SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: Like Water for Chocolate: Ka’kaw in Domestic & Political Rituals Among Ancient Maya of Central America

Presented by: Dr. Lisa J. LeCount

Presenter bio: Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Alabama; Archaeologist researching social and political practices, such as feasting, gift giving, market exchange, & cooperative undertakings that built alliances and created identities in ancient state-level polities. Former director, Actuncan Archaeological Project investigating roles households played in the rise and fall of Maya kingship at Acuntan, Belize. She has also conducted field excavations in Peru, Ecuador, and North America, including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California. Her technical specialty is Pre-Columbian pottery. Co-Editor (w/BJ Myers), The Only True People: Linking Maya Identities Past and Present; (w/J Yeager), Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands.