Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies

Tulane University

Victoria Bricker

Professor Emerita - Anthropology

Degrees

  • B.A., Stanford University, Philosophy and Humanities, 1962
  • M.A., Harvard University, Anthropology, 1963
  • Ph.D., Harvard University, Anthropology, 1968

Academic Experience

  • Professor, Tulane University, 1978-
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1973-1978
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1970-1973
  • Visiting Lecturer, Tulane University, 1969-1970

Research & Teaching Specializations: Mexico; Anthropology; Mesoamerican Ethnohistory and Linguistics; Epigraphy; Ethnography

Related Experience

  • Chair, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 1988-1991
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Mayan Linguistics, 1978-
  • Series Editor, Supplement to Handbook of Middle American Indians, 1977-
  • Editor, American Ethnologist, 1973-1976

Distinctions

  • Elected to membership in American Philosophical Society, 2002
  • Elected to membership in the National Academy of Science, 1991
  • Editorial Board, Middle American Research Institute, 1981-
  • Executive Board, American Anthropological Association, 1980-

Languages: Spanish; Maya-Tzotzil; Maya-Yucatec

Selected Publications

  • 2004. “Unwinding the Rubber Ball: The Glyphic Expression nahb’ as a Numberical Classifier for ‘Handspan.’” With Markus Eberl. In Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing. No. 55. Washington, DC: Center for Maya Research.
  • 2003. “New Perspectives on the Madrid Codex.” With Gabrielle Vail et al. Current Anthropology. 44 (5): S105-S112.
  • 2002. An Encounter of Two Worlds: The Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua. With Helga-Maria Miram. Middle American Research Institute, Publication 68. New Orleans: Tulane University.
  • 1998. A Dictionary of the Maya Language as Spoken in Hocaba, Yucatan. With Eleuterio Po’ot Yah and Ofelia Dzul de Po’ot. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
  • 1997. Papers on the Madrid Codex. With Gabrielle Vail. Middle American Research Institute, Publication 64. New Orleans: Tulane University.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: Cultural Anthropology; Spoken Yucatecan Maya; Social Structure; Aztec and Maya Literature; Ritual; Colonial Maya; Mesoamerican Divinatory Codices; Maya Archaeoastronomy

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 13

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Ecuador: Tropical Field Biology and Conservation
Chocó Rainforest, Ecuador | Tentative dates: August 9 – August 23, 2013

Application deadline: January 28, 2013
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All majors are welcome to apply to spend two weeks in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. Ecuador: Tropical Field Biology and Conservation gives students the opportunity to apply the theory and knowledge they have acquired in the classroom to the real world. Students will travel with Dr. Karubian and Dr. Duraes to Ecuador for a two-week intensive field course. While on the course, students will experience first-hand the challenges and rewards of conducting field research and implementing conservation activities in tropical environments. These activities will take place within a context of community engagement based on active collaboration and interaction with Ecuadorian local residents in a variety of contexts.

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