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Department of Anthropology
semester report
sprING 2013

Faculty
Asad Ahmed*
Associate Professor
Ofer Bar-Yosef*
Professor
Anya Bernstein*
Assistant Professor
Theodore C. Bestor
Professor
Davíd Carrasco
Professor
Lucien Castaing Taylor*
Professor
Steve Caton
Professor
Jean Comaroff
Professor
John Comaroff
Professor
Peter Der Manuelian
Professor
William L. Fash*
Professor
Rowan Flad
Professor
Byron Good
Professor
Susan Greenhalgh
Professor
Nicholas Harkness
Assistant Professor
Michael Herzfeld*
Professor
Arthur Kleinman*
Professor
C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
Professor
Matthew Liebmann
Associate Professor
Department of anthropology | harvarD University
Faculty + Staff
Richard H. Meadow
Senior Lecturer
Jeffrey Quilter
Senior Lecturer
Laurence Ralph*
Assistant Professor
Mary Steedly
Professor
Ajantha Subramanian
Professor
Kimberly Theidon
Associate Professor
Jason Ur
Associate Professor
Gary Urton
Professor
*on leave Spring 2013
VIsItING
Faculty
Patricia Capone
Lecturer
Jennifer Carballo
College Fellow
Kerry Chance
Faculty Fellow
Edward Akintola Hubbard
College Fellow
Ernst Karel
Lecturer
Catalina Laserna
Lecturer
Andrea Murray
Lecturer
Brian Stewart
College Fellow
Emily Stokes-Rees
Lecturer
emerItus
Faculty
Sally Falk Moore
Stanley J. Tambiah
James Watson
Nur Yalman
staFF
Robert Ackert
Lab Manager
Judith Butler-Vincent
Staff Assistant
Andrew Cepeda
Financial Assistant
Susan Farley
Staff Assistant
Marianne Fritz
Graduate Program
Administrator
Marilyn Goodrich
Faculty Assistant
Ernst Karel
Lab Manager
Monica Munson
Director of Administration
Cris Paul
Staff Assistant
Elizabeth Rew
Undergraduate Program
Coordinator
Karen Santospago
Communications Coordinator
Gilmore Tamny
Administrative Coordinator

Gary Urton, Chair
Chair’s Letter
Dear Friends of the Harvard University Department of Anthropology:
It is with pleasure that I write to you near the end of the Spring semester, 2013, in
celebration both of the Spring season and with a report of a highly successful 2012-
2013 academic year. On the following pages we highlight some of the goings-on
around the department this past term and offer an optimistic prospection on the
up-coming Fall term – and beyond.
I am especially pleased to announce that the Graduate Policy Council of the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has approved our proposal for a Secondary
Field in Anthropology at the Ph.D. level. Through this program of studies, effective
this Fall, 2013, students enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences may achieve formal recognition for completing a secondary
field in Anthropology. We expect that this new program of studies will provide a
welcomed opportunity for students from around Harvard’s many departments and
special studies programs to engage at a significant level with course work in social
anthropology and/or archaeology.
We continued this year the series of Faculty Forums, which bring all members of the
faculty and staff together over catered lunches for short talks by a faculty member
from each of our programs, followed by engaging discussions among all present. In
February Nick Harkness and Carl Lamberg-Karlovsky gave presentations on the
topic “The Tradition of Areas Studies in Anthropology (Moving Forward).” In April
Mary Steedly and Rowan Flad planned to make presentations and get the discussion
underway on the topic: “Circulation: From Local to Global Perspectives in 21st
Century Anthropology;” however this event had to be cancelled due to the city-wide
lock-down following the tragic Boston Marathon bombings.
Construction on the Tozzer Anthropology building has commenced, and the building
is now practically unrecognizable. Girders are now rising to a new third floor,
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CHAiR’S LETTER CONTiNUED
which will be topped off by a copper-topped fourth floor. The renovated and expanded Tozzer
Anthropology building will become the new home for most of our social anthropologists (moving
down Divinity Avenue from their longtime home in William James Hall), with program, classroom
and common gathering spaces for the entire department. Furnishings are now being selected,
capping off a year of meetings of the Space Committee, composed of faculty and staff, engineers
and architects, and other interested parties. The construction schedule points to a Spring, 2014
completion, with occupancy in Summer 2014.
