly law History in Chihuahua, Mexico Curing: Precolumbian Metaphors of schools associated with Regent Univer- (Escuela Nacion de Antropologia e Birth and Sacrifice in the Diagnosis sity (founded by Pat Robertson) and Historia) and taught a weeklong semi- and Treatment of Illness ‗Writ Liberty University (founded by Jerry nar on legal anthropology for the Large‘‖ (with David Mora-Marín), in Falwell). This article is quite short and graduate program in Social Anthro- Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence an easy read; and can easily be found pology. In December, Dean will travel in the Art and Archaeology of Meso- at www.thehumanist.org. Beyond that, to Peruvian Amazonia on GRF fund- america and Central America Hanson continues to work on the the- ing to continue primary research on (Heather Orr and Rex Koontz, eds.). ory of agency, particularly the implica- TB and migration, which is part of the His interests in pseudoscience have led tions of what he calls extended agency broader efforts of the International to interviews for articles: ―The Final (and others call cyborg, or actor- Consortium for the Study of Tubercu- Days,‖ by Benjamin Anastas, The New network theory) and how it is time for losis. He will also continue collecting York Times Magazine, July 1, 2007; it to replace the long-time dominance information for his new book project and ―Five Years: 2012 and the End of of methodological individualism. on political violence in the Upper the World As We Know It,‖ by Tom Amazon. King, Lawrence.com, Dec. 10, 2007. Dean‘s publications include John Hoopes taught a seminar at Lei- In Spring 2008, he traveled to contributions as editor of lowland den University (Netherlands) entitled Costa Rica as part of a delegation hon- South American ethnology for the US ―Mobility and Exchange in the Chib- oring the 50th anniversary of KU-UCR Library of Congress‘ Handbook of chan Area: Pre-Hispanic Societies of collaboration and presented on re- Latin American Studies. He is also Southern Central America and North- search at Nuevo Corinto. At the an- pleased to report that his long over- ern South America‖ during the Sum- nual meeting of the Society for Ameri- due monograph on the Urarina of Pe- mer in 2007. In Fall 2007, he organ- can Archaeology in Vancouver, B.C., ruvian Amazonia will be published in ized and moderated the 2007 sympo- he presented a paper entitled early 2009 by the University Press of sium of the Pre-Columbian Society of ―Establishing Cultural Contexts for Florida. Dean continues as a pro-bono Washington, D.C. on the theme, ―The Mobility and Exchange Among Popu- expert witness for a number of federal Center of the Americas: Contemporary lations of the Antilles and the Isthmo- political asylum cases, and remains Studies of An Ancient World‖. He Colombian Area‖ and served as a dis- active in promoting the efforts of Am- was also an invited participant in the cussant for the symposium, nesty International, as well as a num- symposium ―Costa Rica and Pre- ―Archaeology without Borders: Re- ber of other progressive social advo- Columbian World: Honoring the Con- Evaluating the Mesoamerican/ cacy groups. tributions of Frederick Mayer,‖ at the Chibchan Interface.‖ Denver Art Museum. In May 2008, he (Continued on page 12) Volume 21 Page 5

Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program by John Hoopes cerning issues such as globalization, representing interdisciplinary speciali- decolonization, empowerment, tribal zation in the College and the School

sovereignty, ethnic and legal identity, of Law. As of July 1, 2008 the word ―global‖ social injustice, traditional beliefs, lan- The GINSP offers a Master‘s has been added to the name of the guages, public health, environmental degree based on thirty hours of core Global Indigenous Nations Studies resource management, and human and elective courses, and either thesis Program (GINSP), now directed by rights. The program prepares students or non-thesis research. Several of the anthropologist John Hoopes. Its mis- for careers in education, research, and program‘s courses are now open to sion statement has been revised as applied disciplines by providing them undergraduate as well as graduate follows: ―The mission of the Global with an interdisciplinary perspective on enrollment. While many of the pro- Indigenous Nations Studies Program the study of Indigenous peoples.‖ gram‘s students are of indigenous an- at the University of Kansas is to fos- The program‘s current core cestry, with an especially strong rep- ter and promote scholarship focused faculty is comprised of Prof. Hoopes resentation of Native Americans from on understanding the experiences (Anthropology), Devon Mihesuah the U.S., GINSP encourages enroll- and improving the lives of Indige- (GINSP), Michael Yellow Bird ment by non-indigenous and interna- nous peoples around the world. The (GINSP), Sharon O‘Brien (Political tional students who are seeking to program accomplishes this goal by Science), Ray Pierotti (Ecology & undertake scholarship and research on supporting faculty research, student Evolutionary Biology), and Stephanie issues relevant to its mission. training, and applied efforts. It pro- Fitzgerald (English). It is supported by motes cross-cultural perspectives by For more information, please visit the a growing number of affiliated faculty, encouraging critical thinking and the p r o g r a m ‘ s w e b s i t e : including several members of the generation of new knowledge con- Anthropology Department and others http://indigenous.ku.edu  Exploring Archaeology at KU and Beyond by Shannon Ryan and Laura Murphy also holds a distinguished archaeolo- meeting, graduate students Nick gist lecture. For the 2007-2008 aca- Kessler, Laura Murphy, and demic year, Dr. W. Raymond Wood, Explorations in Archaeology (EIA) is Kristopher West led an informative professor emeritus at the University of an informal public lecture series or- discussion of several recent articles on Missouri gave the distinguished ar- ganized by KU archaeology graduate ―The State of Clovis.‖ chaeologist lecture entitled ―Double students. It was developed four years During the fall 2008 semester, Ditch and Mandan Culture History.‖ ago as a venue for students to present visiting scholars included Dr. Stance their research, and to encourage inter- EIA was fortunate to have sev- Hurst (Texas Tech University) and action between professional archae- eral visiting scholars participate during Dr. Mark Raab (University of Mis- ologists and students at the University the 2007-2008 academic year, and the souri-Kansas City). Speakers from of Kansas. EIA is held every two fall 2008 semester. These included Dr. KU included Dr. Rolfe Mandel and weeks during the semester and con- Paul Goldberg (Boston University), Dr. Alison Hadley (PhD student). sists of a lecture, discussion, and so- Bob Hoard (Kansas State Historical Thanks to all the planners, cial gathering. During the 2007-2008 Society), Dr. Mark Lynott (Midwest attendees, and speakers who helped academic year, EIA met eleven times, Archaeological Center, Nebraska), and with Explorations. We continue to and met four times during the fall Virginia Wulfkuhle (Kansas State His- have excellent attendance! Currently 2008 semester. Topics included the torical Society). Participants from KU we are scheduling speakers for the application of methods such as micro- included Dr. Phillip Stinson and Dr. spring 2009 semester. If you are in- morphology, obsidian sourcing, and John Younger from the Classics de- terested in speaking or attending geophysical techniques. Several pres- partment. In addition to these archae- please email us at kan- entations described sites in North ologists, six KU graduate students [email protected]. We look forward America while others considered the (Nick Kessler, Arlo McKee, Laura to seeing you at the next Explora- archaeology of Mexico, Turkey, Murphy, Jack Russell, Shannon Ryan, Crete, and Cyprus. Each year, EIA and Mark Volmut) presented. At one tions in Archaeology!  Page 6 KU Anthropologist

