Area of Interest:

Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Communities; Ancestor Veneration; Archaeological Understanding of Detachment from Place; Cultural Logic of Noncapitalist Economies; Identity and Gender Constructs; Cacao Production and Use; Social Reproduction of Technology; Maya Studies; Archaeology of Mesoamerica.

Education:

Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1986

Professional Background:

Patricia A. McAnany, Kenan Eminent Professor of Anthropology, is a Maya archaeologist who has conducted field research and cultural heritage programs through the Maya region. Her professional interests include the intersection of ritual and economy, ancestor veneration, the creation and abandonment of place, and the cross threading of cultural heritage with indigenous identities. She founded the Maya Area Cultural Heritage Initiative (www.machiproject.org) and co-founded InHerit: Indigenous Heritage Passed to Present (www.in-herit.org). She is the author/co-editor of several books, most recently Textile Economies: Power & Value from the Local to the Transnational (2011) co-edited with Walter E. Little; Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective (2010); Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire (2009) co-edited with Norman Yoffee; and Dimensions of Ritual Economy (2008) co-edited with E. Christian Wells. She is the recipient of several research awards from the National Science Foundation and of fellowships from the Institute for the Arts & Humanities (UNC, Chapel Hill), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 

 

Research & Activities:

My professional activities include collaborative archaeological research and heritage programs with communities in the Maya region. I have come to appreciate that interpreting the past—writing a narrative based upon archaeological evidence (whether from Belize, Yucatán, or elsewhere)—poses great theoretical and methodological challenges and ethical responsibilities. My career is one of engagement with the evolving intellectual challenges and ethical responsibilities of archaeology.

Currently, I serve as the Principal Investigator of InHerit: Indigenous Heritage Passed to Present (www.in-herit.org); as the Executive Director of The Alliance for Heritage Conservation; and as the co-Principal Investigator (with Prof. Ivan Batun-Alpuche) of Proyecto Arqueológico Colaborativo del Oriente de Yucatán (PACOY).

InHerit is a UNC program that works in collaboration with local Maya communities and NGOs seated within the community to develop programs that highlight cultural heritage and the need for heritage conservation. We define heritage broadly as something that is tangible (embedded within landscapes as well as inherited and inalienable objects) or intangible (language; spirituality; ritual practice; artistic performance; and learned technologies). The goal of InHerit is to foster greater dialogue between communities and archaeologists and between communities and respective nation-states regarding the investigation, interpretation, and management of Maya cultural heritage. Those who collaborate on InHerit projects with us embraces the ethical philosophy that local communities—and indigenous Maya peoples in particular—possess the right to access all domains of knowledge about their past and to be active partners in decisions that affect the presentation and perception of their deep history, particularly in reference to tourism, museum development, and archaeological research.

The Alliance for Heritage Conservation is a nonprofit that works to fund heritage programs in the Maya region and beyond.

With support from the NSF, we launched Proyecto Arqueológico Colaborativo del Oriente de Yucatán (PACOY) during the summer of 2012. This project is focused on discovery and documentation of the difficult-to-detect early Colonial Maya settlements that provided the labor for the construction of the remarkably durable Catholic missionary churches built throughout the Yucatán Peninsula during the 17^th century. Working in collaboration with Universidad de Oriente, which is located in Valladolid, Yucatán, we are focusing particularly on areas of proselytizing in east-central Yucatán.

For more information about my research and cultural heritage activities, please see my CV (linked to this page) that contains a complete listing of books, journal articles, and book chapters written either solely by me or jointly with students and colleagues.

 

Links to activities relevant to current research:

           www.in-herit.org

            www.machiproject.org

            www.bu.edu/tricia

Selected Publications:

Publications of Patricia A. McAnany

October 2012

Books:

2011
with Walter Little (co-editors)
Textile Economies: Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational. AltaMira Press,
Lanham, MD.

2010
Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective. Cambridge University Press, NY.

2009
and Norman Yoffee (co-editors)
Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, & the Aftermath of Empire.
Cambridge University Press, NY.

2008
with Christopher Pool (co-editors)
Debating with Robert: Papers on Mesoamerican Archaeology in Memory of Robert S. Santley.
Journal of Anthropological Research,Volume 64(3).

2008
with E. Christian Wells (co-editors)
Dimensions of Ritual Economy. Research in Economic Anthropology Volume 27. JAI Press,
Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Bingley, UK.

