ANTHROPOLOGY BBQ
May 3, 2006
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Documentary Filmmakers Come to Haverford --
In April 2006 the Anthropology Department, along with the Humanities
Center and filmmaker Julia D'Amico, brought in two non-fiction
filmmakers to Haverford College, Albert Maysles and Robert Gardner.
Both screenings were a great success! Albert Maysles showed his
documentary Salesman (1968) about four door-to-door Bible salesmen
from Boston. His award winning documentary is considered one of
America's classic non-fiction films. Robert Gardner screened
Forest of Bliss (1985) which is a cinematic essay on the ancient city
of Benares, India and explores the ceremonies, rituals, and
industries associated with death and regeneration. The screenings
drew large, enthusiastic audiences and prompted much discussion. Both
filmmakers were extremely charming and generous discussants. Robert
Gardner also spent time with some Anthropology students interested in
becoming filmmakers themselves one day.
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2006 Sutasoma/Kessinger Funds recipients.
Through grants from the
Sutasoma and Kessinger funds, the anthropology department provided
funding for three Haverford students this year:
1. Gregory C. Potestio
Gregory is a Classical Studies major and a minor in Anthropology, Class of 2008.
He received funding
from the Sutasoma funds to join the Mitrou Archaeological Project of the University
of Tennessee to
excavate an ancient Greek site of the Helladic period. Gregory’s interest
is in applying anthropological
methods to the study of classical civilizations.
2. Jack (Jaclyn) Mills
Jack is an anthropology major, class of 2008. She received a grant from the
Kessinger fund to be
an intern with the International Refugee Rights Initiative in New York City
where she will do research
and writing work on issues related to refugees around the world. Jack plans
to build on this experience
to pursue further research on refugees in Africa.
3. Anna Marschalk-Burns
Anna is an anthropology major, class of 2007. She received partial funding from
Sutasoma and
Kessinger funds for a research project titled: “Remembering the Future:
Post Memory and Narrative
in Experiences of Rape.” Anna is interested in the role of memory and
narrative in women’s experiences
of sexual assault. She will carry out her ethnography both at Haveford College
and the city of Philadelphia
while working as a volunteer for Women Organized Against Rape in Philadelphia.
Humanities Center Grant
This spring, Maris Gillette
received a Humanities Center grant for course enrichment for her new course
"Material Culture of China" (Anthropology 415). She and her students,
Katie Derickson (anthropology major)
and Meg Twomey (anthropology minor) used the grant to make a series of fieldtrips
and to host three visitors.
The class traveled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Mercer
Tile Factory (Doylestown), the Freer Sackler
Galleries (Washington DC), Philadelphia's Chinatown,
and the pottery of Claire Shenk Rodgers. Class
visitors were Louise Cort (Curator of Ceramics, Freer Sackler Galleries), who
discussed her work on Khmer
ceramics and how to integrate field work with the study of pots; Brian Salzberg
(Professor of Neuroscience
and Physiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical School), who spoke about
his practices and goals as
a collector of Chinese porcelain; and Claire Shenk Rodgers, who gave a potter's
perspective on working
with stoneware and porcelain clays.
Seniors and their Theses --
Congratulations to our seniors!
Click on the names below to see an abstract of their thesis----
Austin Bailey
Maria Baldonado
Kit Basom
Alexandra Burger
James Damascus
Katherine Derickson
Kirsten Gwynn
Hannah Kohut
Sung Lee
Liliana Leitner-Laserna
Randolph Moon
E. Morika
Ogawa
Laura Perlberger
Alexandra Shookhoff