Anthropology Today: A Conversation with Felix Moos

Interviewed by Anne Egitto Kansas that 40% of humanity gets its 1968 following the Tet offensive. water from the Himalayan plateau—

a region poorly understood by most The same problems have re- This conversation transpired after a North Americans. surfaced today, exemplified in the member of the faculty suggested an in- controversies surrounding the Human In my estimation, the politics terview with Felix Moos to discuss the Terrain Systems (HTS) and potential of contemporary anthropology re- current state of anthropology. Dr. Moos anthropological involvement in the flects the ideological struggles was not asked any questions, as an ex- formulation and implementation of played out in the discipline in the perienced interviewee, he expressed his public policy. A number of anthro- latter half of the last century. Since beliefs without the need for prompting. pologists have now built their careers 1950, two major conflicts—Korea on critiquing initiatives such as HTS. and Vietnam—have shaped the cur- While I welcome a healthy debate Felix Moos: We live in perilous times, rent anthropological dialogue and surrounding anthropological involve- conflicts are now raging all over the posture towards armed conflict and ment in the armed forces and politics, world. Since World War II there have our profession‘s (dis)engagement innocence is simply no defense to ig- been over 150 different armed conflicts with the military. Former Presi- nore the harsh realities of Fourth Gen- involving the United States. The nature dent of the United States, George H. eration warfare and increased global of these conflicts has changed dramati- Bush, declared during his visit to KU bifurcation where half the world is cally: the wars of the past were conflicts that, ―there are no more communists eating itself to death while the other between nation-states, but the conflicts left in China.‖ What one may note, half is starving. To be ignorant of the of today are more localized, more re- however, in response to Bush‘s com- evolutionary forces in the develop- gionally based and the issues have ments is that the Central Committee ment of armed conflict is to deny a changed. Contemporary post-colonial of the Chinese Communist Party is major tenet in our discipline. As such, conflicts are measured in decades, still the leading ruling entity of the I have not changed in my belief that rather than months or years. In my PRC. Clearly this reflects the gener- anthropology must be applied to real view, unfortunately, our discipline has alized ignorance found in the United problems in which homosapiens now not kept apace with these rapid transfor- States when it comes to understand- find themselves, rather than dealing mations. Our discipline is becoming ing global interconnections. China is with mere abstractions or getting lost irrelevant when it comes to effectively an emerging super-power, an in- in self-serving ideological duels that addressing the challenges of the 21st formed understanding of in this vital often are no more than verbal mastur- region will be conducive to a more century. bation. I support efforts like HTS, hospitable world. albeit with many reservations, be- Drawing from notions revealed Following post September cause I believe that a well-educated by quantum mechanics, the changes we and a well-informed military will be are experiencing in the 21st century are 11, 2001, and the subsequent hostili- ties in Afghanistan and Iraq, anthro- less kinetic and minimize collateral much denser than in the past. The damage. On this note, I firmly be- ―mass‖ represented by these changes is pology took on a character with which I had previously became pain- lieve that the war in Iraq would have much more extensive than it used to be. taken a very different direction if we The interconnectivity of politics, eco- fully aware with in the 1960s and 70s during the long-standing conflicts in had taken a more culturally sophisti- nomics, population growth, ethnic strife, cated approach to this particular war. and resource competition, is much Indo-China. In the 1960s, I recall that Margaret Mead was violently For example, 15,000 Arabic speaking greater today than in the past. This cen- and culturally agile US military per- tury is going to be deeply influenced not pulled off the stage at the AAA meeting in Philadelphia because she sonnel on the streets of Baghdad in only by a struggle over the ―usual re- 2003 this dreadful conflagration sources‖ (oil, natural resources), but defended anthropologists who were then working in northern Thailand. would have taken a very different increasingly by the acquisition of clean turn. I close with Santayana‘s obser- water. As my former teacher Karl Au- The climate today in anthropology I find to be very similar. The divisive- vation that ‗those who ignore the past gust Wittfogel noted in his seminal are condemned to repeat it‘. work Oriental Despotism, water is inti- ness and the highly politicized nature mately linked to power. Apropos, may I of our discipline is comparable to Nov. 24, 2008  remind our anthropology students in what happened to anthropology in Volume 21 Page 7

