Curriculum Vitae
Lawrence A. Kuznar, Ph.D.
Current Status/Address
Professor of Anthropology, Chair
Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Director, Decision Sciences and Theory Institute
Indiana University - Purdue University at Fort Wayne
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46805
Work: (219) 481-6668; e-mail: [email protected]
Education
Ph.D. - 1990, Anthropology, Northwestern University
M.S. - 1990, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University
M.A. - 1985, Anthropology, Northwestern University
B.A. - 1984, Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University
Previous Academic Positions
Research Associate 1987-1988, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology,
Pennsylvania State University.
Scholarships and Awards
NAACSOS (North American Association Computational Social and Organizational Science)
Best Paper Award, 2005.
MACT (Mathematical Anthropology and Culture Theory) Award, 2005.
Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Helmke Library Special Needs Grant, Archaeological
Method and Theory 2003.
Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Helmke Library Special Needs Grant, Native South
Americans 2001.
Sigma Xi, IPFW Chapter, Special Research Award 1997.
George Roberts Award for Best Publication in 1996, Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences,
1997.
Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Helmke Library Special Needs Grant, Native
Americans 1997.
Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Summer Faculty Grants, 1994, 1995.
Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Institute on Integrating Gender Scholarship Award,
May 1992.
University Fellowship, Mellon Foundation, Northwestern University 1988 - 1990
University Scholarship, Northwestern University 1985-1986
University Fellowship, Northwestern University 1984-1985
Graduated with Honors and Distinction, The Pennsylvania State University 1984
Golden Key National Honor Society 1982-1984
Professional Organizations
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NAACSOS (North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science)
American Anthropological Association
Society for Anthropological Sciences
Central States Anthropological Society
Society for Economic Anthropology
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Phi Kappa Phi
Teaching Experience
Professor of Anthropology, Indiana - Purdue University at Fort Wayne 2001-present
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Indiana - Purdue University at Fort Wayne 1996-2000
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Indiana - Purdue University at Fort Wayne 1991-1996
Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana - Purdue University at Fort Wayne 1990-1991
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Anthropology and Math Methods in the Social
Sciences Programs 1985-1990
Tutor, Northwestern Athletics Department 1989-1990
Grader, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Statistics 1987
Lecturer, Loyola University - Water Tower Campus 1987
Administrative Experience
Interim Chair, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University – Purdue University, Fort
Wayne 2006-2007
Director, Decision Sciences and Theory Institute, Indiana - Purdue University at Fort Wayne
2005-present
Director, Native American Studies Certificate Program, Indiana - Purdue University at Fort
Wayne 1996-present
Coordinator, Anthropology Program, Indiana - Purdue University at Fort Wayne 1998 - 1999
Courses Taught
Ecology and Culture
Economic Anthropology
North American Indians
Primatology
South American Indians
Bioanthropology
European Ethnography
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Origins
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Medical Anthropology
Andean Peoples
Publications - Books
2006, edited with Stephen Sanderson
Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy.
Pergamon Press, Boudler, Colorado.
2001
edited, Ethnoarchaeology in Andean South America: Contributions to Archaeological
Method and Theory. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor, MI.
1997
Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology. AltaMira Press, division of Sage, Walnut Grove,
CA.
1995
Awatimarka: The Ethnoarchaeology of an Andean Herding Community. Harcourt Brace,
Fort Worth, TX.
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Publications - Articles, Book Chapters
with Robert Sedlmeyer and Allyson Kreft
in press
NOMAD: An Agent-Based Model (ABM) of Pastoralist/Agriculturalist Interaction. In
The Archaeology of Mobility Nomads in the Old and in the New World. Edited by Hans
Barnard, Cotsen Institute, University of California, Los Angeles.
with Kenneth Long
in press
Deductive-Nomological vs. Causal-Mechanistic Explanation: Relative Strengths and
Weaknesses in Anthroplogical Explanation. In Against the Tides: Critical Perspectives
on the Study of Human-Environment Interactions, ed. by Bonnie J. McCay, Susan Lees,
and C. Paige West.
in press
Altiplano Human Ecology/Altiplano Past. In Quelcatani: The Evolution of a Pastoral
Lifeway. edited by M. Aldenderfer, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
with James Lutz
2007
Risk Sensitivity and Terrorism. Political Studies 55(2):341-361.
