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Colloquiums from 2004
"Ñuiñe: An Undeciphered Script from Southwestern Mesoamerica" Dr. Javier Urcid, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University Between the 2nd and the 9th centuries A.C.E., writing was used in what are today parts of the modern states of Oaxaca and Puebla, Mexico. The script, seemingly derived from an earlier scribal tradition centered in the Valley of Oaxaca, appears to be logo-syllabic. The strong logographic component may have enhanced communication in a multi-linguistic context, as that part of Mesoamerica is today a linguistic mosaic. The script is used to discuss issues concerning methods of decipherment and semiotic approaches aimed at reading an extinct cultural code. Lecture presented by Department of Anthropology and the Latin American Studies Program. "Blacks and Latinos in the Nuevo New South" Dr. Raymond Mohl, Department of History, University of Alabama-Birmingham Lecture presented by the Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies, the LASP and the Department of History "2nd Year Graduate Summer Experience" "Tuberculosis in Ancient West Mexico: Species-specific Epidemiological Consideration" Dr. Laura Cahue, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina "Discourses of Persecution" Dr. Jennifer Reynolds, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina "Brain Disorders and Anomalies in Human Evolution" Dr. Daniel Buxhoeveden, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina "Diet, Nutrition and Health in an Early Post-Conquest Era Cemetery Population in the Teotihuacan Valley." Dr. Laura Cahue, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina Dr. T. H. Charlton, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa C. Otis, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa "Medical Anthropology in Siberia - Title TBA" Dr. Mark Sorensen, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill "Stable Isotope Applications in Archaeology and Paleoclimate Analysis" Dr. Fred Andrus, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia "Reconciling Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Residue Analysis Effectively" Dr. Deborah Keene, SCIAA - University of South Carolina "Lipids are a Slippery Business: Using Pottery Residue Analysis Effectively." Dr. Eleanora A. Reber, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina - Wilmington "Narratives for Nanotech: Anthropological Insights for Anticipating Public Reactions to Nanotechnology" Dr. Christopher Toumey, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina Abstract: Nanotechnology is both an important scientific field and a classic problem of polysemic symbols: it will strongly affect our lives, but it means many different things to different groups of people. As we try to anticipate how nonexperts will understand nanotech and react to it, we can make good use of some insights from cultural anthropology. Three kinds of insights are particularly germane: Malinowski's commentary on myth-telling, the research agenda of public cultures of science, and Rosenberg's views on science and American values. These can help us see how nanotechnology comprises a system of symbols which intersects with cultural meanings and values. Colloquiums from 2006 Colloquiums from 2005 Colloquiums from 2003 Colloquiums from 2002 Colloquiums from 2001
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