Longer 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)
·
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
· 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
Indians of South
America (undergraduate)
Indians of Mexico and
Guatemala (undergraduate)
Social
Anthropology of Middle America
(undergraduate)
The
Origin and Evolution of Language
(undergraduate)
Introduction to Graduate Linguistic Anthropology (graduate)
Language, Culture, and Society (undergraduate)
Speech Play and Verbal Art (graduate)
Sociolinguistics (graduate)
Ethnosemantics (graduate)
Worldview,
Symbolism, and Iconography (graduate)
Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development (undergraduate)
Language and Prehistory (graduate, undergraduate)
Introductory
Cultural Anthropology
(undergraduate)
Maya
Hieroglyphic Writing
(undergraduate)
Mayan Languages (graduate)
Food in Discourse and Thought (graduate)
The Anthropology of Food (undergraduate)
Culture and Communication (undergraduate)
Ethnobotany:
An Introduction (graduate)
Mesoamerican Ethnobotany (graduate)
·
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
·
Food and Culture
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
.
Articles
and Chapters
n.d. “Food, Foam, and Fermentation” Food, Culture and Society. (In Press)
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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
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.
Reviews
2009 (Review) Kitchenspace:
Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central
Mexico. Maria Elisa Christie. Ethnohistory 56(4):756-7.
2008. (Review) Maya
Calendar Origins. Prudence
Rice. Ethnohistory
55(4):693-695.
2006 (Review) Thunder Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Anath Ariel
de Vidas. Journal of Latin
American Anthropology 11(2):495-497.
2004. (Review) Heart of Creation: The Mesoamerican World
and the Legacy of
Linda Schele. Andrea Stone
(ed.). Latin American Antiquity
15 (4):462-464.
2003 (Review) Zapotec Hieroglyphic Writing.
Javier
Urcid Serrano.
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 9
(2):390-391.
2003 (Review)
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World:
The Serial Stela Cycle
of
"18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan. Elizabeth A.
Newsome. The
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 13 (1):
127-129.
1999 (Review) Language and Culture,
David L. Shaul and N. Louanna Furbee.
Anthropological
Linguistics 41:264‑266.
1997 (Review) The Relationship Among the
Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico.
Sren Wichmann. Anthropological Linguistics
39(2):161-163.
1991 (Review,
Film) Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth
of the Maya. Patricia Amlin.
University
of Califronia Extension Media Center. American
Anthropologist
93:258‑9.
1989 (Review) Speak Into the Mirror: A Story of Linguistic Anthropology.
John
Doe. American Anthropologist 91 (1989), 1O4O‑1O41.
l982 (Review) Inhaltliche Analyse Und Interpretation
Von Codex Egerton,
Viola
Konig. American Anthropologist 84 (l982), 24l.
l982 (Review)
Speech, Writing, and Sign: A
Functional View of Linguistic
Representation,
Naomi S. Baron. American
Anthropologist 84 (l982), l86.
l98l (Review) The Codex Perez and the Book of Chilam
Balam of Mani, Eugene R.
Craine
and Reginald C. Reindorp, eds. American Anthropologist 83 (l98l), 232.
l98l (Review) Gramática
Zapoteca: Zapoteco de Tatzachi el Bajo,
Inez M. Butler
H. American
Anthropologist 83 (l98l), 736‑7.
l98l (Review) Native
American Texts Series: Mayan Texts III,
Louanna Furbee,
ed., Journal
of Mayan Linguistics 3 (l98l), 87‑88.
l98l (Review) Speech
Act Verbs, Jef Verschueren. Language in Society
lO (l98l), 456‑459.
l979 (Review) Yaxchilan
(Menche Tinamit) Dokumantation Der Inschriften,
Berthold Riese.
American Anthropologist
8l (l979), 456.
l979 (Review) Diccionario Tzotzil de San Andres Con
Variaciones Dialectales,
Alfa
Hurley Vda. de Delgaty and Agustin Ruiz Sanchez. American Anthropologist
8l
(l979), 986.
l978 (Review) The Acquisition of maya Phonology: Variation in Yucatec Child
Language. H. Stephen
Straight. Language 54 (l978), 748‑75O.
l978 (Review) Quichean
Linguistic Prehistory. Lyle
Campbell.
American
Anthropologist 8O (l978), 979‑98O.
l977 (Review) Language
Origins: A Bibliography, Gordon W.
Hewes
(compiler). American Anthropologist 79 (l977), 954.
l974 (Review) Language
Acquisition: Models and Methods. R.
Huxley and E.
Ingram (eds.).
American Anthropologist
76 (l974), l63‑l65.
l974 (Review) Studies in Linguistics in Honor of
George L. Trager. M. Estellie
Smith (ed.). American
Anthropologist 76 (l974), 459‑46l.
l973 (Review) The Acquisition of Language, by
David McNeill.
American
Anthropologist 75 (l973), l9l2‑l9l3.
l972 (Review) Cognition: A Multiple View, by Paul
L. Garvin (ed.),
American
Anthropologist 74 (l972), 842‑844.
l97l (Review) The Zinacantecos of Mexico, by
Evon Z. Vogt.
American
Historical Review 5l (l97l),
4O9.
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