2004
(editor)
K’axob: Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village. Monumenta Archaeologica 22.
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

2002
(editor)
Sacred Landscape and Settlement in the Sibun River Valley: XARP 1999 Survey and Excavation.
SUNY Institute of Mesoamerican Studies Occasional Paper 8. Albany, NY.

1995
Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society. University of Texas
Press, Austin.

1989
and Barry L. Isaac (co-editors)

Prehistoric Maya Economies of Belize. JAI Press, Greenwich.


Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:

2012
Classic Maya Heterodoxy & Shrine Vernacularism in the Sibun Valley of Belize.
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 22(1):115-34.

2012
and Shoshaunna Parks
Casualties of Heritage Distancing: Children, Ch’orti’ Indigeneity, and the Copán
Archaeoscape. Current Anthropology 53(1):80-107.

2011
¿A donde va Economic Geography? Comment on Eric Sheppard, Geography, Nature,
and the Question of Development. Dialogues in Human Geography 1(1):90-93.

2011
with Kelli Carmean and Jeremy A. Sabloff
People Who Lived in Stone Houses: Local Knowledge and Social Difference in the Classic
Maya Puuc Region of Yucatan, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 22(2):143-158.

2011
Practices of Place-Making, Ancestralizing, and Re-animation within Memory
Communities. In Residential Burial: a Multi-Regional Exploration, edited by Ron L. Adams
& Stacie M. King. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
Vol. 20 (1):136-142.

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P. A. McAnany, Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (continued):

2010
Recordar y Alimentar a los Ancestros en Mesoamérica. Arqueología Mexicana 17(106):26-
33.

2009
and Ian Hodder
Thinking about Stratigraphic Sequence in Social Terms. Archaeological Dialogues 16(1):1-
22.

2008
and Christopher A. Pool

Rational Exuberance. Mesoamerican Economies and Landscapes in the Research of
Robert S. Santley. Journal of Anthropological Research 64:323-340.


2007
A View from Mesoamerica. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17(2):19-22.
 
2007 
and Satoru Murata 
America’s First Connoisseurs of Chocolate. Food and Foodways 15 (1‑2):7‑30. 
 
2006
with Parks, Shoshaunna and Satoru Murata
The Conservation of Maya Cultural Heritage: Searching for Solutions in a Troubled
Region. Journal of Field Archaeology 31(4):425–432.

2003
with Stephen D. Houston
Bodies and Blood: Critiquing Social Construction in Maya Archaeology. Journal of
Anthropological Archaeology 22:26-41.

2001
with Sandra López Varela and Kimberly Berry
Ceramic Technology at Late Classic K’axob, Belize. Journal of Field Archaeology
28(1&2):177-191.

2000
with Mary L. Angelini and H. Neff
Differentiation of Clay Resources on a Limestone Plain: the Analysis of Clay Utilization
during the Maya Formative at K’axob, Belize. Geoarchaeology 15(2): 95-133.

2000
Commentary on “The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions” by Stephen Houston, John
Robertson, and David Stuart. Current Anthropology 41(3): 341-342.

1999
and Rebecca Storey and Angela K. Lockard

Mortuary Ritual and Family Politics at Formative and Classic K'axob, Belize. Ancient

Mesoamerica Vol. 10:129-146.

1999
and Sandra L. López Varela
Re-Creating the Formative Maya Village of K'axob: Chronology, Ceramic Complexes,
and Ancestors in Architectural Context. Ancient Mesoamerica Vol. 10:147-168.

1999
with Ilean I. Isaza
Adornment and Identity: Worked Shell from Formative K’axob. Ancient Mesoamerica Vol.
10:117-127.

1994
with Melinda S. Allen

Environmental Variability and Traditional Hawaiian Land Use Patterns: Manuka's

Cultural Islands in Seas of Lava. Asian Perspectives Vol. 33 (1): 19-55.

1989
Stone Tool Production and Exchange in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: the Consumer

Perspective from Pulltrouser Swamp, Belize. American Antiquity Vol. 54:332-346.
1989
The Effect of Lithic Procurement Strategies on Tool Curation and Recycling. Lithic

Technology Vol. 17(1):3-11.

1987
with Jeremy A. Sabloff and Lewis R. Binford

Understanding the Archaeological Record. Antiquity Vol. 61(232):203-209.