2007
Rationality Wars and the War on Terror: Explaining Terrorism and Social Unrest.
American Anthropologist 109(2):318-329.
with William G. Frederick
2007 Simulating the Effect of Nepotism on Political Risk Taking and Social Unrest.
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 13:29-37.
with Stephen Sanderson
2006
Cultural Materialism: Potential and Challenges. In Studying Societies and Cultures:
Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy. Edited by Lawrence A. Kuznar
and Stephen Sanderson, pp. 1-19. Pergamon Press, Boudler, Colorado.
with William G. Frederick, and Robert Sedlmeyer
2006
Simulating the Evolution of Cultural Complexity. In Studying Societies and Cultures:
Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy. Edited by Lawrence A. Kuznar
and Stephen Sanderson, pp. 168-179. Pergamon Press, Boudler, Colorado.
2006
Exploratory Modeling of Ensembles for Testing Decision Theory Paradigms. In
Proceedings of the AGENT 2006 Conference: Social Agents: Results and Prospects. D.L.
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Sallach, C.M. Macal, and M.J. North, eds. Pp. 157-166. Chicago, Illinois: Argonne
National Laboratory http://www.agent2005.anl.gov.
with Nicholas Kobelja
2006 Validating Social Simulations: A Case of Political Alliances in Tribal New Guinea.
Proceedings of the NAACSOS (North American Association for Computational Social
and Organizational Science) 2006 Annual Conference.
with Robert Jeske
2006 Analogic Reasoning, Ethnoarchaeology, And The Impact Of Canines On The
Archaeological Record. In Integrating Diversity of the 21st Century Anthropology: The
Life and Intellectual Legacies of Susan Kent. Edited by Wendy Ashmore, Marcia-Anne
Dobres, Nelson, Sarah, and Arlene Rosen, Society for American Anthropology,
Washington, D.C.
with James Toole, and Nicholas Kobelja,
2006 Emergent Agents and the Simulation of Political Unrest: Application to Palestinian
Political Coalitions. Proceedings of the AGENT 2005 Conference: Generative Social
Theory http://www.agent2005.anl.gov/2005pdf/Kuznar%20et%20al.pdf.
2006. High Fidelity Computational Social Science in Anthropology: Prospects for Developing a
Comparative Framework. Social Science Computer Review 24:1-15
with Robert Sedlmeyer
2005. Collective Violence in Darfur: An Agent-based Model of Pastoral Nomad/Sedentary
Peasant Interaction. Mathematical Anthropology and Culture Theory 1:1-22
www.mathematicalanthropology.org
with William Frederick
2005 Simulating the Effect of Nepotism on Political Risk Taking and Social Unrest
Proceedings of the NAACSOS (North American Association for Computational Social
and Organizational Science) Annual Conference.
with William Frederick,
2003 Environmental Constraints and Sigmoid Utility: Implications for Value, Risk Sensitivity,
and Social Status. Ecological Economics 46:293-306.
2003
Sacred Sites and Profane Conflicts: The Use of Burial Facilities and Other Sacred
Locations as Territorial Markers - Ethnographic Evidence. In Theory, Method and
Technique in Modern Archaeology, edited by Robert Jeske and Douglas Charles, pp. 269286, Praeger, Westport, CT.
2003
Manuel, Apprentice Yatiri. In Personal Encounters: A Reader in Cultural Anthropology,
edited by Waldbridge, Linda S., and Aprill K. Sievert, pp. 122-126. McGraw-Hill,
Boston.
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2002
Risk Prone Peasants: Cultural Transmission, or Sigmoid Utility Maximization? Current
Anthropology 43(5):787-789.
with Oswald Werner
2002 Ethnographic Mapmaking: Part 3 - Mapping on a Grid with Squares. Field Methods (in
press).
2002
Comment on "Rousseau's Whale Hunt? Coordination among Big-Game Hunters".
Current Anthropology 43(5):550-551.
2002
Evolutionary Applications of Risk Sensitivity Models to Socially Stratified Species:
Comparison of Sigmoid, Concave and Linear Functions. Evolution and Human Behavior
23(4):265-280.
2002
Highland Andean Terminal Late Archaic. In Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 7,
edited by P. Peregrine, pp. 235-252, HRAF, New Haven, CT.
2002
Symbioses among Navajo Herders, Plants, and Livestock, In Ethnobiology and
Biocultural Diversity: Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of
Ethnobiology. Edited by J. R. Stepp, F. S. Wyndham, and R. K. Zarger, pp. 464-477.
International Society of Ethnobiology and University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia.
with Robert Jeske,
2001 Canine Digging behavior as an Archaeological Site Formation Process, Journal of Field
Archaeology 28:383-394.
with Michael Alvard,
2001 Deferred Harvests: The Transition from Hunting to Animal Husbandry. American
Anthropologist 103(2):295-311.
2001
Risk Sensitivity and Value among Andean Pastoralists: Measures, Models and Empirical
Tests. Current Anthropology 42(3):432-440.
2001
Reply to Henrich’s On Risk Preferences and Curvilinear Utility Curves. Current
Anthropology 42(5):711-713.
2001
Ecological Mutualism in Navajo Corrals: Implications for Navajo Environmental
Perceptions and Human/Plant Coevolution. Journal of Anthropological Research
57(1):17-39.
with Oswald Werner
2001 Ethnographic Mapmaking: Part 2 - Practical Concerns and Triangulation. Field Methods
13(3):291-296.
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with Oswald Werner
2001 Ethnographic Mapmaking: Part 1 - Principles. Field Methods 13(2):204-213.
2001
Introduction to Andean Ethnoarchaeology. In Ethnoarchaeology in Andean South
America: Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory. edited by L. Kuznar, pp.
1-18. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor.
2001
An Introduction to Andean Religious Ethnoarchaeology: Preliminary Results and Future
Directions. In Ethnoarchaeology in Andean South America: Contributions to
Archaeological Method and Theory. edited by L. Kuznar, pp. 38-66. International
Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor.
2000
Application of General Utility Theory for Estimating Value in Non-Western Societies.
Journal of Field Methods 14(4):334-345.
1999
The Inca Empire: Detailing the Complexities of Core/Periphery Interaction. In
Leadership, Production, and Exchange: World Systems Theory. edited by Nick P.
Kardulias, pp. 223-240. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Boulder, CO.
1999
Traditional Pastoralism and Development: A Comparison of Aymara and Navajo
Grazing Ecology. In Ethnoecology: Knowledge, Resources and Rights. edited by Ted L.
Gragson and Ben Blount, pp. 74-89. University of Georgia Press, Athens.
1997
Navajo/Western Science Perspectives on Range Plant Usefulness: Similarities and
Differences. Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Proceedings, 1996 31:89-98.
1996
Carrots and Sticks in an Andean World System: Inca Core/Periphery Interactions.
Journal of World Systems Research 2(9):1-28.
http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html
1995
Aymara Herding Practices in Peru and their Effects on the Environment: The Interaction
of Perception, Politics, and the Land. Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences
Proceedings, 1994 26:62-69.
1994
Pastoreo en las Sierras Altas de la Zona Centro Surandina: El Caso de Moquegua, Peru.
[Pastoralism in the High Sierra of the South Central Andes: The Case of Moquegua,
Peru]. Diálogo Andino 13:57-64.
