Nancy Parezo
Office: Harvill 235C Phone: 520-621-4057
 
Email:
 parezo@email.arizona.edu
Degree:
 Ph.D. University of Arizona, 1981
Affiliation:

Professor, Department of Anthropology
Professor, American Indian Studies
Curator of Ethnology, Arizona State Museum
Interests:

Native North America, especially the Greater Southwest; Victorian and contemporary America; Native-Anglo American relations; material culture, art, economics, culture change, religion, symbolism, clothing and dress, tourism; World’s fairs; stereotyping; history of anthropology, museums and science; ethnohistory; museology; grant writing.

Current Research:

Ethnography on Navajo, research concerning women's perception of the Southwest landscape, household composition in Arizona border towns, Mexican-American migration, archival research on Southwest Native American material culture.

 

Recent Major Publications:

2004 Displaying First Nation Women’s Clothing. Anthropologie et Sociétés 28(1): (in French) Also available on-line at http://www.erudit.org/revue/as
2003

(with Don D. Fowler and Sydel Silverman) Preserving the Anthropological record: A Decade of CoPAR Initiatives. Current Anthropology 44(1): 111-116. Expanded 28 page version as web publication: www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/journal/issue44/031701.text.htm
2002 Art and Material Culture: Creating Value and Sharing Beauty. In Blackwell Companion to Native American History, A Companion to American Indian History, edited by Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications, pp.209-233.
2001 Stereotypes: Persistent Cultural Blindness. Red Ink 9.2/10.1: 41-55.
2001 (with John W. Troutman) The “Shy” Cocopa Go to the Fair. In Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures, edited by Carter Jones Meyer and Diana Royer, pp.3-43. Tucson : University of Arizona Press.
1997

Indian Chic: The Denver Art Museum's Indian Style Show. American Indian Art Magazine 23(1):44-55.
1997 Matthews and the Discovery of Navajo Drypaintings. In Washington Matthews: Studies of Navajo Culture, 1880-1894, edited by Katherine Spencer Halpern and Susan Brown McGreevy, pp. 53-78. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
1996 (with Thomas Sheridan) Paths of Life: American Indians of the Southwest and Northern Mexico. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

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