Faculty from left to right, starting from the top: David Kertzer, Marida Hollos, Richard Gould, Patricia Symonds, Wanni Anderson, Shepard Krech III, Nicholas Townsend, Martha Joukowsky, Philip Leis, and Patricia Rubertone. Not Pictured: William Beeman, Douglas Anderson, Lina Fruzzetti, Lucile Newman, Matthew Gutmann, William Simmons.

Past research: Archaeology and paleoecology of the coastal and riverine peoples, northwest Alaska: continuity and change in Eskimo subsistence and settlements; archaeology of Beringia, archaeology and paleoecology of mainland and Southwest Asia. Present and future research: Prehistoric and early historic settlement patterns of the circumpolar region, archaeology of Southeast Asia, band organization, paleoecology, and lithic technology. Courses: 121, 156, 198, 250

Past research: enculturation, socialization, and social interaction in children's play culture (Buddhist Thai and Thai Muslim). Asian and Eskimo folklore, Eskimo subsistence, friendship and sibling bondings, self and identity, Thai Muslim adolescents and ethnicization. Present research: growing up ethnic, bi-racial, and multi-cultural in American and other pluralistic societies. Lao American and Thai American interethnic and intercultural relations. Course: 25, 122, 125

Past research: Language styles and socio-cultural patterns in Iran: traditional theatre in the Middle East, India and Japan; rural attitudes in Costa Rica. Present and future research: Theory in sociolinguistics and the semantics of interaction; cross-cultural comparison of theatrical and performance genres: paralinguistic and nonlinguistic semiotics; action anthropology. Philosophic anthropology, peasant and nomadic societies: Middle East, particularly Iran and the Persian Gulf region; Japan; Central America; S.W. aboriginal, North American languages, urban U.S. and Europe. Courses: 80, 280

Selected Publications: (click on title for full text versions)
The Mess in East Africa and Afghanistan is Partly the fault of the U.S. Government
German Elections Based on Hope--but is it in vain?
Iran is Changing. Can the United States Respond?
The Mystery of Singing
Performance Theory in an Anthropology Program
Marriage Between a "Man" and a Woman" is not so Clear Cut.

Past research: Agricultural economics, study of American black businesses in Chicago: Black/White intermarriage in Chicago: India: Muslin social organization: Religion: Hindu-Muslin communities. Muslin women and family relationships: minority problems and question of identity.Present and future research: Ethnographic films; feminist theory and the women's movement cross-culturally; literature and anthropological theory. Comparison of India/North Africa-the role of Islam in the social structure within a secular state in (India) vs. a Muslim state, native vs. civil courts in a N. African situation. Other areas of interest: progress and notion of change, modern and subsistence agriculture, impact of technology, meaning of economic and social development: the role and value of ideology. Comparison of rural and urban towns, with emphasis on family, politics and identity; comparative urban studies of socio-economic and gender changes in Asia and Africa. Demographic, migration, and the anthropology of diseases in East Africa.Courses:

Past research: North American Indian archaeology and ethnology, lithic technology ethnoarchaeology and prehistory of Australian Aborigines, hunter-gatherer ecology. Present and future research: Ethnoarchaeology, Australian archaeology, general theory in archaeology, nautical archaeology. Other areas of interest: Ecological anthropology, paleoecology, museum and material culture studies. Courses: 50, 109, 151, 153, 270

Selected Publications:
--1995. The Bird Key Wreck, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida. Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 7-16. (Reprinted in Florida Keys Sea Heritage Journal, Vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1-14).
--1996. (with Donna J. Souza), History and Archaeology of H.M. Floating Dock, Bermuda. The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology & Underwater Exploration, vol 25, no. 2, pp. 4-20.
--1996. Faunal Reduction at Puntutjarpa Rockshelter, Warburton Ranges, Western Australia. Archaeology in Oceania, vol 31, pp. 72-86.
--1996. Ethnoarchaeology. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian M. Fagan, Oxford University Press, pp. 207-208.
--1997. (with Peter Veth, Richard Fullagar), Residue and use-wear analysis of grinding implements from Puntutjarpa Rockshelter in the Western Desert: Current and proposed research. Australian Archaeology, no. 44, pp.1-3.
--1997. Contextual Relationships" (pp. 108-110), "Research Design" (pp. 344-345), "Shipwreck Anthropology" (pp. 377-380), and "H.M.S. Vixen" (pp. 459-460). Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology, edited by James P. Delgado, British Museum Press.

