Yale University Anthropology

Departmental Announcements > 2004 - 2005

October 28 , 2005
Professor Richard Burger appointed C. J. MacCurdy Porfessor of Anthropology
Yale Bulletin

Professor Andrew Hill appointed Clayton Stephenson Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology
Yale Bulletin


September 23 & 24, 2005

URBAN CHARISMA: On reputations, hustlers, big men and other forms of urban infra-power
Organizers:
Thomas Hansen (Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University)
Oskar Verkaaik (Research Centre for Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam)
Urban Charism conference poster [PDF]
www.yale.edu/ycias/southasia/urban_charisma.htm

Sponsored by the Yale Department of Anthropology and the South Asian Studies Council

September 14, 2005
"Site Q", the lost Classic Maya site: discovered in the Peten
Professor Marcello Canuto's discovery has been made public by the Guatemalan government and appeared on the front page of "Prensa Libre".

Further links to "Site Q" discovery articles:

LA Times
National Geographic
New York Times
Yale Daily News

April 21, 2004 4:00-6:00 pm
Department Spring Reception, 51 Hillhouse Avenue


The Society for Economic Botany is proud to announce that Dr. Harold C. Conklin has been selected as the 2005 Distinguished Economic Botanist. For further details see: http://www.econbot.org/awards/deb_award.html

December 7, 2004, 5:30 p.m.
Professor William Kimbel, Arizona State University,
Lucy Redux: Evolving Views of Earliest Human Evolution in Africa
Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave.


November 6-7, 2004
23rd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference on Andean Archeology and Ethnohistory
http://www.yale.edu/archaeology/NCAAE/
http://www.yale.edu/archaeology/NCAAE/registration.htm

October 22, 2004, 12:00 p.m.
Professor Andrew Hill, Fossil Fragments: The Riddle of Human Origins Peabody Museum Hall of Mammals


October 14, 2004
YGSNA
Presentation, Marcello Canuto Living on the Edge: The Study of Ethnicity in the Southeastern Classic Maya Periphery

October 13, 2004, 6:00 p.m.
Book Release: Professor Kamari Clarke, Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, The Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT


September 2004
Anthropology graduate student, Heather Hurst, awarded McArthur Fellowship
http://www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n4/story100.html

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