Summer Archaeological Field School by Brendon Asher and Alison Hadley administrator of the Pawnee Indian Mu- part of the Hopewell Culture Na- seum also deserves special thanks for tional Historic Park. Every partici-

his hospitality. pant was delighted to work under The 2008 archaeology field school, the direction of Dr. Mark Lynott The next segment of the field directed by Dr. Jack Hofman, in- from the Midwest Archaeological school took place further west at a po- cluded a seven week educational ex- Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. Dr. tential pre-Clovis site in Sherman perience from June 2nd to July 25th Lynott made every attempt to make County, Kansas. The Kanorado site is that featured excavations at three our time in Ohio as enjoyable and one of the earli- separate sites in three relaxing as possible, while still est dated sites different settings span- maintaining a work schedule and in the Great ning the archaeological meeting deadlines. Mark‘s generos- Plains and the record from potential pre ity made the three weeks in Ohio an possibility for -Clovis up through the enjoyable experience for all partici- pre-Clovis ar- historic period. The pants. While working at Hopeton, chaeological field school was both field school participants stayed in a deposits is both productive and instruc- nature retreat center in the High- exciting and tive, and the students— lands Nature Sanctuary Arc of the intriguing. At begrudgingly—came Appalachia Preserve System. Free Artifacts recovered from the Pawnee Indian Kanorado the away with a positive time was spent hiking, visiting local Village site field school and motivated attitude sites, going to baseball games, and joined with the Odyssey Geoarchae- towards pursuing archaeology as a swimming in rivers—completely ological Research Program under the career. opposite to Kanorado where the supervision of Dr. Rolfe Mandel. The nearest water source was 300 feet The first site, the Pawnee In- drier, hotter climate posed a new set of below ground. dian Village (14RP1) in Republic problems for field school participants, County, Kansas represented a rare as well as the burden of having to cook Thank you to everybody opportunity to excavate a protected for themselves and routinely do camp involved for making the summer state site. The village is one of only cleanup and field-kitchen maintenance. field school a successful and memo- four known settlements of the Kitka- Rattlesnakes, cactus, and black widows rable experience. Plans are already hahki (Republican) Band of Pawnee were a greater threat than mosquitoes in the works for continued excava- and is believed to have been occupied and ticks. Nevertheless, the session at tions in the summer of 2010. at least periodically during the 1770s- Kanorado provided the students with  1830s. Field school participants col- exposure to different laborated with the Kansas State His- excavating strategies torical Society, the Kansas Anthropo- in vastly different logical Association, and Jimmy Horn, landscapes and cul- a representative from the Pawnee Na- tural settings than in tion of Oklahoma—to whom we offer Republic County. our most sincere gratitude. Dr. Donna The final Roper, Dr. Mary Adair, and Dr. Jack destination involved Hofman served as co-principle inves- an entire day‘s com- tigators at the site. Although torna- mute to Ohio. The does, hail storms, tick infestations, Hopeton Earthworks and swarms of mosquitoes were com- site on the east side mon occurrences, the spirit of learn- of the Scioto River ing carried on. Morale remained high Field School Participants at Fort Ancient, Warren County, Ohio. near Chillicothe, Front row, left to right: Lydia DeHaven, Alex Norton, Brendan due in large part to our gracious hosts, Ohio provided an Corazzin, Wesley Gibson, Teresa Royston. Middle Row: Alison Judy Bryant and Charlie Smies, who opportunity to exca- Hadley (TA), Pam Boulware, Caitlin Curry, Les Hardin, James provided us with a place to stay and vate at a national his- Krpan. Back Row: Brendon Asher (TA), Jeffrey Ryan, Kat incredible home-cooked meals every toric landmark that is Rocheford, Jordan Jennings, Rachel Bowerman. Not Pictured: John evening. Richard Gould, the site Miller.

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The Archeological Research Center by Mary Adair artifact assemblages. The preserved por- trade items and the contextual asso- tion of the site contains depressions of at ciation of the objects; and a better

