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The Anthropology Department's curatorial
staff is engaged in on-going laboratory and collections-based research at the
Museum and in the field. Research is conducted throughout the Western hemisphere,
from the Andean region of South America to the contemporary
cultures of the American Southwest, and metropolitan
Los Angeles.
CURRENT RESEARCH
PUEBLO ARTISTIC ROUTES: THE COMMODIFICATION
OF HOPI KATSINAS AND ZUNI FETISHES
Margaret Hardin is currently working in collaboration with Research Associate,
Zena Pearlstone, on a project funded by the Getty Grant Program. The two team
members will study present-day Zuni fetishes and Hopi katsinas as the culmination
of a 150-year journey from a traditional village context to a modern market.
The Getty advisory committee selected this study as offering an important contribution
to the understanding of the history of art.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
RESEARCH IN PERU •
INVESTIGACIONES
ARQUEOLOGICAS EN EL PERU
Karen Wise recently completed an archaeological excavation on the south coast
of Peru. Working at the site of Kilometer 4, she and her colleagues and students
investigated the origins of sedentary village life, early architecture, the
development of specialized fishing communities, and the evolution of mortuary
practices between 8,000 and 3,000 years ago. This research is conducted under
permit from the Peruvian government, and it has been funded by Southern Peru
Copper Corporation and the Asociación Contisuyo, and by grants from the
American Philosophical Society, the Margaret Cullinan Wray Trust through the
American Anthropological Association, the H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust,
the Taylor Science Fund of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History,
and the Weiler Foundation, as well as by private donations and by the Arco Foundation.
THE CHINCHORRO OCCUPATION AT VILLA DEL MAR, ILO, PERU
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