D epartment of Anthrop olo gy Spring 1997

A tale of two sites by Peter Mehringer The announcementsread, "Great BasinArchaeologi DesertSeries points of black obsidian,knives of white cherl, cal Field School,Steens Mountain Region: Past Cultures and fragmentsof bovid bonesand teeth.Casual collectors and Environmentsof SoutheastemOreson." Students ar- were visiting the site and they could removeartifacts crucial rived from both coasts,the to our understanding.Still, did Midwest, Montana,, Lost Dune hold undisturbedburied Washington,Canada, and a few i,,,1 deposits;if so, could they be dated; from WSU. They joined gradu- ,1,,',:',were the bovid remainsfrom bison ate studentsBill Lyons and .lll or cattle;and, how do we explain Robert Wegener, and myself, ,,,,''lso much Shoshoneanbrown ware to learn archaeologicalsurvey, l,' pottery100 miles beyond its antic- excavation,mapping and labo- ipatedrange in northemNevada or ratory methods,and aboutthe ,,,, Idaho? recordof prehistoricpeoples The 1995field schoolexca- and environments. ., vationsanswered the initial ques- 'rr Someof you probablyre- tions.Some time between300 and memberback nearly 20 years 500 yearsago Lost Dune had been to the SteensMountain Prehis- ,: a bisonbutchering camp. Bill Ly- tory Project-a combinedef- ons' dissertation--duewithin the fort by faculty and students r,, year-will addressthe many inter- from the Universitiesof Ore- gon,Washington, and Wash- :": tery,stone aftifacts, and the human ington State.You may evenre- dimensionsof this seemingly PeteMehringer and.fieldschool student call the luxuriant Malheur out-of-placeassemblage. Ehrin Milner excayatinpat Skull CreekDunes Marshes,aspen-clad Steens The 1996field schoolbegan Mountain, FrenchglenStore, by helping Bill Lyons at Lost and the extraordinarystratigra- Dune.Then, it shiftedendeavors to phy and arlifact concentrationsexposed in CatlowValley's Skull CreekDunes, Catlow Valley,where Steens Mountain '81). Skull CreekDunes. Ken PetersenGh.D. GeneHat- PrehistoryProject excavators had documentedmore than '82), '85), tori (Ph.D. andespecially Peter Wigand (Ph.D. 8000years of occasionaloccupation. In continuingto visit along with membersof the 1911-82Palynology and Desert the Skull Creeksites after the 1981excavations, we wit- WestPrehistory classes, all pafiicipatedin the inaugural nessedreceding dune faces where nature's leveling forces studies.The areahas remained a focus of classfield trips were exposing,eroding, and mixing 4000 yearsof human andmy research. leavings.One suchthreatened site was a 2000-year-old Burns District BLM archaeologist,Scott Thomas, and meter-deepmidden tested in 19Bl by SteensMountain his predecessorBruce Crespinplotted a courseof recovery Projectarchaeologists. This middenbecame the subjectof andresearch for two critical sites-Lost Dune and Skull field schoolstudy and Rob Wegener's M.A. thesis. CreekDunes. In 1981Scott had discoveredthe Lost Dune Now for the restof the story-a return to Skull Creek site eastof the Malheur NationalWildlife Refuge,where Dunesbecame especially attractive after an alerl, sharp-eyed '85) Carla Burnside (B.A. is now the archaeologist.Lost studentspied a pottery sherdduring the fall '95 DesertWest Dune yielded Oregon'slargest known collectionof brown field trip. Despite16 yearsof intensearchaeological attention '96. warepottery. Surface scatters of pot sherdsaccompanied this was a first! In March WSU studentvolunteers WashingtonState UniversiU $ I Capacitycrowd enjoysEvans'lecture on L.V McWhorter The Museum hasbeen busy this year with several an ethnomusicologicalstudy of centralAfrican Pygmies. specialprograms for the public as well aslots of work be- As a resultof an on-goingcooperative agreement be- hind the scenesbringing the archaeologicalcollections into tweenthe Walla Walla usableorder. Fall semester'shighlight was a Museum- District of the US Army sponsoredlecture, exhibit and Corpsof Engineersand receptionhonoring the WSU CNA, forly percentof Pressrelease of SteveEvans' the archaeologicalcol- biographyof L.V. McWhorter, lectionsfrom the lower Voice of the Old Wolf. The SnakeRiver regionhave Museumholds a fabulouscol- beeninventoried and cu- lectionof Plateauethnographic rated suchthat we have artifacts,including many relics a computerizeddatabase of the Nez PerceWar of 1811. allowingfor item-by-item which were given to WSU by identificationand access.

