Past Brown Bags

This is a list of Brown Bag lectures previously presented in the department. Be sure to check the current schedule for more information about upcoming events.

 

2000/2001

10/3/2000	This will be an informal gathering where slides of summer work can be shown and discussed in a happy atmosphere. All those who are interested can participate with a few slides and share their experiences.
10/16/2000	Presenter: Dr. Barbara Walker, Post-Doc, Dept. of Anthropology & Geography, UCSB. Title: "Balancing Conservation, Subsistence, and Economic Growth in French Polynesia's Post-Nuclear Lagoons"
10/23/2000	Presenter: Cassandra Hensher, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB. Topic: California Indian Basketry
11/6/2000	Presenter: Dr. Kathy Schreiber and Dr. Eve Darian-Smith, Dept. Anthropology,UCSB. Title: "Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals"
11/27/2000	Presenter: Lorenzo Covarrubias, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB
12/4/2000	Presenter: Dr. Shankar Aswani, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB.
2/5/2001	Speaker: Jessica Jerome Title: From Farmacology to Frankenfood: Transformations in the Cultural Categories of Food and Drug Topic: Research on the politics of traditional knowledge in the Northeast of Brazil
2/12/2001	Speaker: Lorenzo Covarrubias Title: The Most Forgotten: Ideology, Mestizaje, and AfricanoMexicanos in Rural Mexico.
2/26/2001	Speaker: Dr. Shankar Aswani Title: The archaeology and ethnohistory of chiefly exchange in Roviana, Solomon Islands
3/5/2001	Speaker: Dr. Michael Jochim Title: Provence is more than just a pretty place
3/12/2001	Speakers: Corina Kellner/Michele Buzon Titles: 1. Ritual or just plain warfare? Trophy heads of the Julio C. Tello collection from Nasca, Peru (Corina) 2. Preliminary analysis of elite and middle class New Kingdom cemeteries at Tombos, Sudan (Michele)
4/23/2001	Nicole Hess, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB The Effects of Female Coalitions on Resource Allocation
4/30/2001	James Tate, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB Domestic Archaeology at the El Brujo Complex, Chicama Valley, Peru
5/7/2001	Leonid Yablonsky & Christina Torres-Rouff, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB Artificial Cranial Deformation: A comparison of the Eurasian Steppes and the Andes
5/14/2001	Bonnie Yoshida, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB Health and Disease Amid Changing Social Conditions at Cerro Oreja, Peru
5/21/2001	Dr. Mark Aldenderfer and Nathan Criag, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB In Field Digital Data Recording Through the Use of GIS at the Archaic/Formative Transition Site of Jiskairumoko, Peru
6/4/2001	Arleen Garcia, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB Travels and Archaeology in South Chile and Argentina

1999

November 8, 1999	Dr. Michael Jochim. UCSB Department of Anthropology. "Eclectic Explorations of the Mesolithic"
November 15, 1999	David Crawford. UCSB Department of Anthropology. "The Jackals and Their Discontents: Property, Inequality and Operational Culture in the Moroccan High Atlas"
November 22, 1999	Marieke Heemskerk, Department of Anthropology University of Florida. "Gold Mining is Risky Business: Risk Perceptions and Coping Startegies as Drivers of Gold Mining Among Maroons in the Suriname Rain Forest"
November 29, 1999	Dr. Barbara Voorhies. UCSB Department of Anthropology. "Clamming Up: Shellmounds of Southern Mexico and the Advent of Farming"
December 6, 1999	Dr. Brian Fagan. UCSB Department of Anthropology. "Iron Age Cultures of Zambia: A Nostalgic (?) Journey Into Excavations of the Early 1960's"

	Justin Jennings and Nathan Craig. Polity Wide Analysis and Imperial Political Economy: An Example from the Wari Empire of Peru
	Dr. Laury Oaks. Irishness, Eurocitizenship, and the Troubled Politics of Irish Reproductive Rights

 

1998

Jelmer Eerkens	Prehistoric exchange and mobility patterns in Owens Valley, California: ceramic and obsidian sourcing around Owens Lake
Kevin Vaughn	Early Intermediate Period Households on the South Coast of Peru: Excavations at Marcaya, an Early Nasca Domestic Site
Dr. Mayfair Yang	From the Kinship State to the Rationalized State in Ancient China: Reflections on the Qin Dynasty and Before

Annegret Staiger	Racialized Masculinities: The Production of Difference among Urban High School Students
Dr. Katharina Schreiber	The Conquest of Nasca, Peru
Clark Barrett	Do Humans Have Cognitive Adaptations to Predators and Prey?

