faculty

Warren DeBoer

Prof. DeBoer

(Ph D UCB, 1972; Prof) Ethnoarchaeology; South America (warren_deboer@qc.edu)

Interests: DeBoer's research has focused on ethnoarchaeology, that is, the enlisting of ethnographic observations for archaeological purposes; this approach has led to fieldwork among the Shipibo-Conibo of Peru and the Chachi of Ecuador in order to couple studies of contemporary material cultures with their archaeological antecedents; current projects include an analysis of native North American dice games (Of Dice and Women: Gambling, Gender, and Exchange: to be delivered in September 00), stone axes in the Upper Amazon (Axes of Variability, a trial version delivered to the annual Ursula LeGuin lecture, Berkeley, last year), and preColumbian dogs in North America (this started out as a paper, but won't fit in that format).

Selected Publications

  • 1999 (with Alice Kehoe) Cahokia and the archaeology of ambiguity. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9(2): 261-267.

  • 1997 Ceremonial centers from the Cayapas to Chillicothe. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7(2): 225-253.

  • 1996 Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore: Prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

  • 1986 Pillage and production in the Amazon: A view through the Conibo of the Ucayali Basin, eastern Peru. World Archaeology 18(2): 231-246.

  • 1979 (with Donald Lathrap) The making and breaking of Shipibo- Conibo ceramics. (in) Carol Kramer (ed.) Ethnoarchaeology: Implications of Ethnography for Archaeology, pp. 102-138. New York: Columbia University Press.


    last modified 5.23.00
    comments