Rita P. Wright is an American
anthropologist, and professor emeritus at
New York University
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.
She graduated from
Wellesley College with a B.A. in 1975 and from
Harvard University
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with an M.A. in 1978 and Ph.D. in 1984. She specializes in
Near East societies, the
Indus Civilisation and
gender role
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s. She currently teaches the introductory archaeology course, required for the anthropology major at the university.
Awards
*1988
MacArthur Fellows Program
Works
*''The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy and Society'', Cambridge University Press, 2009,
"Third Millennium Changing Times"(2009) - ''Archaeological Dialogues'' 16(2):142-148.
*"Gendered relations" in Ur III Dynasty: Kinship, Property and Labor". ''Gender through Time''. Editor Diane R. Bolger, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008,
*"Exploring Unknown Lands and Bringing New Worlds into Gender Studies", ''Are all warriors male?: gender roles on the ancient Eurasian Steppe'', Editors Katheryn M. Linduff, Karen Sydney Rubinson, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008,
*''Water Supply and History: Harappa and the Beas Settlement Survey'' (2008). Co-authoried, R. Wright, R. Bryson and J. Schuldenrein. Antiquity, Vol. 82, 315:37-48.
"Gender Matters -- A Question of Ethics" ''Ethical issues in archaeology'', Editors Larry J. Zimmerman, Karen D. Vitelli, Julie Hollowell-Zimmer, Rowman Altamira, 2003,
*"Prehistory of Urbanism" (2002) - ''Encyclopedia of Urbanism'', M. and C. Ember, ed., Grolier Press.
*''Craft and Social Identity'' (1998) (with Cathy L. Costin, eds.). Washington D.C. American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division Monograph 8.
''Gender and Archaeology'' Editor Rita P. Wright, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996,
*"Women's Labor and Pottery Production in Prehistory", ''Engendering archaeology: women and prehistory'', