Academic Year 2008-09 Events Calendar
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| September 11 |
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The Department of Anthropology Orientation for our incoming Graduate Students
9:15 to 11:30 a.m. Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum |
| September 12 |
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Anthropology Day  |
| September 8 |
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PhD Dissertation Defense: Amanda Lobell "The Evolution of Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 and the Invasive Primate Placenta"
1:00 p.m. Haller Hall, Room 102, Peabody Museum |
| September 11 |
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Graduate School of Arts and Sciences presents Fulbright Orientation and Research Abroad: Description of Different Types of Fulbrights and Other Traveling Fellowships; focus on the Application Process
4:00 p.m. Dudley House, Common Room |
| September 12 |
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PhD Dissertation Defense: Susanne Cote "Sampling and ecology in three Early Miocene catarrhine assemblages from East Africa"
1:00 p.m. Haller Hall, Room 102, Peabody Museum
Hosted by Harvard's Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series
All are welcome to attend. |
| September 15 |
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First day of classes - Fall 2008 |
| September 17 |
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PhD Dissertation Defense: Jinhua Guo "Stigma: Social Suffering for Social Exclusion and Social Insecurity From Mental illness to HIV/AIDS in China"
4:15 p.m. Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room |
| September 22 |
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PhD Dissertation Defense: Gideon Hartman "The environmental origins of plants and herbivores in the southern Levant: an isotopic approach"
2:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A |
| September 22 |
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The Harvard University Center for the Environment and Bank of America presents Green Conversations with: His Excellency Anote Tong, President of Kiribati
Panelists: James McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography; Daniel Schrag, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
5:00 p.m. Science Center Lecture Hall D, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Green Conversations lecture and discussion series are free and open to the public. |
| September 23 |
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Berkman Book Release
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
7:00 p.m. Austin North Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Free and open to the public, no RSVP required.
more information |
| September 23 |
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Graduate School of Arts and Sciences presents Fulbright Follow-up with Past Winners as Speakers
4:00 p.m. Dudley House, Common Room |
| September 24 |
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Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Fall Open House
7:00 p.m.
50 Church Street, Harvard Square
Free and open to the public, no RSVP required, food and drinks will be served.
more information |
| September 25 |
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The Boston Area Latin American History Workshop presents:
El Conde Alarcos in the Construction of Nineteenth-Century “Cuban Identity”
José María Aguilera Manzano, Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Florida
International University
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Center for Government and International Studies at 1730 Cambridge Street
Seminar Room S-250 (Second floor)
For a copy of the paper and the full schedule of the History Workshop,
please visit: http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/events/ |
| September 30 |
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"The Humanities & Theory" Graduate Student Workshop
Organizational Meeting
7:00 p.m. Room 114, Barker Center.
Sponsored by the Humanities Center
All are welcome! |
| October 1 |
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On Wednesday, October 1 at 4:00 p.m. Dr. Geoffrey Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico will lecture on "Sex, mutations, and human intelligence: New research on mental fitness indicators" in William James Hall Room 1 (in the basement), 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge. This colloquium is hosted by the Department of Psychology |
| October 1 |
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Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents Roderick CAMPBELL (Brown University) “Ritual Killing: Death, Alterity and the Sacred in Shang China” 5:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A
more information |
| October 2 |
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As part of the Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series, Geoffrey Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, will lecture on "How social monogamy bred sexual equality: The implications of mutual mate choice for human mental traits" on Thursday October 2nd, at 12 noon in Harvard Center for the Environment Seminar Room 310, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. All are welcome to attend. |
| October 6 |
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Finding secure, safe and reliable sources of energy to power world economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century. The Harvard University Center for the Environment invites the Harvard community to take up the challenge by participating in this ongoing series of discussions.
