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 was taken from Rosemary's faculty home page at Berkeley.
