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|name = Pierre Robert Colas
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|District= [[Aikō District, Kanagawa|Aikō District]]
|birth_place = [[London]], UK
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|PopDate= [[June 1]], [[2008]]
|death_place = [[Nashville, Tennessee]] USA
|Population= 41851
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|fields = [[Mayanist]] scholar ([[archaeology]], [[epigraphy]], [[ethnography]])
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'''Pierre Robert Colas''' ([[January 13]], [[1976]] – [[August 26]], [[2008]]) was a German [[anthropologist]], [[archaeologist]] and [[epigrapher]]. As a [[Mayanist]] scholar who investigated the [[pre-Columbian]] [[Maya civilization]] of ancient [[Mesoamerica]], Colas was well-known for his contributions to the study of the [[Maya script|Maya writing system]], and his archaeological work on cave sites used by the Maya. His analysis of [[onomastics]]&mdash;personal naming practices and titles of rank&mdash;in [[Mesoamerican chronology|Classic-era]] Maya inscriptions was the first major publication of its kind. Colas also conducted [[ethnographic]] studies and surveys among contemporary [[Maya peoples|Maya communities]] living in Belize. In Europe, he had close involvement with the organisation of [[academic conferences]] and workshops on the Maya, as a workshop tutor, presenter of original papers, and editor of several conference proceedings and reports.<ref>Sachse (2008)</ref>
'''Aikawa''' (愛川町; -machi) is a [[towns of Japan|town]] located in [[Aiko District, Kanagawa|Aikō District]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], [[Japan]].


Since 2006 Colas held a position as [[Professors in the United States#Assistant professor|assistant professor]] in the Anthropology Department of the [[Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science|College of Arts and Science]] at [[Vanderbilt University]], [[Nashville, Tennessee]].<ref>Howard (2008)</ref>
As of [[June 1]], [[2008]], the town has an estimated [[population]] of 431,581 and a [[population density|density]] of 1,220 persons per [[square kilometer|km²]]. The total area is 34.29 km².


On the evening of [[August 26]], [[2008]] Dr. Colas was [[ballistic trauma|shot dead]] in his Nashville home. He was 32 years old.<ref>See reports in Howard (2008), Peebles (2008), and Stults (2008).</ref>
==Geography==
Aikawa is located in northern [[Kanagawa Prefecture]]. Nakatsu River, a tributary of the [[Sagami River]], flows through. A portion of the [[Tanzawa|Tanzawa Mountains]] can be found in the western part of the town. Miyagase Dam, a major source of hydroelectric power, is situated on the Nakatsu River. The highest mountain in Aikawa is Mount Takatori.


==Early life and studies==
==External links==
Colas was born 1976 in [[London]], England. As the son of a German diplomat,<ref>Seiler (2008)</ref> he lived in several countries as a child, including a period spent in [[Mexico]] where he acquired his abiding interest and fascination with Maya civilization and culture.<ref>Seiler (2008)</ref> Colas and his family later resettled in [[Hamburg]], Germany where he completed his [[secondary education]] and ''[[abitur]]'' exams in 1995. He then enrolled at the [[University of Hamburg]], graduating in 1999 with an [[Master of Arts (postgraduate)|M.A.]] in anthropology and [[Mesoamerica]]nist studies.<ref>Sachse (2008)</ref>
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*[http://www.town.aikawa.kanagawa.jp/ Official website] in Japanese