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
John Rowe, Chairman and CEO, Exelon Energy Corporation
“In Pursuit of a Sustainable Energy Future”
5:00 pm, Harvard University, Science Center Lecture Hall D
One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of the lectures are free and open to the public. |
| October 6 |
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Islam in the West Program
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
GSAS Student Workshop
The GSAS Student Workshop is a forum for all graduate students at Harvard interested in learning or researching the different topics of Islam and Muslims in Europe and in the United States: immigration, religion, secularism, international dimensions, race and ethnicity, political participation and citizenship, etc.
The first meeting for all interested students will take place: October 6, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Center for Middle Eastern Studies Room 208, Dinner will be provided
For more information about the GSAS Student Workshop: http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/research/iw/gsas
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| October 7 |
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"The Humanities & Theory" Graduate Student Workshop
Reading and Discussion
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Barker 018
Sponsored by the Humanities Center
All are welcome! |
| October 8 |
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Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk presents "Hierarchy and Spatial Distribution of the Urartian Fortifications in Iran"
a talk by Rafael Biscione
12:00 -1:00 p.m. Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum
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| October 8 |
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Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents Alice YAO (University of Toronto) “Culture contact and social change along ancient China's southwestern frontier in the first millennium BCE”
5:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A
more information |
| October 10 |
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The Social Science Dean's Office and the Committee on Degrees in Studies
of Women, Gender, and Sexuality invite you to a new speakers series,
Gender Matters in Social Sciences:
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University
Gillian Einstein, University of Toronto
1:00-2:45 p.m.
Marsha Rosengarten, University of London
Elizabeth Wilson, University of New South Wales
3:15-5:00 p.m. |
| October 23 |
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Thursday Seminars on Healing, Ritual and Placebo
Ted Kaptchuk, Osher, HMS "Components of Placebo: Results of a RCT"
4:00 p.m. Osher Research Center, Harvard Medical School, 401 Park Drive, Suite 221, Boston MA 02215
SPONSORED BY: Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, FAS, Harvard University
Osher Research Center, HMS |
| October 27 |
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Monday Seminar
Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Cultural Studies,
Georgetown University; and Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
“Asi lo paresce por su aspeto”: Recording Diversity in the Early Modern
Spanish World
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
| October 29 |
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Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents XU Hong (CASS, IOA) “Erlitou: A Major Focus for the Study of State Formation in Early China”
5:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A
more information |
| November 3 |
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Monday Seminar
Philippe Descola, Chair and Professor, Collège de France and EHESS
The Making of Images: An Anthropological Approach
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 105 |
| November 5 |
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The Boston Area Latin American History Workshop and the Harvard Brazil Studies Workshop present "Rethinking Migration from the Brazilian Northeast to the Amazon: Historical Trends from World War II" Seth Garfield, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Center for Government and International Studies at 1730 Cambridge Street, Second floor, Seminar Room S-250
For a copy of the paper and the full schedule of the History Workshop, please visit: www.drclas.harvard.edu/events
Contact: Robert Karl karl@fas.harvard.edu
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| November 6 |
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On Thursday, November 6 E. Christopher Kirk (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin) will lecture at 12 noon "Seeing the Forest From the Trees: Visual System Evolution in Primates" in Harvard Center for the Environment Seminar Room 310, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. His lecture is hosted by the Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series and all are welcome to attend. |
| November 12 |
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Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents QU Tongli (Peking University) “The Chinese Upper Paleolithic” 5:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A
more information |
| November 13 |
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Thursday Seminars on Healing, Ritual and Placebo
Adam Seligman, Department of Religion, BU "Ritual and Sincerity: Certitiude and the Other" at 4:00 p.m. Osher Research Center, Harvard Medical School, 401 Park Drive, Suite 221, Boston MA 02215
SPONSORED BY: Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, FAS, Harvard University
Osher Research Center, HMS |
| November 14 |
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Professionalism seminar : "Giving a Paper at the AAA Meetings", Professor Michael Herzfeld will be chairing the meeting.
