Education

• Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986
• UCLA Alumni Association Distinguished Scholar, 1985
• M.A.  Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980
• B.A.  Honors in Anthropology (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) University of California, Los Angeles, 1978

Courses Taught

• 308 Women, Sex Roles, and Culture
• 352 Peoples of South America
• 429 Archaeology of South America
• 460 Archaeological Study of Women in the Ancient World
• 462 Anthropology of the Arts
• 490C Seminar: Craft Production
• 490C Seminar: Food, Culture and Society
• 601 Graduate Seminar in Anthropological Theory

Selected Publications and Presentations

2007    Thinking About Production:  Phenomenological Classification and Lexical Semantics.  In Rethinking Craft Specialization in Complex Societies:  Archaeological Analyses of the Social Meaning of Production, edited by Z. Hruby and R. Flad.  Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 15, pp 143-162.

2005    The Study of Craft Production.  In  Handbook of Methods in Archaeology, edited by H. Maschner, pp 1032-1105.  AltaMira Press. 

2004    Craft Economies of Prehispanic Andean States.  In Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies, edited by Gary M. Feinman, Linda M. Nicholas, and James M Skibo.  Foundations of Archaeology Inquiry Series.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.  Release announced January 2004.

2002    Status Distinction and Legitimation of Power as Reflected in Changing Patterns of Consumption in Late Prehispanic Peru.  In Bronze Age Economics:  the First Political Economies, edited by T. Earle.  Rowland and Littlefield.  Reprinted from American Antiquity 54(4):691-714.

2002    Cloth Production and Gender Relations in the Inka Empire.  In Archaeology:  Original Readings in Method and Practice, edited by P. Peregrine, C. Ember, and M. Ember, pp.261-279.  Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.

2001    Production and Exchange of Ceramics. In Empire and Domestic Economy by T. D'Altroy, C. Hastorf and Associates, pp. 203-242.  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.  New York. 

2001    Craft Production Systems.  In Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook, edited by G. Feinman and T. Price, pp. 273-327.  Kluwar Academic/Plenum Press, New York.

2000    The Use of Ethnoarchaeology for the Archaeological Study of Ceramic Production.  In Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology (Theme Issue),  Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, edited by B. Bowser, 7(4):377-403

1999    Formal and Technological Variability and the Social Relations of Production:  Crisoles from San Jose de Moro, Peru.  In Material Meanings:  Critical Approaches to Interpreting Material Culture, edited by Elizabeth S. Chilton, pp.85-110.  Foundation of Archaeological Inquiry.  University of Utah Press.

1998    Concepts of Property and Access to Non-agricultural Resources in the Inka Empire.  In Property in the Economy, edited by B. Hunt and A. Gilman, pp. 119-138.  Monographs in Economic Anthropology No. 14.  University Press of America.  Lanham, MD.

1998    Housewives, Chosen Women, and Skilled Men:  Cloth Production and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Andes.  In Craft and Social Identity, edited by C. Costin and R. Wright.  Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Number 8.  Washington D.C.

1998    Introduction.  In Craft and Social Identity, edited by C. Costin and R. Wright.  Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Number 8.  Washington D.C.

1996    Exploring the Relationship among Craft Production, Gender, and Complex Societies: Methodological and Theoretical Issues of Gender Attribution.  In Gender and Archaeology, edited by R. Wright, pp. 111-142.  University of Pennsylvania Press.

1996    Craft Production and Mobilization Strategies in the Inka Empire.  In Craft Specialization and Social Evolution:  In Memory of V. Gordon Childe, edited by B. Wailes, pp. 211-228.  University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications.

1993    Textiles, Women, and Political Economy in the Late Prehispanic Andes. Research in Economic Anthropology 14:3-28. 

1991    Specialization:  Issues in Defining, Documenting, and Explaining the Organization of Production.  In Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 3, ed. by M. Schiffer, pp.1-56.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Research and Interests

• Craft production and specialization
• Divisions of labor
• Gender
• Political economy and social inequality
• Evolution of complex society
• Exchange Andean
• South America
• Ceramics
• Textiles Protection of Cultural Property