University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Member, Anthropology

Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences

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My research is complex, but united by an interest in how people make things and simultaneously are shaped by them. The things I spend most of my time thinking about range from pots and figurines to houses and landscapes. Much of my work is grounded in field archaeological work I have conducted in Honduras, and in museum research on collections from Honduras. My writing takes on a broader scope, using my standpoint in Honduras as a critical position from which to examine what traditionally is considered Mesoamerica and Lower Central America. I have worked on time periods from the first settled villages (ca. 1600 BC) to the colonial and republication periods (18th-20th century). The sample of papers here is non-random; it represents those things that are at least partially visible on Google Books. It in no way is representative of my past publishing (which includes significant work on the sociopolitics of archaeology in relation to cultural heritage issues including repatriation; on political and social organization; on gender and sexuality; and on the history of anthropology.

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