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Anthropology Monday Seminars Spring 2008
April 7 - Julia Paley
Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Social Work
University of Michigan
Interests: Political anthropology, social theory, democracy, urban studies, ethnographic methodology; Latin America
Title: "Indigenous Movements and Aid Agencies in Ecuador"
April 14 - Joshua David Barker
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Interests: Violence and power, crime and policing, theories of modernity, anthropology of technology, nationalism, urban studies; Indonesia, Southeast Asia
Title: "The State and the Slum: Street Level Authority in an Indonesia Kampung"
April 28 - Karen Z. Ho
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Interests: Cultural studies of late capitalism; anthropology of Wall Street, finance, and the stock market; globalization and global financial restructuring; anthropology of work; urban anthropology; political economy; comparative race/ethnicity; Asian American Studies, US
Title: "Disciplining Investment Bankers, Disciplining the Economy: Wall Street's Institutional Culture of Crisis and the Downsizing of American Corporations"
May 5 - Frances Mariko Hayashida
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, from Aut. 2008
Interests: Archaeology, historical ecology, political economy, complex societies, archaeometry, ethnoarchaeology; South America
Title: " Water, Land, and Politics on the Late Prehispanic North Coast of Peru"
May 12 - L. Antonio Curet
Associate Curator, Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago and Northwestern
Interests: Archaeology, social and political change, political economy, ceramics; Caribbean & Mesoamerica
Title: "Social Change in the Ancient History of the Caribbean: The Case of the Civic-Ceremonial Center of Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico"
May 19 - Jonathan M. (Jon) Marks
Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Interests: Bioanthropology, race, evolution, history of anthropology, critical studies of human genetics
Title: "Some More Things I'm Pissed Off About"
June 2 - Kathryn A. Woolard
Professor of Anthropology, University of California San Diego
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, language and ethnicity, language ideology, language and history, discourse; Catalonia, Spain
Title: "The Nature of Linguistic Authority in Contemporary Catalonia"
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