1993
Mutualism between Chenopodium, Herd Animals and Herders in the South Central
Andes. Mountain Research and Development 13(3):257-265.
1991
Herd Composition in an Aymara Community of the Peruvian Altiplano as a Linear
Programming Problem. Human Ecology 19:369-387.
1991
El Medio Ambiente y La Capacidad de Carga de la Sierra Alta de los Andes Sur Central
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en el Departamento de Moquegua, Perú. [Environment and Carrying Capacity of the
South Central Andean High Sierra of the Department of Moquegua, Peru]. Diálogo
Andino 10:100-112.
1991
Transhumant Pastoralism in the High Sierra of the South Central Andes: Human
Responses to Environmental and Social Uncertainty. Nomadic Peoples 28:93-104.
1991
Mathematical Models of Pastoral Production and Herd Composition in Traditional
Andean Herds. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 3(1):1-17.
1990
Pastoralismo Temprano en la Sierra Alta del Departamento de Moquegua, Perú. [Early
Herding in the High Sierra of the Department of Moquegua, Peru] Chungará 24/25:5368.
1989
The Domestication of South American Camelids: Models and Evidence. In Ecology,
Settlement and History in the Osmore Basin, Peru. edited by Don S. Rice, Charles
Stanish, and Phillip Scarr, pp. 167-182. British Archaeological Reports International
Series 545, Oxford.
Book Reviews, Newsletters, other Publications
2003
Book Review of Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of
Andean Camelid Herding. Routledge, London 2002 for Antiquity 77(297):638-640.
2003
Book Review of Ethnoarchaeology in Action, by Nicholas David and Carol Kramer,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001 for American Antiquity 68(3):600-601.
contributed to: Gross, Daniel, and Plattner, Stuart
2002 Anthropology as Social Work: Collaborative Models of Anthropological Research.
Anthropology News (November) 43(8):4.
1999
Book Review of Rites of Passage in Contemporary Africa: Interaction between
Christian and African Traditional Religions, edited by James L. Cox, Cardiff Academic
Press 1998, for Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38(1):185.
1998
Book Review of At the Desert's Green Edge: An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima by
Amadeo M. Rea, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1997 for Nahua Newsletter 26:2526.
1995
Book Review of Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture. by Izumi Shimada, University
of Texas Press, Austin, TX 1994. for Nahua Newsletter 19:5-7.
1993
Book Review of Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa. by John
Janzen, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992. For Journal for the Sociological
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Study of Religion 32: 427.
1992
Book Review of Paracas Art and Architecture: Object and Context in South Coastal
Peru. edited by Anne Paul, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 1991. for Nahua
Newsletter 14: 7-8.
1990
Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Pastoral Sites in the Department of Moquegua,
Peru. Willay 34:5-7.
Presented Papers
2007
The Use of Computer Modeling For Overcoming the Limits of Formalization, Paper
presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Anthropological Sciences
(SASci), San Antonio, TX February 23, 2007.
with Christine L. Kuznar,
2007 A Comparison of Adolescent Puberty Rites And College Athletic Initiations, Paper
presented at the Society for Cross Cultural Research, 2007 Annual Meeting, February 22,
2007, San Antonio, TX.
2006
Exploratory Modeling of Ensembles for Testing Decision Theory Paradigms.
Proceedings of the AGENT 2006 Conference: Social Agents: Results and Prospects.
Chicago, IL, September 22, 2006.
with Nicholas Kobelja
2006 Validating Social Simulations: A Case of Political Alliances in Tribal New Guinea.
Paper Presented at the 2006 NAACSOS (North American Association for Computational
Social and Organizational Science, Notre Dame University, June 24, 2006.
with Nicholas Kobelja
2006 Simulating Tribal Politics: An Agent-based Model of Kapaukuan Bigman Coalition
Building . Paper Presented at the 2nd Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci)
Meeting, February 24 – 26, 2006, Savannah, GA
2006
What Can We Do? The Problem of Precision in Anthropology. Paper presented at the 2nd
Annual Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci) Meetings, February 24-26, 2006,
Savannah, Georgia.
with James Toole, and Nicholas Kobelja.
