SKOMP SPEAKERS

The Skomp Distinguished Lecture Series in Anthropology is made possible by an endownment provided to the Indiana University Anthropology Department in 1983 by David Skomp (AB 1962; MS 1965). Mr. Skomp studied under the direction of Dr. George Neumann. He left the remainder of this estate for the use of the Department. The Skomp Endowment currently provides support for anthropology students in the form of first-year fellowships, summer field research grants, dissertation-year fellowships, and distinguished lectures such as these.

02/20/1986	Clyde Collins Snow	"Bones of Contention: Forensic Anthropology Investigations of Argentinas Desaparecidos"
03/11/1986	David Pilbeam	"Human Origins"
10/00/1986	Roy A. Rappaport	"The Construction of Time and Eternity in Ritual"
03/30/1987	J. Desmond Clark	"Blood from Stones"
11/13/1987	Michael Silverstein	"Linguistic Categories and the Tropology of Culture"
02/00/1989	Chatherine Perles	"From Stone Procurement to Neolithic Society in Greece"
04/15/1991	George W. Stocking, Jr.	"Books Unwritten: Turning Points Unmarked: Notes for an Anti-History of Anthropology"
04/16/1992	C. Loring Brace	"Modern Human Origins: Narrow Focus or Broad Spectrum?"
02/25/1994	Alison Wylie	"Pragmatism and Politics: Understanding the Emergence of Gender Research in Archaeology"
03/21/1996	Jane H. Hill	"Languages on the Land: Toward an Athropological Dialectology"
01/29/1997	James A. Boon	"The Cross-Cultural Kiss: Edwardian and Earlier, Postmodern and Beyond"
09/17/1997	Wallace Chafe	"The Importance of Native American Languages"
11/19/1998	Katherine A. Dettwyler	"Evolutionary Medicine and Breastfeeding: Implications for Research and Pediatric Advice"
02/18/2000	Ian Hodder	"Archaeology and Globalism"
04/19/2001	Charles Keyes	"Cultural Difference, the Nation State, and Rethinking Ethnicity Theory"
04/22/2002	Regna Darnell	"Languages and the (Re-)Formulation of Culture/Society"
04/30/2003	Siney Mintz	"Devouring Objects of Study: Food and Fieldwork"
04/23/2004	Cynthia Beall	"Tibetan Adaptation to High Altitude"
04/12/2005	Barry Cunliffe	"So-Who are the Celts?"
04/10/2006	John B. Haviland	"Icepicks and Amulets: Merolicos in Mexico"
11/09/2007	Jean Comaroff	"Ethnicity, Inc"