Projects By Department of Anthropology:
A Better Past Through Technology: World War II Aircraft as a Form of Cultural Heritage
Handler, Richard. Sponsor: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
Drawing on research into the cultural construction of technology and research on the objectification of culture in heritage movements, this project examines the “industrial romanticism” which underlies ... A Grammar of Hupda Maku
Danziger, Eve. Sponsor: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
The research will produce a description of Hupda, a largely undocumented language spoken in the Vaupes region of northwestern Brazil. Under the direction of Dr. Eve Danziger, Ms. Patience Epps will collect ... Analyze Sited & Materials Recovered During the 2000 Field Season
Plog, Stephen E. Sponsor: U.S. Department Of Agriculture
The purpose of this agreement is to accomplish mutually beneficial objectives related to the management of natural and cultural resources, environmental planning, public education, and academic research ... Arapesh Grammar and Digital Language Archive
Dobrin, Lise. Sponsor: U.S. Nfah - Nat'L Endowment For The Humanities
This project will analyze, preserve, and document the endangered Arapesh languages, traditionally spoken by people living along the Sepik coast of northern Papua New Guinea (PNG). Like other Arapesh varieties, ... Chaco Canyon: Building a Digital Research Archive
Plog, Stephen E. Sponsor: Mellon Foundation
The remarkable history of the Pueblo inhabitants of Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico has commanded the attention of archaeologists and the general public for over a century. Archaeology has been ... Colby-Bottel Dissertation Research: New Orleans Traditional Music
Handler, Richard. Sponsor: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
This project examines New Orleans traditional music as a set of practices in which local concepts of tradition are staged and expressed. It draws together anthropological studies of tradition with ... Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Economic Organization & Cultural Cohesion
LaViolette, Adria J. Sponsor: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
This project centers on the archaeological investigation of settlements founded in 19th-century Kenya by people escaping slavery. It specifically considers the economic insularity and cultural ... Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Finding Their Place in the Swahili World: Archaeological Exploration of the Southern Tanzanian Coast
LaViolette, Adria J. Sponsor: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
This project is an archaeological investigation of the region around the mid-level Swahili port town of Mikindani on the southern Tanzanian coast, focusing on the period from its founding in the 9th ... Editorship - Visual Anthropology Review
Sapir, J D. Sponsor: American Anthropological Association
The Visual Anthropology Review is the official publication of the Society for Visual Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. http://... Enter the Countryside: A Regional Approach to Settlement Systems in Coastal Benin West Africa
LaViolette, Adria J. Sponsor: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
This dissertation project proposes a regional approach for collecting data to evaluate the marked political and economic changes that took place in the coastal region of West Africa between the 15th and ... Ethnographic Research Training
Hantman, Jeffrey L. Sponsor: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Math. & Physical Sciences
The goal of this program is to provide enhanced ethnographic research training and experience for graduate students in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. This program merges ... Ethnography and History of the Santo Daime Religion, Acre, Brazil
Bashkow, Ira R. Sponsor: The Aurora Foundation
The grant was made to assist in supporting anthropological fieldwork toward my PhD dissertation in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. the project focused on the Centro de Iluminação Cristã Luz Universal - Alto ... Interpreting Epidemic: The Meaning of HIV
Marshall, Wende E. Sponsor: University of California at San Francisco
The proposed research is a preliminary study to begin exploring the relationship
between AIDS risk, social structural, political economic and cultural factors, and to determine the feasibility of a larger ... Re-evaluating Collapse: A Study of Urban Households from Kazane Hoyuk, Southeast Turkey
Wattenmaker, Patricia A. Sponsor: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
Under the supervision of Dr. Wattenmaker, Mr. Trella will conduct archaeological excavations at the Early Bronze Age (3000-2000 B.C.) city of Kazane Hoyuk, in southeastern Turkey. Previous archaeological ... Salon d'Archeologie
LaViolette, Adria J. Sponsor: The Netherlands Minister for Development Cooperati
To create a "Salon d'Archaeologie" at the Ouidah Museum of History (Former Portuguese Fort) and interpret one of the earliest relationships between Europeans and Africans on the "Slave Coast of West Africa." ... Short Term Public Service Project
Hantman, Jeffrey L. Sponsor: State - Various
For various archaeological studies conducted as part of the University of Virginia's Short Term Public Service Projects program. The Archaeology of Swahili Social Differentiation
LaViolette, Adria J. Sponsor: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant-The Archaeology of Swahili Social
Differentiation: Earth-and-Thatch Neighborhoods at Gede, Kenya, 11th-16th
Centuries AD
Under the supervision of Dr. Adria ... The Chinese Demographic Regime in Taiwan, 1870-1945
Shepherd, John R. Sponsor: Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scho
Recent revisionist work on Chinese demographic and social history has sparked a debate between 'anti-Malthusian' and 'Malthusian' schools by challenging the notion that high mortality and high fertility ... The Economic Foundations of an Early Urban Center: Test Excavations of a Residential Neighborhood
Wattenmaker, Patricia A. Sponsor: Curtiss T. & Mary G. Brennan Foundation, Inc.
Excavations at the early site of Kazane, southeast Turkey, have documented the formation of a local center from the sixth through the third millennium BC through deep excavations. This phase of the project ... Town and Country: A Regional Study of Swahili Village & Urban Households
LaViolette, Adria J. Sponsor: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
With National Science Foundation support Dr. Adria LaViolette and her colleagues will conduct three seasons of archaeological excavations on Pemba Island, Tanzania, to address changes in Swahili political ...
Faculty:
Arkush, Elizabeth Nelson – Assistant Professor
Bashkow, Ira R – Associate Professor
Bonilla, Yarimar – Assistant Professor
Contini-Morava, Ellen L – Professor
Damon, Frederick H – Professor
Danziger, Eve – Associate Professor & Interim Director, Linguistics Program
Dobrin, Lise – Assistant Professor
Douglass, Carrie Bess – Professor
Freeman, Caren – Lecturer in Anthropology
Handler, Richard – Professor and Assoc Dean, Academic Programs
Hantman, Jeffrey L – Associate Professor and Dir Archaeology Interdis Program
Harr, Adam – Instructor in Anthropology
Heitman, Carolyn C – Research Assistant in Anthropology
Johnsen, Scott Adam – Lecturer in Anthropology
Khare, Ravindra S – Professor and Dir of Ctr on Critical Human Survival Issues
LaViolette, Adria J – Associate Professor
Lefkowitz, Daniel S – Associate Professor and Chair of MESA
Lopez, Sergio Daniel – Visiting Professor
Marshall, Lydia Lee Ann Wilson – Instructor in Anthropology
Marshall, Wende E – Assistant Professor
Mccarty, Sue Ann – Instructor in Anthropology
McKinnon, Susan – Professor and Chair
Menair, Marion Suzanne – Instructor in Antrhopology
Mentore, George P – Associate Professor
Metcalf, Peter A – Professor
Neiman, Fraser D – Lecturer in Anthropology and Architectural History
Perdue, Charles L – Professor Emeritus
Plog, Stephen E – David A Harrison, III, Professor of Historical Archaeology
Ratanapruck, Prista – Assistant Professor
Sapir, J D – Professor Emeritus
Seneviratne, H L – Professor Emeritus
Shepherd, John R – Associate Professor and Director, East Asia Center
Sihle, Nicolas – Assistant Professor
Turner, Edith Lucy B – Lecturer in Anthropology
Wagner, Roy – Professor
Wattenmaker, Patricia A – Associate Professor
Weston, Kathleen Mary – Professor
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