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Education:

· 1969 Ph.D in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

· 1964 B.A. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

(subfields: Linguistics, Psychological Anthropology, Mesoamerica)

Professional Experience

· Professor, Anthropology, University of Texas, 1991 - present

· Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Texas, 1974 - 1991

· Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Texas, 1971 - 1974.

· Faculty Associate, Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin: 1969 - 1971

Research Experience

· Field research

in Veracruz, Mexico on Huastec Huastec Maya ethnozoology, speech socialization.

in San Luis Potosí, Mexico on Huastec Maya discourse, ethnobotany, speech

in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on glyphic inscriptions at Coba, Yucatec discourse.

in Chiapas, Mexico, on Maya epigraphy, Mayan calendar systems,

in Chihuahua, Mexico, on Tarahumara language and culture.

in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on iconography at Coba, Tulum, Xelha

in Chiapas, Mexico on Tzeltal dialects

in Veracruz, Mexico on Sayula Popoluca speech.

in Chiapas, Mexico on language universals, shamanism

in Oaxaca, Mexico on language universals, herbal medicine

in Highland Guatemala on language universals, herbal medicine

in Chiapas, Mexico on marriage systems, speech socialization, and divination,

in Chiapas, Mexico on sociolinguistics, language acquisition, law, curing, economics.

in Belize on Maya and Garifuna sociolinguistics.

in Jalisco, Mexico on patterns of social interaction in the city

in Elk Grove, California on early horizon archaeology and site mapping

Current Research Interests and Teaching Specialization

· Linguistic Anthropology

· Language Prehistory and Culture Change

· Mayan Languages and Maya Hieroglyphic Writing

· Olmec Languages and Olmec Symbolic Communication

· Indians of Mexico and Guatemala

· Iconography, Symbolism and Worldview

· Ethnobiological Classification and Nomenclature

· Ethnobotany in Mesoamerica

PUBLISHED MATERIALS

Books, Monographs, and Pamphlets

1987 (editor) MAYAN LANGUAGES AND THEIR SPEAKERS

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS (special volume on Mayans)

29, No. 4. 1987, 243 pp.

1978 DEMONS AND MONSTERS: TZELTAL TALES. Museum Brief

Number 24. Museum of Anthropology, University of Missouri,

Columbia, l978, v - 4O pp. (reviewed in AMERICAN

ANTHROPOLOGIST l979, MAYAN LINGUISTICS l98O)

1977 LOVE IN THE ARMPIT: TZELTAL TALES OF LOVE, MURDER

AND CANNIBALISM. Museum Brief Number 23. Museum of

Anthropology. University of Missouri, Columbia, 1977, iii + 27 pp.

1976 THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE. Dubuque, Iowa:

Wm. C. Brown Co. Publishers, 1976, v + 92 pp. (reviewed in

LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY 1977; AMERICAN SPEECH l978;

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 1979) (Chapter reprinted as

"Theories" in W. Leeds-Hurwitz, COMMUNICATION AND THE

EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATION. 1988. Needhan Heights: Ginn

Press., pp. 53-62)

Articles and Chapters

2006 "Maize in Word and Image in Southern Mesoamerica" in Staller, John E.,

Tykot, Robert H, and Bruce F. Benz (eds.), HISTORIES OF MAIZE:

MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO THE PREHISTORY,

LINGUISTICS, BIOGEOGRAPHY, DOMESTICATION, AND EVOLUTION

OF MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L), Elsevier Publishers. Chapter 42. pp. 577-598.

2005 "Introduction" in Spence, Lewis. THE MYTHS OF MEXICO AND

PERU. New York: Barnes & Noble. Pp. IX – XVII, 349-351

2000 "The Story of Grandfather Puma and Grandfather Possum: A Tzeltal Narrative."

in K. Sammons and J. Sherzer (eds.) TRANSLATING NATIVE LATIN

AMERICAN VERBAL ART: ETHNOPOETICS AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF

SPEAKING. Washington D.C.:Smithsonian Institution Press, pp.69-85.

1999 "The Hybrid Metaphor: From Biology to Culture" JOURNAL OF

AMERICAN FOLKLORE [D. Kapchan and P. Strong (eds.)] 112(445):254-267.

1998 "Seven Ingredients In Mesoamerican Ensoulment: Dedication and

Termination In Tenejapa"

in S.B. Mock (ed.), THE SOWING AND THE

DAWNING: TERMINATION, DEDICATION, AND

TRANSFORMATION IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF

MESOAMERICA. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

pp. 31-40.

1997 (with Diane Wirth) "The 'Le' Motif: Symbol of Lineage and Fertility

Among the Olmec and Maya" U-MUT MAYA 6:81-90.