. 1". the McWhorter family. Several It is now possibleto 1 family membersattended the studysome of themost Harvest Moon StevenRoss Evans programwhich so exceededthe imporlantarchaeological room capacitythat we had to collectionsrepresenting the prehistoryof the southeastern turn someaway. Events scheduled for the spring semester Plateau.Work sponsoredby the National Park Servicehas includetwo presentationssponsored by theWashington resultedin the samekind of accessfor two collectionsfrom Commissionfor the HumanitiesInquiring Minds Program. the MosesLake area,45GR27 and 45GR30,excavated by We will be hosting"Legends of the Longhouse"by Har- R.D. Daughertyin 1948and 1950.Individuals interested in vestMoon, a Quinault ambassador,for elementaryage thesecollections should contact the Museumfor more infor- children.Also part of the Inquiring Minds Programwill be mation. BrianPertl's "Singing to theForest, Dancing to theMoon," -Mary Collins A tale of two sites W numberof tiny bits of stoneand bone. retumedwith Rob Wegenerand me; Much to Prof. Carl Gustafson'sdelight we found more pottery and a (or horror),Rob Wegenerhas separated 500-year-oldbison skull as well-an- about32,000 bone fragments from last other first for Skull CreekDunes! summer'sdiggings; one-half of these Thanksto the BLM firefighters arecharred. Though most bonecame and their pumpertrucks we washed from blacktailedjackrabbits, the peo- most excavatedsediments from both ple of Skull CreekDunes also took a sitesthrough l/16 inch meshscreens. varietyof smallanimals, birds and hsh, This, of course,led to a nightmarish as well as pronghom,mountain sheepand deer.Rob is continu- ing his investigationswith de- scriptionof a similarly huge sampleof stonetools and deb- itage. Now that field studiesare completed,samples sorted, and BiLlLyons peers through the analyseswell underway,the fa- transitat LostDune. tigued yet unflaggingresearch- ers a"rereporting their findings. Conf'erenceand journal publications They presentedpapers at last arenot far behind.Anthropology M.A. October'sGreat Basin Anthro- studentBrian Harveyis going a step (L to R) Pete Mehringer student Ehrin pology Conferenceand at de- furlher in bringingOregon Milner and Rob Wegenerexcavate an Elko partmentcolloquia. Updates to the public. Brian, who dug with the point (inset) Dunes daft at the Skull Creek will comeatApril's Northwest midden. W Fromthe Chair'sdesk The chair'sdesk looks nofth acrossthe Tenell Mall from the first floor of College Hall. After one semesterof sitting hereI am becomingaccustomed to the view, which is sharedby a dehantwooden rooster left, apparently,by GeoffGamble, who this year is wSU's Interim Provost.Less tangiblebut much appreciatedare the many legacies of my immediatepredecessor, John Bodley, who leavesthis position after four years to retufll to full-time teachingand research in the Department.Under his leadership, '97,the as of spring Departmenthas grown to 60 undergraduatemajors and 65 enrolled graduatestudents. Being chair gives me a perspectiveon the departmentthat I have neverhad be- fore. I now appreciate,for example,the vastamount of work donewith goodhumor by the ofFrcestaff (LeAnn Couch, Joan Pubols, Annette Bednar, and Karene Kramer). I can seeas well how hard the faculty works to meet studentneeds while maintainingimpressive records of scholarshipand outside service. I would like to thank particular Tim Kohler in William Lipe, who stepsdown from the presidencyof the Societyfor AmericanArchaeology this spring,forrepresenting us with distinction. Congratulationsas well to Peter Mehringer, who is servingin his