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P. A. McAnany, Publications
Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Edited Books:

2012
Conjuring Meaning from Archaeological Remains. In Power and Identity in Archaeological
Theory and Practice: Case Studies from Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by E. Harrison-Buck, pp.
116-119. Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Series, University of Utah Press.

2011
and Walter E. Little
Introduction. In Textile Economies: Power & Value from the Local to the Transnational, edited
by W. Little & P. A. McAnany, pp. xiii-xxvi. AltaMira Press, Lanham, MD.

2011
Towards a Hermeneutics of Death: Commentary on Seven Essays. In Living with the Dead:
Mortuary Ritual in Mesoamerica, edited by James L. Fitzsimmons & Izumi Shimada, pp.
231-239. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

2009
and Norman Yoffee
Why We Question Collapse and Study Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and
the Aftermath of Empire. In Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability
& the Aftermath of Empire, edited by P. A. McAnany & N. Yoffee, pp. 1-17. Cambridge
University Press, NY.

2009
and Tomás Gallareta Negrón
Bellicose Rulers and Climatological Peril? Retrofitting Twenty-first Century Woes on
Eighth Century Maya Society. In Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological
Vulnerability & the Aftermath of Empire, edited by P. A. McAnany & N. Yoffee, pp. 142-175.
Cambridge University Press, NY.

2008
and E. Christian Wells
Toward a Theory of Ritual Economy. In Dimensions of Ritual Economy, edited by E.
Christian Wells and Patricia A. McAnany, pp. 1-16. REA Vol. 27, JAI Press, Emerald
Group Publishing Ltd., Bingley, UK.

2008
Shaping Social Difference: Political and Ritual Economy of Classic Maya Royal Courts.
In Dimensions of Ritual Economy, edited by E. Christian Wells and Patricia A. McAnany,
pp. 219-247. REA Vol. 27, JAI Press, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Bingley, UK.

2007
with Kimberly Berry
Reckoning with the Wetlands and their Role in Ancient Maya Society. In The Political
Economy of Ancient Mesoamerica: Transformations during the Formative and Classic Periods,
edited by Vernon L. Scarborough and John E. Clark, pp. 149-162. University of New
Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

2007
with Shoshaunna Parks
Reclaiming Maya Ancestry. In Look Close, See Far: a Cultural Portrait of the Maya,
photographs by Bruce T. Martin, pp. 17-26. George Braziller, Inc., New York.

2007
with Eleanor Harrison-Buck and Rebecca Storey
Empowered and Disempowered during the Late to Terminal Classic Transition: Maya
Burial and Termination Rituals in the Sibun Valley, Belize. In New Perspectives on Human
Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society, edited by Vera Tiesler and
Andrea Cucina, pp. 74-101. Springer Science + Business Media, LLC, New York.

2007
Culture Heroes and Feathered Serpents: the Contribution of Gordon R. Willey to the
Study of Ideology. In Gordon R. Willey and American Archaeology: Contemporary
Perspectives, edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff and William L. Fash, pp. 209-231. University of
Oklahoma Press, Norman.

2006
and Satoru Murata
From Chocolate Pots to Maya Gold: Belizean Cacao Farmers Through the Ages. In
Chocolate in Mesoamerica: a Cultural History of Cacao, edited by Cameron L. McNeil, pp.
429-450. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.


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Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Edited Books (continued):

2006
Habitus and Hierarchy: The Double Helix of Preclassic Maya Ethnicity. In Maya Ethnicity:
The Construction of Ethnic Identity from Preclassic to Modern Times. Acta Americana, Vol. 19
Edited by F. Sachse, pp. 9-18 Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt Schwaben.

2006
with Rebecca Storey
Children of K’axob: Premature Death in a Formative Maya Village. In The Social
Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by Traci Ardren and Scott Hudson,
pp. 53-72. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

2005
with Polly A. Peterson and Allan B. Cobb
De-fanging the Earth Monster: Speleothem Transport to Surface Sites in the Sibun Valley.
In Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context, edited by Keith M.
Prufer and James E. Brady, pp. 227-248. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

2004
Appropriative Economies: Labor Obligations and Luxury Goods in Ancient Maya
Societies. In Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies, edited by Gary M. Feinman
and Linda M. Nicholas, pp. 145-165. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

2003
and Kimberly A. Berry and Ben S. Thomas
Wetlands, Rivers, and Caves: Agricultural and Ritual Practice in Two Lowland Maya
Landscapes. In Perspectives on Ancient Maya Rural Complexity, edited by Gyles Iannone
and Samuel V. Connell, pp. 71-81. Mongraph 49, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology,
University of California, Los Angeles.

2002
Rethinking the Great and Little Tradition Paradigm from the Perspective of Domestic
Ritual. In Domestic Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by Patricia A. Plunket, pp.115-
119. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

2002
and Ben Thomas, Polly Peterson, Steve Morandi, and Eleanor Harrison
Praise the Ajaw and Pass the Kakaw: Xibun Maya and the Luxury Economy of Cacao. In
Ancient Maya Political Economies: Essays in Honor of William L. Rathje, edited by Marilyn
Masson and David Freidel, pp. 123-139. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.

2001
Cosmology and the Institutionalization of Hierarchy in the Maya Region. In From Leaders
to Rulers, edited by Jonathan Haas, pp. 125-150 Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
New York.

2001
and Shannon Plank
Perspectives on Actors, Gender Roles, and Architecture at Classic Maya Courts and
Households. In Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, edited by T. Inomata and S. D. Houston,
pp. 84-129. Westview Press, Boulder.

2000
with Mary Lee Bartlett
“Crafting” Communities: The Materialization of Formative Maya Identities. In The
Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective, edited by M. A. Canuto and J.
Yeager, pp.102-122. Routledge Press, London.

2000
Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society. In The
Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica: A Reader, edited by Michael E. Smith and Marilyn A.
Masson, pp. 483-487. Blackwell Publishers, Malden MA and Oxford, UK.

1999
with Sandra L. López Varela and Kimberly Berry
Defining Maya Ceramic Production at K'axob: an Experimental Study. In Ethno-analogy
and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Artefact Use and Production, edited by Linda R. Owen
and Martin Porr, pp. 225-235. Tübingen Monograph Series, Urgeschichtliche
Materialhefte 14, MoVinceVerlag, Tübingen, Germany.

1998
Ancestors and the Classic Maya Built Environment. In Function and Meaning in Classic
Maya Architecture, edited by Stephen D. Houston, pp. 271-298. Dumbarton Oaks Research
Library and Collections, Washington, D. C.

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Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Edited Books (continued):

1998
Obscured by the Forest: Property and Ancestors in Lowland Maya Society. In Property in
Economic Context, edited by Robert C. Hunt and Antonio Gilman, pp. 73-87. (Monographs
in Economic Anthropology, No. 14). University Press of the Americas, Lanham, MD.

1997
Ancestor Veneration in Lowland Maya Society: a Case Study from K'axob, Belize. In
Research Frontiers in Anthropology—Volume 2, Archaeology, edited by C. R. Ember, M.
Ember, and P. N. Peregrine, pp. 207-227. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood, NJ.

1993
Social Power and Wealth Among Eighth Century Maya Households. In Lowland Maya
Civilization in the Eighth Century A.D., edited by J. A. Sabloff and J. Henderson, pp. 57-82.
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.

1993
A Theoretical Perspective on Elites and the Economic Transformation of Classic Period
Maya Households. In Understanding Economic Process, edited by Sutti Ortiz, pp. 85-103.
(Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 8). University Press of the Americas,
Lanham, MD.

1993
Resources, Specialization, and Exchange in the Maya Lowlands. In The American
Southwest and Mesoamerica: Systems of Prehistoric Exchange, edited by Timothy G. Baugh
and Jonathon E. Ericson, pp. 213-245. Plenum Press.

1992
Agricultural Tasks and Tools: Patterns of Stone Tool Discard near Prehistoric Maya
Residences Bordering Pulltrouser Swamp, Belize. In Gardens of Prehistory: the Archaeology
of Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica, edited by Thomas W. Killion, pp. 184-213.
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

1990
Water Storage in the Puuc Region of the Northern Maya Lowlands: a Key to Population
Estimates and Architectural Variability. In Precolumbian Population History in the Maya
Lowlands, edited by T. Patrick Culbert and Don S. Rice, pp. 263-284. University of New
Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

1989
Introduction. In Prehistoric Maya Economies of Belize, edited by Patricia A. McAnany and
Barry L. Isaac, pp. 1-13. JAI Press, Greenwich.