1997 "Mesoamerican Copal Resins". U-MUT MAYA 6:177-186.

1997 "A Note on Three Kin Variants in Distance Numbers." U-MUT

MAYA 6:15-20.

1996 "The Cosmic Portal in Mesoamerica: an Early Zapotec Example"

RES: ANTHROPOLOGY AND AESTHETICS 29/30:82-101.

1995 "Paired Sets in the Hebrew Alphabet." AEON: A JOURNAL OF

MYTH AND SCIENCE. 4(1):64-96.

1994 "Glyphs on Classic Maya Vessels: The Introductory Formula of the

Primary Standard Sequence" in M.G. Robertson and V.M. Fields

(eds), SEVENTH PALENQUE ROUND TABLE, 1989. San

Francisco: The Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, pp. 187-193.

1994 "A Mayan Iconographic 'Literary' Convention". U-MUT MAYA

5:21-29.

1994 (with Cathy Junell) "The Deer as Western Sun". U-MUT MAYA

5:237-246.

1994 "Maize and Fish: The Iconography of Power in Late Formative

Mesoamerica." RES: ANTHROPOLOGY AND AESTHETICS

25:10-35 .

1994 "Maya Creation: a Shamanic Perspective." U-MUT MAYA 5:159-170.

1993 (with Leoncio A. Garza-Valdes) "The Shamanic Fire of Maya

Creation." PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL

CONGRESS OF SHAMANIC STUDIES 1993:577-579.

1993 "The Man in the Maw: An Olmec Way in the Sky" TEXAS NOTES

ON PRECOLUMBIAN ART, WRITING, AND CULTURE No. 43,

pp. 1-6.

1992 "Olmec Crayfish Farming." ESTUDIOS DE CULTURA MAYA

Vol. 19:133-186.

1992 (with Leoncio A. Garza-Valdes) "Rock Varnish on a Pre-Columbian

Green Jasper Fromn the Tropical Rain Forest (The Ahaw Pectoral)"

in P.B. Vandiver, J.R. Druzik, J. R., G. Wheeler, and I.C. Freestone

(eds.), MATERIALS ISSUES IN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY III.

pp. 891-900.

1992 "Maize and Blood: Mesoamerican Symbolism on an Olmec Vase and a

Maya Plate." RES: ANTHROPOLOGY AND AESTHETICS

22:82-107.

1992 "Genital Iconography in Landa's Alphabet" U-MUT MAYA 4:117-126

1992 "An Earflare in a Maya Name". U-MUT MAYA 4:275-282

1991 "El Titulo Makina Femenino." TLACATL 4:7-10.

1991 "Classic Maya Directional Glyphs" JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC

ANTHROPOLOGY 1:97-114.

1991 (with Kent Reilly) "Cielo y Tierra en La Mojarra" EXTENSION:

DIVULGACION DE CIENCIAS, TECNICAS Y HUMANIDADES

DE LA UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA 38:3O-41.

1991 "El Lenguaje de la Estela 1 de la Mojarra: Pez y Maiz" LA PALABRA

Y EL HOMBRE: REVISTA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD

VERACRUZANA 80, pp. 19-66.

1990 "Mesoamerican Writing at the Crossroads: The Late Formative."

VISIBLE LANGUAGE 29:38-62.

199O (with B. MacLeod) "The Wing-Quincunx" JOURNAL OF MAYAN

LINGUISTICS 7:14-32.

1990 (with Kent Reilly) "An Overview of Mesoamerica" VISIBLE

LANGUAGE 29:6-12

199O (with Justin Kerr) "Notes on the Maya Vision Quest Through Enema".

in J. Kerr ed., THE MAYA VASE BOOK, VOLUME 2,

pp. 348-361.

1989 "Maya Bloodletting and the Number Three." ANTHROPOLOGICAL

LINGUISTICS. 31:209-226.

1989 "Olmec Vessel With A Crayfish Icon: An Early Rebus." in W. Hanks

and D. Rice (eds), WORD AND IMAGE IN MAYA CULTURE:

EXPLORATIONS IN LANGUAGE, WRITING, AND

REPRESENTATION. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

pp. 143-164.

1989 "A note on the Copan Emblem Glyph." COPAN NOTE #54, COPAN

MOSAICS PROJECT. pp. 1-8.

1988 "The Burden of Office: a Reading." MEXICON 1O: 118-121.

1987 "Mayan Languages and Their Speakers: An Introduction." in

B. Stross (ed.), MAYAN LANGUAGES AND THEIR SPEAKERS.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS (special volume on Mayans)

29, No. 4. 1987, pp. 329-331.