Anyone who is presenting a paper is invited to present a preliminary version at this seminar. Everyone else, as well as those who received department funding to attend the AAA meetings, is expected to attend this seminar. Since time is limited and there are many of you, preference for inclusion will be given to those who have not given a paper at a conference.
All other students in residence are expected to attend and show support for, and solidarity with, their colleagues. This is an important opportunity for all of you to learn about techniques of presentation even if you are not giving a paper, and your own comments on the presentations will be of great value to the speakers.
We will open with a short overview of some basics tricks of the trade, after which we will hear and comment on the papers.
Please send your paper title to Susan Hilditch at hilditch@wjh.harvard.edu no later than Friday 14 November, at noon. Please also indicate the extent of your conference to date (i.e., how many papers you have presented and where).
5:00 p.m. in WJH 301
Light refreshments will be served. |
| November 17 |
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Monday Seminar
Nicholas Thomas, Cambridge
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
| November 19 |
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Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents Robin McNEAL (Cornell University) “Archaeology of the Sages: Myth and Monument in Contemporary China” 5:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A
more information |
| 18 November |
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"The Eyes of the Beholders: Spanish and Central European Visions of the Christ of Limpias, 1919-1936" A talk presented by William Christian Jr.
6:00 p.m. Belfer Case Study Room (CGIS South 020) 1730 Cambridge Street
Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Early Modern History Workshop,
Committee on Medieval Studies, Committee on the Study of Religion,
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs |
| December 1 |
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Monday Seminar
Christopher Pinney, UCL and Northwestern
4:15 p.m. William James Hall 1550 |
| December 3 |
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Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents YANG Zhefeng (Peking University) “Changes of Tomb Structure in Han China” 5:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A
more information |
| December 4 |
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Dr. Michael Hammer (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona and Research Scientist, Arizona Research Labs) will lecture on "The Genome and Human Evolution" on Thursday, December 4 at 12 noon in Harvard Center for the Environment's seminar room 310, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.
more information |
| December 4 |
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Thursday Seminars on Healing, Ritual and Placebo
Richard Kradin, Medicine, Psychiatry, MGH, HMS "The Placebo Response and the Development of Well-Being"
4:00 p.m. Osher Research Center, Harvard Medical School, 401 Park Drive, Suite 221, Boston MA 02215
SPONSORED BY: Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, FAS, Harvard University
Osher Research Center, HMS |
| December 10 |
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Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk presents Zinovi Matskevich: "Go North: The South-Western Caucasus in the Course of the Neolithic Spread" view poster
12:00 -1:00 p.m. Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum
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| December 10 |
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Book Discussion & Signing
"Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home" Discussion & Signing with Ann Armbrecht
Poignant, fragile memoir by social anthropologist Armbrecht it chronicles her search for the sacred in work and family.Trained at Harvard, the author ventured to rural southeastern Nepal during the 1990s to study the relationship between the villagers and their land use in a region bordering a new national park. Her developing connection with these hard-laboring people transformed not only her research but the way she resolved to live her life.
At the Harvard Coop from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
More information |
| December 10 |
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Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents Xiaoli OUYANG (Harvard University) “TBA” 5:00 p.m. Peabody Museum 14A
more information |
| December 12 |
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The Social Science Dean's Office and the Committee on Degrees in Studies
of Women, Gender, and Sexuality invite you to a new speakers series,
Gender Matters in Social Sciences:
Health and Bodies Globally*
Martha McClintock, University of Chicago
Vickie Mays, University of California, Los Angeles
1:00-2:45 p.m.