least 26 earthlodges, numerous storage understanding of Pawnee social The Archaeological Research Cen- pits, and portions of a fortification wall. structure, as reflected in the distri- ter (ARC) occupies the two lower bution of artifacts within and out- The existing collections include levels in Spooner Hall and provides side of the lodge. Future investiga- materials excavated by Carlyle Smith of a lab classroom, laboratory space, tions of the site are currently being KU in 1949 and Tom Witty of the Kansas supplies and equipment, and com- planned for 2010, and several of the State Historical Society in the 1960s. parative collections for archaeologi- goals will be more fully addressed Smith excavated the remains of two cal research. With archaeological in coming years. lodges (Houses 1 and 2) and tested the collections totally more than 1.2 fortification trench in several locations. Two graduate students, million specimens, the ARC en- The largest and most comprehensive in- Alison Hadley and Brendon Asher, courages, supports and develops vestigations to date were conducted by are currently supported with half- archaeological research for under- State Archaeologist Tom Witty from 1965 time positions to help with the cata- graduate and graduate students, fac- to 1979. Witty excavated the remains of 9 loging, analysis, and description of ulty and staff, and visiting scholars. lodges (Houses 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 22, 23, 24, the artifacts. Mark Volmut, who At this time, 8 students are em- and 25). The Paw- reported on ployed on several research projects, nee Indian Village the faunal over 25 undergraduate students are Museum subse- r e m a i n s finishing class projects for Jack quently was built from the Hofman‘s Anth 406, several stu- over the in-place 1949 inves- dents are volunteering their time to remains of House tigations for work with specific collections, vol- 5. Combined, the last unteers from outside of KU are these investiga- newsletter, helping out with several projects, Ceramic styles associated with the Smoky Hill phase tions recovered a and Emily and many graduate students con- significant and Williams, tinue to use the collections as part sizeable collection that includes lithic who helped complete an initial in- of their graduate research. A brief tools, ceramics, gun parts, trade beads, ventory of the collections, were em- summary of three of the major re- decorated and incised bone tools, worked ployed on this project for the spring search projects follows. bottle glass fragments, woven grass mat- 2008 semester. In addition, Nick Kitkahahki Archaeology: ting, multiple types of metal tools and Kessler identified the species of Investigations at the Pawnee fragments, a large quantity of floral and wood selected for the main lodge Indian Village, 14RP1 faunal remains, and many pieces of wood poles of several of the earthlodges, research that is currently awaiting The Pawnee Indian Village, or and burned earth from lodge remnants. The artifact collection reflects Spanish, publication in Central Plains Ar- Kansas Monument site, 14RP1, lies chaeology. Several undergraduate on the bluffs overlooking the Re- French, and American trade and influence. Original documentation, field notes, maps, students enrolled in Anthropology publican River valley in north- 406, Laboratory Techniques in Ar- central Kansas. It represents the and photographs contribute to the signifi- cance of the collection. chaeology, are contributing to the remains of a late eighteenth–early research with projects such as sort- nineteenth century village occupied Excavations conducted by the ing waterscreened samples, quanti- by the Kitkahahki band of the Paw- 2008 field school on a portion of another fying various assemblages, and re- nee tribe. In January 2008, the ARC lodge (see article in the newsletter) were searching temporal ranges of trade was awarded a contract from the designed to address research that could not items. Two local volunteers, Kansas State Historical Society to be fully ascertained with existing collec- Marilyn and Jerry Finke, contrib- inventory and analyze existing col- tions. Four major research goals on this uted almost 140 hours to the project lections from this site, conduct lim- project include a refinement of the site by sorting botanical remains col- ited excavations on selected areas of chronology; a more comprehensive de- lected by the previous excavations. the site in the summer of 2008, and scription of the subsistence, including Marilyn and Jerry enrolled in a prepare a final comprehensive re- small particles collected by water screen- summer class, Paleoethnobotany, port on all of the field work and ing and flotation; a detailed account of Volume 21 Page 9

which was offered by Mary Adair as develop an empirically based model to AMS dating and significant sherds part of the Kansas Anthropological map the late prehistoric social landscape for NAA study. Next semester, Training Program. and to delineate the individual commu- graduate student Andrew Gottsfield nities formed among the people of the will begin assembling all geo- Smoky Hill phase. referenced data from east-central Ceramic Geography and the Social Kansas to complete several layers Ceramic style analysis will be Formations of the Smoky Hill within a GIS format. The archaeo- used as a proxy measure of the commu- Phase, east-central Kansas logical data will form additional nity affiliation of individual households. layers. The visualization and layer- With National Science Foundation The analysis will examine multiple di- ing capabilities of GIS will be used support, Drs. Mary Adair, Donna mensions of stylistic variation and will to produce maps that display the Roper (KSU) and Robert Speakman examine the geographical distribution of results of the analytical outputs (Smithsonian Institution) will ana- style groups. Extensive neutron activa- within geo-referenced context. lyze curated ceramic assemblages to tion analysis (NAA) will allow the investigate social formations of the evaluation of interaction within and Upgrade of the Archaeological Smoky Hill phase of the Central among communities by delineating Collections from the John Red- Plains tradition of North America. chemical compositional groups and mond Lake Project The 18-month project will apply de- mapping their distribution. tailed ceramic style analysis and neu- As a supplement to the curation tron activation analysis to problems The approach of this project is agreement between the ARC and of social organization and interac- in a break with the traditional ways of the Tulsa District Corps of Engi- tion, and will control chronology by viewing late prehistoric social organiza- neers (COE), funds were provided radiocarbon dating 36 Smoky Hill tion on the Central Plains and of life- to upgrade the curation of all ar- phase sites in central and north- ways on the Plains in general. Tradi- chaeological materials recovered central Kansas. tional ways have relied on historic from the John Redmond Lake pro- analogies and have reified rather than ject, eastern Kansas. In 1974, Mu- The late prehistoric period in truly exposed aspects of social organiza- seum of Anthropology staff inten- the Central Plains (cal A.D. 1100– tion. Contemporary theory and method, sively tested site 14CF335, located 1350) featured an emerging farming however, now allow social organization within the boundaries of John Red- economy, with attendant changes in to be addressed empirically. The results mond Lake, Kansas. The fieldwork technology, settlement, and social of this research will be a baseline study also involved a shoreline survey to organization. The social organization of the organization of this underrepre- assess the extent of damage occur- is the least understood of these di- sented type of social formation from a ring to previously recorded sites. mensions. The basic social unit was geographical area that has also been Previous work recorded a total of 40 the economically autonomous house- largely underrepresented. archaeological sites. The 1974 hold, but households by necessity work resulted in the curation of 15 Although awarded in the sum- were integrated into communities. cubic feet of collections, but the use mer, this project did not get fully exe- This late prehistoric adaptation really of the collection was highly com- cuted until October. A first step was to has no historic analog in the region. promised. Artifacts were not totally create basic provenience databases for The project‘s primary objective is to cataloged; a comprehensive catalog the ceramics, which included both trans- record did not exist, and the report ferring existing paper databases to elec- did not provide an adequate descrip- tronic form and creating new databases. tion or summary of the amount, Using collections at the ARC as well as types, and the cultural affiliation of ceramics borrowed from the Kansas materials recovered. Graduate stu- State Historical Society, undergraduate dent Emily Williams was hired to majors Jeff Ryan, Teresa Royston and inventory and re-box the entire col- Alex Norton have been actively invento- lection, catalog artifacts on a need rying ceramics and creating the data- basis, create a provenience and de- bases. Discrete measurements and re- scriptive spreadsheet, and contribute cording of the stylistic attributes of the to a final report to the Tulsa District ceramics are currently underway by COE. The work will be completed Donna Roper. Mary Adair has begun to Flint-lock rifle part from House 2, 14RP1 select appropriate botanical remains for in early 2009. 