secondyear (of three)as a wSU Meyer DistinguishedProfessor. Many of you were contactedby phonein Januaryfor newsto sharewith other alumnae/i(see below). you can now keepin touch with the departmenton the Web (of course!)at http://www.wsu.edu:80801-anthro/nthhome.html. Within the University,and within the contextof our profession,this departmentis very much like the little rooster in the window.We may be small,but somehowagainst all oddswe do greatthings. Pleaseconsider using the enve- lope in this newslettertokeep us crowing. -- Tim Kohler

AnthropologyAlumni: the world is theiroyster AnthropologyAlumni leadvery interestinglives, around the the new California StateUniversity Monterey Bay campus. nofthwest and aroundthe world. Here'swhat they've told us Their publishingbusiness specializes in archaeologicaltopics, they'redoing. includingreprints of a numberof WSU reports.A comprehen- Thanksto everyonewho spokewith Gregg Graber on the sivelist of publicationsis availableon their web site,at http:// phone,or sente-mail. The response was so positive, we could www.coyotepress.com. only '71), fit half in the newsletterthis year.Look for more newsin JamesChatters (8.A. Tri-Cities,Washington, owns AnthroNews'98. andruns Applied Paleoscience '86), Technologies.He hasrecently B.D.Adams (B.A. Everett,Washington, hasjust sta(ed publisheda numberof afticles,and has been completing projects a newjob with the SnohomishCounty Sheriff'sDepartment. for theU.S. Forest Service '91), andthe Colps of Engineers,among EllyAmade (M.A. Boulder,Colorado, is currentlya otherthings. Jim hasalso been closely involved with theissues Ph.D. studentin linguisticsat the Universityof Colorado.She surroundingthe discoveryof . Jim and his has traveledto New Guineato work with the Dani. wife Jennyhave two children,one graduating fiom high school, Arthur Bogan (8.A.'72), Raleigh,Norlh Carolina,has andone from collegethis year. recentlybeen appointed '94 the curatorofthe aquaticinvertebrate David M. Evans (B.A. ), Port Orchard,Washington, is section of the North Carolina StateMuseum of Natural Sci- currentlyworking at a conferencecenter on Hood Canal. He's ences. consideringmoving back to Pullman '76),Cowallis, to work and to take on DavidR. Brauner (Ph.D. Oregon,is apro- furtherstudies in bothanthropology and geology. '85),Irvine, fessorin the OregonState University anthropologydepartment. RobertE. Hayden (8.A. California,is finish- He is curently developinga programin historicsites archaeol- ing his doctoraldegree in AmericanEthnic Studiesat the Uni- ogy for the departmentand managinga multi-yearproject to versity of California at Lvine. Upon completionhe will be excavateFofi Hoskins,a Civil War erafort in Oreson'scoast- moving back to the Pacific Northwestto look for a teaching al mountainrange. job in Ethnic Studieswith '83) an emphasison Asian American Gary Breschini (Ph.D. and Tludy Haversat (M.A. studies '82), andVietnamese American studies. He's giving a paper, Salinas, Califomia, run their own consultingand pub- "From Hollywood to Hanoi: Americanization'simpact on a lishingbusiness, Coyote Press. Gary is alsoadjunct faculty at

