Randall H. McGuire

Randall H. McGuire (born December 23, 1951 in Fort Collins , Colorado ) is an American archaeologist and anthropologist and teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University . His research interests include Marxist archeology , indigenous archeology , contemporary archeology, and historical archeology . He looks at the southwest of the United States and northwest Mexico .

Life

Youth and Studies

McGuire spent his childhood on various Air Force bases in the western United States. He began to be interested in archeology in his youth. After graduating from John H. Reagan High School in Austin , Texas in 1970 , he studied at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado until 1972 . In May 1974 he received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) cum laude in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas. In 1976 he began to study at the University of Arizona in Tucson , Arizona , where he received a Master of Arts (MA) in anthropology in 1978 and a Ph.D. in May 1982. in anthropology with a dissertation, The Prehistory of Southwestern Arizona: A Regional Research Design .

Academic teaching

McGuire teaches anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, which was renamed Binghamton University in 1992, from 1982 to 1990 as Assistant Professor , from 1990 to 1993 as Associate Professor, from 1993 to 2009 as Professor and since 2009 as Distinguished Professor. From 2005 to 2006 and again from 2010 to 2011 he was chairman of the university's Department of Anthropology.

In 1999 and again in 2005 he was visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona , in 1999 as part of the Fulbright program . In 2001 he was a visiting professor at the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia belonging Escuela Nacional de Antropologia y Historia in Mexico City . In 2013 he was visiting professor at the National University of Córdoba in Argentina . In 2014 he was visiting professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil .

McGuire is a member of the Society for American Archeology , the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Historical Archeology, the World Archeology Congress, and the Association for Feminist Anthropology.

Archaeological field research

Since 1985 McGuire has dedicated himself to the prehistoric Trincheras tradition , which built her villages on the slopes of the volcanic hills of the Sonoran Desert , and studies these sites, known in archeology as Cerros de Trincheras , together with Elisa Villalpando from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. This transnational project set standards in archaeological work in the state of Sonora and carried out excavations and mapping of various Cerros de Trincheras. In 1994 and 1996 two large excavations took place in the Cerro de Trincheras, the largest site of this type. In 2011, Cerro de Trincheras was declared a Zona Arqueologica by the Mexican government and was given its own museum.

In 1996, McGuire formed the Ludlow Collective , along with Dean Saitta from the University of Denver and Phillip Duke from Fort Lewis College , to archaeologically investigate the Colorado Coal Field War from 1913 to 1914, as well as the Ludlow massacre . This project lasted until 2006. During this time, several archaeological studies and excavations were carried out in the Ludlow Tent Colony, a tent city at the Ludlow freight yard . Further investigations concerned the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp , which was in the same gorge a few miles from the tent city. The aim of the project was to gain new knowledge about the living conditions of the strikers in the workers' settlement.

further activities

Working on the tension between archeology and indigenous people, McGuire was one of a group of archaeologists in 2008 who supported the Yaqui in their request for the American Museum of Natural History to hand over the remains and artifacts of their people . Objects in question came into the museum's possession at the beginning of the 20th century through the anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička .

Together with his wife, the anthropologist Ruth M. Van Dyke , McGuire supports the organization No More Deaths / No Mas Muertes, which supports illegal cross-border commuters on the US-American-Mexican border with water containers, as well as looks after deportation detainees in Nogales , Sonora.

McGuire is married and has two children, a son and a daughter.

Publications (selection)

Books

• Randall H. McGuire, Michael B. Schiffer : Hohokam and Patayan: The Prehistory of Southwestern Arizona. (1982, Academic Press. New York)
• FJ Mathien, Randall H. McGuire [Eds.]: Ripples in the Chichimec Sea: New Considerations of Southwestern-Mesoamerican Interactions. (1986, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale)
• Randall H. McGuire, Robert Paynter [Eds.]: The Archeology of Inequality. (1991, Basil Blackwell, Oxford)
• Randall H. McGuire: A Marxist Archeology. (1992, Academic Press, Orlando)
• Randall H. McGuire: Death, Society, and Ideology in a Hohokam Community. (1992, Westview Press, Boulder)
• Randall H. McGuire [Ed.]: The Ethnology of the Indians of Northwest Mexico. (1992, Garland Press, NY)
• Randall H. McGuire: Archeology as Political Action. (2008, University of California Press, Berkeley)
• Elisa Villalpando, Randall H. McGuire: Entre Muros de Piedra. (2009, Sonoran Cultural Center, Hermosillo)
• Karin Larkin, Randall H. McGuire [Eds.]: The Archeology of Class War: The Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914. (2009, University of Colorado Press, Boulder)
• Reinhard Bernbeck , Randall H. McGuire [Eds.]: Ideologies in Archeology. (2011, University of Arizona Press, Tucson)
• Sonja Atalay, Lee Rains Clauss, Randall H. McGuire, John R. Welch [Eds.]: Transforming Archeology: Activist Prospects and Practices. (2014, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA.)
• Elisa Villalpando, Randall H. McGuire [Eds.]: Building Transnational Archaeologies / Construyendo Arqueologías Transnacionales. (2014, Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 209th Arizona State Museum, Tucson)

Monographs

• Randall H. McGuire: The Copper Canyon-McGuireville Project: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Verde Valley, Arizona. (1977, Contributions to Highway Salvage Archeology in Arizona # 5, Arizona State Museum, Tucson.)
• Randall H. McGuire: Papago Wells Project: Archaeological Surveys near Kaka and Stoa Pitk, The Papago Reservation, Arizona. (1978, Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series # 120, Tucson.)
• Randall H. McGuire: Rancho Punta de Agua. (1979, Contributions to Highway Salvage Archeology in Arizona # 57, Arizona State Museum, Tucson.)
• Henderson TK, Rice GE, Howard AV, Randall H. McGuire: The Excavation of the Site La Ciudad. (1984, Arizona State University Anthropological Field Studies 3, Tempe.)
• Neal Ackerly, Jerry Howard, Randall H. McGuire: The La Ciudad Project Canals: A Community ‑ Level Study of Hohokam Irrigation. (1987, Arizona State University Anthropological Field Studies 17, Tempe.)
• Randall H. McGuire: Death, Society and Ideology in a Hohokam Community: Colonial and Sedentary Period Burials from La Ciudad (1987, Office of Cultural Resource Management Report 68. Arizona State University, Tempe.)
• Jeffrey L. Eighmy, Randall H. McGuire: Archaeomagnetic Dates and the Hohokam Phase Sequence. (1988, Colorado State University Archaeomagnetic Lab Technical Series 3, Ft. Collins.)
• Randall H. McGuire, María Elisa Villalpando Canchola: An Archaeological Survey of the Altar Valley, Sonora, Mexico. (1993, Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 184. Arizona State Museum, Tucson.)
• Randall H. McGuire, María Elisa Villalpando Canchola [Eds.]: Excavations at Cerro de Trincheras, Sonora, Mexico (2011, Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 204. Arizona State Museum, Tucson.)

Web links

• Homepage of Randall H. McGuire

Individual evidence

1. ^ Colorado Coal Field Project: The Archeology of the Coal Field Project . University of Denver 2000, accessed September 3, 2016