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Joyce Marcus
Joyce Marcus is Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Latin American Archaeology.
She earned her Ph.D from Harvard. She works on comparative chiefdoms and states,
with interests in the origins of ranking and stratification, the nature of chiefly and state
religion, the origins of writing, the evolution of political and administrative hierarchies,
the origins and nature of expansionist states and empires, and the rise and fall of
dynasties. Her fieldwork has been conducted in three principal areas: in Peru, in Oaxaca,
and in the the Maya area (particularly Campeche, Mexico and in northern
Guatemala).
Selected publications
1992 Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in FOUR
Ancient Civilizations. Princeton University Press.
1995 Where is Lowland Maya Archaeology Headed? Journal of Archaeological
Research 3:3-53.
1998 Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca: Figurine-making, Divination, Death
and the Ancestors. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of
Michigan 33. Ann Arbor.
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