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Public lectures and seminars by leading figures in all areas of anthropology
Lectures are published in the Journal of Anthropological Research

Regna Darnell (University of Western Ontario)
Benedictine Visionings of Southwestern Cultural Diversity: Beyond Relativism. (Ruth Benedict's culture and personality studies.)

Jean Clottes President of IFRAO (International Federation of Rock Art Organizations)
Rock Art: An Endangered Heritage Worldwide
Spring 2008 (Vol. 64, no. 1)
Donald K. Grayson (University of Washington)
Ice Age Extinctions in North America: Deciphering the Cause
Summer 20007 (Vol. 63, no. 2)

William C. McGrew (University of Cambridge)
New Wine in New Bottles: Prospects and Pitfalls of Cultural Primatology

Summer 2007 (Vol. 63, no.2)

Polly Wiessner (University of Utah)
From Spears to M16s: Changing Means and Meanings of War in Papua New Guinea Society
Summer 2006 (Vol. 62, no.2)

Fraser D. Neiman (Director of Archaeology, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia)

Lost World of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings at Monticello: Archaeological Perspectives on a Slave Society

(forthcoming)

David J. Meltzer (Southern Methodist University)

The Seventy Year Itch: Controversies over Human Antiquity and their Resolution

Winter 2005 (Vol. 61, no.4)

Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)

The Poetics of Politics: "Theirs" and "Ours"

Spring 2005 (Vol 61, No 1)

Peter M. Whiteley (American Museum of Natural History)
Why Anthropology Needs More History: Some Hopi & Other Native American Cases
Winter 2004 (Vol 60, No 4)
Donald C. Johanson (Arizona State University)
Lucy: 30 Years Later
Winter 2004 (Vol 60, No 4)
Henry Wright (University of Michigan)
Early State Dynamics as Political Experiment
Fall 2006 (Vol 62, No. 3)
Don D. Fowler (University of Nevada, Reno)
E.L. Hewett, J.F. Zimmerman, and the Beginnings of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, 1927-1946
Fall 2003 (Vol 59, No 3)
Jane Hill (University of Arizona)
Towards a Linguistic Prehistory of the Southwest
Winter 2002 (Vol 58, No 4)
Matt Cartmill (Duke University)
Paleoanthropology-- Science or Mythical Charter?
Summer 2002 (Vol 58, No 2)
Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University)
Performing Comparisons: Ethnography, Globetrotting, 
and the Spaces of Social Knowledge
Fall 2001 (Vol 57, No 3)
Richard G. Klein (Stanford University)
Southern Africa and Modern Human Origins
Spring 2001 (Vol 57, No 1)
William Longacre (University of Arizona)
Exploring Prehistoric Social and Political Organization in the American Southwest
Fall 2000 (Vol 56, No 3)
William A. Douglass (University of Nevada)
In Search of Juan de Oñate: Confessions of a Cryptoessentialist
Summer 2000 (Vol 56, No 2)
Yolanda Moses (City College of New York)
Race, Higher Education, and American Society
Summer 1999 (Vol 55, No 2)
C. Loring Brace (University of Michigan)
An Anthropological Perspective on "Race" and Intelligence:
The Non-Clinal Nature of Human Cognitive Capabilities
Summer 1999 (Vol 55, No 2)
F. Clark Howell (University of California, Berkeley)
Paleo-Demes, Species Clades, and Extinctions in the Pleistocene
Summer 1999 (Vol 55, No 2)
Sherry Ortner (Columbia University)
Identities: The Hidden Life of Class
Spring 1998 (Vol 54, No 1)
L.L. Cavalli-Sforza (Stanford University)
Genetic and Cultural Diversity in Europe
Winter 1997 (Vol 53, No 4)
John and Jean Comaroff (University of Chicago)
Postcolonial Politics and Discourses of Democracy in Southern Africa: 
An Anthropological Reflection on African Political Modernities
Summer 1997 (Vol 53, No 2)
Kathleen Deagan (University of Florida)
Colonial Transformation: Euro-American Cultural Genesis
in the Early Spanish-American Colonies
Summer 1996 (Vol 52, No 2)
Elisabeth S. Vrba (Yale University)
Climate, Heterochrony, and Human Evolution
Spring 1996 (Vol 52, No 1)


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