Colas pursued doctorate studies in anthropology at [[Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn]] (University of Bonn), where his major studies focussed on the Classic-era [[Maya civilization]] and its writing system, the [[Maya script]]. He also undertook minor course studies in [[Egyptology]] and [[Latin American history]] at the [[University of Cologne]]. His [[doctoral dissertation]] was on the topic of Classical Maya personal names, [[Maya rulers|rulership titles]] and glyphs,<ref>Entitled: "{{lang|de|Sinn und Bedeutung klassischer Maya-Personennamen: typologische Analyse von Anthroponymphrasen in den Hieroglypheninschriften der klassischen Maya-Kultur als Beitrag zur allgemeinen Onomastik}}" (in English, ''Sense and meaning of Classic Maya personal names: a typological analysis of anthroponymic phrases in the hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Classic Maya culture, as a contribution to general onomastic studies'').</ref> under the supervision of Prof. Dr. [[Nikolai Grube]].<ref>Professor Grube was to describe Colas as "...{{lang|de|einer der bedeutendsten jungen Maya-Forscher}}" (''one of the most important young Maya researchers''). Quote as reproduced in Seiler (2008).</ref> This was the first major survey and analysis on the subject, and was published in book form by German academic publishers [[Verlag Anton Saurwein]].<ref>Issued as volume 15 in the [[monographic series]] of titles in Mesoamerican studies, ''[[Acta Mesoamericana]]''.</ref> Colas successfully defended his dissertation and was awarded a [[PhD]] in Anthropology the same year, in 2004.<ref>Sachse (2008)</ref>
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==Career and research==
[[Category:Towns in Kanagawa Prefecture]]
While a doctoral student at Bonn, Colas was awarded two stipendary grants from the [[Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes]] (the national academic foundation of Germany) to support his research.<ref>Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie (2008)</ref> After obtaining his PhD Colas was awarded a research scholarship from the DFG ([[Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft]], the largest research funding body in Europe), under its prestigious Emmy-Noether-Programm.<ref>See Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie (2008), Sachse (2008). The scholarship programme is named for the early 20th century German mathematician, [[Emmy Noether]].</ref> In 2005 and 2006 Colas undertook [[field research|fieldwork]] among the [[Yukatek Maya language|Yukatek]]-speaking [[Maya peoples|Maya communities]] in and around [[San Antonio Cayo]] in [[Cayo District]], [[Belize]]. This project, registered with the DFG as "{{lang|de|Depolitisierte Ethnizität und subalterner Widerstand: Die yukatekischen Maya von San Antonio, Cayo District, Belize}}", involved [[ethnography|ethnographic]] and [[sociolinguistic]] research among contemporary Maya communities, and continued on after he relocated to Nashville in 2006 to accept a position as assistant professor in anthropology at Vanderbilt University. While at Vanderbilt the focus of his ethnographic study of the Maya in Belize was an investigation of "the effects of globalization and Christian fundamentalism on the acquisition of the Yucatec Maya language in Belize".
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==Death==
On the evening of [[August 26]], [[2008]], professor Colas was fatally shot at his home in [[East Nashville]]. His younger sister who was visiting from Switzerland was also critically wounded in the same incident; she died later in hospital from her injuries. Nashville police reported they had arrested and then charged four suspects with homicide in relation to the shooting, three males and one female. A fifth suspect was being sought. Police advised that robbery appeared as the likely motive at that stage in the investigations, and although two of the suspects lived a couple of blocks away they were otherwise unknown to Colas.

==Notes==
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==References==
{{ref indent}}<!-- BEGIN hanging indent style. Pls use a colon (:) instead of asterisk (*) for bullet markers in the references list -->
: {{cite web |author={{aut|Guenter, Stanley}} |year=2008 |month=September|title=In Memoriam: Pierre Robert Colas |url=http://www.mesoweb.com/reports/Pierre-Robert-Colas.html |work=Mesoweb Reports & News |publisher=Mesoweb |accessdate=2008-09-11}}
: {{cite book |author={{aut|Houston, Stephen D.}} |authorlink=Stephen D. Houston |coauthors={{aut|[[David Stuart (Mayanist)|David Stuart]]}} and {{aut|[[Karl Taube]]}} |year=2006 |title=The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience Among the Classic Maya |location=Austin |publisher=[[University of Texas Press]] |isbn=978-0-292-71294-2 |oclc=61660268}}
: {{cite news |author={{aut|Howard, Kate}} |year=2008 |date=[[2008]], [[August 28]] |title=Clues sought in shooting death of popular VU professor |url=http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008808280399 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |location=Nashville |publisher=[[Gannett Company]]|accessdate=2008-09-02}}
: {{cite web |author={{aut|Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie (IAE)}} |authorlink=Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie |year=2008 |title=Pierre Robert Colas (13. Januar 1976 – 26. August 2008) |url=http://www.iae-bonn.de/iae/ |work=Aktuelles aus dem IAE |publisher=IAE-[[University of Bonn]] |accessdate=2008-09-05}} {{de icon}}
: {{cite news |author={{aut|Peebles, Jennifer}} |year=2008 |date=[[2008]], [[August 21]] |title=Swiss student, sister of slain Vandy prof, dies |url=http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880831004 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |location=Nashville |publisher=[[Gannett Company]]|accessdate=2008-09-02}}
: {{cite web |author={{aut|Sachse, Frauke}} |year=2008 |title=Pierre Robert Colas <nowiki>[obituary]</nowiki>|url=http://www.wayeb.org/aboutwayeb/orbituary_pierre.php |work=Wayeb News |publisher=[[European Association of Mayanists]] (WAYEB) |accessdate=2008-09-02}}
: {{cite news |author={{aut|Seiler, Johannes}} |year=2008 |date=[[2008]], [[September 2]] |title=Bonner Maya-Forscher in Nashville erschossen |url=http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/index.php?k=loka&itemid=10490&detailid=493012 |work=[[General-Anzeiger]]|location=Bonn|publisher=Verlag H. Neusser|accessdate=2008-09-04}} {{de icon}}
: {{cite news |author={{aut|Stults, Rachel}} |year=2008 |date=[[2008]], [[August 29]] |title=UPDATED: Police to charge four in murder of Vanderbilt professor |url=http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008808290389 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |location=Nashville |publisher=[[Gannett Company]]|accessdate=2008-09-02}}