2005 Emergent Agents and the Simulation of Political Unrest: Application to Palestinian
Political Coalitions. Paper presented in the AGENT 2005 Conference, Chicago, Illinois,
October 15, 2005.
with William Frederick
2005 Simulating the Effect of Nepotism on Political Risk Taking and Social Unrest
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NAACSOS (North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational
Science) Annual Conference 2005, June 26-28, Notre Dame
with William Frederick and Robert Sedlmeyer
2005 Agent Based Models of Risk Sensitivity: Applications to Social Unrest, Collective
Violence and Terrorism. 3rd Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems,
Lake Arrowhead, California, May 18-22, 2005.
with Robert Sedlmeyer and Allyson Kreft,
2005 NOMAD: Simulating the Coevolution of Pastoral and Agricultural Societies. Paper
Presented at Central States Anthropological Society Meeting, March 10 to March 12,
2005, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
with Robert Sedlmeyer, and Allyson Kreft,
2005 NOMAD: Simulating Cooperation and Conflict Between Nomads and Sedentaries. Paper
Presented at Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci) First General Scholarly
Meeting, February 23 to February 27, 2005, Santa Fe, NM, February 25, 2005.
with Robert J. Jeske
2004 Analogic Reasoning, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Impact of Canines on the Archaeological
Record. Paper presented as part of Symposium at the Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, April 1, 2004, Montreal.
2004
Spatio-temporal Variation in Resource Availability and Settlement in the Northeastern
Woodlands of North America. Paper presented at the Central States Anthropological
Society 81st annual meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 16, 2004.
with Kenneth Long
2003 Deductive-Nomological vs. Causal-Machanistic Explanation: Relative Strengths and
Weaknesses in Anthroplogical Explanation. Paper presented as part of Symposium
Explaining War, Evolution, and Environmental Change: Exploirations of Themes and
Issues Raised by A.P. Vayda, 102nd Annual American Anthropological Association
Meetings, Nov. 22, 2003, Chicago.
2003
Decision Making and Class Structure: Mathematical Formulation and Empirical Tests.
Paper Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological
Society, April 19, 2003, Louisville, KY.
2002
Evolutionary Theory and Harris’ Cultural Materialism: A Necessary Divide? Paper
Presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
November 20, 2002, New Orleans as part of symposium Marvin Harris and the
Controversy surrounding Cultural Materialism: Retrospective and Future Potential.
2002
Chair, Symposium, Marvin Harris and the Controversy surrounding Cultural
Materialism: Retrospective and Future Potential. 101st Annual Meeting of the American
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Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 20-24, 2002.
with Alan P. Sandstrom,
2002 Organized Symposium, Marvin Harris and the Controversy surrounding Cultural
Materialism: Retrospective and Future Potential. 79th Annual Meeting of the Central
States Anthropological Society, March 7-10, 2002, Michigan State, East Lansing,
Michigan.
2002
Evolutionary Theory and Harris’ Cultural Materialism: A Necessary Divide? Paper
Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society,
March 7-10, 2002 as part of symposium Marvin Harris and the Controversy surrounding
Cultural Materialism: Retrospective and Future Potential.
2001
Risk Sensitivity and Class: A Mathematical Analysis. Paper presented at the 78th Annual
meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society Meetings, March 30, Lexington,
KY.
2000
Symbiosis Among Navajo Herders, Plants, and Livestock. Paper Presented at the 7th
International Society of Ethnobiology Meetings, Oct. 23-27, 2000, Athens, Georgia.
2000
The Logic of Andean Sacrifice. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled CrossCultural Theology. At the 77th Annual meeting of the Central States Anthropological
Society Meetings, April 22, 2000, Bloomington, IN.
