Undergraduate

"A Herring … Furnished by Winney”: The Resilience and Creativity of Enslaved Cooks" a talk by Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman (University of Maryland) ABSTRACT - American Southern cuisines were born around the kitchens and hearths of enslaved cooks, who combined...

"Death, Empire, and Resistance on Peru’s South Coast" a talk by Jacob L. Bongers (Boston University) ABSTRACT How do interactions between empires and Indigenous communities change ritualized behavior and produce new relationships of power? This talk...

"Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves? A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming in China" a talk by, Jiajing Wang (Dartmouth University) ABSTRACT The transition to agriculture, characterized by plant domestication, is one of the most...

"Finding Prometheus: The search for fire use in our early ancestors" a talk by Sarah Hlubik (College Fellow, Harvard Anthro) ABSTRACT - The origins of human fire use is widely debated among paleolithic archaeologists and paleoanthropologists. Some place...

Storing and managing research data can be a non-trivial task. In order to assist graduate and undergraduate senior thesis students in these tasks, a panel of specialists from the Digital Scholarship Support Group at Harvard are coming to give an overview...

Talk details & Register here Harvard University Korea Institute, Korea Colloquium, co-sponsored by Harvard Anthropology Chaired by Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard...

Talk details & Register here Harvard University Korea Institute, Korea Colloquium, co-sponsored by Harvard Anthropology Chaired by Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard...

Talk details & Register here. Harvard University Korea Institute, SBS Seminar, co-sponsored by Harvard Anthropology Chaired by Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University

ABSTRACT: The Inka province of Kallawaya sat to the east of the Titicaca basin. Their residents, the Kallawayas were valued traveling shamans, traders and herbal healers of the Tawantinsuyu. Based on shared cultural practices and language, they served as...

ABSTRACT: For a long time, the archaeology of the Amazon occupied a marginal p lace in the pre-Columbian cultural history of the Americas. However, i n recent decades, multidisciplinary research has uncovered a surprising complexity and diversity of...