Past and Present Research: Change, gender, ethnicity-race-nationalism, critical theory, medical anthropology, ethnography, ethics; Americas (especially Mexico and Latinos in U.S.). Courses: 23,112,123,210,226.

Selected Publications:
--1999. Ethnicity, Alcohol, and Acculturation. Social Science & Medicine 48(2):173-84.
--1998. Mamitis and the Traumas of Development in a Colonia Popular of Mexico City. In Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent, eds. Pp. 130-48. University of California Press.
--1998. For Whom the Taco Bells Toll: Popular Responses to NAFTA South of the Border. Critique of Anthropology 18(3):297-315.
--1997. The Ethnographic (G)Ambit: Women and the Negotiation of Masculinity in Mexico City.” American Ethnologist 24(4):833-55.
--1997. Trafficking in Men: The Anthropology of Masculinity. Annual Review of Anthropology 26:385-409.
--1996. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. University of California Press. [Spanish translation: Ser hombre de verdad en la ciudad de México: Ni macho ni mandilón. Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer, El Colegio de México and Editorial Paidós.1998.]

Past and Present research: Comparative human development, the concept of childhood, cross-cultural education, adolescence and youth; gender in a developmental perspective; socialist and post-socialist society in Eastern Europe; Anthropology and population: fertility, nuptiality and family structure. Europe, Eastern Europe, West and East Africa.
Courses: 20, 136, 139, 222, 225

Selected Publications:
--1998. The status of women in Southern Nigeria: Is education a help or a hindrance? In: Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities and Constraints. Marianne Bloch, J. A. Beoku-Betts and B. R. Tabachnick eds. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Londond.
--1997. From lineage to conjugality: The social context of fertility decisions among the Pare of Northern Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine,Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 361-372
--1995. Intergenerational discontinuities in Nigeria (with P. Leis). Ethos.Vol. 23(1):102-117.
--1995. The management of adolescent sexuality in four societies. In: :Mr. R. Stevenson ed. Gender Roles Through the Life Span. Ball State University Press.
--1993. Gender specific development of formal operations among Nigerian adolescents. Ethos. Vol 21(1):24-53
--1992. Fertility differentials among the Ijo in Southern Nigeria: The role of women's education and place of residence. Social Science and Medicine. Vol.35(9):1199-1210
--1992. Why is it difficult to take a census in Nigeria? The problem of indigenous conceptions of households. Historical Methods. Vol. 25, No. 1.
--1991. Migration, education and the status of women in Southern Nigeria. American Anthropologist. Vol. 93(4):852-870.
--1989. Becoming Nigerian in Ijo Society. (with P. Leis) Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick and London.

Past and present research: Archaeology, field methods; Middle East prehistoric, agricultural and urban development. Petra excavations 1993-1995. Courses: 36, 37, 160

Selected Publications:
--1999. Petra: The Great Temple, Vol. I - Brown University Excavations 1993-1997, Brown University, Petra Exploration Fund.
--1996. Early Turkey: An Introduction to the Archaeology of Anatolia from Prehistory through the Lydian Period. Kendall-Hunt, Dubuque Iowa.
--1992. The Crisis Years - The 12th Century B.C.: From the Danube to the Tigris. Conference Proceedings, May 16-19 1990, Brown University, Co-editor with Dr. William Ward, Kendall-Hunt, Dubuque Iow.
--1992. The Heritage of Tyre: Essays in the History, Archaeology and Preservation of Tyre, Editor, A 1988 Symposium at the Smithsonian. Kendall-Hunt, Dubuque Iowa.
--1990. La Muculufa, The Early Bronze Age Sanctuary: The Early Bronze Age Village; Excavations of 1982 and 1983, with R. Ross Holloway and Susan S. Lukesh. Center for Old World Archaeology and Art, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
--1986. Prehistoric Aphrodisias: An Account of the Excavations and Artifact Studies. Archaeologia Transatlantica Vol. III, Providence Rhode Island, Brown University, Center for Old World Archaeology and Art - Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgique, Institut Superieur d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art College Erasme. Publication d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie de l'Universite Catholique de Louvain, Vol. XL.
--1980. A Complete Manual of Field Archaeology: Tools and Techniques of Field Work for Archaeologists, Prentice-Hall, Englewood-Cliffs, New Jersey.