2000
The Ethnoarchaeology of Indigenous Andean Religious Beliefs. Paper Presented at the
28th Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory,
Fort Wayne, IN Feb. 27, 2000.
1999
Flexibility in Navajo Pastoral Land Use: An Historical Perspective. Paper presented as
part of a symposium entitled The Ecology of Herding: Environmental and Social Aspects
of Pastoral Strategies, 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Nov. 17, 1999, Chicago, IL.
1999
Flexibility in Navajo Pastoral Land Use: An Historical Perspective. Paper presented as
part of a symposium entitled The Ecology of Herding: Environmental and Social Aspects
of Herding, at the 76th Annual meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society,
Friday, April 16, 1999, Chicago, IL.
1999
Altiplano Human Ecology/Altiplano Past. Paper presented as part of Symposium
Quelcatani: The Emergence and Transformation of a Pastoral Lifeway in the Lake
Titicaca Basin, at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Chicago, IL March 26, 1999. 3/24-28.
1998
Navajo Responses to Drought. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the
Central States Anthropological Society, Kansas City, MO, April 3, 1998.
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1997
organized symposium, Anthropological Science: Definitions and Introspections, at the
96th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Meetings, November
23, 1997, Washington, D.C.
1997
Anthropological Science, Definitions and Reality. Paper Presented in Symposium,
Anthropological Science: Definitions and Introspections, at the 96th Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association Meetings, November 23, 1997, Washington,
D.C.
1997
organized symposium, Science in Anthropology - Late 20th Century Debates, at the 74th
Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society Meetings, April 3-6, 1997,
Milwaukee, WI.
1997
Anthropological Science, Definitions and Reality. Paper Presented in Symposium,
Science in Anthropology - Late 20th Century Debates, at the 74th Annual Meeting of the
Central States Anthropological Society Meetings, April 3-6, 1997, Milwaukee, WI.
1996
Navajo/Western Science Perspectives on Range Plant Usefulness: Similarities and
Differences. Paper presented at the 1996 Indiana Academy of Social Sciences Meeting,
October 11, 1996, Indiana University, Kokomo, IN.
1996
What People Say and What People Do: A Central Dilemma for Anthropology, Or
Archaeology to the Rescue! Paper presented at Symposium, Shrive Yourself!:
Archaeological Emendations of Social Theory, at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society
for American Archaeology, New Orleans, April 10-14, 1996.
1995
Periphery/Core Relations in the Inca Empire: Carrots and Sticks in an Andean World
System. Paper Presented at Invited Symposium, Leadership, Production and Exchange:
An Evaluation of World Systems Theory in a Global Context, at the 94th Annual Meeting
of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 15-19, Washington, D.C.
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1995
The "Roll" of Dogs in Archaeological Site Formation Processes: It's the Pits. Paper
Presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, May 37, Minneapolis, MN.
1995
The Inca Empire as an Andean World System: An Evaluation. Paper presented at the
World Systems Symposium, 72nd Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological
Society Meeting, March 9-12, Indianapolis, IN.
1994
The Effects of Grazing, Competition, and Land Tenure on Environmental Degradation
and Floristic Composition: A Case among the Aymara of Southern Peru. Paper
Presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Meeting, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 1994, Atlanta, GA.
1994
Aymara Herding Practices in Peru and Their Effects on the Environment: The
Interaction of Perception, Politics and the Land. Paper Presented at the 1994 Meeting of
the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Butler University, Indianapolis, October 21,
1994.
1994
The Pastoral Core and the Herded Periphery: World Systems Theory, Pastoral
Metaphors and Inca Expansion. Paper Presented at the 22nd Midwest Conference on
Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, February 26, 1994, Ann Arbor,
MI.
1993
Disputed Pastures: Ethnicity and Conflict Among Andean Pastoralists. Paper Presented
at the 68th Central States Anthropological Society Meetings as part of the Symposium,
Ethnic Identity and the Clash of Cultures, March 19-21, Beloit, WI.
with Alan Sandstrom,
1993 Organized Symposium, Ethnic Identity and the Clash of Cultures, 68th Central States
Anthropological Society Meetings, March 19-21, Beloit, WI.