1987 "Xibalba or Xibalbe" in B. Stross (ed.), MAYAN LANGUAGES

AND THEIR SPEAKERS. ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS

(special volume on Mayans) 29, No. 4. 1987, pp. 462-477.

1987 "Venus and Sirius, Some Unexpected Similarities."

KRONOS 12 (1):25-42.

1986 "Some Observations on T585 (Quincunx) of the Maya Script."

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS 28:283-311.

1985 "Palenque, the Name." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF

AMERICAN LINGUISTICS 51:592-594.

1985 "Maya Head Variant Numerals: The Olmec Case."

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS 27 (1):1-45.

1985 "Color Symbolism of a Maya Glyph: the Kan Cross." JOURNAL OF

MAYAN LINGUISTICS 5 (1):73-112.

1984 "City of Bones: Palenque of the Maya" ANTHROPOLOGICAL

LINGUISTICS 26 (1984), 295-292.

1983 "The Language of Zuyua." AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST lO (l983),

l5O-l64.

1983 "Oppositional Pairing in Mesoamerican Divinatory Day Names."

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS 25 (l983), 2ll-273. (63 pp.).

1982 "Maya Hieroglyphic Writing and Mixe-Zoquean."

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS 24 (l982), 73-l34. (61 pp).

1981 "The Nature of Language." in LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND

COGNITION, Ronald W. Casson (ed.), New York: Macmillan

Publishing co., l98l, 23-42.

1979 "Tzeltal Texts." in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AMERICAN

LINGUISTICS - NATIVE AMERICAN TEXTS SERIES, MAYAN

TEXTS II, L. Furbee-Losee (ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 1979, lO6-l2l.

1978 "Gossip in Ethnography." REVIEWS IN ANTHROPOLOGY 5 (l978),

l8l-l88.

1978 "Language Acquisition and Teaching." LANGUAGE ARTS 55 (l978),

75O-755.

1977 "Tzeltal Conceptions of Power." in THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF

POWER, R.D. Fogelson and R.N. Adams (eds.), New York:

Academic Press, l977, 27l-285.

1976 "Tzeltal Anatomical Terminology: Semantic Processes." MAYAN

LINGUISTICS l (l976), 243-267.

1975 "Linguistic Creativity in Song." in SOCIOCULTURAL DIMENSIONS

OF LANGUAGE USE, M. Sanches and B. Blount (eds.), New York:

Academic Press, l975, 3l7-347.

1975 "Variation and Natural Selection as Factors in Linguistic and Cultural

Change." in LINGUISTICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY: IN HONOR

OF C.F. VOEGELIN, M.D. Kinkade (ed.), Lisse: The Peter

DeRidder Press, l975, 49O-5l5.

1975 "Metaphor in the Speech Play of Tzeltal Children."

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS l7 (l975), 3O5-323.

1974 "Speaking of Speaking: Tenejapa Tzeltal Metalinguistics." in

EXPLORATIONS IN THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF SPEAKING, R.

Bauman and J. Sherzer (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, l974, 2l3-239.

1974 "Tzeltal Marriage by Capture." ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY

47 (l974), 328-346.

1973 "Acquisition of Botanical Terminology by Tzeltal Children." in

MEANING IN MAYAN LANGUAGES, M.S. Edmonson (ed.) The

Hague: Mouton and Co., l973, lO7-l4l.

1973 "Social Structure and Role Allocation in Tzeltal Oral Literature."

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE 86 (l973), 95-ll3.

1973 "Reconstructed Humor in a Tzeltal Ritual Formula."

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS 34

(l973), 32-43.

1973 "El Contexto Sociocultural en la Adquisicion de la Lengua Tzeltal."

ESTUDIOS DE CULTURA MAYA 9 (l973), 257-3Ol.

1972 "Verbal Processes in Tzeltal Speech Socialization."

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS l4 (l972), l-l3.

1971 "Serial Order in Nez Perce Myths." JOURNAL OF AMERICAN

FOLKLORE 84 (l97l), lO4-ll3. reprinted in A. Paredes and R.

Bauman (eds), TOWARD NEW PERSPECTIVES IN FOLKLORE,

Austin: The University of Texas Press, l972, lO4-ll3.

197O "Tzeltal: Acquisition and Componentiality." CHICAGO

LINGUISTIC SOCIETY PAPERS 6 (l97O), l2O-l28.

197O "Elicited Imitations in the Study of Tenejapa Tzeltal Language

Acquisition." ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS l2 (l97O),

3l9-325.

1967 "The Mexican Cantina as a Setting for Interaction." THE KROEBER

ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY PAPERS 37 (1967), 58-89.

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