Exciting fieldwork continues to take place on the part of students and faculty across the globe,
from Africa to China, South America to Europe – and all points in between. Notable accomplishments
of several faculty members and graduate students are cited on the following pages.
My colleagues in the Department of Anthropology join me in sending you warm regards for the
Spring and Summer seasons as we look forward to the next academic year, 2013-2014.
Sincerely,
Gary Urton, Chair
Department of anthropology | harvarD University

Student Achievements
ARYO DANUSiRi
Aryo Danusiri’s film “The
Flaneurs #3” had its world
premier at the Rotterdam
International Film Festival.
ALEx FATTAL
Alex Fattal was chosen by
the The Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences to be
one of the eight inaugural
Horizon Scholars. Alex gave a
talk at the Harvard Horizons
Symposium titled “Guerrilla
Marketing: Information War
and the Demobilization of
FARC Rebels.”
JULiE KLEiNMAN
Julie Kleinman was
awarded the Society for the
Anthropology of Europe
Student Paper Prize at the
AAA in San Francisco.
HOOPES PRiZES
JASON SiLVERSTEiN
MSNBC featured a story
on Jason Silverstein’s course
“Race, Racism, and Quentin
Tarantino.”
J.P. SNiADECKi
J.P. Sniadecki’s film “People’s
Park” was featured in an
article in the New York Times
in March.
NiCO STERNSDORFF-
CiSTERNA
An article appeared in the
Harvard Gazette featuring Nico
Sternsdorff-Cisterna’s research
in Japan on food safety after the
3-11 nuclear disaster.
Aryo Danusiri
Alex Fattal
Katie Louise Gallogly-Swan “’Real’ Scottish: Emergent Voices in a Musical Community in Glasgow”
Advisor: Nicholas Harkness
Noah S. Guiney “Sounds of the Iranian Diaspora: Fusion Music and Exclusionary Practice in Canada’s City of Diversity”
Advisor: Steve Caton
Katherine Elida Warren “Coming of Age in the Epidemic: Suicide and Adolescence in a Tribal Nation”
Advisors: Hsuan-Ying Huang and Arthur Kleinman
ETHNiC STUDiES THESiS PRiZES
Jason Silverstein
J.P. Sniadeki
Julie Kleinman Nico Sternsdorff-Cisternia
Annemarie Elise Ryu “Culture in the Clinic: Hmong Americans’ Experiences Navigating Conflicting Prescriptions”
Advisors: Maria Stalford and Arthur Kleinman
Katherine Elida Warren “Coming of Age in the Epidemic: Suicide and Adolescence in a Tribal Nation”
Advisors: Hsuan-Ying Huang and Arthur Kleinman
THE EVON ZARTMAN VOGT, JR. PRiZE
Lillian Morgan Kivel “Education of the Excluded: Adoption of State Ideology in Schools for Children of Chinese Migrants in Beijing”
THE GLYNN LLYWELYN iSAAC PRiZE
Sydnie Renee Leroy “Rocks of Ages: A Use-Wear and Typological Analysis of the Groundstone Collection from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
at el-Hemmeh, Jordan”
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Anya Bernstein
Lucien Castaing Taylor
Jean Comaroff
John Comaroff
Kerry Chance Peter Der Manuelian
Department of anthropology | harvarD University
Faculty News
ANYA BERNSTEiN
Anya Bernstein has published
the article titled “An Inadvertent
Sacrifice: Body Politics and
Sovereign Power in the Pussy
Riot Affair” in Critical Inquiry.
Anya also presented the following
papers: “Trials and
Triangulations: Blasphemy and
Moral Injury in the Russian Art
Wars” at Princeton University;
“Cosmopolitanism Re-incarnate:
Crossing Bodies in Inter-Asia” at
the Association for Asian Studies
meeting in San Diego; “The
Refusal of Relation: Describing
the Science and Politics of Isolation”
at AAA; “New Directions
in Buddhist Studies” at Smith
College; “The Tulku Institution
in Tibetan Buddhism: Past,
Present, and Future Prospects
of the Reincarnation System” at
the University of San Francisco
and participated in an SSRC
Inter-Asian Connections Fellows
workshop.
