Brief CV  --    Brian M Stross

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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

·  Indigenous Mesoamerica

·  Iconography, Symbolism and Worldview

·  Ethnobiological Classification and Nomenclature

·  Ethnobotany in Mesoamerica

 

 

 

PUBLISHED MATERIALS

 

Books, Monographs, and Pamphlets    

 

1992                 Ch'orti' Mayan Lexicon.  Language Laboratory, Dept. of Anthropology,

University of Texas (transcribed and transliterated from handwritten fieldnotes of

C. Wisdom)  published in full on internet site:

                        http://www.utexas.edu/courses/stross/chorti/index.html   ( & )

 

1990                 Annotated Ch'olti' Dictionary.  Language Laboratory, Dept. of Anthropology,

U. of Texas.   published in full on internet site:

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/stross/choltiproject/choltiproj1.htm                  

 

1987                 (editor) Mayan Languages and Their Speakers.  (special volume on Mayans)  

Anthropological Linguistics   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 ‑ 40 pp. 

(reviewed in American Anthropologist l979,  Mayan Linguistics l980)

 

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.

 

1975                 Variation and Natural Selection as Factors in Linguistic and Cultural Change.

The Hague:  Peter de Ridder Press, (Publications in Linguistic

Change, No. 2)  1975

 

1969                 Language Acquisition by Tenejapa Tzeltal Children.  Working Paper No. 2O. 

Language‑Behavior Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 1969

 

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Articles and Chapters

 

 

n.d.                   "Alcohol."  In Precolumbian Latin America to 1560.  Francis, J. Michael (ed.)

                        New York:  Facts on File.  (In Press)

 

 

2010.                "This World and Beyond:  Food Practices and the Social Order in Maya Religion”  

in Pre-Columbian Foodways:  Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture and Markets

in Mesoamerica, John E. Staller and Michael Carrasco (eds.),  New York:  Springer.

(In Press)

 

2009                 "Eight Reinterpretations of Submerged Symbolism in the Mayan Popol

Wuj.”  Anthropological Linguistics [2007]   49(3-4):388-423.     

 

2008                 "K'u: The Divine Monkey."  Journal of Mesoamerican Languages

 and Linguistics 1: 1-34.  (pdf) (Online Journal)

 

2008                 “Representation, Memory, and Power: Pre-Columbian Landscapes of Creation and

Origin."  In John E Staller (ed),  Pre-Columbian Landscapes of Creation and Origin.  

New York:  Springer.  Pp. 357-378.

 

2008                "Prólogo." in  Juan José Marín Hernández and Patricia Vega Jiménez (eds.),

Tendencias del Consumo en Mesoamérica.  Universidad de

Costa Rica.  pp. xiii – xviii.

 

2007                 "The Armadillo Stool."   Wayeb Notes  No. 25:1-15, 2007  (pdf)

 

2007                 "The Mesoamerican Sacrum Bone: Doorway to the Otherworld." 

                        FAMSI Journal of the Ancient Americas. (pdf) (Online Journal).  pp.1-54.

 

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

                        Robert H. Tykot, and Bruce F. Benz (eds.), Histories of Maize: 

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography,

Domestication, and Evolution of Maize (Zea Mays L.), New York:  Elsevier

Publishers.  Chapter 42.  pp. 577-598. 

 

2005                 "Introduction"  in Lewis Spence, 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 J. Sherzer and K. Sammons (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 . (pdf)

 

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 From 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"  Extensión:

                        Divulgación De Ciencias, Tecnicas y Humanidades de la Unviersidad

                        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 80:19-66

 

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

                        Visible Language 29:38‑62.

 

1990                 (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

 

1990                 (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

                            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  10 (l983),

                        l50‑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.

 

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: Ethnographic

Studies From Asia, Oceania, and the New World.  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), 257‑30l.

 

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                 (with Dan I. Slobin) "Semantics."  in A Field Manual for Cross-Cultural Study

of the Acquisition of Communicative Competence.  D. Slobin (ed.), University

of California A.S.U.C., Berkeley, 1967, l21‑l28.

 

1967                 "Recording Apparatus and Techniques."  in A Field Manual for Cross-Cultural

                        Study of the Acquisition of Communicative Competence D. Slobin (ed.), 

                        University of California A.S.U.C., Berkeley, 1967, 7l‑83.

 

1967                 "Linguistic Taboos."  in A Field Manual for Cross-Cultural Study of the

                        Acquisition of Communicative Competence.  D. Slobin (ed.), University of

                        California A.S.U.C., Berkeley, 1967, l8O‑l85.

 

1967                 "The Mexican Cantina as a Setting for Interaction."  The Kroeber Anthropological

Society Papers  37 (1967), 58‑89.

 

 

 

 

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