Penelope Dransart is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian specialising in South American anthropology and the study of castles. Until 2016 she was a Reader at

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. She is Honorary Reader at the

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. Dransart was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 1998. She has written or edited several books, including ''Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding'' (2002, Routledge). Dransart completed a

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at the

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in 1991, titled ''Fibre to fabric: the role of fibre in Camelid economies in prehispanic and contemporary Chile''. Between 1992 and 1993, Dransart was a research fellow at the

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. She has conducted fieldwork in the

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since the 1980s and at

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in Scotland between 1995 and 2013 as part of the Scottish Episcopal Palaces Project. Dransart guest curated an exhibition about Fetternear at

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in Aberdeen. She is part of the permanent committee of the Colloques Château Gaillard, a biannual conference for castellologists. Dransart is also Editor for Archaeology and Art for ''

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'', an academic journal about

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Select publications

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References

External links

* *Penny Dransart (2002). Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: an ethnography and archaeology of Andean camelid herding ata-set York:

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