Lawrence Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
Carol Vance, Columbia University
3:15-5:00 p.m. |
January |
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01.28.09 First day of Spring Classes |
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01.28.09 Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents Christopher Matthews, Visiting Professor of African & African American Studies, Harvard University "The Archaeology of Captivity and Freedom in Early New York" in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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02.04.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents Douglas Bolender, University of Massachusetts, Boston "The Creation of a Propertied Landscape: People and Places in Viking Age Iceland" in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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02.05.09. Dr. Christopher Kuzawa (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University) will lecture on "Testosterone and male life history: Evidence for developmental adaptation in the Philippines" at 12 noon in Harvard Center for the Environment's Seminar Room 310, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. This lecture is hosted by the Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series and all are welcome to attend. |
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02.05.09. The Sensory Ethnography Lab Presents The 2009 Annual Sensory Ethnography Video Screenings of Student Works Produced in Anth 2836 + VES 158 on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at the Carpenter Center For Visual Arts Lecture Hall, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge. Free Admission. in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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02.11.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents "It's the Thought That Counts: Unwrapping the 'Package' of Modern Human Behaviour for the First Australians" presented by Iain Davidson, Chair of Australian Studies, Harvard University in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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02.11.09. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents a program exploring the latest innovations in ethnographic film. The event will feature two short video works about experience, culture, and nature by Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) and Anthropology students. The presentation, Sensory Ethnography: New Harvard Student Ethnographic Works, will include an opportunity to meet filmmakers J.P. Sniadecki and Fatin Abbas, with a discussion led by Peabody Museum Associate Curator of Visual Anthropology Ilisa Barbash at 5:30 p.m., Sherman Fairchild Auditorium, Fairchild Bldg., 7 Divinity Ave. |
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02.13.09. Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents CHEN Jianmin, Hunan Provincial Museum, Director "The Hunan Museum: Objects, Display, and Recent Archaeological Discoveries" at the Barker Center Plimpton Room 133 at 4:00 p.m. ...more |
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02.18.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents "The role of obsidian circulation in the emergence of complex societies: new results and perspectives from north Mesopotamia and southwest Arabia" presented by Lamya Khalidi, Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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02.20.09. The Friday Morning Seminar in Culture and Psychiatry presents Leslie Dwyer, Professor of Anthropology, Haverford, "Mass Killings and Political Turmoil: Generational Memories" at 10:00 a.m. in 1550 William James Hall |
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02.23.09. Social Anthropology Seminar presents Tone Bringa, Harvard SA Associate 08-09 "Celebration and Mourning, Shrines and Memorials: The Sacred Landscape of Bosnia's Muslims" at the Peabody Museum, Bowditch Room, 4:15 p.m. |
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02.23.09. Does Racial Counting Have A Future in America? A discussion with Kenneth Prewitt School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University Director of the US Census Bureau 1998-2001 with Harvard Panelists: Duana Fullwiley, Anthropology; Jennifer L. Hochschild, Government; Mary C. Waters, Sociology on Monday February 23, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. at the Starr Auditorium, Belfer Center Harvard Kennedy School. Jointly sponsored by the Program of Science, Technology, and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School and The Harvard Department of Sociology. |
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02.25.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents "Behind the Ballcourt: Feasting, Ritual, and the Ancient Maya Ballgame at Trinidad de Nosotros, El Petén, Guatemala" presented by Matthew Moriarty, Tulane University in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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02.26.09. As part of the Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series, Marc D. Hauser (Professor of Psychology, Harvard U.) will lecture on "The origins of a generative brain, and the illusion of cultural variation" on Thursday, February 26 at 12 noon in Harvard Center for the Environment's seminar room 310, 24 Oxford Street. |