Melody Knutson	A Toast to Heritage: Minho and Galicia at the Vinho Verde Festival, Northwestern Portugal.
Anastasia Panagakos	Reversing the Trend: The Immigration of Greek Canadians to Greece and the Impact on Pan-European Identity
Nitasha Sharma	Identities un-rapping Race: The Role of Hip-Hop in the Identity Formation of Second Generation Indian Americans.
Justin Jennings	The Arbitrary Divide: Exploring Ethnological and Archaeological Approaches to the Study of Empire in Southern Peru.
Mary Lou Larson	Hell Gap: Past, Present, and Future

1997

Jelmer Eerkens	Archaeology in Owens Valley: Examining Risk Buffering Strategies among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in the Western Great Basin
John Dwight Hines	From Euskaldunak to Sheepmen: The role of language, profession, and performance in (re-)imaginging the identity of Basque-Americans in Johnson County Wyoming
Barty Thompson	An Examination of Human Spatial Psychology
Soledad Vieitez	Bridewealt (Lobolo), Socialism, and Women in Mozambique
Heather Horst	Indians Imagine the Indian Diaspora: The Dialectic between the National and Transnational
Anastasia Panagakos	The Greek Orthodox Church and Greek Ethnic Identity in California: When an Ethnic Institution Becomes Multicultural
Mimi Sharma	Home on the Maasai Range: Globalism, Tourism, and the Commodification of Culture
Dr. Mayfair Yang	Through Chinese Women's Eyes

Inmaculada Lopez	Sexual Dimorphism and Environmental Stress Indicators in the Long Bones from a Spanish Medieval Ossuary
Francine Drayer	Life and death on the altiplano: Recent studies of mummies and human remains
Dr. David Cleveland	Managing Maize Diversity and Agricultural Development in Oaxaca, Mexico: Can Farmers and Plant Breeders Really Work Together?
Doug Kennett	Risk, warfare, and the origins of settled village lie on Santa Rosa Island, CA
Dr. Garrett Menning	Disorganized Capitalism: A Case Study of the Textile Industry of Surat, India
Dr. Mary Hancock	Public Memory and Spatial Practice in Urban India
John Kantner	Survival Cannibalism or Social Strategy? Using Neo-Darwinian Theory to Explain Perimortem Mutilation in the American Southwest
Dr. Kevin Miller	Old Bones, DNA, and ... Me: An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology at UCSB
Susan Harris	The Use of GIS to Test for Bias in Non-random surveys: A Southwest German Example
Corina Kellner	Dental Health in an Historic Chumash Village
Dr. Mirian Chaiken and Dr. Tom Conelly	Coping with Adversity: Intensive Fariming Systems, Agrodiversity, and Diet Under Conditions of Extreme Population Pressure in Western Kenya

Dr. Paul Gelles	Water, Ethnicity and Power: State vs. Local Models of Irrigation in Highland Peru
Dr. Mark Aldenderfer	Early Agro-Pastoralism Adaptations in Northwestern Argentina
Cynthia Herhahn	Style, Technology, and Social Interaction in the Late Prehistoric American Southwest
Lisa Cipolla and Cynthia Klink	An Alternative Method for Analyzing Archaic Period Surface Data in the Andean Highlands
Cynthia Klink	Initial Reconnaissance in the Rio Huenque Valley, Southern Peru
Ramachandra Guha	Verrier Elwin and the Tribal Question in Modern India
Juan Jose Gutierrez	Local Level Responses to State Agrarian Reform
John Ziker	Risk, Relatives, and Revolution: The Dulgaattar of Northern Siberia

1996

Dr. Miriam Sharma	Implications of Theory for Ethnography: Reflections on Fieldwork in North India
Joseph B. Powell	The Ackee Fruit Tree in Limon Costa Rica: Connections between Cultural and Biological Diversity
Kevin Heppner	Burma, the South Africa of 1996: Human Rights Violations in Burma
Dr. Mark Liechty	Film and Fashion: Commercial Signification and Consumer Subjectivity in Kathmandu

Brian Billman	From Political Faction to Political Institution: The Process of State Formation Then and Now
Bruce Caron	Populations, science, modernity, and anthropology: getting bloody in Japan
Dr. Charles Stanish	Raised Field Agriculture from an Anthropological Perspective
Karen Rasmussen	Chinchorro Populations in Southern Peru: New Evidence from the Site of Yara
Brian Haley	Anthropology and the Making of Chumash Tradition
Nancy Williams	Development projects in Tijuana: What do we hope to accomplish?
Brenda Bowser	Ethnoarchaeology of Ecuadorian Conambo Polychrome Pottery
Ed Hagen	Postpartum depression: Illness or Adaptation?

Carleen Sanchez	Falling off the Edge: The Archaeology of the Southeast Maya Periphery
Kirk Frye	Recent Research in the Titicaca Basin
Dennis Ogburn:	Life During Wartime: Archaeology in Saraguro, Ecuador
Cynthia Klink	Archaic Period Settlement on the Altiplano: Comparison of Two Recent Surveys in the Southwestern Lake Titicaca Basin
Dr. David Cleveland	Locally Adapted Farming Systems and Crop Varieties in Agriculture
Christi Conlee	Late Prehistoric Settlement in the Nasca Region of Peru

1995

Dr. Napoleon Chagnon	Comments on my September Field Trip to the Brazilian Yanomamo
Nathan Craig	Multicultural Land Management and Resource Use in the Cleveland National Forest
Garrett Menning	Ethnicity and Trust in the Textile Industry of Surat City, India
Dr. Mike Jochim	The Transition to Agriculture in Central Europe
Dr. Mark Liechty	Public Space, Public Practice, and Class Identity in Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Donald Brown	Problems and Prospects in the Development of Theory in Athropology: The Case of Social Structure

 

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