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Steve Corbett, a PhD student in medi- the different types of jobs she might munity is part of a coffee plantation cal anthropology, recently received like to apply for when she finishes. that is attempting to work with NGOs two grants: ―Using Traditional Foods Major is well. He recently built a vir- and government programs to develop and Sustainable Ecological Ap- tual server and, while I don't actually their community and find a niche cof- proaches for Health Promotion and know what that is, it sounds neat. Let fee market. Kraemer continues to study Diabetes Prevention in American In- me know if you want more informa- NGOs in Guatemala, their affect on dian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Commu- tion. local indigenous populations, and the nities‖. This is a 5-year grant from the inclusion (or lack there of) Centers for Disease Control and Pre- of indigenous culture, identity, lan- vention that will provide approxi- Rebecca Crosthwait conducted field guage, and local communities within mately $100,000 per year for the pro- research in South Texas and the U.S./ development programs. Currently, ject. ―Honoring the Gift of Heart Mexico Border region with the Univer- Kraemer is the Project Manager for Health Pilot Project‖. This is a 1-year sity of Arizona‘s Bureau of Applied two NGO's in Guatemala Wuqu' grant from the National Heart, Lung, Research in Anthropology (BARA) Kawoq (www.wuqukawoq.org) and and Blood Institute, NIH, and the In- during the spring and summer Semillas para el Futuro dian Health Service. It will provide 2008. This will be preliminary re- (www.semillasfuturo.org) that collabo- $13,000 toward project activities. Both search for her dissertation on Mexican rate with indigenous communities programs will take place on the Prairie migrant workers using temporary labor in health care, education, agriculture, Band Potawatomi Nation Indian reser- visas in the oil industry. Crosthwait and leadership development. Kraemer continues to work for BARA, prepar- vation in Mayetta, KS. continues her Ph.D. studies in Cultural ing a report for Mineral Management Anthropology with Dr. Metz and plans Services, which funds the large re- to return to the field in the next year. Shawna L. Carroll Chapman has been search project. In March 2008, she hard at work in Kansas City talking presented a paper and chaired a session This year she presented papers with women about their ability to ac- at SfAA conference in Memphis, at the following confer- cess healthcare when they do not have Tenn. This paper was based on her ences: 1)"Anthropologists as Engaged insurance, have bad insurance, or have thesis research. Crosthwait has moved Collaborators: Correcting the Wrongs good insurance as well as their back to Lawrence to finish up PhD by Nongovernmental Organizations in thoughts and beliefs about cardiovas- coursework and begin working on field Several Guatemalan Communities" at cular disease risk. She has recruited statements, which will focus on a ty- the American Anthropological Asso- mostly along the state line in areas of pology of citizenships in the context of ciation, San Francisco, California, KCK (Wyandotte County) and KCMO globalization and transnational migra- 2) "How we can use an Indigenous (just over the border), but the women tion and a cultural biography of the driven Agenda for Nongovernmental live all over the metro (as evidenced Gulf of Mexico. Organizations‖ at the Guatemala by their zip codes and locations where Scholars Network Conference, Van- they meet for formal interviews). She derbilt University, 3) "Assessing the has spent a lot of time at the Keeler Anne Egitto in addition to serving as Role of Indigeneity in Guatemalan Women's Center, a women's commu- this year‘s Editor for the KU Anthro- Nongovernmental Organizations" First nity center run by the Benedictine Sis- pologist, Anne presented on master‘s Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and ter's of Mt. St. Scholastica that pro- thesis research entitled ―Creating a Indigenous Peoples in Latin America vides amazing resources for women GIS Database: Pre-Columbian Settle- and the Caribbean, University of Cali- from counseling with professional psy- ment Pattern Analysis in Costa Rica‖ fornia, San Diego. Coauthored with chologists to free massages and classes at KU‘s GIS Day in November. Dr. Peter Rohloff, and 4) "Community on relaxation and colors. It is a place Advocacy or Community Develop- where a lot of women go to relax and Anne E. Kraemer returned to KU this ment?" Society for Applied Anthropol- feel supported. She has also spent time fall after 20 months living in Chocola, ogy Annual Meeting, Memphis, at three of the areas safety net clinics, a Guatemala through an IIE/Fulbright Tennessee. YMCA, and host of other loca- Grant and the support of the NGO, Kraemer got engaged in Octo- tions. Currently, she is finishing up Semillas para el Futuro. She was living ber of this year and plans to marry in interviews, writing fellowship applica- in the southwestern piedmont area with 2009. tions, and beginning to think about a K'ichee' Maya community. The com- Volume 21 Page 11