W.wsu,gluj8080/-mthno/ethhom.hh].wW.wsu'edu:8080-mttm/mthhome.h[nlw.wsu'edu:8080/-mthr/mtl]home'htn]wwwwsu'e{:l wwwwsu.edut8080/-anths/il$iome.html 3 Commentaryby WSULingwist I'{ancy McKee Ebonics-- will bidialectaleducation work? Most linguistsrefer to ole of slavessold to plantationsin the southeastemUnited Ebonicsas Black English. Statesbecame more andmore like the English spokenby the They describeit as a dialect whitesaround them, many of them Scots-Irishin origin. This spokenby many (but not all) "decreolization"process has proceeded so far that today it African Americansin the U.S. seemsto manypeople that the differencesbetween Black En- andCanada that developedout glish andStandardAmerican English areinsignificant. To of thepidgin used in theWest linguists,however, the dift-erencesare both structurallysig- African slavetrade. A pidgin is nificant andclearly rule governed,as is true for all dialects. a reducedlinguistic systemthat But becauseof racismand its attendantsocial and economic developswhen speakers ofsev- realities,many people, both black andwhite, believethat eralmutually incomprehensible Black English is just a defectiveor debasedcopy of standard languagesmust communicate English.From the point of view of a linguist,no dialectis Nancy McKee with eachother. The pidgin an- defectiveor debased.Any dialectdoes as good ajob asany cestralto Black Englishwas itself influencedby an old Por- otherin carryingout its speakers'communicative needs. tuguese-basedmaritime pidgin calledSabir, used in the Med- So will Ebonicswork as a vehiclefor the educationof iterraneanand down the coastof WestAfrica. elementaryand secondary school students? There is unequiv- Slavetraders tried to mix languagegroups to reduce ocalevidencethatbilingual education works much better for rebellion,so slaveshad to rely increasinglyon pidgin. As a speakersof minority languagesthan monolingual education new generationwas bom, the pidgin beganto be leamedas a does.Will bidialectaleducation work aswell? I don't know. first language,ultimately developinginto what linguistscall But we all know that currentpedagogical techniques do not a "creole."Wherever creole speaking slaves went, their new servemany Afiican Americanstudents very well.If their languagewas heavily influencedby the dominantlanguage classesbegin to takeseriously the linguistic system many of spokenaround them. So Haitian slaves'creole was influ- them useand all of them hearevery day, it may go far to encedby French,which it now resemblesstrongly, and Bra- convincethem that educationis an enterprisethat hasa place zilian slaves'creole developed toward Poftuguese. The cre- for them,and in which they,too, canbe successful.It strikes me as woflh a try. Alumni lYews @ hasrecently joined Ogden Environmen- Anacortes,Washington, to Yorktown, tal and Energy Servicesas director for Virginia. Startingin June,they expectto Viet Kieu's World View"at this year's NEPA programs. completethe trip andretutn to the Seat- 'B Associationfor AsianAmerican Studies Kenneth Petersen(Ph.D. I Rich- tle areain mid-Octobervia Amtrack. ), '59), annualconference in ,April 16-20. Sprague III (M.A. '60), land,Washington, is writing a book, C/l- Roderick Monita Horn (B.A. Seattle, mate and the Fremont Indians. He is Moscow,Idaho, is professorof anthro- Washington,is compling her family ge- adjunctanthropology faculty at colleges pology anddirector ofthe Laboratoryof nealogy.Monita is alsoproud of herthree in MosesLake, Yakima, and Tri-Cities. Anthropologyat the Universityof Idaho grandchildren. '75), He is also conductingeth- '70), StephanieRodeffer (Ph.D. Tuc- at Moscow. Robert King (B.A. Anchorage, son,Arizona, is chief of curationfor the nographicwork, andpreparing to retire. '83), ,is Alaska statearchaeologist for WesternArchaeological Center while Barbara Stucki (M.A. Silver '75), the Bureauof Land Management.He is Michael Rodeffer (M.A. is an ar- Springs,, receivedher Ph.D. currently involved with the Alaskai chaeologistwith BackcountryArchaeo- in gerontologicalanthropology from Klondike Gold Rush Centennial pro- logical