1989
Economic Foundations of Ancient Maya Society: a Consideration of Paradigms and
Topics. In Prehistoric Maya Economies of Belize, edited by Patricia A. McAnany and Barry
L. Isaac, pp. 347-372. JAI Press, Greenwich.

1989
with David E. Doyel and Alan H. Simmons
A Painted Kiva Near Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. In From Chaco to Chaco: Papers in Honor
of Robert H. Lister and Florence C. Lister, edited by Meliha S. Duran and David T.
Kirkpatrick, pp. 87-101. The Archaeological Society of New Mexico, No. 15.

Archaeological Society of New Mexico, Albuquerque.


Chapters in Edited Books:

2012
Identidad y memoria social materializados en el trabajo y el rito. In Representaciones y
Espacios Públicos en el Área Maya: Un Estudio Interdisciplinario, edited by Rodrigo Liendo
Stuardo and Francisca Zalaquett Rock, pp. 161-175. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Mayas, México

2008
with Eleanor Harrison-Buck and Satoru Murata
Purposeful Desecration of a Ruling Elite Residence? Recent Excavation at the Hershey
Site, Sibun Valley, Belize. In Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Lowlands: Papers of
the 2007 Belize Archaeology Symposium, Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology Volume 5,
edited by John Morris, Sherilyne Jones, Jaime Awe, and Christophe Helmke, pp. 63-78.
Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Print Belize Ltd,
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Chapters in Edited Books (continued):

2008
with Reiko Ishihara, and Morvin Coc
The MACHI Project in Belize: Bridging the Past and the Present through a Public
Education Program in the Toledo District, Belize. In Archaeological Investigations in the
Eastern Lowlands: Papers of the 2007 Belize Archaeology Symposium, Research Reports in
Belizean Archaeology Volume 5, edited by John Morris, Sherilyne Jones, Jaime Awe, and
Christophe Helmke, pp. 307-313. Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture
and History, Print Belize Ltd, Belmopan, Belize.

2007
with Eleanor Harrison-Buck
The Classic to Postclassic Transition in the Sibun Valley, Belize: Defining the Terminal
Classic Ceramic Assemblages. In Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Lowlands:
Papers of the 2006 Belize Archaeology Symposium, Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology
Volume 4, edited by John Morris, Sherilyne Jones, Jaime Awe, and Christophe Helmke,
pp. 119-133. Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Print
Belize Ltd, Belmopan, Belize.

2006
with Eleanor Harrison-Buck
Terminal Classic Circular Shrines and Ceramic Material in the Sibun Valley, Belize:
Evidence of Northern Yucatec Influence in the Eastern Maya Lowlands. In Archaeological
Investigations in the Eastern Lowlands: Papers of the 2005 Belize Archaeology Symposium,
Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology Volume 3, edited by John Morris, Sherilyne Jones,
Jaime Awe, and Christophe Helmke, pp. 287-299. Institute of Archaeology, National
Institute of Culture and History, Print Belize Ltd, Belmopan, Belize.

2005
and Eleanor Harrison and Satoru Murata
Desire and Political Influence: the Archaeology of the Sibun River Valley. In
Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Lowlands: Papers of the 2004 Belize Archaeology
Symposium, Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology Volume 2, edited by Jaime Awe, John
Morris, Sherilyne Jones, and Christophe Helmke, pp. 313-327. Institute of Archaeology,
National Institute of Culture and History, Print Belize Ltd, Belmopan, Belize.

2004
and Eleanor Harrison, Polly A. Peterson, Steven Morandi, Satoru Murata, Ben S. Thomas,
Sandra L. López Varela, Daniel Finamore, and David G. Buck
The Deep History of the Sibun River Valley. In Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern
Lowlands: Papers of the 2003 Belize Archaeology Symposium, Research Reports in Belizean
Archaeology Volume 1, edited by Jaime Awe, John Morris, and Sherilyne Jones, pp.295-310.
Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture History, Print Belize Ltd,
Belmopan, Belize.

2002
Ancestor Veneration in Lowland Maya Society: a Case Study from K’axob, Belize. In
Archaeology: Original Readings in Method and Practice, edited by P. N. Peregrine, C. R.
Ember, and M. Ember, pp. 360-377. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.