{{ref indent-end}}<!-- END hanging indent style -->

==External links==
* {{worldcat id|lccn-no2001-101824}}
* [http://www.vanderbilt.edu/anthro/faculty/remembering_pierre Tribute page], Department of Anthropology, VU


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Revision as of 21:51, 11 October 2008

Pierre Robert Colas
Born(1976-01-13)January 13, 1976
London, UK
DiedAugust 26, 2008(2008-08-26) (aged 32)
Nashville, Tennessee USA
CitizenshipGerman
Known forstudy of Maya names and titles;
ethnographic study of Belizean Maya communities;
Maya cave archaeology
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg (1999, MA)
Bonn and Cologne universities (2004, PhD in anthropology)
Doctoral advisorNikolai Grube
Other advisorsArthur Demarest
Academic work
InstitutionsVanderbilt University (2006–08, assistant prof. in anthropology)

Pierre Robert Colas (January 13, 1976 – August 26, 2008) was a German anthropologist, archaeologist and epigrapher. As a Mayanist scholar who investigated the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica, Colas was well-known for his contributions to the study of the Maya writing system, and his archaeological work on cave sites used by the Maya. His analysis of onomastics—personal naming practices and titles of rank—in Classic-era Maya inscriptions was the first major publication of its kind. Colas also conducted ethnographic studies and surveys among contemporary Maya communities living in Belize. In Europe, he had close involvement with the organisation of academic conferences and workshops on the Maya, as a workshop tutor, presenter of original papers, and editor of several conference proceedings and reports.[1]

Since 2006 Colas held a position as assistant professor in the Anthropology Department of the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.[2]

On the evening of August 26, 2008 Dr. Colas was shot dead in his Nashville home. He was 32 years old.[3]

Early life and studies

Colas was born 1976 in London, England. As the son of a German diplomat,[4] he lived in several countries as a child, including a period spent in Mexico where he acquired his abiding interest and fascination with Maya civilization and culture.[5] Colas and his family later resettled in Hamburg, Germany where he completed his secondary education and abitur exams in 1995. He then enrolled at the University of Hamburg, graduating in 1999 with an M.A. in anthropology and Mesoamericanist studies.[6]

Colas pursued doctorate studies in anthropology at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (University of Bonn), where his major studies focussed on the Classic-era Maya civilization and its writing system, the Maya script. He also undertook minor course studies in Egyptology and Latin American history at the University of Cologne. His doctoral dissertation was on the topic of Classical Maya personal names, rulership titles and glyphs,[7] under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nikolai Grube.[8] This was the first major survey and analysis on the subject, and was published in book form by German academic publishers Verlag Anton Saurwein.[9] Colas successfully defended his dissertation and was awarded a PhD in Anthropology the same year, in 2004.[10]

