[wapadc] Fwd: Invitation to the VIth Annual Regina Herzfeld Lecture: Margaret Bruchac

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From: Cook, Anita G <Cook@cua.edu>
Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:12 PM
Subject: Invitation to the VIth Annual Regina Herzfeld Lecture: Margaret Bruchac
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YOU ARE CORDIALLTY INVITED TO ATTEND THE FOLLOWING LECTURE WITH RECEPTION TO FOLLOW (SEE ATTACHED FLIER)

 

The Catholic University of America

Department of Anthropology presents the

 

VI ANNUAL REGINA HERZFELD LECTURE

ON THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF NATIVE AMERICANS, SUPPORTED BY

THE REGINA FLANNERY HERZFELD MEMORIAL FUND

Margaret Bruchac

Coordinator of the Native American Studies Initiative, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

“BREAKING GROUND IN THE 1930’s:

THE FIRST FEMALE NATIVE AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST”

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

3:00 pm. In the Pryzbyla Great Room A

Bertha Yewas Parker (1907-1978), the first professional female Native American archaeologist, transgressed expected ethnic, gender, and intellectual boundaries.  After gaining national recognition for her discoveries at the Gypsum Cave site, she was employed as an archaeologist and ethnologist by the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles.

         Bruchac recovered the details of Parker’s life through “reverse fieldwork,” by tapping private correspondence, mis-catalogued field notes, and other sources that evidence Parker’s unique intellectual contributions. Parker’s experiences illustrate the quixotic kin relations, survival strategies, and social border-crossings that characterized the lives of many early Indigenous informants. This research, critically reframes the histories of early anthropological relations to recover more holistic understandings of Indigenous intellectual contributions to anthropological knowledge.     

 

 

 

 

 

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