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Summer Scholars - 2002 

Bruce Bernstein
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellowship
Affiliation at the time of Fellowship: Assistant Director for Cultural Resources, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Insitution
Project: "The Marketing of Culture: Pottery and Santa Fe's Indian Market"
The culture created by artists, buyers, and promoters is examined, and Indian art and tourism are discussed in this anthropological study of Santa Fe's Indian Market.

Ann Fabian
William Y. and Nettie K. Adams Fellowship
Affiliation at the time of fellowship: Associate Professor, American Studies and History, Rutgers University
Project: "Headhunting in America"
The collection, display, and repatriation of human remains are discussed in this culture historical study of 19th century physician and skull collector, Samuel George Morton.

Grant D. Jones
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellowship
Affiliation at the time of fellowship: Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Davidson College
Project: "Indigenous Resistance Movements in Colonial Latin America"
In this proposed book chapter, ethnohistorical research on colonial-period, lowland Maya resistance movements inYucatan, the Guatemalan Peten, and Belize is examined within the broader context of indigenous resistance movements.

Ann Palkovich
Arroyo Hondo Fellowship
Affiliation at the time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University
Project: "Arroyo Hondo Reanalysis"
Burials from the Arroyo Hondo site near Santa Fe, New Mexico are reanalyzed, and a Guide to the Arroyo Hondo Collections is drafted.

Stephen Plog 
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellowship
Affiliation at the time of fellowship: Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia
Project: "Ritual and Society: The Cultural Dynamics of the Pueblo World"
Unpublished reports and excavation records on Chaco Canyon are examined in this book-length manuscript on Pueblo ritual and society from AD 1000-1250.

Martha A. Sandweiss
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellowship
Affiliation at the time of fellowship: Professor, Department of American Studies and History, Amherst College
Project: "Indian Culture as National Heritage: The Case of the Zia Sun Symbol"
The ways in which the material artifacts of prehistoric and historic southwestern Indians have been incorporated into a national American heritage are examined in this study of the Zia sun symbol used on the New Mexico state flag.

Jill D. Sweet
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellowship
Affiliation at the time of fellowship: Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Skidmore College
Project: "Dances of the Tewa Pueblo Indians: Expressions of New Life"
This 1985 book published by the School for Advanced Research Press will be updated and expanded to include a commentary on the changes in village ritual dances and theatrical productions during the past 20 years.