University of Pittsburgh

 

 

Anthropology

Department Talks and Events

 

 

 

“The Middle-Class as a Social Norm:  Consumer Citizenship in China’s Reform”

 

 

 

Hai Ren, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh

 

 

  3106

  WWPH

 

3:00 p.m.

March 7, 2008

 

“Nature’s Great Experiment:  The Evolution of the Larynx and the Origins of Human Speech”

 

 

Jeffrey Laitman

Mount Sinai School of

Medicine

 

 

 

  1700

  WWPH

 

 

3:00 p.m.

February 8, 2008

 

 

“Power, Wealth & Prestige:  Inequality and the Beginnings of Large-Scale Societies”

 

 

 

Robert Drennan, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh

 

 

  2500

  WWPH

  

    4:30 p.m.

    November 8,  2007

 

“Travels with Ego: Deictic Stance and Denotational Style Across

Interactional Contexts”

 

 

Michael Silverstein

University of Chicago

 

 

  3106

  WWPH

3:00 p.m.

November 9, 2007

 

“The Once and Future “Apeman”:  Chimera, Human Evolution,

And Disciplinary Coherence”

 

 

Joseph S. Alter

University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 

  3106

  WWPH

 

 

 

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

September 14, 2007

 

Time and Process in an Early Village Settlement System on the

Bolivian Southern Altiplano

 

 

 

Jake Fox

Doctoral Candidate

 

 

    3106

  WWPH

 

1:00 p.m.

June 22, 2007

Economic Development of a Specialized Coastal Community at Chengue, the Tairona Area, Columbia

 

Alejandro Dever

Doctoral Candidate

 

 

   3106

   WWPH

3:00 p.m.

April 4, 2007

Identity and Development in Rural Bolivia: Negotiating Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Development Contexts

 

Christine Hippert

Doctoral Candidate

 

   3106

   WWPH

3:30 p.m.

April 3, 2007

 

What Makes a Story Amusing:  Magic, Occidentalism and Overfetishization in a Colonial Setting

 

 

Gonzalo Lamana

University of Pittsburgh

 

   3106

   WWPH

3:00 p.m.

March 30, 2007

Tracing the Red Thread: An Ethnography of Chinese-U.S. Transnational Adoption

 

 

Frayda Cohen

Doctoral Candidate

 

3106

WWPH

1:00 p.m.

March 23, 2007

Life Stresses at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic Urban Community in Central Anatolia, Turkey

 

Clark Spenser Larsen

Ohio State Univ.

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

March 16, 2007

 

The Quest for Justice after Terror:   Reflections of a Victim/Anthropologist

 

 

Susan F. Hirsch

George Mason Univ.

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

February 16, 2007

 

Euro-Liberal Pastoralism: Sustainable Development, State Hegemony, and the Transformation of Rural Life in Southern Spain

 

 

Richard Maddox

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

February 9, 2007

Identifying the Root Causes of Disease in Haiti; the Uses of Anthropology in Public Health

 

Ian Rawson

Hôpital Albert Schweitzer

Haiti

 

 

3106

WWPH

 

3:00 p.m.

   January 26, 2007

Three-Dimensional Morphometric Anaylsis of the Craniofacial Complex in the Unaffacted Relatives of Individuals with Nonsyndromic Orofacial Clefts

 

 

Seth Weinberg

Doctoral Candidate

 

3106

WWPH

8:00 a.m.

January 22, 2007

Consecrating Ebo Landing: New Igbo Diasporas and Narratives of the Slave Trade

 

Rachel R. Reynolds

Drexel University

 

3106

WWPH

 

3:00 p.m.

January 19, 2007

Ritual and Status: Mortuary Display at the Household Level at the Middle Horizon Site of Conchopata, Peru

 

Charlene Milliken

Doctoral Candidate

 

3106

WWPH

 

12:00 Noon

December 6, 2006

Social and Environmental Risk and the Development of Social Complexity in Pre-Columbian Masaya, Nicaragua

 

Manuel A. Roman-Lacayo

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

December 5, 2006

 

Cultural Politics and Health: The Development of Intercultural Health Policies in the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua

 

Edgardo Ruiz

Doctoral Candidate

 

3106

WWPH

 

10:00 a.m.

November 30, 2006

A Controversial History of Steppe Nomadism: Archaeological Evidence from a Eurasian Pastoralist Landscape

 

 

Michael D. Frachetti

Washington University

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

November 10, 2006

Whose Social Meaning? Indexicality and Dialect in Pittsburgh

 

Barbara Johnstone

Scott F. Kiesling

 

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

October 27, 2006

What did George Washington Really Look Like:  The First Forensic Reconstruction of our First President

 

 

Jeffrey H. Schwartz

University of Pittsburgh

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

October 13, 2006

To Save Fort Pitt:  A National Historic Landmark under Siege in the 21st Century

 

 

Michael V. Nixon

 

 

3106

WWPH

12:00 p.m.

October 3, 2006

Crossing La Línea: A Report From the Other Side

 

 

Randall McGuire

Binghamton Univ. (SUNY)

 

3106

WWPH

 

3:00 p.m.