1993
Pastoral/Chenopodium Mutualism and the Early Domestication of Quinua:
Ethnoarchaeological Evidence. Paper Presented at the 21st Midwest Conference on
Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, February 27, 1993, St. Louis,
MO.
1992
Violence among Aymara Herders: Social Structure, Kinship and Resources. Paper
Presented at the 1992 Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, April 24,
1992, Ft. Wayne, IN.
1992
The Ethnoarchaeology of Andean Ritual Sites: A View from Moquegua, Peru. Paper
Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Pittsburgh, PA, April 11, 1992.
1992
Risk Aversion among Andean Pastoralists. Paper Presented at the 69th Annual Meeting
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of the Central States Anthropological Society, Cleveland, OH, March 20, 1992.
1991
The Faunal Record of Andean Pastoral Sites. Paper Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, April 23-28.
1991
The Effect of Slaughter Strategies, Mobility, and Dogs on Faunal Assemblages from
Transhumant Pastoral Camps in the South Central Andes. Paper Presented at 8th Annual
Visiting Scholar's Conference, From Bones to Behavior, April 12-13, Carbondale, IL.
1991
Faunal Attributes of Andean Pastoral Sites: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective. Paper
Presented at the 18th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian
Archaeology and Ethnohistory, February 23-24, 1991, Bloomington, IN.
1990
Llamas, Dogs, and Herders: Trading Freedom for Reproductive Success. Paper
Presented at the 6th Annual Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Conference, May 2125, 1990, Washington, D.C.
1990
Late Archaic Llama Herding in the High Sierra of the South Central Andes. Paper
Presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April
20, 1990, Las Vegas.
1990
Decision Making Among Transhumant Pastoralists in the South Central Andes. Paper
Presented at the 66th Annual Central States Anthropological Society Meetings, March 20
- April 2, 1990, Cincinnati.
1990
Ethnoarchaeology of High Sierra Pastoralists in the South Central Andes. Paper
Presented at the 18th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian
Archaeology and Ethnohistory, February 24-25, 1990, Chicago.
1987
Asana: An Open-Air, Multi-Component Archaic Period Site in the South Central Andes.
Paper Presented at the 52nd Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology,
May 9, 1987, Toronto.
1986
An Examination of Sedentism in the Late Archaic of the Northeastern United States.
Paper Presented at the 51st Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology,
April 24, 1987, New Orleans.
1984
A Prehistoric Settlement Survey in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Paper Presented at the
35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, May 11-13, State
College.
Unpublished Manuscripts
2000 Report on Sites Affiliated with Asaa bitł'izi łizhini - Lady Black Goat in Shonto, Navajo
Nation. Report submitted to Navajo Nation Department of Historic Preservation, Window Rock,
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AZ. 3/14/00
1997
Preliminary Report of Investigations on Navajo Pastoral Ethnobotany in Shonto Chapter:
1997 Field Research. Report submitted to Shonto Chapter of the Navajo Nation.
1997
Preliminary Report of Investigations on Navajo Pastoral Ethnobotany: 1997 Field
Research. A Report Submitted to Navajo Nation Division of Historic Preservation.
1995
Preliminary Report of Investigations on Navajo Pastoral Ethnobotany in Shonto Chapter:
1994-1995 Field Research. Report submitted to Shonto Chapter of the Navajo Nation,
Oct. 8, 1995.
1995
Preliminary Report of Investigations on Navajo Pastoral Ethnobotany: 1995 Field
Research. A Report Submitted to Navajo Nation Division of Historic Preservation.
1995
Pike County Upland Archaeology - A Summary View. Report Submitted to Blooming
Grove Hunting and Fishing Club, Hawley, PA, 5/1/1995.
