Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Events

March 2008

Title	Date & Time	Location	Description
Indians or Terrorists: How Chilean Elites Define Indigenous People in the Global Economy Patricia Richards Department of Sociology, University of Georgia	March 31, 2008 12:00 PM-1:00 PM	231 Burdine
Demographic Transitions in Modernity Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, PhD. University of California, Berkeley	March 26, 2008 12:00 PM	EPS 1.128	Jennifer Johnson-Hanks is a potential senior hire for the Department of Anthropology.
Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and human Rights in Chiapas Dr. Shannon Speed Anthropology Department, University of Texas	March 20, 2008 12:00 PM	Hackett Room, SRH 1.313	Rights in Rebellion examines the global discourse of human rights and its influence on the local culture, identity, and forms of resistance. Through a multi-sited ethnography of various groups in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico— from paramilitaries to a Zapatista community, an indigenous human rights organization, and the Zapatista Good Governance Councils—the book explores how different groups actively engage with the discourse of rights, adapting it to their own individual subjectivities and goals, and develop new forms of resistance to the neoliberal model and its particular configurations of power. Far from being a traditional community study, this book instead follows the discourse of human rights and indigenous rights through their various manifestations. The author offers a compelling argument for the importance of a critical engagement between the anthropologist and her “subjects,” passionately making the case for activist research and demonstrating how such an engagement will fortify and enliven academic research.
Micromammals and paleoenvironment of a Late Pliocene Archeological locality, Hadar AL894, Afar Region Ethiopia Dr. Denne Reed Department of Anthropology, University of Texas	March 19, 2008 4:00 PM-5:00 PM	EPS 1.128
Variation in Chest Staining as a Signal of Testosterone in Adult Male Verreaux’s Sifaka Rebecca Lewis, PhD. University of Texas, Department of Anthroplolgy	March 5, 2008 4:00 PM-5:00 PM	EPS 1.128
Men Who Kill The Problem of Masculinity and the Murder of Women in Juarez Cecilia Balli PhD. Candidate, Rice University	March 3, 2008 12:00 PM-1:00 PM	EPS 1.128	Cecilia Balli is a candidate for an Assistant Professor Position in the Department of Anthropology.