selices. Nofihwesternin 1996,after completing gramsthis year and in 1998. '86), in Ghana,West Africa. '69), Lisa Roegner(B.A. Seoul,Ko- her field work Madilane Perry (8.A. RePub- rea,has been teaching English overseas She is currently a researchanalyst for lic, Washington,is a part-timeForest Ser- for the pastfive years.She spent the past the American Associationof Retired vicearchaeologist, and runs her own con- two in Korea, and will likely move to Persons,specializing in long-term care sultingbusiness. She is currentlywork- SoutheastAsia next spring. issues.She married Jim Petersenin1994. '84), ing on nationalregister nominations for Dan Seachord(Ph.D. Seattle, Sheila Harrington Stump (M.A. buildingsin Colville, Washington. '78), Marysville,Washington, started her '86), Washington,has spent the past eight years Lorraine Gross (M.A. Boise, deeplyinvolved in downtownrevitaliza- own firm, HSW Enterprises,in May, Idaho, is executivedirector of Science tion programs.He left hisjob recentlyto 1996.She manages projects, edits, writes Application InternationalCorporation. devotemoretimeto writing andhisfam- (M.A. '86), Her husband,Kevin Peter ily. Theyplan a summerbicycletrip from

L FacultyNews to he madewith BBC, Cateryil- 1996 A CommunitYBased APProach William AndrefskY thefilm the fall he gave SchistosomiasisControl. Acta William AndrefskT comPletedhis lar Moon. During invited lectures:"Parental Tropica(London)61 : 107-1 I 9. lithic analysisbook, Lithics: Macro- threemore in Aka foragersand Nga- Gary HuckleberrY scopicApproaches to Lithic Analysis, investment at an invited sessionat Gary receiveda minigrantfrom for CambridgeUniversity Pressduring ndu farmers" in SanFrancisco, chaired bY the WSU Meyer Fund to visit Peruthis thepast year andis continuingresearch AAAs Chagnon;"Culture andsex: He will sPendl8 daYson the onthe Marmes site collection. During Napoleon summer. perspectiveson father northernPeruvian coast (Moche Val- thepast year he initiatedthe archaeo- Anthropological at the Conferenceon Fa- ley) with colleaguescollecting prelimi- logicalsurvey of the Blue Mountainsin involvement" NationalInstitute of nary datafor purposesof constructing Oregonfor the BLM andwill continue therInvolvement, andDevelopment, Wash- a long-termresearch project. He'll that survey project during the summer Child Health D.C.; and"Infant care among canalsystem development in rela- of 1991.Andrefsky will alsobe in the ington, study and Ngandu to earthquakes,floods, andthe rise fieldwiththe 1997WSU archaeologi- Aka hunter-gatherers tion an invited paperat the Collo- collapseof Moche civilization. calfield schoolon the SnakeRiver farmers," and on Hunter-Gatherersof Equato- He is alsoworking with graduate again.Another ongoing project is the cuium LeidenUniversitY, The AmY Holmes on the soil NativeAmerican Graves Protection rial Africa, student stratigraphyof a buried Paleoindian andRepatriation Project with the Walla Netherlands. publicationsinclude: sitein centralNevada, the Sunshine WallaArmy Corpsof Engineers.This Hewlets'srecent of Aka Fa- Last summeqhe participated projectis enteringits fifth yearof col- 1991 The Cultural Nexus Locality. -Cul- in excavationsat the sitewith Charlotte iectionsinventory. Results of Andref- therhood. In Genderin Cross Beck andTom Jones(Hamilton Col- sky'sregional research have appeared tural PersPective,Second Edition, NewYork) andDon GraYson in someof the latestissues of the Cen- C.B. Brettell and CarolYnSargent, lege, (Universityof Washington).The Sun- terfor NorthwestAnthroPologY's eds.Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice shineSite is oneof the few ProjectReport Series and the CRM Se- Hall. non-rockshelter,buried Paleoindian ries,and in thejournals American An- 1996 Cultural Contextsof Human In- sitesin the GreatBasin andcontains re- tiquiQ, GeoarchaeologY,and North Cliffs' NJ: Prentice fancy.Englewood mainsof extinctfauna (camel) as well AmericanArchaeologist. Hall. as aftifacts.Further excavations will Dick Hansis BarrY S., Basile Kollo and Hewlett, takeplace this summer' An arlicle "The Harvestingof Cline BamettL. Timothy Kohler SpecialForest Products by Latinos and and Cul- 1996 IvermectinDistribution Tim hasgiven talks in the last SoutheastAsians in the Pacific North- tural Context of "Forest" Onchocer- yearat the NationalAcademy of Sci- west" came outtn SocieQand NaturaL ciasisin SouthProvince, Cameroon' the Universityof Michigan, and Resourcesin December.A chapterin a ences, The American Jrturnal of TroPical the SantaFe Instituteon an agent- book on naturalresource issues in the Medicine and HYgiene54 51"1-522' basedsettlement simulation for the pre- Westwill be comingout sometimethis 1996 Cultural Diversity Among Afri- Southwest,a collaborationwith yeaI. historic can Pygmies. ln CulturalDiversiQ Carla Van West ('91), Eric Carr, and Barry Hewlett g entieth-C entury Fo rage rs : now Kresl, a Ph.D. studentin the During the SPring1996, Barry Amon Tw Jim PersPective,S. Kent, Ed' department.Wenner-Gren has award- taughttwo new courses:Medical An- An African CambridgeUni- edTim a conferencegrant to organize thropologyand Sex, Evolution and Hu- Carnbridge,England: a meetingin December'9'l atrhe manNature, and gavefour invited lec- versityPress. turesto discussfilm-making andshow Cline, BarnettL. and Bany S. Hewlett @ dated Possefetes LiPe Co mputer faciltie s uP To celebrateBill LiPe's SAA InlateFalllgg6theDepartmentnewPowerPCs,allrunningadvanced lasttf the statisticalapplications including SAS hesidency, the PalousePosse's annual finally bid farewellto the that dated and GIS softwarethat includesPC SAA party washeld in Nashvillein the Apple IIes and Apple IIIs Hall in the Arclnfo and Arcview. Thesema- President'sSuite in OprylandHotel & f-* ourrnoveinto college comput- chines,along with the computersfound Convention Center,Friday April 4. The mid- 1980s.Our DepartmJntal now hosts in eachfaculty member'soffice, are PalousePosse consists of alumnae/iof er lab on the secondfloor and two linked into the campus-wideEthernet WSU, ,the Dolores three new Pentium machines sYstemknown as WSUNet' ArchaeologicalProgram' and close friends.

w.wsu.edu:8080/-mthn/mtlthome.hLnl wwwsu'edu: 80 Alumni l{ews @ (historic renovations)and does gen- Navajo Origins, from the University of Utah Press.He is for archaeology building '85), eral consultingwork. Shealso finds time to retum to sculpting married to Elizabeth Miksa (8.A. who flnished her aftera lapseof many years. prelimsat the for a Ph.D.in geoscienc- (M.A.' 86),Tucson, Arizona, just received es,and is working on her dissertation. Ronald Towner '84), his Ph.D.in anthropologyfrom the Universityof Arizona.He Chris Woolley (M.A. Anchorage,Alaska, runs his did his field work in northwesternNew Mexico with the Na- own consultingcompany in Alaska.He is currentlyworking vajo people.He editeda recentpublication, Archaeology oJ on a GIS mappingproject foTALYESKA. A tale of two sites @ may havebeen expecting something no onecomplained about the hot show- at CraneSchool. schoolat Skull CreekDunes, is design- aboutthe best and worst of times.For ers and soft beds be told aboutSteens ing an archaeologyWeb Pagefor Ore- sure,it was not alwaysa picnic; more There