Missouri‖ and led a discussion on the ology, students seeking employment ―The State of Clovis‖ for the Explora- in contract (CRM) archaeology, or Graduate News... tions in Archaeology lecture series at who merely want to experience field KU. Laura spent the 2008 summer research in archaeology. archaeology field season working on Over Fall Break 2008, Ann Phil Melton successfully defended the southern High Plains of Texas once again took students out into the his Ph.D. dissertation, ―Genetic his- collecting data for her dissertation. field to do initial survey and test exca- tory and Pre-Columbian diaspora of Laura currently serves as co-President vation at a second site in the area. Chibchan speaking populations: Mo- of Graduate Students for Anthropol- This site was also directly affected by lecular marker evidence,‖ in October ogy and is President of KU Students the events of General Order No. 11 2008. He is currently a Postdoctoral for Science. and the Border Wars. This other site Scientist in the department of Genet- has been documented as a general ics at the Southwest Foundation for store, as well as a private farmstead, Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Ann Raab conducted a field school in and a stop on the old military road Texas His current research involves Bates County, Missouri this past sum- that came through the area. Students the characterization of genetic com- mer from June 2-22, 2008. Students from KU and UMKC, as well as other ponents related to susceptibility for from the University of Kansas, Uni- interested volunteers, participated in cardiovascular disease in Native and versity of Missouri-Kansas City, Uni- this excavation. Mexican American populations. In versity of Missouri-Columbia, and addition, he presented a poster enti- Westminster College participated. Plans are currently underway tled ―The Effect of Biological Age on This field school focused on one of for the 2009 Bates County Archaeo- Survivorship in Midwestern Mennon- the most traumatic events in Ameir- logical Field School. The 2009 field ites‖ at the Human Biology Associa- can history. In the run-up to the Civil school will pick up where the 2008 tion meetings in Columbus, Ohio and War, the Missouri-Kansas border was field school left off, exploring the was co-author on a oral presentation the scene of merciless partisan fight- structure discovered during that exca- ―Diversidad de DNA mitocondrial en ing between pro-Union and secession- vation, as well as excavating other poblaciones indígenas Vóticas en el ist groups, culminating in William structures at the site. In addition, we Sur de Centroamérica‖ given at the Clarke Quantrill's infamous raid on will further explore the second site Latin American Anthropology Con- Lawrence, Kansas, in which nearly that was excavated during Fall Break gress in San Jose, Costa Rica. 200 men and boys were singled out 2008. Both sites should provide nu- for death. Following Quantrill's raid, merous opportunities for archaeologi-

the Union Army issued General Order cal exploration. The tentative dates Laura Murphy (PhD Student) gradu- No. 11. This order, issued in 1863, for the 2009 field season are June 8- ated in May with her MA in Anthro- resulted in the complete depopulation 28, 2009. The field school is available pology from KU, thesis titled of Bates County and the total destruc- to current college/university students ―Geoarchaeology of the Burntwood tion of all towns, farms, livestock and in good standing and can be taken for Creek Rockshelter (14RW418), crops, creating an extraordinary ar- either undergraduate or graduate Northwest Kansas,‖ advisor Dr. Rolfe chaeological time capsule in Bates credit. The field school is offered Mandel. She presented her thesis at County. through the University of Missouri- the 2008 Biennial American Quater- Kansas City, but is open to non- Starting with initial excava- nary Association (AMQUA) meeting UMKC students with no application tions in the fall of 2007, and continu- held at Penn State University, and at for admission to UMKC required. ing with the 2008 field season and the 2007 and 2008 Geological Soci- In addition, Archaeology beyond, this field school will research ety of America conferences in Denver magazine has just made arrangements the effects of this order, particularly and Houston. Laura received a stu- to do a story on Ann's work in Bates the ability of the county's people to dent travel grant to attend the AM- County, and General Order No. 11. recover economically and socially QUA conference, and received the Noted science writer Heather Pringle after the war. Although this program Richard Hay student paper award will be the author for the story, and it focuses on Civil War-era archaeologi- from GSA‘s Archaeological Geology will most likely appear in summer or cal sites, students will receive training Division (2007). During the 2007- fall of 2009. For more information in research techniques employed by 2008 academic year, Laura presented about the project you can go to archaeologists around the world. This ―The Big Eddy Site (23CE426): The www.geocities.com/annmraab field school is valuable to students Search for Pre-Clovis in Southwest planning advanced work in archae- (Continued on page 13) Page 12 KU Anthropologist

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peo- LBA (Continued from page 3) Takeyama visited Tsukiji Fish Mar- ples in Latin America and the Carib- ket,—the largest in the world,—for Presentations: bean in May at the University of Cali- the first time her life and it was a Professor Crawford gave an invited fornia, San Diego. He was also a fea- great experience. Takeyama‘s re- plenary address at the Latin Ameri- tured speaker at the international semi- search presentations include sharing can Biological Anthropology Asso- nar "Expresiones y representaciones de her project at the Council on East ciation in LaPlata, Argentina in la violencia en Guatemala (Expressions Asian Studies at Yale, the Greater October. The title of the presentation and Representations of Violence in Kansas City Japan festival, the Gen- was: ―Genetic Asymmetry (mtDNA Guatemala), Oct 2-4, where he pre- der Seminar at the Hall Center, the versus NRY markers) in Populations sented "Las Œruinas' olvidadas en el Cultural Anthropology Dinner and of the Aleutian Archipelago: The áreach'orti': Apuntes para una historia Discussion, Tea & Talk at the CEAS, Effects of Russian Political Policy.‖ de la violencia en el oriente de Guate- and the Annual Anthropology meet- He also gave another invited presen- mala" (The Forgotten 'Ruins' of the ing. She has also very much enjoyed tation at the Museum of Anthropol- Ch'orti' Area: Constructing a History of teaching Anthropology of Gender, ogy, Autonomous University of Cor- the Violence in Eastern Guatemala). Feminism and Anthropology, and doba. With support from a five year People of Japan, in which she feels grant from Wenner-Gren Founda- Don Stull will be presented with the her students did a wonderful job. Cur- tion, Drs. Crawfrod and Dario Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award rently, Takeyama is writing a book Demarchi (former LBA post-doc) by The Society for Applied Anthropol- chapter, "'Allow Me to Dream': The and A. Laguens (Research director ogy at its annual meeting in Santa Fe, Art of Seduction in a Tokyo Host of the Museum) discussed the estab- New Mexico, on March 20, 2009. The Club," to contribute to an edited vol- lishment of the first Ph.D. program Sol Tax Award is presented annually to ume, Sexing Travel: Intimacy and in Biological Anthropology in a member of the SfAA in recognition of Subjectivity in Women's International Argentina. long-term and truly distinguished ser- Tourism. vice to the Society and the field of ap- (Cont. from page 4 ) Alumni News Faculty News plied anthropology.

