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Engendered Comics and Social Interdependency: An Ethnography of the University of Wyoming Visiting Archaeological Scholars' Laboratory (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew R. Pistono.

In the spring of 1994, ethnographic fieldwork was conducted at the University of Wyoming Visiting Scholars’ laboratory . The organization of the labor process was analyzed that evidenced social interdependency. The laboratory functioned properly because of the pragmatic actions of the director of the laboratory. While openly demonstrating personal views on gender biases in western society, the University, and archaeology, the director diffused any animosity among workers by adorning the...


Photographing the Past, Public Production (1952)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ralph Solecki.

The agreement between the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution in 1945, which committed the latter agency to the scientific responsibility for archeological investigations in the Missouri River Basin, touched off the greatest series of integrated archeological investigations over a wide area that this country has ever seen. The archeologist worked with the rushing waters of each new Missouri River Basin reservoir virtually at its heels. If the work was to be done, it must be...