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John W. Janusek, Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University

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When February 15, 2013
from 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm
Where Fowler Museum Building, Room A222
Contact Name Ben Nigra
Contact Email
Contact Phone 310-825-4169
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Dr. Janusek is an archaeologist interested in the development of complex societies in the South American Andes. His theoretical interests include: social identity and collective memory, human agency and power relations, urbanism, rural landscape, religious ideology and the rise of complexity, and household archaeology. He has worked in the Bolivian highlands since 1987, conducting research focused principally on Tiwanaku and its precursors.  He currently directs an inter-disciplinary research project at the sites of Khonkho Wankane and Iruhito in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin (see http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/janusek/janusek.html).  

 

John Janusek

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