Speaker: Dr. Christopher Heaney,Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Penn State. Author of Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones and the Search for Machu Picchu (2010).
Moderated by: Harvard Andean Working Group
By 1873, seven years after the founding of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, over 400 of the 684 skulls in its collection...
Milk is a familiar food. And a fraught food. The natural food of mammalian infants, milk was first transformed into dairy products more than 9,000 years ago in the Near East, making it one the earliest human-...
Hiroko Kumaki is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Oberlin College, with a courtesy appointment in East Asian Studies. Her research is based in the Tohoku region of Japan, which she is a native to. It engages ethnographies and social theories of health, environment, as well as science and technology to examine what it means to live well in the context of profound environmental crisis.
Her current book project, Becoming Fukei: Living Well in a Relational Landscape after Fukushima examines regulatory policies and everyday practices of health and well-being after...
Michael Berman is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. He has previously held positions at the University of California, San Diego, CUNY Hunter College, CUNY City College, and the University of Tokyo. Overall, he has spent approximately seven years in Japan and has conducted research in several parts of Tokyo and the Tōhoku region in northeastern Japan.
Working at the intersections of liberal secularism, capitalism, and language, that research has focused...
Elizabeth Arkush is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Comparative Center for Archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her PhD at UCLA in 2005. Her field research has focused on late pre-Columbian societies of the Andean altiplano, and particularly pukaras or walled hillfort sites. She has published extensively on the archaeology of conflict, including her most recent book, War, Spectacle, and Politics in the Pre-Columbian Andes (Cambridge, 2022) and Hillforts of the Ancient Andes (2011), which received the SAA Scholarly Book...