Linda A. Brown

Assistant Professorial Lecturer in Anthropology
E-mail labrown@gwu.edu
Fall 2008 office to be assigned.

Dr. Brown is a Mesoamerican archaeologist who focuses on ethnoarchaeology, the archaeology of ritual, and the ceremonial use of archaeological objects and sites by descendant communities. More generally, she studies the role of ideology and resistance in complex society.

Research

Dr. Brown's current project, Proyecto Arqueologías Indígenas, examines the meanings, social lives, and material signatures of archaeological objects and sites used by contemporary Maya ritual practitioners in Guatemala.

Selected Publications

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Articles and Book Chapters

2008	Brown, L., and K. Emery. "Negotiations with the animate forest: Hunting shrines in the Guatemalan highlands." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Special Issue on Archaeology, Animism and Non-Human Agency (15)4: 300-337.
2005	Brown, L. "Planting the bones: Hunting ceremonialism at contemporary and nineteenth-century shrines in the Guatemalan highlands," Latin American Antiquity 16(2): 131-146.
2004	Brown, L. "Dangerous places and wild spaces: Creating meaning with materials and space at contemporary Maya shrines on El Duende Mountain," Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 11(1): 31-58.

Course Taught

Anth 172: Cultures of Central America
Anth 182: Archaeology of North America
Anth 185: Archaeology of Mesoamerica
Anth 189: Topics in Archaeology: Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
Anth 189: Topics in Archaeology: Archaeology in Film and Television
Anth 237: Ethics and Cultural Property

Education

Ph.D. 2002, University of Colorado at Boulder
M.A. 1996, University of Colorado at Denver
B.F.A. 1991, University of Colorado at Denver