Stacie King Research Collection

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The Marking of Age in Ancient Coastal Oaxaca
(University Press of Colorado, 2006) King, Stacie M.
Research on gender by feminist anthropologists during the last two decades has inspired recent theoretical and methodological work on the subject of crosscutting social identities and "intersectionality" (Moore 1993; Collins 1999; Meskell 2001). Of particular interest is how social identities differentiate individuals and groups of people, as well as how varied identities can overlap and intersect based on age, sex/gender, class, ethnic affiliation, and sexuality (Meskell 1998). As a result, archaeologists have begun to consider age-based identities in addition to social identities based on gender or status alone (see also Sofaer Derevenski 1994a, 2000; Lillehammer 1989; Moore and Scott 1997; Scott 1999; Kamp 2001). To do so, it is necessary to recognize the disjuncture between skeletal age (infants, juveniles, sub-adults, and adults) and cultural categories (children, adults), much in the same way sex and gender are separate (Sofaer Derevenski 1994b:8-10). In many circumstances, gender itself is an age-dependent category (Gilchrist 1997; Lesick 1997:35; Lucy 1997:154; R. Joyce 2000a). Thus, recent work has sought to define childhood and adulthood (and all age-based social differences) based on emic categories using archaeological evidence specific to the culture being studied so as to develop local "cultural theories on ageing" (Lillehammer 2000:24).
Moving Toward Public Archaeology in the Nejapa Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
(Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena, 2012) Konwest, Elizabeth; King, Stacie M.
Starting any new archaeological project comes with difficult challenges and gratifying rewards. This is especially true for a project that seeks to incorporate public archaeology from its very inception. The Proyecto Arqueológico Nejapa y Tavela was initiated in 2007 by Stacie M. King in an area of Oaxaca without previous formal archaeological work. This paper seeks to explore the various methods we have used to incorporate a public component from the beginning of the project until the present. Public archaeology was conducted in the Nejapa Valley in the communities of Nejapa de Madero and Santa Ana Tavela, which vary in location within the valley, size, access to resources, and concerns among community members. The two towns also have different systems of land tenure that we propose is connected to different levels of local interest and investment in the practice and results of archaeological research. Our initial public archaeology methods included public talks, participation in local events, and the presentation of framed posters about archaeological findings to each town. We discuss the outcomes of these initial efforts, outline more recent and more successful approaches, and discuss our plans to include a community-based research component.
Interregional Networks of the Oaxacan Early Postclassic: Connecting the Coast and the Highlands
(University Press of Colorado, 2008) King, Stacie M.
Rulers of successful highland Mesoamerican cities, such as Teotihuacan and Monte Albán, had good reason for establishing and maintaining ties with coastal Oaxacan communities during the prehispanic era. The climatological and ecological regime of coastal Oaxaca made it a highly valuable and politically important region throughout prehispanic and early Colonial Mesoamerica. The raw material for many desirable Mesoamerican luxury goods, such as feathers, marine shell, pupura dye, cacao, and cotton were abundantly available in coastal Oaxaca, as were salt and palm products (e.g., oils and fibers) (Byland and Pohl 1994; Feinman and Nicholas 1992; Monaghan 1994; Spores 1993). The lower Río Verde Valley, in particular, has extremely fertile agricultural land owing in part to the alluvial deposition of eroded topsoil from the highlands along the coastal plain (Figure 8.1) ( Joyce and Mueller 1992, 1997). The lower Verde site of Río Viejo grew to its largest size and maintained control over a vast coastal area during most of the Classic period (250– 800 CE) ( Joyce and King 2001; Joyce and Workinger 1996) in part because of the wealth and power generated from managing the export of coastal resources to the highlands.
Review: Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
(Journal of Anthropological Research, 2007) King, Stacie M.
This work is a book review considering the title Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology by Elizabeth C. Robertson, Jeffrey D. Seibert, Deepika C. Fernandez, and Marc U. Zender.
Review: Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico
(Museum Anthropology Review, 2016) King, Stacie M.
This work is a book review considering the title Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico by Ronda L. Brulotte.
Review: Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico
(Journal of Anthropological Research, 2016) King, Stacie M.
Stacie Kings reviews "Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico." Danny Zborover and Peter C. Kroefges, eds. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2015, 416 pp. $75.00, cloth. ISBN 978-1607323280.
Más que conquista: un cuentode dos fortalezas en laregión de Nejapa
(Cuadernos del Sur, 2014-01) King, Stacie M.; Konwest, Elizabeth; Workinger, Andrew; Badillo, Alex Elvis; Enríquez, Juan Jarquín
Religious Practice in the Ancient Americas and the Ontological Turn
(Current Anthropology, 2015-12) King, Stacie M.
Stacie King's comment on "Ensoulment, Entrapment, and Political Centralization A Comparative Study of Religion and Politics in Later Formative Oaxaca," where Arthur A. Joyce and Sarah B. Barber examine the interplay of religion and politics during the later Formative period of Mesoamerica through a comparison of two regions of southern Mexico: the lower Río Verde Valley and the Valley of Oaxaca.
Comment on Style, Memory, and the Production of History: Aztec Pottery and the Materialization of Toltec Legacy
(Current Anthropology, 2018-12) King, Stacie M.
Stacie King's comments on Kristin De Lucia's "Style, Memory, and the Production of History: Aztec Pottery and the Materialization of a Toltec Legacy," which explores the role of material culture, specifically ceramics, in the construction of identity, social memory, and understandings of the past in the Postclassic Basin of Mexico.
Conexiones globales y locales en entierros coloniales en Nejapa, Oaxaca
(Anales de Antropología, 2020-01) Konwest, Elizabeth; King, Stacie M.; Higelin Ponce de León, Ricardo
In Majaltepec, an Early Colonial town in the mountains of the Nejapa region, at least eight individuals were buried below the floor of an elite adobe house, some with offerings of glass and jet beads, a metal knife, and a ceramic spindle whorl. The individuals were interred in multiple phases and they ranged in age from infancy to 15–21 years of age at death. The 448 beads and bead fragments were made using various techniques, including gold plating, and were likely produced in Spain, France, and Venice. They were probably brought to the Nejapa region by Dominican clergymen tasked with proselytizing and extracting tribute from local indigenous peoples throughout Mexico. A majority of the beads were found as part of a piece (or pieces) of jewelry with a copper clasp; a few of the beads are still strung by cot-ton thread. While tied into inter-continental networks of exchange, the residents of Nejapa adapted foreign goods to local indigenous systems in and outside of mortuary practices. This study offers a glimpse of the dynamic global and local connections maintained by even re-mote residents in the rapidly changing setting of the Early Colonial period.

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