John M. Janzen is serving as ad- Honey D. Hallock received her first viser for the Anthropology track of teaching position at Northern Okla- Akiko Takeyama filed her doctoral the Museum Studies Program homa College teaching General An- dissertation in May. With the NFGRF, (MUSE), an interdisciplinary M.A. thropology (ANTH 2353), under the and other funds, she conducted her fol- program at the KU. The program direction of Sociologist Dr. Jeremy low-up research on Japan's host club features core courses in Museum Cook. Hallock has been asked to phenomena in July. While in Tokyo, Studies and in each of five discipli- teach the class again next semester. nary specializations, as well as an internship in a museum or collection- KU Anthropology Graduate Student based project. Twenty-seven students are in the program this year in Paper Award Announcement the following tracks: American Stud- ies, Anthropology, Geology, History, Graduate students in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas an- and Natural History. The overall nounce a peer-reviewed paper award. Two KU Anthropology Graduate Student Paper director of the program is Professor Awards will be given ($50 to each student) to the papers deemed outstanding by the edito- of English, Marjorie Swann. Con- rial board of the KU Anthropologist. Papers submitted should be related to the University tinuing students in the anthropology track are Jennifer McCollough, Mar- of Kansas Department of Anthropology’s “commitment to a holistic and integrative ap- tha Socolofsky, and Sarah Sparks. proach to studying human beings.” For more information on the Department of Anthropol- New students are Robin Bang, Ann ogy at KU see http://www2.ku.edu/~kuanth/. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words Benning, and Nai-Chieh Yeh. These excluding title and authors, max of 5,000 words, double-spaced, submitted in word docu- latter three were a cohort of nine new MUSE students this fall. ment via electronic submission. The theme should cover any anthropological topic. Ab- stracts should be received by March 25th. If the paper is accepted, the complete paper Brent Metz presented "Racial Ideolo- gies in the Ch'orti' Maya Movements should be received no later than April 10th. Winning papers will be published in the sum- of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Sal- mer issue of the KU Anthropologist. Submissions should be mailed to the editor at kuan- vador" at the First Conference on [email protected] with “graduate paper submission” in the subject heading. Volume 2 Page 13

Graduate news (Continued from page 11) KU Anthropology T-Shirts Mark Volmut a second year graduate This is your last chance to get last year’s KU anthropology T-shirt. There are only a few student, is currently analyzing the more left. The front icon is a tracing from the pictograph in the Fraser elevator—a woman faunal remains from a data recovery huntress and her prey. On the back is the answer to a question we have all been asked: project at both the Copperhead Site “No, we don’t study dinosaurs…anthropology, the study of humans.” The picture on the (3CW951), and at the Frog Bayou back is a mysteriously Jayhawkesque artifact. Shelter (3CW946) located in Craw- T-shirts are $15.00 for adult ford, County in western Arkansas. He sizes and $10.00 for youth sizes, profits is looking for evidence for the year- will go to Graduate Students for Anthro- round occupation of both sites, and pology. If you need to have your t-shirt for the hunting and procurement shipped the charge is $5.00 for every 3 strategies of the occupants, and is shirts. The T-shirts are Haines. Since utilizing the comparative collections we only have a few left, if interested in housed at KU for the analysis. purchasing a T-shirt, please contact the The excavations were under- editor at the KU Anthropologist at taken from 2003 to 2005, and were kuanthropologist.edu. Front Back conducted by the Burns & McDon- nell Engineering Company for the Next Dinner & Discussion CARTOONIST WANTED Lake Forth Smith Water Supply Pro- ject. The Water Supply Project in- Professor John Hoopes will host Have a creative side? The KU volves the enlargement of Lake Fort the next dinner and discussion Anthropologist is looking for a Smith in order to provide area cus- on April 2nd. We bring the food cartoonist to contribute to the tomers with an increased water and Professor Hoopes will supply Spring issue. Cartoon must be source. the discussion. Burning Man will anthropologically themed be topic for the evening. addressing one of the four sub Volmut‘s analysis will con- Burning Man is an annual art disciplines. Please submit your tinue throughout the rest of the semester, and will be included in the event and temporary commu- idea and a sketch by April 10th final publication of the project. nity based on radical self expres- via email to the editor at sion and self reliance in the [email protected] Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Consider Giving to KU Anthropology

