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March 20, 2002

JANE HILL TO DELIVER JAR DISTINGUISHED LECTURE AT UNM

The XIV Journal of Anthropological Research (J.A.R.) Distinguished Lecture is set for Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the UNM Anthropology Lecture Hall, room 163 and will be given by University of Arizona professor Jane Hill.

Hill will present “Toward a Linguistic Prehistory of the Southwest.” She will also present a specialized seminar on “What’s Wrong with Hill’s Proto-Uto-Aztecan Maize Complex Reconstruction?” on Friday, April 19 at 12 noon in the UNM Anthropology Room 178.

Hill is a Regents’ Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona and past president of the American Anthropological Association. Hill is a anthropological linguist, working interdisciplinary among linguistics, ethnology and archeology. She is specialist in the Uto-Axtecan languages, which are prominent in the Southwest and Mesoamerica.

She is the editor of Language in Society and is on the editorial boards of numerous other professional journals, including JAR. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1998. She has also been the president of the society for Linguistic Anthropology and the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Hill is the author of several books and more than 100 scholarly articles.

Both events are free and open to the public and are wheelchair accessible.

J.A.R. is an international quarterly journal of general anthropology, published by UNM since 1945. For more information on subscriptions call 277-4544 or see http://www.unm.edu/~jar/.

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