Heritage, History and Memory
Heritage, History and Memory
This cluster examines how people, cultural practices and events are remembered, represented and memorialized (or forgotten) both cross-culturally and across time and space.
Researchers investigate the oftentimes contested meanings of heritage-making practices (e.g., museums, archaeological heritage sites, modern nationalist spectacles), and how particular sociocultural identities, such as nationalism, ethnicity, gender and race, among others, are produced and destabilized.
Researchers
Andy Roddick PhD
chair, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Anthropology
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23913
Basit Iqbal PhD
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
associate-member, Religious Studies
(905) 525-9140 ext. 24283
Ellen Badone PhD
professor-emeritus, Anthropology
professor-emeritus, Religious Studies
member, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
Kee Yong PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
member, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23907
Shanti Morell-Hart PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23909
Tracy Prowse PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Anthropology
adeansoc@mcmaster.ca prowset@mcmaster.ca
(905) 525-9140 ext. 26077
Petra Rethmann PhD
Professor, Anthropology
director-graduate-advisor, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
(905) 525-9140 ext. 26259
Affiliated Courses
Level I
1AB3: Race, Religion, and Violence
Level II
2BB3: Ancient Mesoamerica
2DO3: DNA Meets Anthropology
2FO3: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
2HE3: Heritage, Economy, and Ethics
2HH3: Science, Technology, and Society
2OO3: Themes in the Archaeological History of North America
2PA3: Intro to Anthropological Archaeology
2PC3: Aliens, Curses, and Nazis
2RO3: Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft
2RP3: Religion and Power in the Past
2UO3: Plagues and Peoples
2WA3: Neanderthals to Pyramids
Level III
3AS3: Archaeology and Society
3BF3: Bioarchaeological Field School
3DD3: Archaeology of Death
3EM3: Current Debates in Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory
3FO3: Anthropology and the Other(ed)
3GG3: Anthropology of Europe
3LA3: Lithics Analysis
3PH3: Dissent, Power and History
3PP3: Paleopathology
3KO3: Archaeological Interpretation
Level IV
4DN3: Diet and Nutrition
4DO3: Zombies and the Undead
4EE3: Archaeology In (And Of) the Present
4GS3: Genetics and Society
4RO3: Advanced Skeletal Biology
4AA3: Materiality
4AH3: Archaeology & Heritage: Ethics, Politics & Practice
Graduate
720: Politics of Desire
733: Archaeologies of Identity
734: Indigenous Knowledge
738: Archaeology as History
743: Anthropology of Space, Place, and Landscape
744: Ancient Biomolecules
749: Gastronomic Heritage
780: Approaches to Islam
786: Global Futures
787: Object Worlds
Research Programs
Archaeology Research Program
Biological Anthropology Research Program
Sociocultural Anthropology Research Program
Anthropology of Health Research Program
Research Clusters
While the department covers four main Research Programs (sub-fields) in Anthropology, we also integrate these Research Programs in six key areas of expertise and investigation: Art and New Materialisms; Ecologies, Resilience and Change; Embodiment, Health and Wellbeing; Foodways, Diet and Nutrition; Heritage, History and Memory; and Migrations, Displacements and Violence.
Ecologies, Resilience and Change