Past and present research: Symbolic bases of politics: demographic anthropology; age structuring; anthropology and history; family organization; ritual and society. Italy. Courses: 133, 202, 206, 212 Anthropological Demography

Selected Publications:
--1997. The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. New York: Knopf. Paperback published by Vintage, 1998. Italian edition (Prigioniero del Papa Re) published by Rizzoli in 1996; British edition by Picador in 1997 (paperback by Papermac); French (Plon, 1998), German (Die Entführung des Edgardo Mortara, Hanser, 1998), Brazilian (O Seqüestro de Edgardo Mortara, Rocco, 1998), Hebrew (Kinneret), and Spanish (Plaza Janés) editions. Finalist, National Book Award for nonfiction, 1997. Winner, National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian relations, 1997. Selected one of the "Best Books of the Year, 1997", Publishers Weekly, Toronto Globe and Mail..
--1997. Anthropological Demography: Towards a New Synthesis, edited with Thomas Fricke. University of Chicago Press.
--1996. Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism. New Haven: Yale University Press.
--1996. Italian Politics, 1996, edited with Mario Caciagli. Boulder: Westview. Italian edition published as Politica in Italia 1996. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1996.
--1995. Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age, edited with Peter Laslett. University of California Press.
--1993. Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control. Boston: Beacon Press, (paper, 1994). Runner-up, 1995 Goode Award (book on family), American Sociological Association.

Research interests, past and continuing: ethnohistory, anthropology and history, life history, ecological anthropology, fur trade studies, material culture, museum studies: Northern Athapaskans and other North American Indians. Courses: 114, 253, 255, 257

Selected Publications:
--1999. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: Norton.
--1999. Collecting Native America, 1870-1960, edited (with Barbara Hail). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
--1999. Indians and the Environment, in Encyclopedia of New England Culture, eds. B. Feintuch and D. Watters. New Haven: Yale University Press.
--1998. Ecology, Conservation, and the Buffalo Jump, in Stars Above, Earth Below: American Indians and Nature, ed. Marsha Bol, pp. 139-64. Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart Publishers for Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
--1997. The Subarctic Culture Area, in Native North Americans: An Ethnohistorical Approach, second edition eds. Molly Mignon and Dan Boxberger, pp. 85-112. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt.
--1997. Ethnohistory, in Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology, ed. Thomas Barfield, pp. 160-62. Oxford: Blackwell.
--1996. Ethnohistory, in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, 4 vols., eds. David Levinson and Melvin Embe, vol. 2, pp. 422-29. New York: Henry Holt.
--1994. Native Canadian Anthropology and History: A Selected Bibliography, revised edition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
--1994 Passionate Hobby: Rudolf Frederick Haffenreffer and the King Philip Museum, edited. Bristol, RI: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University.

Past Research: Washo Indians (Nevada), Ijo (Nigeria), Galim (Cameroon) Bristol, R.I. (U.S.A.), Algarve (Portugal), Harare (Zimbabwe). Present and future research: West and Southern African ethnology, pluralism; associations lifecycle, economic development: cross-cultural study of adolescence. Other areas of interest: "Grass-roots" organizations, political organization, social and cultural change; inter-ethnic relatives and national development. Courses: 111, 190, 221, 224, 297
Selected Publications:
--1996. Pluralism. In, The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, edited by David Levinson and Melvin Ember, Vol 3, pp. 940-943.
--1995a. Intergenerational Discontinuities in Nigeria, with M. Hollos. Ethos 23,1:103-118
--1995b. Ethnic Conflict, History, and State Formation in Africa. In, Population, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building, edited by Calvin Goldscheider, pp. 77-90.
--1989. Becoming Nigerian in Ijo Society. Co-author with M. Hollos.