1994
Preliminary Report of Investigations on Navajo Pastoral Ethnobotany: 1994 Field
Research. A Preliminary Report Submitted to Shonto Chapter and Navajo Nation
Division of Historic Preservation.
1991
Ganadería Temprana en la Sierra Alta del Departamento de Moquegua, Perú. [Early
Herding in the High Sierra of the Department of Moquegua, Peru] Report made to the
Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Moquegua, Peru.
1991
El Medio Ambiente y La Capacidad de Carga de la Sierra Alta de los Andes Sur Central
en el Departamento de Moquegua, Perú. [Environment and Carrying Capacity of the
South Central Andean High Sierra of the Department of Moquegua, Peru]. Report filed
with Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF), Arica, Chile.
1991
Pastoreo de las Cabras en las Sierras Altas de los Andes Sur Central: El Caso de
Moquegua, Perú. [Goat Herding in the High Sierra of the South Central Andes: The
Case of Moquegua, Peru]. Report filed with Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF),
Arica, Chile.
1990
Economic Models, Ethnoarchaeology, and Early Herding in the High Sierra of the South
Central Andes. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1987
The Development of Pastoralism in the South Central Andes: Ethnographic Models and
Archaeological Consequences. Dissertation Proposal, Northwestern University.
1986
The Development of Sedentism in the South Central Andes, Ph.D. Qualifying Exam
Paper, Northwestern University.
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1985
An Examination of Sedentism in the Late Archaic of the Northeastern United States.
Masters Qualifying Exam Paper, Northwestern University.
1984
An Archaeological Site Survey of the Shohola Cr. Watershed. Bachelors Honors Thesis,
The Pennsylvania State University.
Works in Progress
Risk Taking and Alliance Formation among the Kapauku of Highland New Guinea: Tests of
Competing Decision Models with Computer Simulation. To be submitted to Current
Anthropology.
Flexibility in Navajo Pastoral Land Use: An Historical Perspective. In The Ecology of Herding:
Environmental and Social Aspects of Herding, edited by P. Nick Kardulias and Mark Shutes.
with Ted L. Gragson,
The Distribution of Hunting Skill and Its Relation to Male Status in Hunter-Gatherer Societies.
Field Experience
1994 - present Conducted ethnobotanical research among traditional Navajo herders on
Navajo Reservation
1993 - Conducted preliminary investigations of Navajo botany
1991 - Conducted ethnoarchaeological and ethnographic investigations of Peruvian
Aymara herding communities. Preliminary research in Argentina.
1989 - Field Assistant, Northwestern University Archaic Project, Department of
Moquegua, Peru. Directed ethnoarchaeological, environmental and ethnographic
research concerning pastoral economy, and fieldschool.
1987 - Field Assistant, Northwestern University Archaic Project, Department of
Moquegua, Peru. Excavations at Asana and ethnoarchaeological research, and
fieldschool.
1986 - Field Assistant, Northwestern University Archaic Project, Department of
Moquegua, Peru. Survey and testing of preceramic sites, and fieldschool.
1985-1988 - Field Assistant, Northwestern University Survey Contracts, Northern
Illinois.
1983 - Student Excavator, The Pennsylvania State University Field School, Copan,
Honduras. Excavation examination of human skeletal remains for pathology.
1980-1983 - Honors Research, The Pennsylvania State University. Survey, testing, and
excavation of prehistoric sites in northeastern Pennsylvania.
1978-1980 - Excavation and testing of upland sites in northeastern Pennsylvania.
References
Ted L. Gragson, Ph.D.
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Department of Anthropology
University of Georgia - Athens
Athens, GA 30602
706/542-1460
Mark Aldenderfer, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
University of California - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805/873-8604
Alan Sandstrom, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology-Anthropology
Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
219/481-6676
Oswald Werner, Ph.D.
(retired Northwestern University)
2880 Bushwood NE
Alubquerque, NM 87122
505/828-1503
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