Pizza Talk: "Elizabeth Deuel's Letter: Sexual Politics in the Archives of Archaeology"
Submitted by mswanson on April 4, 2018 - 4:08pmSpeaker: Dr. James Snead, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cal State University, Northridge
In 1913 Elizabeth Deuel, a student of archaeology and resident of Los Angeles, wrote a letter to a friend describing a situation that modern readers can only interpret as sexual harassment. Coded with the discretion of the age, her brief account nonetheless resonates to modern readers conscious of the complex history of this topic in the field of archaeology.