The Department of Anthropology and the Thai Studies Program, Asia Center, present the Thai Lecture Series.

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It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our colleague, Professor Mary Steedly, on January 4^th, 2018. Prof. Steedly was a major figure in the ethnography and social anthropology of Indonesia. Her research focused on the Karo Bataks, of North Sumatra. Her books include Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland (Princeton University Press, 1993) and Rifle Reports: Gender, Nationalism and Peasant Resistance in the Karo Area, 1945-1950 (University of California Press, 2013).... Read more about In Memory of Professor Mary Steedly

"THERE ARE MANY WAYS A college student might spend spring break. Making an archaeological breakthrough is not usually one of them. In his first year at Harvard, Manny Medrano did just that.

“There’s something in me, I can’t explain where it came from, but I love the idea of digging around and trying to find secrets hidden from the past,” Medrano says.

With the help of his professor, Gary Urton, a scholar of Pre-Columbian studies, Medrano interpreted a set of six khipus, knotted cords used for record keeping in the Inca...

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Harvard launched a five-year lecture series to commemorate the career of a Mexican archaeologist, an effort to promote work from Harvard’s office in Mexico City.

The lecture series, which began this semester, celebrates the 40-year collaboration between Divinity School professor Davíd Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Mexico’s premier archaeologist who has led excavations to uncover remains of a temple in the former Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.

Read more here: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/9/moctezuma-mexico-lecture-...

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