September 22, 2006

Actively Aging in China:  The Cultivation of Health and the Management of Aging with Traditional Chinese Medicine

 

Xiao-Hui Yang

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

April 21, 2006

 

A Re-Evaluation of Human Bio-distance Using Non-Metric Traits

 

Christopher Reed

Doctoral Candidate

 

3106

WWPH

2:00 p.m.

April 17, 2006

 

Millennial Monsters:  Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

 

Anne Allison

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

April 14, 2006

 

Crafting Hongshan Communities:  Household Archaelogy in the Chifeng Region of Eastern Inner Mongolia, PRC

                    

 

Christian Peterson

 

3106

WWPH

2:00 p.m.

April 13, 2006

Subsistence, Environmental Fluctuation and Social Change: A Case Study in South Central Inner Mongolia

 

Gregory Indrisano

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

April 7, 2006

 

Risky Business: Cultural Conceptions of HIV/Aids in Indonesia

 

Piper Crisovan

 

3106

WWPH

12:00 noon

March 31, 2006

 

Ethnography of Voting: Nostalgia, Subjectivity and Popular Politics in Post-Socialist Lithuania

 

Neringa Klumbyte

 

3106

WWPH

2:00 p.m.

March 31, 2006

 

The Anthropology of Everyday Competencies

 

Steven Albert

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

March 17, 2006

 

Changing Lenses during Cultural Change: The Evolution of an Andean Visual Ethnography”

 

Jerome Crowder

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

March 2, 2006

 

Ugly Stories from the Peruvian Agrarian Reform

 

Enrique Mayer

 

4130

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

Feb. 24, 2006

 

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall:  Neanderthal as Image and “Distortion” in Early 20th-Century French Science and Press

 

Marianne Sommer

 

3106

WWPH

Noon

Feb. 17, 2006

 

Becoming Human/Becoming Modern:  New Phylogenetic Perspectives in Human Cultural Development

 

Colin Renfrew

 

2500

WWPH

4:00 p.m.

Feb. 9, 2006

 

Enacting Ethno linguistic Boundaries: Scottish Gaelic as a Language of the Local

 

Emily McEwan-Fujita

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

Jan. 20, 2006

 

Zapotec Language in Casual and Formalwear

 

Deborah Augsburger

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

Jan. 13, 2006

 

Moral Authority and Moral Voices:  Approaching the Testament of Judas as Ritual Discourse Genre in the Sakapultek Communicative Ecology

 

Robin Shoaps

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

Jan. 10, 2006

Kajmak and Fat-Free Democracy

 

Rada Drezgic

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

Nov. 18, 2005

 

Behavioral Ecology and Conservation of Colobus Monkeys in East Africa

 

Peter Fashing

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

Nov. 11, 2005

 

Nahua Person, Body and Healing: Reflexions on Mexican-Indian Ethnomedical

Knowledge and Practice Today

 

Alessandro Lupo

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

Oct. 21, 2005

Notes on the Balkanese Cockfight or the Imagination of Other Peoples’ Community

 

Robert Hayden

 

3106

WWPH

3:00 p.m.

Oct. 14, 2005

 

Taxonomy of the genus Perodicticus

 

David P. Stump

 

3106 WWPH

Noon
May 24, 2005

 

Cayuga Iroquois Households and Gender Relations During the Contact Period:  An Investigation of the Rogers Farm Site, 1660s - 1680s

 

Kimberly Williams Shuker

 

3106 WWPH

3:00 p.m.
April 18, 2005

Sleepless at Sea:  Did the Lemurs Colonize Madagascar from Africa?

 

Judith Masters

 

3106 WWPH

3:00 p.m.
April 15, 2005

 

Gender and International Migration

 

Patricia Pessar

 

3106 WWPH

 

April 7, 2005

Agency and Ethnicity in Ancient Urbanism: The Neighbourhoods of Teotihuacan from an Isotopic Perspective

 

Christine D. White

 

3106 WWPH

April 1, 2005

 

 

Toward Resolving Almost 150 Years of the Darwinism-Evo-Devo Debate:  The Difference between the Emergence and Persistence of Novelty

 

Jeffrey Schwartz

 

169 Crawford Hall

 

March 21, 2005

Primate Evolution: Biogeography, Paleontology, and Adaptations for Arboreality

 

Nancy J. Stevens

 

3106 WWPH

 

February 18, 2005

Jinggouzi: A Nomadic Cemetery in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia

 

Professor Wang Lixin

 

3106 WWPH

 

January 14, 2005

Craniosacral Therapy: Is There Biology Behind the Theory?

 

Patricia Downey

 

3106 WWPH

 

December 9, 2004

Ethnos vs. the Village: Ambiguities of Identity, Diversity, and Nation-building in the Republic of Moldova

 

Jennifer Cash

 

 3106 WWPH

 

November 12, 2004

Celebrating the Day of the Dead - the Best Day of the Year in Santa Elena, Ecuador

 

Karen Stothert

 

3106 WWPH

 

October 29, 2004

Why Sport Matters to Pittsburgh

 

Rob Ruck

 

3106 WWPH

 

October 8, 2004

Squirrel Reddens His Cheeks: Cognition, Recognition, and Poetic Production in the Ancient Navajo Stories

 

Paul Zolbrod

 

3106 WWPH

 

September 21, 2004

The Camutins Chiefdom:  Rise and Development of Social Complexity on Maraj Island, Brazilian Amazon

 

Denise Schaan