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02.26.09. The Peabody Museum presents: Hallam L. Movius Lecture "The Shock of the Old: New Discoveries in Ice Age Art" by Paul G. Bahn, author and journalist at the Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Ave. at 5:30 p.m. |
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02.27.09. The Friday Morning Seminar in Culture and Psychiatry presents "Workshop on Anthropology of Conflict and Postconflict Interventions" featuring Keynote with Professor Mariella Pandolfi, Anthropology, University of Montreal. Presentations on new research by Sharon Abramowitz, Adia Benton. Discussions by Harvard faculty Jennifer Leaning, Jacqueline Bhabha, Kimberly Theidon, Michael Fischer (MIT), Sarah Willen, Alastair Donald, Byron Good, Mary-Jo Good. This all day workshop starts at 9:30 a.m. and will go to 5:00 p.m. in 1550 William James Hall. |
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03.02.09. Social Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Defense Sharon Abramowitz "Psychosocial Liberia: Managing Suffering in Post-Conflict Life" in the Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum at 4:15 p.m. |
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03.04.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents "The God in the Vineyards: Continuities and Shifts in Cult und Culture of Suburban Pompeii" a talk by Ruth Bielfeldt, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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03.04.09. Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents GUO Wu of Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences "Early Pastoral-Nomadic Societies in the Eastern Eurasian Steppes and their Interactions with Early Chinese Societies" at 5:00 p.m. at the Peabody Museum Room 14A ...more |
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03.04.09. Dudley House and Southeast Asia Study Group present "Playing Between Elephants" a feature length documentary on human intervention in post-tsunami and post-conflict Aceh. 90 min/color/mono. Directed by Aryo Danusiri at Dudley House from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the Graduate Student Lounge ...more |
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03.05.09. The Healing, Ritual and Placebo Seminar presents Rebecca Waber, MIT Media Lab & Innosight "THE EFFECTS OF MARKETING AND PRICING ON THE PLACEBO RESPONSE" at 4:00 p.m. at the Waber Osher Research Center Harvard Medical School 401 Park Drive, Suite 221, Boston MA 02215 |
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03.06.09. The Friday Morning Seminar in Culture and Psychiatry presents Bob Desjarlais, "The Grandmaster's Lament: Knowledge, Technology, and Anxiety in Competitive Chess" at 10:00 a.m. in 1550 William James Hall |
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03.11.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents "Apparitions and the sacred landscape: Tracing the path of religious interchange in Postconquest Mesoamerica" a talk by Judith Zeitlin, University of Massachusetts, Boston in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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03.11.09. Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents HUANG Yijun, Department of History, Central University for Nationalities, “The Tang-Song Transition from the Perspective of Material Culture: A Case Study of Tombs in Hubei” at 5:00 p.m. at the Peabody Museum Room 14A ...more |
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03.12.09. The Peabody Museum presents: "How Much is Heritage Worth? Australia’s Greatest Rock Art Competes with its Most Valuable Industry" by Iain Davidson, Professor of Archaeology, emeritus, University of New England, Australia at the Geological Lecture Hall
24 Oxford St., 5:30 p.m. |
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03.13.09. As part of the Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series, Dr. Susan Anton will lecture on "Darwin's Second Century: Variation and the evolution of genus Homo" at 12 noon in in Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. This lecture is hosted by the Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series and all are welcome to attend. |
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03.16.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents "Preparing Wild Barley Meals in the Levantine Late Epipaleolithic: Experiments with Natufian Rock-Cut Installations" a talk by David Eitam, Hebrew University in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor from 5:00-6:00 p.m. |
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03.16.09. Social Anthropology Seminar presents Jacqueline Brown Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY The Graduate Center, "Locating the State in Black Europe: A British Case Study" in the Peabody Museum Bowditch Room at 4:15 p.m. |
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03.18.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents ""All that is solid...": Causeways and Provisional Political landscapes in the Northern Maya Lowlands" a talk by Scott Hutson, University of Kentucky in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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03.19.09. Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series presents Russell Gray (Professor of Psychology, U. Auckland) "The pleasures and perils of Darwinising culture (with phylogenies)" at 12 noon in Harvard Center for the Environment room 310, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. |
