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Lynn Morgan, the Mary E. Wooley professor of anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College, spoke on Nov. 4, 2009 about “Reproductive Rights and Wrongs in Contemporary Latin America.” The lecture was sponsored by the UNM Department of Anthropology and the Alfonso Ortiz Center. Morgan is introduced by Louise Lamphere, UNM professor emeritus of anthropology.

 

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Anyone who doubts global warming is a reality should talk with UNM Professor of Anthropology James Dixon. He spends part of his summers on glaciers in Alaska, documenting artifacts the retreating glacial ice has left behind. Dixon, director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, says he found arrows with the feathers still attached and a stone spear point still bound to the shaft by sinew. They were frozen in the ice more than a thousand years ago. The ice preserved many of the arrows so well he can tell what kind of bird the feathers came from and the kinds of knots the hunters used.

 

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UNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Guy Strauss talks with Karen Wentworth about his recent trip to Western Europe with Jean Auel, author of the Earth’s Children series of books about the interactions between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons. Her first book ‘The Clan of the Cave Bear” began a publishing phenomenon that has sold more than 34-million books. She was collecting information for her 7th book. Together, they toured several sites of Neanderthal activity and met with many of Strauss’ Spanish colleagues to discuss the latest research in the field.

Strauss, who is the author of the internationally known “Journal of Anthropological Research” also discusses his own research and latest findings, which are detailed in the latest version of the journal, “Antiquity.”

 

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Laura York is the 2009 Pictorial Archives fellow for the Center for Regional Studies and the Center for Southwest Research. She is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology. Kari Schleher is the 2009 N.M. Digital Education fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology. Their talk is on “Meandering through Time: Preserving History through Digitization of the CWSR Pictorial Collections.” Their work can be found at
Pictorial Collection.They are introduced by Claire-Lise Benaud, associate director of the Center for Southwest Research.

 

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Sean E. Ganntt is the 2009 winner of the AGSU-Ortiz Center Lecture Award. Ganntt is an ethnology student in anthropology at UNM completing his Master of Arts degree. He has also worked at the U.S. Forest Service Ranger District in Tijeras as a liaison with Friends of Tijeras Pueblo, and spent his time developing an outreach program for the Ranger District in Tijeras as part of his work in public anthropology. In this talk he discusses the idea of public anthropology and how it works. He is introduced by Sylvia Rodriguez, professor, UNM Department of Anthropology, and director of the Ortiz Center.

 

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Marta Weigle is a regents’ professor in the Department of Anthropology at UNM. She recently edited “Telling New Mexico – A New History with Frances Levine and Louise Stiver.” The book, meant to accompany the opening of the new History Museum in Santa Fe, may also be used as a textbook in the study of the history of New Mexico. In this interview with Karen Wentworth, Weigle talks about gathering the material for the book and how many of the elements came to be included.

Weigle has also written a number of other books, including “Brothers of Light: Brothers of Blood;” “The Penitentes of the Southwest;” “Santa Fe and Taos: The Writer’s Era, 1916-1941” (with Kyle Fiore); “New Mexicans in Cameo and Camera: New Deal Documentation of Twentieth-Century Lives;” “The Lore of New Mexico” (with Peter White); and “Spanish New Mexico: Engineered Enchantment 1921-2001.”

 

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Char Peery is a 2009 Center for Regional Studies and Center for Southwest Research candidate fellow. She is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology. Her talk is “Is All Publicity Good Publicity? Public Services at the CWSR.” She is introduced by Ann Massmann, associate professor with University Libraries.

 

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Lavinia Nicolae is the 2009 Center for Regional Studies and Center for Southwest Research Popejoy Fellow. She is a graduate student in anthropology. The title of her talk is “UNM History and Politics 1894-1970: A University Archives Digital Collection Project.” She is introduced by Terry Guggliota, UNM Archivist.

 

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UNM Anthropologists Heather Edgar and Keith Huntley talk with Karen Wentworth about their articles in the new issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. This is a special issue about race and how anthropologists regard race from a scientific viewpoint.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the central goal of American physical anthropology was to use biological characteristics to classify humans into races. Over the next several decades, anthropological research was used to provide a “scientific” justification for racist public policies, resulting in Jim Crow laws, eugenics and genocide. Today some anthropologists question whether race is an accurate way to discuss human variation.

 

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Jane Lancaster, professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico, introduces Sam Bowles, professor at the Santa Fe Institute and professor of economics at the University of Sienna. He discusses “The Nature of Wealth and the Dynamics of Inequality in Pre-modern Societies” in his talk, which previews his forthcoming book, in which he and his collaborators explore the transmission of wealth across generations.

 

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David Groenfeldt, executive director of the Santa Fe Watershed Association, proposes a reexamination of the current policies for use of the Santa Fe River in his lecture “Can the Santa Fe River Be Saved through Culture Therapy?” Sylvia Rodriquez, director of the Ortiz Center at UNM introduces Groenfeldt. His lecture is part of the UNM Anthropology Colloquia Series.

 

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A new study by a team of anthropologists published in the journal PLoS Genetics explores how humans from different populations shared genes much more easily than cultural or linguistic information in Northern Island Melanesia. The study documented the genetic and linguistic diversity in these Pacific islands off the east coast of Papua New Guinea. UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Keith Hunley discusses his research with Karen Wentworth, senior communication representative.

 

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