{"id":624,"date":"2021-11-23T13:17:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=624"},"modified":"2023-08-05T13:13:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T17:13:33","slug":"anthropology","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/profile\/anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/\">Anthropology Department Page<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Barfield-.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1068 aligncenter\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Barfield-.png 628w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Barfield--150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Barfield--100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/thomas-barfield\/\"><strong>Thomas Barfield, Professor<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thomas Barfield is a social anthropologist who first conducted ethnographic fieldwork among pastoral nomads in Afghanistan during the 1970s and wrote three book length studies on the country&#8217;s people, politics, and traditions of indigenous architecture. He has combined anthropology with history to explore the relationship between the steppe nomads and China over the course of two millenia (<em>The Perilous Frontier<\/em>, 1989) and has just published a comparative study of ancient and medieval Eurasian empires\u00a0(<em>Shadow Empires<\/em>, 2023). He was co-curator of an exhibition of <em>Splendors of Medieval Timurid Art in Afghanistan Exhibition<\/em> at Her\u00e2r Castle in 2017. He also teaches a seminar on History and Anthropology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:barfield@bu.edu\"><span>barfield@bu.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Carballo-636x636.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-996 aligncenter\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Carballo-636x636.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Carballo-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Carballo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Carballo-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Carballo-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Carballo-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/files\/2023\/08\/Prof.-Carballo-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/profile\/carballo\/\"><strong>David Carballo, Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies, Assistant Provost for General Education<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>David Carballo is a specialist in Mesoamerican archaeology, focusing particularly on the prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico. His current projects in the ancient city of Teotihuacan seek to understand urbanization, neighborhood organization, and the daily life of commoners through excavations and geophysical prospection within a southern district of the city, as well as understanding the city\u2019s political economy through a palace compounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:carballo@bu.edu\"><span>carballo@bu.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4119,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/624\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}