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03.19.09. Social Anthropology Seminar presents Kyonosuke Hirai, Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, "Materializing Knowledge: Palm-Leaf Manuscript-Making in Northern Thailand"
at 4:15 p.m. in the Common Room at the Yenching |
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03.19.09. The Peabody Museum presents: Gordon R.Willey Lecture "Itza and Kowoj: Conflicts and Factions in the Last Maya Kingdom" by Prudence Rice, Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale at Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Ave., 5:30 p.m. |
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03.30.09. Social Anthropology Seminar presents Unni Wikan of University of Oslo, "In Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame" in the Peabody Museum Bowditch Room at 4:15 p.m. |
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04.01.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents: "Nationalist Histories in the Caucasus: Dangerous Delusions in Unsettled Times" a talk by Philip Kohl, Wellesley University in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor from 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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04.03.09. The Friday Morning Seminar in Culture and Psychiatry presents Professor Don Seeman at 10:00 a.m. in 1550 William James Hall |
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04.03.09. The Peabody Museum presents: Americas Weekend ...more |
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04.03.09. The Peabody Museum presents: "Starting at Standing Rock: Following Custer and Sitting Bull to the Little Big Horn" by Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower in the Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford St., 5:30 p.m. |
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04.03.09. The Peabody Museum presents: Exhibit Opening "Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West" from 6:30–8:30 p.m. ...more |
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04.04.09. The Peabody Museum presents: "Visualizing Power: Plains Pictographic Arts Lectures, Discussion, & Tours" from 9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (registration required) in the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St. ...more |
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04.07.09. Harvard University Social Studies Research Methods Workshops " Conducting Qualitative Research
Through Interviews" A workshop with Nicole Newendorp, Social Studies and Smita Lahiri, Anthropology in Barker 024 from 7-9:00 p.m. Please contact Nicole Newendorp (newendor@fas) if you are planning to attend or if you have any questions about this series of workshops. |
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04.08.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents "The Unmaking and Making of the Historical Landscape: Archaeology and the W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood
Homesite in Great Barrington, MA" a talk by Robert Paynter University of Massachusetts Amherst in Haller Hall, Geological Museum, Room 102 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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04.08.09. Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents Tserendorj ODBATAAR National Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaan Baatar, Tang-Uyghur Archaeology in Mongolia” at 5:00 p.m. at the Peabody Museum Room 14A ...more |
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EMERGENT VISIONS: Independent Documentaries from China April 9 - 11, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard East Asia Society, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. ...more |
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04.09.09. Harvard University Social Studies Research Methods Workshops "Participant Observation: From Set-up to a Navigation of the Issues" A workshop with Melanie Adrian, Social Studies, in Social Studies Conference Room 1, Hilles from 4-6:00 p.m. Please contact Nicole Newendorp (newendor@fas) if you are planning to attend or if you have any questions about this series of workshops. |
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04.13.09. Latin American Working Group and Anthropology Seminar Series Presents: Terry Turner, Cornell University, “Cosmology, Objectification, and
Animism in the Amazon” at the Peabody Museum Bowditch Room at 4:15 p.m. |
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04.14.09. Latin American Working Group and Anthropology Seminar Series Presents: Terry Turner, Cornell University, a Discussion on ”Ethics, Human Rights, and Anthropology” at 2:00 p.m. in 1550 William James Hall |
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04.15.09. The Dean’s Conversations Series presents Arthur Kleinman moderating a panel that includes Allan Brandt, Nicholas Christakis, and Lisa Berkman, with discussants Michele Lamont and Charles Rosenberg, on the topic, "Thinking with Medicine: What Research on Medicine Teaches Social Scientists" from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m., in the Tsai Auditorium in the South Building of the Center for Government and International Studies located at 1730 Cambridge Street, on the Harvard Cambridge campus.
