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| Dr.
Dean E. Arnold
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Professor of Anthropology
On faculty since 1973
Phone: (630) 752-5057
Fax: (630) 752-5294
Email: Dean.E.Arnold@wheaton.edu
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Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana,
1970 Dissertation titled, "The
Emics of Pottery Design From Quinua, Peru."
M.A., Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana,
1967
B.A., Anthropology, Wheaton College, IL, 1964
See Dr.
Arnold's complete Vitae, 2007
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Professional and Personal Interests
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Dr. Arnold's thirty-four years of teaching experience at Wheaton
make him the senior member of the department. After three years
of teaching at Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Arnold went
to Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad in Cuzco, Peru as a
Fulbright lecturer. After finishing his work in Peru, Dr. Arnold
came to Wheaton in 1973. He was a Fulbright scholar a second
time in Mexico in 1984, returning to Yucatan, Mexico to continue
his study of potters that he began in 1965. He has completed
field-work in the US Southwest, Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia and
has ongoing research interests in a long-term study of the relationship
of social change and technological change among potters in Ticul,
Yucatan, Mexico, having studied them extensively over a period
of 32 years. Dr. Arnold is internationally known as a scholar in ceramic ethnoarchaeology, specifically the organization and technology of ceramic production. He has
published numerous books and articles covering topics ranging
from the ecology of production to the standardization of ceramic
pastes and the social organization of potters. In 1996, he was
awarded the Society for American Archaeology's Award
for Excellence in Ceramic Studies. He is also a Research
Associate at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Dr. Arnold enjoys listening to classical music and traveling.
He and his wife, June, the Health Professions Coordinator at
Wheaton, have two daughters, Michelle and Andrea.
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Membership in Professional Societies |
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- Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland (Fellow)
- American Anthropological Association (Fellow)
- Society for American Archaeology
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
(Fellow)
- Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
- Associate, Current Anthropology
- European Association of Archeologists
- Fulbright Alumni Association (Life Member)
- Chicago Area Chapter, Fulbright Alumni Association
- Clare Hall, Cambridge (Life Member)
- American Scientific Affiliation
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Individual: Dr. Arnold is currently working on several
projects. He has done extensive work on the ethnography of pottery
production using the study of contemporary potters to evaluate
assumptions archaeologists use in their study of the past. In
1995, Dr. Arnold received $90,000 from the National Endowment
for the Humanities to synthesize more than 30 years of research
among Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico and to prepare
a book length monograph. The purpose of the synthesis was to
show the relationship of social change and technological change
and to demonstrate how that relationship can be used as a tool
to interpret the unwritten past. This monograph is now nearing
completion.
Dr. Arnold also has carried out research showing the relationship
between the ancient pigment 'Maya Blue' and contemporary Maya
culture. Maya blue is an unsual pigment consisting of the clay
mineral palygorskite and indigo that was used by the ancient
Maya for murals, pottery, and on human victims before they were
sacrificed. In the late 1960s, he demonstrated that one of the
principal components of Maya Blue, the clay mineral palygorskite,
was still being used by the contemporary Maya. Through a triangulation
of methodologies, he showed that the modern Yucatec Maya were
aware of the unique properties of palygorskite and used it for
pottery temper and for the treatment of illnesses.
Student: Dr. Arnold has written several professional
papers with students and two of them have been published. Several
more are being prepared or are in press.
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For a complete listing of Dr. Arnold's publications click
here. - Arnold, Dean E. "Las vasijas como símbolos. El caso del gremio de alfareros de Ticul, Yucatán." In Etnoarqueología: El Contexo Dinámico de la Cultura Material a través del Tiempo, edited by Eduardo Williams (Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico: El Colegio de Michoacán, (2006) pg. 105-126.
- Arnold, Dean E. "Early Inca Expansion and the Incorporation of Local Ethnic Groups: Ethnohistory and Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Region of Acos, Department of Cusco, Peru. Andean Past 7(2005):219-249.
- "Arnold, Dean E. "How do Scientific Views on Human Origin Relate to the Bible?" In Not Just Science: Questions Where Christian Faith and Natural Science Intersect,eds. Dorothy F. Chappell and E. David Cook, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan 2005) pg.129-140.
- Arnold, Dean E. "Maya Blue and Palygorskite: A Second Possible pre-Columbian Source." Ancient Mesoamerica16 (2005):51-62.
- Arnold, Dean
E. 2000. "Does the Standardization of Ceramic Pastes
Really Mean Specialization?" Journal of Archaeological
Method and Theory 7:333-375.
- Arnold, Dean.
E. 1999. "Advantages and Disadvantages of Vertical-half
Molding Technology: Implications for Production Organization."
Pp. 50-80 in Pottery and People: A Dynamic Interaction,
edited by J. M. Skibo and G. M. Feinman. Salt Lake City,
UT: University of Utah Press. (Foundations of Archaeological
Inquiry Series)
- Arnold, Dean
E. 1998. "Ancient Andean Ceramic Technology: An Ethnoarchaeological
Perspective." Pp. 353-367 in Andean Ceramics:
Technology, Organization, and Approaches, edited by
I. Shimada. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archeology,
Supplement to Volume 15, 1998. Philadelphia, PA: Museum
of Applied Science Center for Archaeology, University of
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
- Arnold,
Dean E. 1994. "La technologia cerámica Andina: Una
perspectiva etnoarqueológica." Pp. 477-504 in Technología
Y organización de la producción cerámica Prehispánica en
los Andes, edited by I. Shimada.
Lima, Peru: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Fondo
Editorial.
- Arnold,
Dean E. 1993. Ecology
of Ceramic Production in an Andean Community. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Arnold,
Dean E. 1985. Ceramic
Theory and Cultural Process. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press. (1st Paperback Edition, 1988; 2nd printing,
1989; 3rd printing, 1997; 4th printing, 1998; now in 'on
demand' reprint format.)
- Arnold,
Dean E., H. N. Neff, R. L. Bishop, and M. D. Glascock. 1999.
"Testing Interpretative Assumptions of Neutron Activation
Analysis: Contemporary Pottery in Yucatán, 1964 - 1994."
Pp. 61-84 in Material Meanings: Critical Approaches to
the Interpretations of Material Culture, edited by E.
Chilton. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press.
- Arnold,
Dean. E., H. N. Neff, and R. L. Bishop. 1991. "Compositional
Analysis and 'Sources' of Pottery: An Ethnoarchaeological
Approach." American Anthropologist 93:70-90.
- Arnold,
Dean E., H. N. Neff, and M. D. Glascock. 2000. "Testing
Assumptions of Neutron Activation Analysis: Communities,
Workshops and Paste Preparation In Yucatán, Mexico."
Archaeometry 42:301-316.
- Arnold,
Dean E. and A. L. Nieves. 1992. "Factors Affecting
Standardization." Pp. 93-113 in Ceramic Production
and Distribution: An Integrated Approach, edited by
G. J. Bey III & C. A. Pool. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Faculty continued: Dr. Jim Mathisen
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