Anthropology

Chris Beekman of the Department of Anthropology worked with colleagues from the Museum of Northern Arizona and El Colegio de Michoacan to reconstruct changing lake levels and their relationship to patterns in archaeological settlement in the Magdalena Lake Basin, Jalisco, Mexico. Magdalena Lake was drained in the 20th century, and...

Christopher Beekman has published a long chapter with his colleagues on "Structure and History in the Americas: Closed and Interconnected?" in Harvard's History of the World series. The chapter occurs in the sixth and final volume of the series to be published, Entangled Worlds: 600–1350 , edited by Daniel G...

Dr. Sarah Horton from the CU Denver Department of Anthropology, published an article in Social Science Medicine examining how public hospital staff in a “new immigrant destination” in Colorado’s mountain resort area conceptualized recent Latinx arrivals as a “threat” to the hospital's finances and image, implementing spatializing strategies to keep...

This in-person and virtual event includes presentations in Spanish and English from over a dozen contributors to the set of four books called Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North America.

Dr. Otañez (anthropology) and Dr. Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México published a co-edited collection of four books Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North America. The books cover activism, public/private spaces, storytelling, film, television, imagery, and music. CISAN is...