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04.15.09. Harvard University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series Presents "Indo-European Origins and Archaeology" a talk by David Anthony, Hartwick College in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum 5th Floor from 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
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04.15.09. Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents LI Zhipeng, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences "The Ritual Use of Animals in Late Shang Funerary Practice: A Zooarchaeological Perspective” at 5:00 p.m. at the Peabody Museum Room 14A ...more |
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04.16.09. The Peabody Museum presents: Founder’s Lecture "Entangled at Catalhoyuk: Material Life in the First Cities" by Ian Hodder, Dunlevie Family Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University at Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Ave. 5:30 p.m. |
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04.16.09. The Sensory Ethnography Lab, Balagan, the Film Study Center, and the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies invite you to "Recent Anthropologies" films by Ben Russell (Appearing in Person)
at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Main Lecture Hall at
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04.17-18.09. 1st Harvard Australian Studies Symposium People Colonizing New Worlds: The last two great continental landmasses colonized by humans were Australia and the Americas. This symposium brings together distinguished scholars of Australia and of the Americas to discuss the similarities and differences between their archaeological histories. Gutman Conference Centre, Graduate School of Education, Appian Way, Cambridge MA ...more |
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04.20.09. Social Anthropology Seminar presents Saba Mahmood, "Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech:
Thinking through the Danish Cartoons" in the Peabody Museum Bowditch Room at 4:15 p.m. |
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04.23.09. The Healing, Ritual and Placebo Seminar presents Catherine Kerr, HMS "THE NEURO-PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE PLACEBO EFFECT" at 4:00 p.m. at the Waber Osher Research Center Harvard Medical School 401 Park Drive, Suite 221, Boston MA 02215 |
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04.23.09. Social Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Defense Adia Benton "Yu get fo liv positiv: HIV, subjectivity and the politics of care in post-conflict Sierra Leone" in William James Hall 1550 at 4:15 p.m. |
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The Harvard Film Archive, Visual and Environmental Studies, the Sensory Ethnography Lab, and the Film Study Center present
"Place Over Time"
Recent work by
James Benning
Friday April 24 at 7 pm
RR
2007, 16mm, 115 min.
Benning in person
$10 Admission
Saturday April 25 at 7 pm
Spiral Jetty
by Robert Smithson
1970, 16mm, 32 min.
casting a glance
2007, 16mm, 80 min.
Benning in person
$10 Admission
Sunday April 26 at 3 pm
13 Lakes
2004, 16mm, 135 min.
$8 / $6 Admission
Admission free with Harvard student ID
Sunday April 26 at 7 pm
Ten Skies
2004, 16mm, 109 min.
$8 / $6 Admission
Admission free with Harvard student ID
Screenings at the Harvard Film Archive
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge |
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04.27.09. Doctoral Dissertation Defense in Archaeology Deena Duranleau "Subsistence and Settlement Patterns of the Late Archaic and Late Woodland Periods for Coastal New England and Long Island, New York: A Regional Survey" from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum |
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04.27.09. Social Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Defense Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin "Knockoff: The Transnationalism of Luxury Counterfeit Goods" in the Bowditch Room at 4:15 p.m. |
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04.29.09. Social Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Defense Zongze Hu "Keeping Hope: Encountering and Imagining the National State in a North China Village" in Yenching Common Room at 4:15 p.m. |
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04.29.09. Archaeology Wing Student-Faculty Seminar "Adaptation and Invention during the Spread and Intensification of Agriculture: A Perspective from Unknown China" presented by Jade d’Alpoim Guedes at 12:00 p.m. in the Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum. |
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04.29.09. Harvard University East Asian Archaeology Seminar presents JING Zhichun, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Canada “Power Relations and Strategies in the Creation of the Shang City in Anyang” at 5:00 p.m. at the Peabody Museum Room 14A ...more |
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04.29.09. The Peabody Museum presents: Exhibit Opening "Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Photographs by Guy Tillim" As the first recipient of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at the Peabody Museum, South African photographer Guy Tillim traveled through Angola, Mozambique, Congo, and Madagascar, documenting the grand colonial architecture and how it has become part of a contemporary African stage. 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. and a gallery talk at 5:45 p.m. |
