Cornell Anthropology

Hayden S. Kantor, Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Anthropology, published this article in American Anthropologist

"Building Beyond the Bypass Road: Urban Migration, Ritual Eating, and the Fate of the Joint Family in Patna, India"

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Cornell Department of Anthropology

Spring 2018 Colloquium Series

Stacey Langwick

Department of Anthropology at Cornell                                         

Toxicity and Healing: An Emergent Politics of Habitability in Tanzania

Friday, March 23

3 pm in 215 McGraw Hall

Cornell University, Department of Anthropology

Spring 2018 Colloquium Series

Matthew Liebmann

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University                                                                                      

Pueblo People, Franciscan Missionaries, and the Arrival of the “Refuse Wind”: Colonialism, Disease, and Demography in the Southwest U.S. 1540-1700

Debates regarding the magnitude, tempo, and ecological effects of Native American population decline between 1492-1900 constitute some of the most contentious issues in American Indian history. Was depopulation rapid and catastrophic, with effects extensive enough to change even the earth’s atmosphere? Or was this decline more moderate, with numbers of Native Americans waning slowly after European colonization? The results of recent collaborative research among archaeologists, dendrochronologists, and tribal members from the Pueblo of Jemez in northern New Mexico present unanticipated results, with consequences that extend beyond the borders of the American Southwest to anthropological studies of colonialism more generally.

Friday, March 9 @ 3 pm in 165 McGraw Hall

Co-Sponsored by American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program; and Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies.