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PIZZA TALK - "BODIES AND BRONZES IN ANCIENT CHINA"

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Evan Carlson, PhD Student - UCLA Archaeology Interdepartmental Graduate Program

What Pizza Talk
When March 13, 2013
from 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
Where Fowler Museum Building, Room A222
Contact Name Ellen Hsieh
Contact Email
Contact Phone 310-825-4169
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"Bodies and Bronzes in Ancient China: Investigating the nexus of tattooing, material culture, and the body through Shang Ritual Bronzes"

 

Evan Carlson is a PhD student at the UCLA Archaeology Interdepartmental Graduate Program.  His research interests include ancient urbanism, power relations, mobility, phenomenology, temporality and spatial theory.

 

Evan Carlson
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