are talesto Bill, about gon BLM. Of courseit will include thanonce Lost Dune mosquitoestook Projectdays, about Banjo pool and about fi ndingsfrom WSU's 2O-yearcontribu- over the site.Wild extremesin last Utah Rob the shark, devils, sand CraneFats who gaveup pool for tion to the Quatemarychronology, ar- June'sweather--dust go betterwith chaeology,and paleoenvironments of storms,thunderstorms, mud, fteezing poker.Bu| thesestories campfires. easternOregon and feature the'95:96 nights,scorching afternoons-put the starrynights and sagebrush adventureback in camping.Still, the Perhapswe will do it againin the sum- field schooldigs. Look for the address '98. in the nextAnthropology Newsletter. ticks were not asbad as they might merof Given the title of this storyYou havebeen, there was plenty to eat,and Graduatestudent news Ph.D. candidateJill Wagner has Doug MacDonald, doctoral GraduateStudent Excellence. - acccepteda tenure-trackassistant pro- candidate,has organized a symposium' Louis Olsen AnthropologY fessorposition in culturalanthropology "CurrentAnthropological Research DepartmentIntemational Travel Grant atWestemKentucky UniversitY in Amons GraduateStudents at Award, for his Ph.D. researchproject, Bowling GreenKentucky. WashingtonState University," at the "A Critical Analysisof Healthcarein ReneeGralewicz, Ph.D.candi- NorlhwestAnthropologicalAssociation San Rafael,Ecuador." date,has accepted a tenure-trackposi- meetingsin Ellensburg,Washington, Samantha Ruscavage'Barz- tion in the sociology/anthropologyde- this April. Presentersinclude Doug, receivedan awardfrom the National partmentat the Universityof wisconsin Donald shannon, JaniceMoulds, ScienceFoundation, for a Doctoral benter -Baron County Campusin R.E. Wright, John Morrison, Robert Dissefiation Improvement Grant. - RiceLakeWisconsin. Wegener,Jennifer Najera, William Jane Ward GraduateSchool Ph.D.candidate Diane King has Lyons, Kathryn Kramer, Rachel Travel Grant for travel to Browning & beenhired by World Relief to directthe SmithoAlan DePeq Elizabeth Badger,Two-Medicine, Montana for resettlementof15 Kurdishrefugee Wilmerding, and Dianna Georgina. her M.A. research. - familiesin the PugetSound area. She BillAndrefsky will be discussant. Albashar Abdullah Graduate plansto continueresearch with them, Graduate Student Awards: SchoolTravel Grant to presentpaper at thencontinue research in the Middle Jonathan Danz - Nicholas the SouthernConference on Afro- Eastagain around September 1, shortly ScoalesFellowship in Archaeologyfor AmericanStudies meeting, Atlanta, -22, afterWorld Relief's role in the Seattle 1997-98. Georgia,February 19 1997. - resettlementprocess is scheduledto Kimberly Redman - Nicholas Douglas MacDonald Gradu- cometo a close. ScoalesFellowship in Archaeology ate SchoolTravel Grantto presentpa- SawangLertrit, M.A. student, forl997-98. per at the Societyfor American Ar- presentedan invited paperat the Diane King - Wenner-Gren chaeologymeeting; Nashville, Tennes- multidisciplinaryintemational FoundationAnthropological Research see,April2-6,1997. conference,"Southeast Asian predoctoralgrant. Anthro Newsis pttblishedannually by the Heritage:Preservation, Conservation, C. David Johnson - SigmaXi Anthropology Departmentof Washington State for his M.A. the- and Management."The paper stems researchgrant-in-aid Universiff for our alumni and friends. Dianna from his M.A. resarchconducted at a sis research. M. Georginaeditor and layout. Gregg Graber historic site in northernThailand during C. David Johnson - Phyllis & Alumni contact.Tim Kohler, Depaltnent summer1996. RichardDaugherly Scholarship for Chair.

