The Wisdom of William James By Colleen Walsh
Harvard Staff Writer, Gazette
Thursday, December 8, 2011
William James, an American philosopher who died more than a hundred years ago, still matters. In fact, a keynote speaker (Professor Arthur Kleinman) said, he is just what the doctor ordered. Read the full story in the Gazette Watch the Video
The Future of Archaeology By Corydon Ireland
Harvard Staff Writer, Gazette
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Peter Der Manuelian was a fourth-grader in suburban Boston when he became fascinated by an ancient Egyptian artifact. “It was the first time a subject grabbed me,” said Manuelian ’81, who is Harvard’s first Egyptologist since 1942.
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Anh-Thu T. Ngo (PhD candidate) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to Vietnam in Anthropology.
fulbright.state.gov
Student Spotlight
Preparing bones for radiocarbon at the Kimmel Center in Israel.
Bridget Alex PhD Candidate,
Archaeology Program
balex [at] fas.harvard.edu
"My research focuses on the chronology of the Middle to Upper
Paleolithic Transition in the Balkans. I am testing models of the nature and timing of Neanderthal-modern human interactions against improved and updated radiocarbon dates. The Balkans is a key, but understudied region for understanding Neanderthal extinctions and modern human dispersals. The closest fossils in time and space of each species are found here. Moreoever, the region appears to have been a continuously temperate gateway from the Near East, while much of Europe experienced extreme glacial climate oscillations. Understanding this biological and cultural transition rests on an accurate chronology of the spread and retreat of human groups based on well understood stratigraphy and carefully selected, archaeological meaningful radiocarbon specimens."
This Week's Events 2/6-2/10
The Department of Anthropology and the Committee of Degrees in Social Studies Lecture Series “Start with Yourself”: The Politics of Value as a Psychological Problem in Contemporary Russia a talk by
Tomas Matza on Monday, February 6th 2012 in William James Hall 105 at
4:15 p.m.
Archaeology Program Seminar Series Where Lightning Meets the Ground: Obsidian Procurement and the Construction of Ancestral Pueblo Sacred Landscapes in the Southwest USa talk by
Matthew Liebmann on
Wednesday, February 8th 2012 in Putnam Lab at
12:00 p.m.
Castaing-Taylor’s work seeks to conjugate art’s negative capability with an ethnographic attachment to the flux of life. He is currently completing a series of audio-video installations and photographic Westerns that variously evoke the allure and ambivalence of the pastoral, including Hell Roaring Creek (2010), The High Trail (2010), Coom Biddy (2012), and Bedding Down (2012). He is also collaborating with Véréna Paravel on Leviathan, a multi-media project about men at sea and fish on boats.
Research + Teaching Interests
Sensory ethnography, phenomenology, media anthropology; intellectuals and reason; cultural and political ecology; franco-creole Caribbean, Europe, and the American West.