2002
A Social History of Formative Maya Society. In La Organización Social entre Los Maya
Prehispánicos, Coloniales y Modernos, Memoria de la Tercera Mesa Redonda de Palenque,
México, edited by V. Tiesler Blos, R. Cobos, and M. Greene Robertson, pp. 229-239.
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México, D.F.

1999
Life Along the Sibun from Ancient Time through Colonial Times. Sibun River Watershed
Atlas, edited by Ed Boles, pp. 22-23. The Government Printer, Belmopan, Belize, Central
America.

1998
with Sandra L. López Varela
Los Patrones Cerámicos del Sitio Maya de K’axob durante el Periodo Formativo: Espejo
de un Mundo Circunvecino. In 50 Years Americanist Studies at the University of Bonn,
edited by S. Dedenbach-Salazar, C. Arellano Hoffman, E. König, and H. Prümers, pp.
153-168. Bonner Amerikanistische Studien-Universitat Bonn, Germany. Anton Saurwein,
Verlag.



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P. A. McAnany, Publications
Chapters in Edited Books (continued):

1994
Operation 2033: Horizontal Exposure of a Terminal Classic Platform. In Continuing
Archaeology at Colha, Belize, edited by Thomas R. Hester, Harry J. Shafer, and Jack D.
Eaton, pp. 79-89. Studies in Archaeology 16, Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory,
The University of Texas at Austin.

1987
Structure and Dynamics of Intercommunity Exchange. In Maya Stone Tools, Selected
Papers from the Second Maya Lithics Conference, edited by Thomas R. Hester and Harry J.
Shafer, pp. 271-293. Monographs in World Archaeology No. 1, Prehistory Press,
Madison.

1984
with Ben Nelson
Mogollon Culture Area as a Frame of Reference for Predictive Modeling. In Recent
Research in Mogollon Archaeology, edited by Steadman Upham, F. Plog, D.G. Batcho, & B.E.
Kauffman, pp. 28-44. University Museum Occasional Papers, No. 10. Las Cruces.


Research Reports:

2008
and Satoru Murata (editors)
Salt and Pottery Production at Wits Cah Ak’al and Further Excavations of Group A at Hershey:
2007 Field Season of the Xibun Archaeological Research Project. Submitted to the Institute of
Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan, Belize.
http://www.bu.edu/tricia/reports
2004
and Eleanor Harrison-Buck and Steven Morandi (editors)
Sibun Valley from Late Classic through Colonial Times: Investigations of the 2003 Season of the
Xibun Archaeological Research Project. Submitted to the Institute of Archaeology, National
Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan, Belize. http://www.bu.edu/tricia/reports
2003
and Ben S. Thomas (editors)
Between the Gorge and the Estuary: Archaeological Investigations of the 2001 Season of the
Xibun Archaeological Research Project. Submitted to the Department of Archaeology,
Belmopan, Belize. http://www.bu.edu/tricia/reports
1999
and Kimberly Berry (editors)
Where the Water Meets the Land: 1998 Excavations in Wetland Fields and along Transects at
K’axob, Belize. Submitted to the Department of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize.
1998
(editor)
Where the Water Meets the Land: 1997 Excavations in Maya Residences and Wetland Fields,
K’axob, Belize. Submitted to the Department of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize.
1998
(editor)
Caves and Settlements of the Sibun River Valley, Belize: 1997 Archaeological Survey and
Excavation. Submitted to the Department of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize.
1997
(editor)
K'axob Project: Interim Report of the 1995 Field Season. Submitted to the Department of
Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize.
1995
(editor)

The K'axob Project: 1993 Field Season, Submitted to the Department of Archaeology,

Belmopan, Belize.


Dissertation Thesis:

1986
Lithic Technology and Exchange Among Wetland Farmers in the Eastern Maya Lowlands. Ph.D.
dissertation, University of New Mexico. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.








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P. A. McAnany, Publications
In Press/Accepted/Under Review

Book:
Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society. 2nd edition with
new introduction. Cambridge University Press, accepted for publication.

Chapter in a Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume:
Artisans, Ikats, and, and Statecraft: Provisioning Classic Maya Royal Courts. In Merchants,
Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World, edited by Kenneth Hirth & Joanne
Pillsbury, pp. 231-255. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Washington,
D.C., in press.


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