Career and research

While a doctoral student at Bonn, Colas was awarded two stipendary grants from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (the national academic foundation of Germany) to support his research.[11] After obtaining his PhD Colas was awarded a research scholarship from the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the largest research funding body in Europe), under its prestigious Emmy-Noether-Programm.[12] In 2005 and 2006 Colas undertook fieldwork among the Yukatek-speaking Maya communities in and around San Antonio Cayo in Cayo District, Belize. This project, registered with the DFG as "Depolitisierte Ethnizität und subalterner Widerstand: Die yukatekischen Maya von San Antonio, Cayo District, Belize", involved ethnographic and sociolinguistic research among contemporary Maya communities, and continued on after he relocated to Nashville in 2006 to accept a position as assistant professor in anthropology at Vanderbilt University. While at Vanderbilt the focus of his ethnographic study of the Maya in Belize was an investigation of "the effects of globalization and Christian fundamentalism on the acquisition of the Yucatec Maya language in Belize".

Death

On the evening of August 26, 2008, professor Colas was fatally shot at his home in East Nashville. His younger sister who was visiting from Switzerland was also critically wounded in the same incident; she died later in hospital from her injuries. Nashville police reported they had arrested and then charged four suspects with homicide in relation to the shooting, three males and one female. A fifth suspect was being sought. Police advised that robbery appeared as the likely motive at that stage in the investigations, and although two of the suspects lived a couple of blocks away they were otherwise unknown to Colas.

Notes

  1. ^ Sachse (2008)
  2. ^ Howard (2008)
  3. ^ See reports in Howard (2008), Peebles (2008), and Stults (2008).
  4. ^ Seiler (2008)
  5. ^ Seiler (2008)
  6. ^ Sachse (2008)
  7. ^ Entitled: "Sinn und Bedeutung klassischer Maya-Personennamen: typologische Analyse von Anthroponymphrasen in den Hieroglypheninschriften der klassischen Maya-Kultur als Beitrag zur allgemeinen Onomastik" (in English, Sense and meaning of Classic Maya personal names: a typological analysis of anthroponymic phrases in the hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Classic Maya culture, as a contribution to general onomastic studies).
  8. ^ Professor Grube was to describe Colas as "...einer der bedeutendsten jungen Maya-Forscher" (one of the most important young Maya researchers). Quote as reproduced in Seiler (2008).
  9. ^ Issued as volume 15 in the monographic series of titles in Mesoamerican studies, Acta Mesoamericana.
  10. ^ Sachse (2008)
  11. ^ Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie (2008)
  12. ^ See Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie (2008), Sachse (2008). The scholarship programme is named for the early 20th century German mathematician, Emmy Noether.

References

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Guenter, Stanley (2008). "In Memoriam: Pierre Robert Colas". Mesoweb Reports & News. Mesoweb. Retrieved 2008-09-11. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Houston, Stephen D. (2006). The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience Among the Classic Maya. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71294-2. OCLC 61660268. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |coauthors= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Howard, Kate (2008, August 28). "Clues sought in shooting death of popular VU professor". The Tennessean. Nashville: Gannett Company. Retrieved 2008-09-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie (IAE) (2008). "Pierre Robert Colas (13. Januar 1976 – 26. August 2008)". Aktuelles aus dem IAE. IAE-University of Bonn. Retrieved 2008-09-05. {{cite web}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Template:De icon
Peebles, Jennifer (2008, August 21). "Swiss student, sister of slain Vandy prof, dies". The Tennessean. Nashville: Gannett Company. Retrieved 2008-09-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Sachse, Frauke (2008). "Pierre Robert Colas [obituary]". Wayeb News. European Association of Mayanists (WAYEB). Retrieved 2008-09-02. {{cite web}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Seiler, Johannes (2008, September 2). "Bonner Maya-Forscher in Nashville erschossen". General-Anzeiger. Bonn: Verlag H. Neusser. Retrieved 2008-09-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Template:De icon
Stults, Rachel (2008, August 29). "UPDATED: Police to charge four in murder of Vanderbilt professor". The Tennessean. Nashville: Gannett Company. Retrieved 2008-09-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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