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Brian Boyd
Adjunct Professor
Columbia University |
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Biography
Brian Boyd (M.A. Glasgow 1991; Ph.D. Cambridge 1996) is Adjuct Assistant Professor. Formerly Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology at the University of Wales, Lampeter, U.K.), he teaches “The Social Production of Technologies” (Fall 2007), “Holy Lands, Unholy Histories: Archaeology before the Bible” (Spring 2008), and “Humans and Other Animals: critical perspectives on human-animal relations” (Fall 2008).
Research:
Brian's main research interests focus on the archaeology of the prehistoric Levant, social technologies, archaeological theory, the history and philosophy of science, queer theory, and cultural politics in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. He has published several articles on theoretical aspects of the Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant and his first book “Beyond Bones: Towards a Social Archaeology of Human-Animal Relations” will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. He has been carrying out research and fieldwork in Israel and the Palestinian Territories for a number of years, and is currently directing the Western Hula Valley (Upper Jordan Valley) Landscape Survey.
Selected recent publications:
2001. The Natufian burials from el-Wad: beyond issues of social differentiation. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society. 31: 185-200.
2002. Ways of eating/ways of being in the Later Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant. In Hamilakis, Y., M. Pluciennik and S. Tarlow (eds.) Thinking through the body: archaeologies of corporeality. New York: Kluwer/Plenum, pp. 137-152.
2002. The Myth Makers: archaeology in Doctor Who. In Russell, M. (ed.) Digging holes in popular culture: archaeology and science fiction. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 30-37.
2004. Agency and landscape: abandoning the nature/culture dichotomy in interpretations of the Natufian. In Delage, C. (ed.) The last hunter-gatherer societies in the Near East. Oxford: BAR. I.S. 1320, pp. 119-136.
2005. Transforming food practices in the Later Epipaleolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant. In Archaeological Perspectives on the Transmission and Transformation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean (ed. J. Clarke). Oxford: Council for British Research in the Levant and Oxbow Books, pp. 106-112.
2006. On “sedentism” in the Later Epipaleolithic (Natufian) Levant. World Archaeology. 38/2: 164-177.
2008. Beyond bones: towards a social archaeology of human-animal relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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