LUCiEN CASTAiNG TAYLOR
Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s award
winning film “Leviathan”,
opened at the IFC in New York
in March and will continue
to run there and elsewhere
through the summer and
beyond. An article appeared in
the Harvard Gazette highlighting
the work of the Sensory
Ethnography Lab called “Harvard
filmmakers in Berlin.”
KERRY CHANCE
Kerry Chance has been awarded
a National Endowment
for the Humanities Award for
Summer 2013. Kerry consulted
for a documentary called
“Dear Mandela” directed by
Dara Kell and Christopher
Nizza. Also, Kerry’s advisee
in Social Studies, Dalumuzi
Mhlanga, has been awarded a
Rhodes Scholarship to study
social anthropology at Oxford.
JEAN COMAROFF
Jean Comaroff has been appointed
as the Alfred North
Whitehead Professor of
African and African American
Studies and of Anthropology.
JOHN COMAROFF
John Comaroff has been appointed
as the Hugh K. Foster
Professor of African and
African American Studies and
of Anthropology.
PETER DER MANUELiAN
Peter Der Manuelian received
a grant from the Elson Family
Arts Initiative for a new
course A2022: Picturing the
Past: An Introduction to Digital
Epigraphy and Archaeological
Illustration next fall. Peter
has had multiple write ups
for Giza 3-D on Forbes.com,
Newsweek, Fox News, the
Harvard Gazette and the the
New York Times.

ROWAN FLAD
Rowan Flad has published
the following books: Flad and
Pochan Chen (2013). Ancient
Central China: An Archaeological
Study of Centers and
Peripheries along the Yangzi
River. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press; and Liviu
Giosan, Dorian Q. Fuller,
Kathleen Nicoll, Rowan K.
Flad, Peter D. Clift, editors
(2012). Climates, Landscapes
and Civilizations. AGU
Geophysical Monograph Series,
Vol. 198. Washington, DC:
American Geophysical Union.
Rowan has been awarded a
fellowship at the Stanford
Humanities Center.
SUSAN GREENHALGH
An article appeared in the
Harvard Crimson on Susan
Greenhalgh’s course A1882:
The Woman and the Body.
NiCHOLAS HARKNESS
Nicholas Harkness was guest
editor of a special double issue
of Anthropological Theory,
titled “QUALIA,” on the semiotic
anthropology of sensuous
qualities, which includes
his article, “Softer Soju in
South Korea,” as well as a
co-authored Introduction
(with Lily Hope Chumley).
Nicholas also published an
article titled “Encore!:
Homecoming Recitals in
Christian South Korea” in the
Journal of Korean Studies.
Nicholas was awarded
research grants from both
the Social Science Research
Council and the Academy of
Korean Studies (in collaboration
with the Max Planck
Institute for Religious and
Ethnic Diversity) for leave
and research during the 2013-
14 academic year.
MiCHAEL HERZFELD
Michael Herzfeld was awarded
an Honorary Professorship
at Shandong University,
Jinan, People’s Republic of
China. He is giving this year’s
Commencement Address at
the University of Bergamo,
Italy titled “The Challenge
of Our Times: Rethinking
Common Sense.” Michael has
also received an Honorary
Doctorate by the Department
of Philosophical and Social
Studies of the University of
Crete, Greece. He gave the
Fiftieth Anniversary Address
for College Year in Athens,
he currently serves on the
program’s Board of Advisors,
the address was titled “Crisis
and Creativity: Greece and the
Refashioning of Culture.” An
article highlighting Michael’s
Honorary Professorship at
Shandong University appeared
in the Gazette titled “The seeds
of anthropology: Harvard alumnus
helps to create academic
discipline at Chinese university.”
Rowan Flad
Susan Greenhalgh
Nicholas Harkness
Michael Herzfeld
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Matthew Liebmann
Mary Steedly
Brian Stewart
Jason Ur
Gary Urton
Department of anthropology | harvarD University
MATTHEW LiEBMANN
Matt Liebmann gave a talk
at Brown University in
their Anthropology series
entitled “Hybrid Materialities:
Locating the In-Between
in the Archaeology of Native
America.” Matt was also
interviewed by KGLP in
Gallup, New Mexico for their
weekly radio show “Friday
Forum.” An article appeared
in the Gazette titled “Projectile
learning: Target practice
with ‘atlatl’ transports students
to ancient times” on Matt’s
A1190: Encountering the
Conquistadors class.
MARY STEEDLY
Mary Steedly has two
publications: “Rifle Reports:
A Story of Indonesian
Independence” University of
California Press; and “Images
That Move” (co-edited with
Patricia Spyer) SAR Press.
BRiAN STEWART
Brian Stewart has received
a tenure track job in the
Anthropology Department at
the University of Michigan.
JASON UR
Jason Ur’s new project in the
Kurdistan Region of Iraq (the
Erbil Plain Archaeological
Survey) had a very successful
grant season, receiving grants
from the National Science
Foundation, the National
Geographical Society, and
Dumbarton Oaks. These
awards guarantee fieldwork
through the summer of 2015.
GARY URTON
Gary Urton has published the
following articles: “Mathematics
and Accounting in the Andes
before and after the Spanish
Conquest,” in Alternative
Forms of Knowing (in) Mathematics
(Sense Publishers,
2012); “The Herder-Cultivator
Relationship as a Paradigm
for Archaeological Origins,
Linguistic Dispersals and the
Evolution of Record Keeping
in the Andes” in Archaeology
and Language in the Andes:
A cross-disciplinary exploration
of prehistory, Oxford:
Oxford University Press. Gary
received an invitation to a
“salon” on “Payment Technologies:
Past, Present, Future”
UC-Irvine and gave a talk for
DRCLAS titled “Andes Initiative:
Knotted Cord Records and
Documents in Colonial Peru: Is
this the ‘Rosetta’ Khipu?”

Spring
Lectures
+ Events
JaNuary
February
“in the city, out of place: dispossession and the economics of belonging in
southeastern Turkey” a dissertation defense presented by Will Day
“Rewriting Maya History at the Edge of the Spanish Empire: Archaeology
and Colonial Entanglements at Progresso Lagoon, Belize”
a talk by Maxine Oland (Smith College)
“ice Age Arabia: investigating human prehistory along the hominid
highway out of Africa”
a talk by Jeffrey Rose (Sultanate of Oman)
Sensory Ethnography and image/Sound/Culture
Screening of 2012 Student Videos
“Fire in the Paleolithic: High-resolution records of human behavior” a talk by
Susan Mentzer (Tübingen University)
A talk by Diana Bocarejo (Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá)
with comments by Jean Comaroff & John Comaroff (Harvard University)
“Assembling a Place of Creation in Copan’s Ritual Spaces”
a talk by Cameron McNeil (Queens College)
“Unknown aspects of King Tutankhamun’s reign, parentage, and tomb treasures”
a lecture by Dr. Marc Gabolde (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier iii)
“Bio-Bullies in Our Midst: Does Fat-Shaming Work?”
