Weekly Chat from About Archaeology
Moderated by Pat Garrow and K. Kris Hirst
Speaker Data for the April 15th Chat: Rosemary Joyce
Rosemary Joyce's research is concerned with questions about the ways prehispanic
inhabitants of Central America employed material culture in actively negotiating their
place in society. Since 1977 she has conducted research in northern Honduras, and
worked with curated collections, including photographs and historical archives, in museums
and research centers in both North America and Honduras. She has been involved in
collections management and exhibition work at Harvard's Peabody Museum, the Wellesley
College Museum and Cultural Center, the Heritage Plantation at Sandwich in Massachusetts,
the Museo de Antropología e Historia in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the Michael C. Carlos
Museum at Emory, and UC Berkeley's Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Her work
with museum collections inspired an interest in disciplinary history, and she has written
about women who were early archaeologists in Honduras.
Much of Rosemary's work has been concerned with the use of representational imagery to
create and reinforce gendered identities, and includes examinations of Classic Maya
monumental art and glyphic texts, and of Formative period monumental and small-scale
images. Some of this work also involves mortuary analysis. Most recently, she began work
on obsidian source use in Honduras in collaboration with Dr. M. Steven Shackley.
An outgrowth of this interest has been Sister Stories, a hypertext publication of a mythological Aztec story that blends hyperfiction with non-fictional feminist ethnography, by Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn Guyer and Michael Joyce.
The above information is taken from Rosemary Joyce; the University of California at Berkeley, Rosemary's faculty home page.
