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Renee L Pennington
213E Stewart
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Bojka Milicic

Bojka Milicic




 

Courses

Anthropology 3961/5961. Mediterranean Cultures.

Syllabus


Anthropology 4141/6141. Ethnicity and Nationalism.

Syllabus

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

2005. "Bozanska glad" Slavenke Drakulic: imaginarno ostvarenje (ne)moguceg. In: Covjek, prostor, vrijeme: Antropoloski pogled na hrvatsku knjizevnost. Z. Bencic-Primc i D. Falisevac, eds. Zagreb. (in press).

2004. The Proto-Numic Kinship System, (P. Hage, B. Milicic, M. Mixco. And J.P. Nichols). Journal of Anthropological Research, 60: 359-377.

1998. The Grapevine Forest: Kinship, Status, and Wealth in a Mediterranean Community. In: Kinship, Networks, and Exchange: New Directions in Kinship Studies, 15-35. T. Schweizer and D. White, editors. Cambridge University Press.

1996a. Tattooing, gender, and social stratification in Micro-Polynesia (P.Hage, F. Harary and B. Milicic). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute incorporating Man 2 (2): 335-350.

1996b. Hierarchical Oppositions Revisited. (P.Hage, F. Harary and B. Milicic) Oceania 67: 152-155.

1995a. The Structure of Cross-sibling Relations: A Mediterranean case. Journal of Mediterranean Studies 5(1): 129-143.

1995b. Hierarchical Oppositions (P. Hage, F. Harary and B. Milicic). Oceania 65(4): 347-354.

1993. Exchange and Social Stratification in the Eastern Adriatic: A Graph-theoretic Model. Ethnology 32 (4). Pp. 375-395.

1991. Consumption and Conservation: Disposal and Gender in a Mediterranean Community. Proceedings of the Conference on Gender and Consumer Behavior. Janeen Costa, ed. Salt Lake City, Association for Consumer Research, Department of Marketing, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, pp.277-83.

1989. A Group Model of Ndembu Color Symbolism, Semiotica 73 (1-2): 121-132.

 
Steven C. Josephson

Steven C. Josephson

  117 Stewart Hall
Department of Anthropology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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Research Interests

  Evolutionary Ecology

 

  Hominid Evolution

 

  Female Reproductive Choice

 

  Hunter-Gatherer Ethnography

 

  Demography

 

  Archaeology of Human Origins

 


Publications

  • M. Stiner, H. Achyutan, G. Arsbuk, F.C. Howell, S.C. Josephson, K.E. Juell, J. Pigati, and J. Quade. Skeletal Characteristics and Paleoecology of Middle Pleistocene Bears from Yarimburgaz Cave, Turkey accepted for publication, Paleobiology.

     

  • S.C. Josephson, K.E. Juell and A.R. Rogers. "Estimating Sexual Dimorphism by Method-of-Moments" American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 100: 191-206, 1996.

     

  • K. Carambelas and S.C. Josephson. "A Class III Cultural Resources Inventory for the Proposed Waste-Rock Disposal Site in Bingham Canyon, Utah" Desert West Research Technical Report 114, 1995.

     

  • D. Edwards, S.C. Josephson and J. Coltrain. "Burkina Faso Foragers and Optimal Foraging Theory; a Reconsideration" Human Ecology, No.2: 213-215, 1994.

     

  • S.C. Josephson and K. Carambelas. "The Old River Bed Survey: A Class III Cultural and Paleontological Resources Inventory of 2,000 Acres on Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele County, Utah" Desert West Research Technical Report 119, 1994.

     

  • S.C. Josephson, "Status, Reproductive Success, and Marrying Polygynously" Ethology and Sociobiology, 14:391-396, 1993.

     


Current Publications in prep

  • S.C. Josephson. Polygyny, Fertility, and Female Competition.

     

  • S.C. Josephson & K.E. Juell. Sexual Dimorphism in Gigantopithecus blacki

     

  • K.E. Juell, S.C. Josephson, J. Cormack and C.E. Hilton. Estimating Sexual Dimorphism in Hominid and Hominoid Mandibles.

     


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Auxiliary Faculty

Allan Ainsworth
Adj. Asst. Prof. (PhD U Utah). Medical anthropology, applied anthropology; North America.

F. James Allen
Visiting Prof. Prehistory of Australia, colonization of Sahul

Helen Alvarez
Instructor (PhD Utah). Evolutionary ecology. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Jesper L. Boldsen
Adj. Prof. (PhD U Aarhus-Denmark). Evolution of human life history, human osteology, epidemiology, paleodemography; Medieval Scandinavia, Europe.

Karen Ramey Burns
Adj. Prof. (PhD 1987, U Florida). Biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, human osteology; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

David Byers
Research Asst. Prof. (PhD U Utah, 2006).

Shawn W. Carlyle
Research. Asst. Prof. (PhD Utah, 2003). Biological anthropology, molecular archaeolgy of the US Southwest; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Gregory Cochran
Adj. Prof. Human evolutionary genetics 

Joan Brenner Coltrain
Research Assoc. Prof. (PhD Utah).. Archaeological method and theory, stable isotope chemistry; Great Basin, eastern Arctic.  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Janeen Arnold Costa
Adj Assoc Prof. (PhD Stanford, 1983). International marketing, consumer behavior, and qualitative methods

John N. Fritz
Adj. Asst. Prof (Ph U Utah, 1984). Native American anthropology, anthropology of religion; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it l

Carol Georgopoulos
Adj. Assoc. Prof. (PhD U California San Diego). Theoretical linguistics.

Donald V. Hague
Adj. Instructor (MA U Utah). Art history, museology

Kevin T. Jones
Adj. Assoc. Prof. (PhD U Utah). Hunter-gatherers, ethnoarchaeology, evolutionary ecology; western North America.

Steven Josephson 
Adj. Asst. Prof. (PhD U Utah). Hominid evolution, female reproductive behavior, evolutionary ecology, demography, hunter-gatherer ethnography

David Knowlton
Assoc. Prof./Lectuerer (PhD UT Austin 1988). Social theory, Latin American religion, Mormon studies, U.S. Latinos; Latin America, Aymara and Quechua ethnography;  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Elizabeth Larsen
Adj. Instructor

Bojka Milicic
Assoc. Prof./Lecturer (PhD U Utah). Cultural anthropology, kinship, gender, ethnohistory, social networks; Mediterranean and India:  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Lolita Nikolova
Adj. Asst. Prof. (PhD 1991). Archaeology and prehistory, pit grave culture, early Bronze Age; Balkans, Central Europe.

Shannon Novak
Res. Asst. Prof. (PhD Utah 1999). Forensic anthropology, skeletal biology, warfare, and gender violence.

Rebecca Olsen
Instructor (MA Utah). Cultural anthropology, women cross-culturally.

Renee Pennington
Asst. Prof./Lecturer (PhD Penn State). Demography, pastoralists, evolutionary ecology; Africa; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Eva Wasilewska
Assoc. Prof./Lecturer (PhD U Utah). Archaeology, anthropology of religion, early literate civilizations, nomadic societies, status of women; Middle East, Central Asia;  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it