a talk by Susan Greenhalgh (Harvard University)
“Upper Paleolithic Humans on the Northern Frontier of Asia”
a talk by Kelly Graf (Texas A&M University)
“Medieval Nubia: Rescuing History from Archaeology”
a talk by Giovanni Ruffini (Fairfield University)
“Paleolithic Colonization: New Developments integrating Archaeological
and Experimental Stone Technology”
a talk by Metin Eren (University of Kent)
“New Approach to the Archaeology of Fur Trade in Old Chosun”
a talk by in Uk Kang (Pukyong National University)
“Pleistocene Archaeology and Environments of Equatorial Africa:
Understanding the Diversity and Dispersal of Early Homo Sapiens”
a talk by Christian Tryon (New York University)
“The metaphysics of freedom in anthropological research”
a talk by Moises Lino e Silva (Harvard University)
“New insights on the Palaeolithic of NE Africa”
a talk by Kathleen Nicoll (University of Utah)
“Dating Contexts of Encounters Between Neanderthals and Modern Humans”
a talk by Bridget Alex (Harvard University)
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SPRiNG LECTURES + EVENTS
(CONTiNUED)
march
aprIl
Department of anthropology | harvarD University
“Developments in Chinese Bronze Production”
a talk by Zhang Changping (Wuhan University)
“Methlabs, Alchemical Ontology and Homespun Worlds”
a talk by Jason Pine (SUNY, Purchase)
“Folsom Archaeology and Younger Dryas Environments in the Rocky Mountains”
a talk by David Meltzer (Southern Methodist University)
“Rethinking Anthropological Approaches to Freedom and Human Rights:
Perspectives from Egypt’s al-Azhar”
a talk by Aria Nakissa (Harvard University)
“Tel Bet Yerah: Hub of the Early Bronze Age Levant”
a talk by Rafael Greenberg (Tel Aviv University)
“Opportunity and Challenge: The Current Situation of Cultural Heritage
Conservation and Presentation in China”
a talk by Lynn Bu (UMass, Boston)
“Archaeological Evidence of Social inequality and Complexity in Early
Korea” a talk by Yangjin Pak, (Chungnam National University)
“Cultural Change from Man (蛮) to Han (汉) in South of China”
a talk by Wu Chunming (xiamen University)
Film Screening of “People’s Park”
a single-shot film by Libbie D. Cohn & J.P. Sniadecki
“The Paradoxes of Late Antiquity: A Thermodynamic Solution”
a talk by John Bintliff (Leiden University)
“Microcredit Liability: untangling the credit/debt twinship in Paraguayan
development lending”
a talk by Carline Schuster (Harvard University)
“Governing ‘the Poor’: Development Futures in Democratic South Africa”
a talk by Kerry Chance (Harvard University)
“The Return of Khulekani Khumalo, Zombie Captive: imposture, Law, and
the Paradoxes of Personhood in South Africa”
a talk by John Comaroff (Harvard University)
“Five Features of Three Kingdoms Period Architecture”
a talk by Nancy S. Steinhardt (University of Pennsylvania)
“Dangerous Encounters: Riots, Railways, and the Politics of Difference in
French Public Space (1860-2012)”
a dissertation defense presented by Julie O’Brien Kleinman
“Eventful times – societal change amongst northern European huntergatherers
around the 12.920 cal BP eruption of the Laacher See
volcano, Germany”
a talk by Felix Riede (Aarhus University, Denmark)

may
Workshop: “Navigating a Multispecies World: A Graduate Conference
on the Species Turn”
“Discourse, Morality, Body: Radical Socialism at Dazhai Village (1946-1978)”
a dissertation defense presented by Shu Chang
“Western Han Peripheries: Archaeological Research on the Sinification of
the Borderlands”
a talk by Zheng Junlei (Sun Yat-sen University)
“Citizen Factory: Schooling and Person-making in Contemporary Rural China”
a dissertation defense presented by Min Zhang
“Responses to Racism Under Neo-Liberalism: The United States Compared”
a talk by Michele Lamont (Harvard University)
“Digital Jianghu: independent Documentary in a Beijing Art Village”
a dissertation defense presented by John Paul Sniadecki
“Public Culture and Cultural Citizenship at the Thessaloniki international Film Festival”
a dissertation defense presented by Toby Lee
“Be-longing: Fatanis in Makkah and Jawi”
a dissertation defense presented by Muhammad Arafat Mohamad
“Adaptation and invention During the Spread of Agriculture to Southwest China”
a talk by Jade Guedes (Harvard University)
“import Substitution as a Neglected Factor in Ancient Near Eastern
Economic History”
a talk by Guillermo Algaze (University of California, San Diego)
“Psycho-boom: The Rise of Psychotherapy in Contemporary Urban China”
a dissertation defense presented by Hsuan-Ying Huang
“Mobile Patients, Static Response: (Mis)managing well-being amidst South
Africa’s dual epidemic”
a dissertation defense presented by Amy Beth Saltzman
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