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Anthropologie / MARCUS, JOYCE

joymar

Position

Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished Professor of Social Evolution, Department of Anthropology
and
Director, Museum of Anthropology;
Curator of Latin American Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology
University of Michigan, USA.

Thèmes de recherche

Village life and household archaeology, ritual and religion, chiefly societies, origins of writing and origins of the state, hierarchy and complexity in imperial expansion. Mesoamerica, the Andes.

Village life and household archaeology
ritual and religion
chiefly societies
origins of writing and origins of the state
hierarchy and complexity in imperial expansion
Mesoamerica, the Andes

Prix et récompenses

2005–2007, Chair of Anthropology, National Academy of Sciences
1997, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997, National Academy of Sciences
1995, LSA Excellence in Research Award

Publications

Books and Monographs

1976 Emblem and State in the Classic Maya Lowlands: an epigraphic approach to territorial organization. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. (203 pp.)

1983 The Cloud People: divergent evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations. [co-editor with Kent V. Flannery]. {Sole author of 16 chapters (see below) and co-author of 10 chapters}, School of American Research Series, Academic Press, NY. (391 pp.)

1987 Late Intermediate Occupation at Cerro Azul, Perú. A Preliminary Report. Tech. Report 20, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan. (112 pp.)

1987 The Inscriptions of Calakmul. Royal Marriage at a Maya City in Campeche, Mexico. Tech. Report 21, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (205 pp.)

1989 The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru (Kent V. Flannery, Joyce Marcus, and Robert G. Reynolds). Academic Press, New York. (240 pp.)

1990 Debating Oaxaca Archaeology. [editor] Anthropological Paper 84, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan (275 pp.)

1992 Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations. Princeton Univ Press, Princeton, New Jersey. (500 pp.) (Latin American Studies Association awarded this book an “Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book in the Social Sciences and Humanities”)

1994 Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (with K.V. Flannery, and technical ceramic analysis by W.O. Payne). Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, No. 10. Memoir 27, Museum of Anthropology, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (400 pp.)

1994 Caciques and their People: a volume in honor of Ronald Spores (co-edited with J. F. Zeitlin). Anthropological Paper 89, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (300 pp.)

1996 Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico\'s Oaxaca Valley (Joyce Marcus and Kent V. Flannery). Thames & Hudson, London (255 pp.)

1998 Archaic States (co-edited with Gary M. Feinman). School of American Research, SAR Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico (427 pp.)

1998 Women\'s Ritual in Formative Oaxaca: Figurine-making, divination, death and the ancestors. Memoir 33, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (333 pp.).

2001 La Civilización Zapoteca: Como Evolucionó La Sociedad Urbana en el Valle de Oaxaca (with K.V. Flannery) México: Fondo de Cultura Económica. (324 pp.)
(Winner of the “Premio Caniem 2001 en el Arte Editorial,” Mexico, in the category entitled “Books on Historical Topics”)

2003 The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations (with K. V. Flannery). Percheron Press, Clinton Corners, New York (paperback edition with a new introduction, pp. vii-xiv) (391 pp.)

2005 Excavations at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology (with Kent V. Flannery). Memoir 40, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (490 pp.)

2006 Agricultural Strategies (co-edited with Charles Stanish). Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Cotsen Advanced Seminar No. 2, UCLA. (428 pp.).

2008 Excavations at Cerro Azul, Peru: The Architecture and Pottery. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Awarded the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Book Prize “which honors outstanding studies in archaeology.” (332 pp.)

2008 General editor of Imperial Transformations in Sixteenth-Century Yucay, Peru, transcribed and edited by R. Alan Covey and Donato Amado González. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Memoir 44. (373 pp.)

2008 The Ancient City (co-edited with Jeremy A. Sabloff) (funded by National Academy of Sciences/ Arthur M. Sackler Funds and the School of Advanced Research, SAR Press, Santa Fe, NM) (405 pp.)

2008 Monte Albán (El Colegio de México, Fideicomiso Historia de las Américas, Fondo de Cultura Económica). Coordinated by Alicia Hernández Chávez and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. (206 pp.)

2009 Andean Civilization: A Tribute to Michael E. Moseley (co-ed. with Patrick Ryan Williams). Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. (419 pp.)

2009 General editor of Domestic Life in Prehispanic Capitals, by L. Manzanilla and C. Chapdelaine. Memoir 46, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. (266 pp.)

In prep. Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology (with Kent V. Flannery). Memoir, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Articles

2005 Evon Zartman Vogt, Jr. (1918-2004). In Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 86, pp. 354-376. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.

2005 The Formative Period in Mesoamerica: An Overview (by Joyce Marcus and Richard E. W. Adams). In New Perspectives on Formative Mesoamerican Cultures, edited by Terry George Powis. British Archaeological Reports, Intern. Series 1377, pp. 203-211. Oxford, England.

2005 Petrographic Evidence Shows that Ceramic Exchange between the Olmec and Their Neighbors was Two-Way (by James B. Stoltman, Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery, James H. Burton, and Robert G. Moyle). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (32): 11213-11218.

2005 Place Glyphs and Polity Boundaries: Two Zapotec Cases. In Painted Books and Indigenous Knowledge in Mesoamerica: Manuscript Studies in Honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith, edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone, pp. 91-108. Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans.

2005 Implications of New Petrographic Analysis for the Olmec “Mother Culture” Model (Kent V. Flannery, Andrew K. Balkansky, Gary M. Feinman, David C. Grove, Joyce Marcus, Elsa M. Redmond, Robert G. Reynolds, Robert J. Sharer, Charles S. Spencer, and Jason Yaeger). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (32):11219-11222.