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05.04.09. Social Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Defense Andrew Preston: Traveling the trail of self-determination, or “the path the people walk”:
Sovereignty, environmental practice, and Lutselk’e Dene’s place in Northwest Territories, Canada in the Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum at 4:15 p.m. |
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05.05.09. Biological Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Defense Coren Apicella will give her dissertation defense "The evolutionary psychology of physical attractiveness in Hadza foragers: Explorations of the face, body and voice" at 12 noon in Harvard University Center for the Environment seminar room 310, 24 Oxford Street. |
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05.06.09. Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Dr. Malcolm Potts (School of Public Health, U. California, Berkeley) will lecture at 12 noon in Harvard U. Center for the Environment seminar room 310, 24 Oxford Street. |
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05.11.09. The Healing, Ritual and Placebo Seminar presents George Lewith, University of Southampton, UK "EFFECTS OF EMPATHY AND PRACTITIONER ON PLACEBO AND ACUPUNCTURE OUTCOMES" at 4:00 p.m. at the Waber Osher Research Center Harvard Medical School 401 Park Drive, Suite 221, Boston MA 02215 |
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05.13.09. Biological Anthropology Colloquium Series Dr. Gina Raihani (Institute for Biomedical Research, National University of Mexico) presents "Re-examining gender assumptions about dominance and aggression; the case of spotted hyena female coalitions" at 12 noon in Harvard University Center for the Environment seminar room 310, 24 Oxford Street. |
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05.13.09 The East Asian Archaeology Seminar Presents "An Investigation of the Social Use of Anyang Bronze Artifacts During the Early and Middle Yin-hsu Period: 13th–mid 11th century BC" a talk by Chen Fangmei, Graduate Institute of Art History National Taiwan University, Peabody Museum 14A 5:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Asia Center, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations ...more |
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05.20.09. Department of Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Defense in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology "Animal Physiology, Biomineral Diagenesis, and the Isotopic Reconstruction of Palaeoenvironment" presented by Karola Kirsanow at the Center for the Environment Conference Room, Harvard University at 2:00 p.m. |
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05.20.09. Social Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Defense Laurie McIntosh "Interlopers, Immigrants and Others: Difference and Ambivalence in the New Norway" in the Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum at 4:15 p.m. |
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05.27.09. The Peabody Museum presents: Exhibit Opening "Masked Festivals of Canton Bo, Southwest Ivory Coast" from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Tozzer Library Gallery |
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06.02.09. Social Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Defense Kwame Zulu Shabazz "Not All Africans are Negroes: Afrocentricity and the Irony of Africanness in Ghana and Beyond" in the William James Hall 1550 at 12:00 p.m. |
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06.04.09. The 358th Commencement of Harvard University ...more |
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06.11.09. The Healing, Ritual and Placebo Seminar presents Predrag Petrovic, Karolinska Institute, Sweden "THE BRAIN AND REALITY: FROM PLACEBO TO PSYCHOSIS" at 4:00 p.m. at the Waber Osher Research Center Harvard Medical School 401 Park Drive, Suite 221, Boston MA 02215 |
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Peabody Museum Director William Fash sifts through soil in Harvard Yard in 2007.
Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office |
Archaeology of Harvard Yard (Anthro S-1130)
Excavation Opening Ceremony
Thursday, June 25, 2009, 10:30 a.m.
Harvard Yard, near Matthews Hall
(possible site of the Harvard Indian College)
This summer and fall, Harvard Yard will be dotted with holes and strung with orange snow fencing. Student archaeologists from Archaeology of Harvard Yard, a Harvard University course, will be excavating the Yard, searching for 17th-century structures and artifacts. The excavation, part of the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project, is directed by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in collaboration with the Harvard University Native American Program, and the Harvard University’s Department of Anthropology.
Speakers include:
Jim Peters, Executive Director, Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs
Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Chairman, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Bettina Washington, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
William L. Fash, William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum
10:30 AM in Harvard Yard
Sponsored by:
The Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, The Harvard University Native American Program, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology |
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