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Feb. 10, 2003 DON D. FOWLER TO DELIVER JAR DISTINGUISHED LECTURE AT UNM Lecture kicks off 75th anniversary celebration of the UNM Department
of Anthropology Don D. Fowler, Mamie Kleberg Professor of Anthropology and Historic Preservation
at the University of Nevada, Reno, will deliver the XVI Journal of Anthropological
Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m.
in the Anthropology Lecture Hall, room 163 near the corner of Redondo
Drive and Roma Ave. at the University of New Mexico. Fowler will present, “Fields of Research Peculiarly Adapted to the
Environment of the University: J.F. Zimmerman, E.L. Hewett, and the Beginnings
of Anthropology at UNM.” Fowler’s lecture, based on his current archival research, will explore
the personalities and interactions of former UNM President James Zimmerman
and Edgar Lee Hewett, founder of the School of American Research, the
Museum of New Mexico and the UNM Department of Anthropology, during the
era of anthropological and archaeological “wheeling-and-dealing”
in the late 1920s. In addition, Fowler will present an informal seminar on “What Goes
Around (sometimes) Comes Around: Fads & Fashions in the Archaeology
of the Greater Southwest” on Friday, March 14 at noon in Anthropology
room 178. One of Fowler’s recent books is “A Laboratory for Anthropology:
Science & Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846-1930” (UNM
Press, 2000). Fowler is actively involved in Great Basin and Southwestern
prehistoric archaeology since the Glen Canyon Dam Survey in the late 1950s.
Fowler is past-president of the Society for American Archaeology and has
been a research associate in Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution.
He is one of the leading specialists in the history of anthropology in
the U.S. Southwest. The lecture is a kick-off to the celebration of the 75th anniversary
of the UNM Department of Anthropology, which is one of the oldest and
most famous departments of anthropology west of the Mississippi according
to Lawrence Straus, editor of the Journal of Anthropological Research
and Anthropology Professor, said the Department of Anthropology The Journal of Anthropological Research is an international bulletin
of general anthropology published quarterly by UNM since 1945. A subscription
to JAR —$30 per year for individuals— helps support the lectures,
which are published in the Journal in timely fashion. Both the lecture and seminar will be illustrated, and are free and open
to the public. Both venues are handicap-accessible. For information on
the journal or on the lecture, call 277-4544 or see the JAR Website: www.unm.edu/~jar. ### |
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