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FacultyNews W Addison-Wesley,Reading, MA. SantaFe Instituteon agent-basedmodeling in anthro- Jeannette Mageo pology. This fall, Jeannettereceived a grantfrom WSU to have Tim Kohler's publicationsinclude: over 1,000Samoan dreams, collected over severalyears 1996 (third author, with Patricia Crown and Janet Orcutt) while shewas residing in Samoa,loadedon disks,chronologi- PuebloCultures in Transition:The NorthemRio Grande.In cally sorted,demographically identified, and indexed. Many The PrehistoricPueblo World,A.D. 1150-1350,edited by of the dreamsinclude interpretations by Samoansand the M. Adler, pp. 188-204.Aizona University Press,Tucson. dream sampleis apparentlynonpareil in the ethnographic 1996 (fust author,with CarlaVanWest)The Calculusof Self record.Introductory ideas about the recurrenceof salient Interestin the Developmentof Cooperation:Sociopolitical themes,the demographyof the sample,and broader elements Development and Risk Among the Northern Anasazi. In of Samoanculture, will form a prefaceto the resulting bound Evolving Complexityand Erwironment:Risk in the Prehis- copy.On the basisof this material,she will apply eitherfor grant toric Southwest,edited by JosephA. and Bonnie Bagley an NEH surTrmer to write a major article, or an NEH fellowship,to write a book on the material,or possiblyan ini- Tainter,pp. 169-196.Santa Fe InstituteStudies in the Sci- ences of Complexity, Proceedings Vol. XXIV. w.wsu.edu:8080/'mthrc/mthhome.hnnl. Anthropologydepartment's intrepid office staff Editor'snote- AnthroNews celebrates our ffice staff,those undergraduatestudents, and executesthe various deparl- courageousand astute women without whom we would be lost mentalresponsibilities from the time studentsenroll until in the mazeof thingsadministrative. They navigate us graduation. selflesslythrough the thingswe would rathernot think about. Karene Kramer runsthe front desk,handling calls andassisting people who walk up to the window. Sheworks LeAnn Couch, secretarysuperuisor, has been with half time, nine monthsout of the year.She has worked for the University since 1985,and joined the departmentin WashingtonState University for 2l yens in differentdepart- 1990.As office manager,she enjoys working with the offrce ments. staff to coordinatethe daily scheduleof the department. Annette Bednar is the fiscal technicianIII at the de- Joan Pubols, programcoordinator, began half-time pafiment. Sheis a new staff memberat WSU but not new to employmentwith the deparlmentinI9ll, andfull time in the university. Shereceived her B.S. in geologyin 1990and 1985.There is abundantvariety in her currentposition. just neverleft. Sheis responsiblefor the travel andpurchas- Among other duties,she assists in recruitinggraduate and ing for the deparlment. FacultyNews Confi.nuedJrom page 7 Identity in the Pacific and Superher- tween3000 and 1900BC. My interest tial articleto be followed by a longer oines: Mythology and Gender in the herehas been on the rise of urbanism study. PaciJic. andhow agriculturalsfrategies shaped Jeannette'spublications in 1996 Linda Stone the humanand natural environments. were Spirits in Culture, History, and Last yearLinda was on sabbati- Presently,with the supportof the Ful- Mind, abookco-editedby with Alan calleave. She completed herbook, Kln- bright ScholarProgram, I am establish- Howard of the University of , ship and Gender:An Introduction, ing a paleoethnobotanicalresearch fa- publishedby Routledge.She also pub- whichcame out in March 1997.With cility at the PakistanInstitute of Ar- lishedtwo articles:"Spirit Girls and NancyMcKee shecompleted her re- chaeologicalTraining and Research in Marines:Historicizing Possession and searchon gender and university stu- Lahore.Thisfacility will be usedby ar- HistoricizedEthnopsychiatry in Sa- dents'occupational choices at WSU. chaeologiststhroughout Pakistan for " in The American Ethnologist This yearthey extendedthat researchto the analysisof botanicalremains." Re- 23:61-82,and"Samoa, on theWilde ten additionalcampuses around the centpublications include "Distinguish- Side:Male Transvestism.Oscar Wilde. country.Also with McKee, Linda is ing Changein the Subsistenceand Ma- andLiminality in Making Gender"in writing anotherbook, Genderand Cul- terial Records:The Interplayof Envi- Ethos24:l-40. ture in America,now undercontract ronmentand Culture," Asian Perspec- Her book on psychologicalan- with PrenticeHall. tives1996,35(2):30-36. And in press, thropology,Theorizing Self in Samoa: Steve Weber "The History of DomesticatedPlants in Emotions,Genders and Sexualities,is Stevewrites via e-mail: "I am SouthAsiaFrom The Neolithic in pressat the University of Michigan. presentlyworking at the siteof Harap- Through The Iron Age," Encyclopae- Shealso has two editedvolumes in pa,one ofthe largestcities ofthe Indus dia.for SouthAsian Archaeology.Gar progress,Cultural M emory/Cultural Civilization,which wasoccupied be- land Pub. Co., New York.

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