User:DHBoggs
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Anthropologist
Appalacian raised scion of an old, Scotch-Irish colonial family of Kentucky (father) and Pennsylvania Dutch(mother) pioneers. Four of my ancestors were Revolutionary War veterans. My wife is from the island of Mindanao.
Growing up, my family's occupation was timber-frame carpentry, real estate and hobby farming; a tradition my brother continues.
BA Communications 1990 Penn State (film, writing, text analysis, and production)
MA Anthropology 2004 SUNY University at Albany
Archaeology and research in ten states, Iceland, Ireland
Curretly: Doctoral program UAlbany focusing on sub arctic community archaeology in the North Atlantic.
Interests: Circumpolar Subarctic archaeology and ethnology with an emphasis on island environments, particulrly the North Atlantic during the Viking expansion, the Aluetians, Hokkaido/Sakhalin/Kurils, and a and similar interest in the European Paleolithic and, in contrast, the South Pacific. I utilize the approaches of Symbolic Ecology, Historical Ecology, Chaos, Contingency and Dual Inheritance theory to study community and settlement pattern in mixed subsistence systems. I research how the symbolically encoded, culturally defined perception of the environment influences survival related activities, crafts, and architecture and how people form social organizations, communities, hierarchies and heterarchies. Ultimately, success or failure in evolutionary terms, quality of life, and lesson to be learned resulting from various cultural practice are the major points of interest to me. I am currently engaged in a comparative community based study of Greenlandic Norse and Inuit sheep herding ecology.
Related interests include: Material Culture and its recursive psychological effects. Household Archaeology and Folk Technology. Small Community, sense of community, and Evolutionary adaptation. Prehistoric technology and landscape use – particularly of rangifer hunting societies. Neolithic to Viking Age technology and landscape use – particularly of North Atlantic islands. Small farms/circumpolar mixed hunting/sheep farming economies. Philippine, Polynesian, and Mayan Ethnography. Contact and Viking Period living history Horses Hunting and Fishing Archery Cooking and Family