2006 Introduction. In Agricultural Strategies, edited by Joyce Marcus and Charles Stanish, pp.1-13. Monograph 50, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA.

2006 Mesoamerica: Scripts. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, vol. viii, ed. Peter T. Daniels, pp. 16-25. Oxford & San Diego: Elsevier Press. 2nd Ed.

2006 On the Logic of Archaeological Inference: Early Formative Pottery and the Evolution of Mesoamerican Societies (Robert J. Sharer, Andrew K. Balkansky, James H. Burton, Gary M. Feinman, Kent V. Flannery, David C. Grove, Joyce Marcus, Robert G. Moyle, T. Douglas Price, Elsa M. Redmond, Robert G. Reynolds, Prudence M. Rice, Charles Spencer, James B. Stoltman, and Jason Yaeger). Latin American Antiquity 17(1):90-103.

2006 Sacré et culte des ancêtres chez les Zapotequès: À la découverte des croyances de l’ancien peuple de Oaxaca, Mexique. Religions & Histoire 7, pp. 38-45. Editions Faton, 25, rue Berbisey, 21000, Dijon, France.

2006 Obituary of Craig Morris (with Robert L. Carneiro). In Anthropology Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association, Vol. 47, No. 8.

2006 Identifying Elites and Their Strategies. In Intermediate Elites in Pre-Columbian States and Empires, edited by Christina M. Elson and R. Alan Covey, pp. 212-246. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

2006 The Roles of Ritual and Technology in Mesoamerican Water Management. In Agricultural Strategies, edited by Joyce Marcus and Charles Stanish, pp. 221-254. Monograph 50, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology series, UCLA.

2007 Las sociedades jerárquicas oaxaqueñas y el intercambio con los olmecas (with K. Flannery). Arqueología Mexicana, Vol XV, Núm 87, pp. 71-76. (Septiembre-Octubre issue)

2007 Rethinking Ritual. In The Archaeology of Ritual, edited by Evangelos Kyriakidis, pp. 43-76. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles.

2007 Early Great Art Styles and the Rise of Complex Societies. In Gordon R. Willey and American Archaeology: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. by Jeremy Sabloff and William Fash, pp. 72-104. U of Oklahoma Press, Norman

2007 Preface to Volume 14 in the Oaxaca series (with Kent V. Flannery). In Excavations at Cerro Tilcajete: A Monte Albán II Administrative Center in the Valley of Oaxaca, by Christina M. Elson, pp. ii-vii. Memoir 42 of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

2007 Edward Craig Morris (1939-2006). In Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, pp. 1-19. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC.

2008 The Archaeological Evidence for Social Evolution. Annual Review of Anthropology 37:251-266.

2008 Integrating Ethnohistory and Archaeology. In Imperial Transformations in Sixteenth-Century Yucay, Peru, by Alan Covey and Donato Amado González, pp. xi-xiv. Memoir 44, Museum of Anthropology.

2008 Introduction to the Ancient City (with Jeremy A. Sabloff). In The Ancient City (co-edited with J.A. Sabloff), pp. 3-26. SAR Press, Santa Fe, NM

2008 Cities and Urbanism: Central Themes and Future Directions (with J. Sabloff). In The Ancient City (co-ed. J. Sabloff), pp. 323-36. SAR Press, Santa Fe.

2009 Understanding Houses, Compounds, and Neighborhoods. In Domestic Life in Prehispanic Capitals: A Study of Specialization, Hierarchy, and Ethnicity, edited by Linda Manzanilla and Claude Chapdelaine, pp. 256-266. Memoir 46, University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology.

2009 Rethinking Figurines. In Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena, edited by Christina T. Halperin, Katherine A. Faust, Rhonda Taube, and Aurore Giguet, pp. 25-50. University Press of Florida, Gainesville/Tallahassee/Tampa/Boca Raton.

2009 A World Tour of Breweries. In Andean Civilization: A Tribute to Michael E. Moseley, edited by Joyce Marcus and Patrick Ryan Williams, pp. 303-324. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles.

2009 Michael E. Moseley and the Foundations of Andean Civilization (by Joyce Marcus and Charles Stanish). In Andean Civilization: A Tribute to Michael E. Moseley, edited by Joyce Marcus and Patrick Ryan Williams, pp. 1-8. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA.

2009 How Monte Albán Represented Itself. In The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery, edited by William L. Fash and Leonardo López Luján, pp. 77-110. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C.

2010 En Búsqueda de la Mentalidad Andina: Aventuras en el Perú con Ramiro Matos. (with Kent V. Flannery). In Arqueología y Vida, No. 3, pp. 9-22. Museo de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Peru.

2011 William Timothy Sanders (1926-2008). In Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, pp. 1-26. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC.

In press A New World Perspective on the “Death” of Archaeological Theory (with K. V. Flannery). In The Death of Archaeological Theory?, edited by John Bintliff and Mark Pearce, pp. . Oxbow Press.

In press Maya Political Cycling and the Story of the Kaan Polity. In The Ancient Maya of Mexico: Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands, edited by Geoffrey Braswell. Equinox Press, London, England.

In press Yucatan at the Crossroads. In The Ancient Maya of Mexico: Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands, edited by Geoffrey Braswell. Equinox Press.

In press The Funerary Rituals of Xoxocotlán. In Excavations at Xoxocotlan, Oaxaca, edited by Luca Casparis, American Museum of Natural History.

In press Ritual in the earliest households. “Digging outside the Box (and Finding other Evidence).” In Introduction to Mesoamerican Household Archaeology, edited by Jon C. Lohse, Molly Morgan, and Carl J. Wendt. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

In press A Tribute to William R. Coe entitled “Door-to-Door Service,” edited by Robert Sharer.