Past research: Human reproduction, research in Japan, India. Sweden, and the U.S., Indigenous fertility regulating methods: new reproductive technologies, comparative health systems. Present and future research: Early human interaction and cognitive - mothers and infants: fertility regulation: social and sensory environment of low birthweight infants.Other areas of interest: Philosophy, phenonomology and their relationship to anthropology; History of Science and Technology. Courses: 102, 203

Past research: settlement and regional analysis (Southwest, U.S.); medieval archaeology, Islamic urbanism, ceramic and stylistic analysis (North Africa); urban archaeology, landscape studies (Northeast, U.S.). Present and future research: culture contact, archaeology and history, comparative colonialism, material culture. Courses: 154, 158, 258, 270

Past and Present Research: Ethnohistory, historical anthropology; the Native peoples and European colonization of North America, Northeast US, California.

Selected Publications:
--1998. Indian Peoples of California. In Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. Editors Ramon Gutierrez and Richard Orsi, pp. 48-77. University of California Press: Berkeley.

Past and Present research: Medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, gender and society, ethnicity, refugee issues, culture change; Southeast Asia. Courses: 102, 105

Selected Publications:
---in press (with Brooke G. Schoepf). HIV/AIDS: The Global Pandemic and Struggles for Control. In Reviews in Anthropology, Nina Etkin, ed. University of Hawaii Manoa: Gordon and Breach.
--1998 The Political Economy and Cultural Logic of HIV/AIDS among the Hmong in Northern Thailand. In The Political Economy of AIDS, Merrill Singer, ed. Amityville, New York: Baywood Press.
--1997 Blessing the White Hmong Community in Northern Thailand: Invocation and Sacrifice. In Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia. Nicola Tannenbaum and Cornelia Kammerer, eds. Yale University Press.
--1996 Cosmological Aspects of Birth among the Hmong. In Reproductive Health and Women in Asia: Anthropological Perspectives, Lenore Manderson and Pranee, eds., Australia: Gordon and Breach.
--1995 review of Carol Warren, Adat and Dinas: Balinese Communities in the Indonesian State (Oxford University Press, 1993). Wesleyan Newsletter.
--1995 (with C. Kammerer, O. Hutheesing and R. Maneeprasert) Vulnerability to HIV Infection among Three Hill Tribes in Norhern Thailand: Qualitative Anthropological Issues. Han ten Brummelhuis and Gilbert Herdt, eds. Culture and Sexual Risk: Anthropological Perspectives on AIDS. Amsterdam.

Areas of interest: kinship, social organization, and social reproduction; anthropology and demography; southern Africa; the United States. Previous research:men's attitudes towards family and paternity in a city in northern California; men's connections to children and domestic groups in a village in Botswana. Courses: 10, 111, 207, 211 Anthropological Demography

David Abramson, Adjunct Assistant Professor (research)
Watson Institute

Elizabeth Bakewell, Assistant Professor (research)

Adeline Becker, Adjunct Associate Professor (research)

Blenda Femenias, Adjunct Assistant Professor (research)

Marilyn Fetterman, Adjunct Assistant Professor (research)

Bruce Lutz, Adjunct Associate Professor (research)

Ellen Messer, Adjunct Associate Professor (research)
World Hunger Program

Donna Souza, Adjunct Assistant Professor (research)

Dwight Heath, Professor

Robert Jay, Professor

Sangeetha Madhavan, Post-Doctoral Fellow and Assistant Adjunct Professor

Sangeetha Madhavan arrived at Brown in January 1999 to begin a two year Mellon Post-Doctoral fellowship in anthropological demography. She completed her Ph.D. work in demography and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, "Cooperation and Conflict among Women in Rural Mali: Effects on Fertility and Child Survival" utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of demographic processes in sub-Saharan Africa. Her residency in the anthropology department at Brown will enable her to further this research agenda.

During her stay, she will be working with Nicholas Townsend on a project that examines the organization of domestic groups and potential effects on reproduction and well-being in rural South Africa. This work will entail both quantitative analysis and qualitative data collection through fieldwork. In addition, she will pursue her other interests which include aging, social networks and fertility change in Africa.

Sangeetha's publications include 1) Madhavan, S. and A. Diarra. "The Blood that Links: Menstrual Regulation Among the Bambara of Mali." Forthcoming in Etienne van de Walle and Elisha Renne (eds.) No Menses, No Births. University of Chicago Press; and 2) A.Adams, S. Madhavan and D. Simon. "Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Health Outcomes in Mali." Forthcoming in IUSSP volume on Gender Inequalities and Reproductive Health.