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Keith Malcolm Prufer
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology)
At UNM since Fall 2007
kmp_at_unm.edu
505.277.1608 |
- Introduction to Anthropology (101)
- Mesoamerican Prehistory (322/522)
- Seminar in Maya Archaeology (570)
Cleveland State University, Anthropology, BA cum laude 1994
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Anthropology, MA 1996, PhD 2002
Dissertation: “Communities, Caves, and Ritual Specialists: A Study of Sacred Space in the Maya Mountains of Southern Belize”
Complex society, landscape transformation, evolutionary ecology, political economy, cave studies; Mesoamerica
(and W. Jeffrey Hurst) “Chocolate and the Underworld Space of Death: The Recovery of Intact Cacao from an Early Classic Mortuary Cave,” Ethnohistory 54 (2007): 273-303
(and James E. Brady, eds.) Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context, David Carasco Series Mesoamerican Worlds (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005)
(James E. Brady and Prufer, eds.) In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Studies of Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use, Linda Schele Series in Precolumbian Art and Archaeology (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005)
(Christopher Morehart, David Lentz and Prufer) “Wood of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Pine (Pinus sp.) by the Ancient Lowland Maya,” Latin American Antiquity 16 (2005): 255-74
(Prufer, Phil Wanyerka and Monica Shah) “Wood Figurines, Manikin Scepters, and Religious Specialists in Ancient Maya Society,” Ancient Mesoamerica 14 (2003): 218-36
(J. E. Brady and Prufer) “Caves and Crystalmancy: Evidence for the Use of Crystals in Ancient Maya Religion,” Journal of Anthropological Research 55 (1999): 129-44
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