Second Annual Semi-Annual Graduate Student Lecture March 6th in Haury 215 @ 2:00 pm. This is a great opportunity to see what students are doing on campus, especially as it relates to Native American topics. Ben Curry Title: The Life and Times of Lorazan Asisara: an analysis of Mission Demographics in Comparison to the Testimony of a Santa Cruz Indian. Abstract: Lorazan Asisara was one of a hand full of Native Californians to give an account of the California Franciscan Mission system. As such his words, like those of the few other Native Californians to testify, are given a great deal of weight. This paper compares a number of Asisara’s statements to demographic data derived from California Mission records to better understand how reflective Asisara’s statements are of the broader conditions of Native Californian mission life. In doing so, Asisara’s statements are taken as being truthful, but also needing contextualization based on his specific position within Mission Santa Cruz. In light of this, Asisara’s position within this mission’s hierarchy is examined to better understand his views on Native Californian mission life; including relations between Franciscan friars and Native Californians, the attitudes of both towards each other, and Asisara’s recounting of pre-colonial Native California lifeways. Besides these considerations, the key foci of this paper are Asisara’s recounting of violence and punishment repertories, missionary recruitment practices, the internal and external social networks of Mission Santa Cruz Native Californians, mission social hierarchies, and events during the closing days of Mission Santa Cruz. Bio: Ben Curry is a historical archaeologist working on ranching during the Spanish and Mexican periods of California colonialism. His research focuses on both the social and ecological landscape changes associated with cattle and sheep ranching. This current presentation is part of that research, but focuses on the kinds of information gained from the few Native Californian testimonials of colonial life, and how this information can direct analysis of historical demographic data and other records. ***************************************************** Britt Singletary Title: Multi-modal Monogamy: How Signals Play a Role in Reinforcing Mating and Social Structures in Primates Abstract: The expression of monogamy is not uncommon within the primate order, but obligate monogamy and the accompanying social system of pair-bonding occur in only a handful of primate species. Our understanding of monogamy and pair-bonding is hampered by our inability to cohesively use a singular set of definitions for determining which species can be categorized as exhibiting monogamous mating systems and/or pair-bonded social systems. A discussion of the prevailing hypotheses used to explain the evolution of monogamy and pair-bonding illustrates the variety of forces that may influence the diverse expression of monogamous mating systems and pair-bonded social systems at the ultimate level. While at the proximate level, a review of the variety of neural, endocrinological, and communicative signal-based mechanisms utilized by one-male/one-female primate groups will elucidate the complex mechanisms underlying the formation and maintenance of monogamous mating systems and pair-bonded social systems in primates. Here, we will review examples of multi-modal signal use in monogamous and pair-bonded primate species from the literature, as well as a case study of signal use in captive pair-bonded red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer). Mating and social structure have an enormous impact on the behavioral ecology of a species. This paper aims to highlight how communication plays a role in reinforcing the expression of mating and social structures via the use of multi-modal signals. Environmental pressures selecting for the expression of monogamy and/or pair-bonding may also have resulted in the selection for more complex and integrated multi-modal signaling mechanisms to reinforce their expression in primates. Bio: Britt Singletary is a doctoral student in Biological Anthropology, minoring in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Her primary advisor is Stacey Tecot. Britt is interested in investigating the use of complex signals in human and nonhuman primate groups; her work involves both captive and wild field observations of several lemur species. ******************************************************* Jonna Yarrington Title: Conjunction: Cane Sugar, Beet Sugar, and French Guiana, 1800-1860 Abstract: In the 1700s, France possessed a number of colonies in the Caribbean which produced massive amounts of sugarcane (genus Saccharum) for export to France in a mercantile system called l’Exclusif. The French Revolution precipitated long years of conflict with France, during which time French scientists and entrepreneurs worked on the cutting edge of chemistry and industrial application to develop technology and capital investment required to produce sugar on the French mainland from beets (Beta vulgaris). Economic viability of mass production of beet sugar was achieved by 1812 and explicitly promoted French national autarky (self-sufficiency), which fit into emerging ideologies of French economic nationalism. As beet sugar became viable, its scientifically-established equivalence to cane sugar meant a necessary and direct competition with colonial cane, marking a period of “conjunction” (1812-1860) where questions of colonial belonging and rights to market participation were actively and hotly debated in Paris over tariff and bounty legislation. New meanings of symbolic inclusion and exclusion of French colonies from the nation were produced–with catastrophic results for both the colonial sugar producers (and the entire cane complex) and the system of international trade inhering in French policy by the 1860s. French Guiana provides the prime illustrative case. Bio: Jonna Yarrington is the student of Brackette F. Williams and Drexel G. Woodson, in her third year at the U of A. Her undergraduate degree is from the College of William and Mary. She recently defended her Masters thesis and is currently preparing for comprehensive exams and fieldwork in the French Carib. ********************************************************** Tracie Mayfield Title: Historical-Archaeological Analysis of the British Plantation Settlement at Lamanai, Belize (1837 to 1868) Abstract: The Historical-Archaeological Analysis of the British Plantation Settlement at Lamanai, Belize (1837 to 1868) is designed to study the patterns of relationships between people, materials, and space at Lamanai, during the 19th-century, and how those patterns compared with local, regional, and global sites of similar make-up and purpose; for-profit/surplus production spaces with socioeconomically and/or ethnically stratified groups living on-site. Little is known about the plantation settlement that existed at Lamanai during the 19th-century, and to this end, the project seeks to answer questions regarding the nature of day-to-day life at the British settlement. Of great importance to the project are data centered on frequently performed (often mundane) daily practices and behaviors of individuals and groups. In other words, who was doing what for whom, where, when, why, how often, and for how long? The 19th-century is poorly understood in Mesoamerica and historical-archaeological investigations can add perspectives that are not accessible by any other means, such as the dates, internal dynamics, and external connections of British-colonial plantation and extraction enterprises in a region otherwise under Spanish control. The interesting part of the story is not that there was a sugar plantation in the new world during the 19th-century, but how the people living at Lamanai lived their daily lives within the mélange of objects, materials, voices, activities, and expectations that had both internal (local) meanings and external (regional and global) connections. Bio: Tracie Mayfield is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate teaching assistant in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson and also works as a research assistant at the Stanley J. Olsen Zooarchaeological Laboratory. She received a B.A. in Anthropology (2007) from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois and an M.A. in Historical Archaeology (2009) from Illinois State University, Normal. She is interested in modern landscapes of production with a focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British plantation and extraction industry sites in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean.
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