Page 14 KU Anthropologist Book Reviews Molecular Nutrition and Genomics: Nutrition and the behind the evolution of human nutrition and its relation to Ascent of Humankind. By Mark Lucock. 132 pps. cerebral functions, metabolism, the human lifecycle, and Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007. nutritional disease and adaptation. The following three ISBN: 978-0-470-08159-4 chapters explore more contemporary issues, such as dietary patters in populations, nonessential nutrients, and toxicol- Review by J. Chadwick Gerhold ogy. The final three chapters focus on nutrigenomics, pro- The study of nutrition within biological anthropology has tein function and how working with a computer in your lab gained momentum in the past years elucidating the role that is beneficial. dietary habits have played in the understanding ecological, What is of particular interest is the capacity bio- epidemiological, evolutionary, and physiological adapta- logical anthropology can play in this process. While most tions. In Lucock‘s text he successfully expounds on these of us have little to no training in molecular biology, let concepts by interweaving molecular biology, genomics, alone molecular nutrition, Lucock illustrates the collabora- and the nutritional sciences with anthropology to explain tive and almost seamless roles our disciplines can play in the development of evolutionary nutrition. defining human nutrition. For anthropologists, this book In this text, the author provides the reader with a provides an insightful glimpse into what are colleagues are basic understanding of the principles involved in the evolu- doing across the aisle and how fostering collaborative relation of human nutrition. The first three chapters of this tionships with the nutritional sciences can further both our book familiarize readers with basic concepts in molecular fields, providing a fruitful understanding of the ascent of nutrition, human evolution, human nutrition and diet, and humankind though nutrition. genomics. The next four chapters offer more breadth

‘Las Fronteras: towards understanding Northern conditions of the maquiladoras), but rather one of social Mexican borderlands’ relations between peoples, situations, times and spaces. Reviews by Bartholomew Dean Drawing from primary fieldwork conducted in the

maquiladora as well as worker‘s personal narratives, Soto Aguirre chronicles various stages of drug consumption, El Norte de México: Entre Fronteras ed. By Juan Luis from the phase of pre-consumption to dependency and ad- Sariego Rodríguez, 2008 México, D.F.: Instituto Nacio- diction, and in so doing his text provides vital insight into nal de Antropología e Historia. the formation of the individual as a social subject.

This outstanding collection of twenty essays stems from the Second Colloquium on Carl Lumholtz and the Anthropol- Niños deportados en la frontera de Ciudad Juárez. Euge- ogy and History of Northern Mexico, held in 2007 in Chi- nia Hernández S. 2008 México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional huahua (hosted by ENAH, Esculea Nacional de Antro- de Antropología e Historia. pología e Historia). Contributors to this lucid volume col- lectively argue that ‗Northern Mexico‘ is culturally and Focusing on the strategically important city of Juarez, this geographically situated between two major frontiers-- book documents the tragic theme of child and adolescent Mesoamerican and the Ango-Saxon--and this has given rise detention/deportation along the US-Mexico border, one of to processes marked by assimilation and radical differentia- the world‘s most complex and contested national borders. tion. Moreover, this valuable volume masterfully outlines a Hernández S. provides much needed contextual insight into series of frontiers that have shaped the contours of Northern the social condition of deportee through her review of the Mexico‘s multifarious ethnoscapes including: ecological; U.S Department of Immigration and Naturalization Ser- territorial; ethnic; class; cultural; and regional configura- vices‘ 1906-30 records of the deportation of minors. This tions. earlier epoch of detention/deportation is contrasted with

Hernández‘s cogent analysis of the official record of the detention and repatriation of minors collected by the Mexi- Evadir la línea: Drogas y trabo en la Industria Maquila- can Consulate in Tucson between 2001 and 2004. More- dora de Chihuahua. Enrique Soto Aguirre, 2008 México, over, data collected through participant observation at the D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Casa YMCA del Menor Migrante complements The author of this significant ethnography asserts that drug Hernández‘s consequential contribution to the burgeoning consumption among workers in the maquiladora industry is literature on US-Mexican border studies. not a question of places (i.e. the harsh work-floor labor . Volume 21 Page 15

Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues cently? Was it the version closest to the European lan- to Our Common Humanity in the World’s Lowliest guage which supplied its lexicon or the version furthest Languages. By Derek Bickerton. 270 pps. New York: away from the superstrate language? His question remains Hill and Wang. 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8090-2817-7. unanswered by the time he leaves Guyana and travels to Colombia. It doesn‘t get answered until the later chapters. Review by Ariane Tulloch However, by the time the reader reaches the answer, he Writing in a way that easily captures the attention of a gen- has probably completely forgotten the question since eral audience, without sacrificing that of any academics Bickerton by then has presented the audience with his ma- reading the book, Bickerton shares his quest to find out jor goal. He calls it ―the island experiment,‖ an attempt to how Creole languages originated. In the span of the first 7 construct a Creole language by sequestering families with chapters, he takes us to South America and the Caribbean, young children on an island for two years and watching crosses the Atlantic to Europe—stopping in England, his how the children, whose native languages are different, native country—then picks up once more to journey to the interact. Aside from educating the reader about Creoles, South Pacific. In Guyana—where the book really begins, Bickerton spins an interesting tale easily interweaving per- while studying Guyanese Creole—he stumbles upon one of sonal vignettes throughout explanations of languages the first questions that inspired the writing of his book: work. which version of the Creole dialect originated most re- Graduates, Defended & Upcoming Defenders Recent Graduates: Quincy McCrary, M.A. Down and Out on the Kaw: An Examination of Emergency Shelters in Lawrence Kansas David Robles, M.A. Assimilation or Cultural Resilience? Wayuu Marketing in Riohacha, La Guajira, Columbia Huang, Hai, Ph.D. A Three-Stage Model for the Domestication of Oryza Sativa and the Emergence of Rice Agriculture in China, 12,000 – 7,000 BP Recently Defended: Philip Melton, Ph.D. Genetic History and Pre-Columbian Diaspora of Chibchan Speaking Populations: Molecular Genetic Evidence Mark Zlojutro, Ph.D. Mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosome Variation of Eastern Aleut Populations: Implications for the Genetic Structure and Peopling of the Aleutian Archipelago Molly DesBaillets, MA Cultural Pluralism and Social Capital in Garden City, Kansas David Unruh, MA Zooarchaeology at Coffee: Mid-Holocene Economy on the Prairie-Plains

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