Project Presentations by the 2006 Undergraduate Distinguished Majors in Anthropology
Friday, April 21st, 2006, 4-6 PM
Brooks Hall Library

Amanda Bensey
"Reassessing Bernardini: Using Fireplace Evidence to Predict the Prehistoric Population at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico"

Emily Cubbon
"Precious Color, Primacy, and Fertility: The Role of Turquoise in Ritual and Political Authority and Legitimization in the Chacoan World"

Kathleen Hoff
"Exploring Cultural Motivations for Exercise"

Derek Miller
"Indigeneous Tobacco Pipes of the Kingdoms of Hueda and Dahomey"

Kamaren M. Suwijn
"Constructing the Moral Self in Lowland South America"

Eric Tarantino
"A Society in the Liminal State: Ambiguity and Contradiction as Experienced in Surama Guyana"

Sarah Kelman
"Long Pearls and Blonde Hair Highlights - It's So Not Me": How Minority Greeks Navigate Dialectical Incorporations and Rejections of Whiteness through Identity-Forming Practices


This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Critical Human Survival Issues at the University of Virginia. Refreshments will be served.


For more information, contact Prof. R.S. Khare at rsk3m@virginia.edu, Holly Donahue Singh at hd6w@virginia.edu, or Kamaren Suwijn at kms7zn@virginia.edu.