Anthropology Faculty

 

Kent G. Lightfoot
Archaeology
213, 2251 College
510.642.1309
kgl53@sbcglobal.net

 

Office Hours: Wed(2-4), Thurs(2-3)

Teaching

Fall 2009

California Historical Analysis (Anthro 174AC)
Archaeology of Colonialism (Anthro 230)

Research Interests

My general research interests include North American archaeology, coastal hunter-gatherer societies, the emergence of early village communities, and culture contact between Native peoples and European explorers and colonists. My current work focuses on how indigenous peoples responded to European contact and colonialism, and how the outcomes of these encounters influenced cultural developments in postcolonial contexts. I am currently involved in various field projects in California and Baja California.

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Representative publications

Lightfoot, KG. and Otis Parrish 2009 California Indians and their Environment: An Introduction. University of California Press, Berkeley

Lightfoot , K.G. 2005 Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the Colonial Frontiers. University of California Press, Berkeley.

1997. The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California (edited with Thomas Wake and Ann Schiff). Volume 2, The Native Alaskan Neighborhood: A Multiethnic Community at Colony Ross. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 55.

1991. The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California (edited with Thomas Wake and Ann Schiff). Volume 1. Introduction. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 49.

1989. The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies (edited with Upham, Steadman, and Roberta Jewett). Boulder: Westview Press.

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