2022-11-16 BB - Jordi Rivera Prince: Social Inequality: Perspectives from Peru...

Note that this presentation contains images of human remains
Social Inequality: Perspectives from Peru's late Early Horizon (400-200 BCE) and Present Day Archaeological Practice
Lecture | November 16 | 12:10-1 p.m. | Virtual event
Speaker: Jordi Rivera Prince, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville
Abstract: In this talk, Jordi Rivera Prince will tie social inequality through the past and the present addressing her own bioarchaeological research in the North Coast of the Central Andes, and her experience today in academia and a Mexican-American woman of color from a working-class background. Her bioarchaeological study centers on a small-scale fishing community at the La Iglesia site (ca. 400-200 BCE), located in modern-day Huanchaco, Peru. From personal experience, the talk will relate how minoritized individuals may receive unequal access to goods, information, and power in the discipline. It will address how her experience thus far necessarily guides her research and practice as an archaeologist studying social inequality.
About the speaker: Jordi Rivera Prince is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Florida. Blending two complementary subdisciplines, bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology, her fieldwork centers around the emergence of social inequality in small-scale maritime communities located in the ancient Andes. Jordi also investigates social inequality in current archaeological practice and theories. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Florida, respectively. Her work has been funded by the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Program, National Science Foundation, and Wenner-Gren Foundation.