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Lisa Frink, Associate
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Interests: Colonialism studies, ethnoarchaeology, gender,
technology, and production, social identity, oral history,
hunter-gatherers, architecture and space, Arctic, North
America.
Colonialism studies are key to understanding
hunter-gatherer behavior - relied upon by archaeologists in
building models of past behavior. Descendent North Americans
were (are) not passive recipients of colonial (post-colonial)
social structures, ideologies, and material culture but active
agents in the complex processes of transformation, mitigation,
acquiescence, and resistance. One way to examine the past in
the present is through ethnoarchaeological studies.
Ethnoarchaeologists focus on the present interactions of
people with materials in order to understand the formation,
patterns, and meaning of the archaeological record. As a
research strategy, ethnoarchaeologists use a range of
approaches to understand the relationships of material culture
to culture as a whole but in general attempt to document
social, economic, and ideological aspects of modern behavior
which may leave identifiable marks in the archaeological
record.
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Selected Publications
2008. The Beauty of "Ugly"
Eskimo Cooking Pots. Lisa Frink (with Karen
Harry). American Antiquity 49(1):103-120
2007. Storage and Status in
Precolonial and Colonial Coastal Western Alaska.
Current Anthropology
48(3):349-374
2006. Social identity
and the Yup’ik Eskimo village tunnel system in
precolonial and colonial western Alaska. Integrating
the Diversity of 21st Century Anthropology: The Life and
Intellectual Legacies of Susan Kent. W. Ashmore, M.
Dobres, S. Nelson, and A. Rosen, eds. Archeological Papers
of the American Anthropological Association. Berkeley: U
of California Press 16/1:109-125.
2005. (Edited with Kathryn Weedman). Gender and Hide Production. AltaMira
Press, Walnut Creek.
2004. (with Kelly J.
Knudson, Brian W. Hoffman, T. Douglas Price). Chemical
characterization of Arctic soils: Activity area analysis
in contemporary Yup’ik fish camps using ICP-AES. Journal
of Archaeological Science 31:443-456.
2003. (with Brian W. Hoffman
and Robert D. Shaw). Ulu knife use in western Alaska: A
comparative ethnoarchaeological study. Current
Anthropology 44/1:116-122.
2002. (Edited with Rita S.
Shepard and Gregory A Reinhardt). Many Faces of
Gender: Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous
Northern Communities. University Press of Colorado,
Boulder and University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
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The
University of Arizona Press
introduces a new series
The
Archaeology of Colonialism in North America
Lisa Frink and Aubrey Cannon, Series Editors |
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Archaeology of Colonialism in North America is a new series developed to
highlight current research on colonialism in North America.
This series is dedicated to illuminating the wide range of
methodological strategies (archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, oral
history, historical sources) used to understand processes of
colonialism. In
response to the developing concerns about colonialism and its
effects on populations, the series integrates research on
local, cultural, and historical complexities of the colonial
experience, as well as on interactions between people and
their material, social, and intellectual worlds. The series
seeks to actively represent the growing number of descendant
North American perspectives in archaeology by highlighting
indigenous scholars.
The
editors are currently inviting projects that thoughtfully
engage with theoretical issues on the complexities of the
colonial experience. The goal of the series is to foster a
broad understanding of the nature of colonialism across North
America, with an emphasis on underpublished or relatively
marginalized archaeology of regions such as Alaska, the
Canadian Arctic, and Subarctic areas.
The
Press.
The University of Arizona Press has a deserved reputation for
producing superior volumes in archaeology, anthropology, and
ethnohistory.
The Editors. Lisa Frink, Ph.D. is assistant
professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas and is the current Archaeology Program Chair-Elect of
the American Anthropological Association. Aubrey Cannon, Ph.D.
is professor of anthropology at McMaster University in
Ontario, Canada.
We
would like to invite manuscripts of 200-300 typescript pages,
including notes and bibliography, with 10-20 illustrations and
tables. Single-authored manuscripts are preferable, but we
will also accept edited volumes and educational textbooks.
Authors of prospective manuscripts are invited to send
inquiries to any of the following editors or to contact University
of Arizona Press
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