Kathryn Weedman Arthur

University of South Florida St Petersburg, Anthropology, Associate Professor

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My full name is Kathryn Weedman Arthur.
RESEARCH: Kathryn has been studying the peoples of southern Ethiopia and their material culture for the last 20 years. Her research focuses on exploring how knowledge and technology are learned and embedded in specific cultural constructs such as gender, religion, and caste. In particular, she advocates avenues for revealing in the past the agency of women and historically disenfranchised populations.
FUNDING: Fulbright, Leakey Foundation grant, National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and several National Science Foundation grants
AWARDS: Kathryn recently received the Gordon R. Willey Prize (2012, Archaeology Division American Anthropological Association) and the Exemplary Cross-Field Prize (2011 General Anthropology Division American Anthropological Association) for her article Feminine Knowledge and Skill Reconsidered: Women and Flaked Stone Tools published in American Anthropologist. In addition, she has been awarded USFSP Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and the Chancellor's Award for Service
JOURNAL: Kathryn co-founded the journal Ethnoarchaeology with Liam Frink.
PERSONAL: She is married to archaeologist John W. Arthur.
Address: Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States

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Geomorphology, soils, and palaeosols of the Chencha area (Gamo Gofa, southwestern Ethiopian Highlands

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Journal of African Earth Science, 2019

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Community Based Approaches to African History, 2018

Several trends in the historical scholarship of Africa require recognition and remediation. The f... more Several trends in the historical scholarship of Africa require recognition and remediation. The first is a quickly shrinking interest in African history of the past two millennia, with a shift in emphasis to early hominins and to the modern period. The precolonial history of Africa, once a subject of considerable excitement for historians, historical linguists, and archaeologists, is fading from interest. The high cost of interdisciplinary research is one reason, but a deeper, more alarming cause is the rapid erasure of oral traditions by globalization, disease, and demographic changes. Archaeologists and heritage experts are faced with a need to find innovative means to investigate and recover historical information. One proven path is partnerships with communities that want to initiate research to document, recuperate, and preserve their histories. Community approaches in other world regions have shown important research results. Adapting some of the philosophy and methods of other experiments as well as innovating their own approaches, archaeologists and heritage managers in Africa are increasingly involved in community projects that hold out significant hope that the quickly disappearing oral and material history of Africa can be preserved and studied into the future. Two case studies-one from the Haya people of Tanzania and the other from the Boreda Gamo of Ethiopiaillustrate that long-term and trusting partnerships with local groups lead to important historical observations and interpretations. Such collaborations also lead to thorough documentation and preservation of historical sites and information that otherwise would be lost to posterity. Moreover, they account for the ability of local groups to initiate and to conduct their own research while recognizing local control over heritage and history.

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