This page provides
information on various lectures and events to be held at SUCO, Hartwick
College, and in the Oneonta community
that anthropology students may find of interest. Please e-mail me information on any
additional lectures and events.
The Women’s
and Gender Studies and Anthropology Departments will present a faculty seminar
/ book launch with Sallie
Han, Associate Professor of Anthropology, on Friday, March 15 at 4pm in
Craven Lounge (Morris Hall). Her talk, titled “Blinging up Baby: The Importance
of Consumption as Reproduction in America,” will preview her book, Pregnancy in
Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary U.S. (forthcoming from
Berghahn Books).
Alexis
Mantha, an archaeologist who specializes on the Andes, will be presenting a
talk entitled “Negotiating Funerary Practices: Inca and Spanish Colonial
Occupations of the Rapayán Valley in the Central Andes of Peru.” on Tuesday,
March 19, at 11 am in Milne 318.
Alexis Mantha
will be presenting the film “Rapayan,” that deals with his research, on
Tuesday, March 19, at 5 pm in the Red Dragon Theater. The film follow Mantha and
his team as they explore the ruins of an indigenous settlement on the slopes
overlooking the Peruvian village of Rapayan. Rapayan exposes an intriguing
cultural conflict between Rapayan’s residents contending with modernization and
the archaeologists eager to preserve an ancient cultural patrimony.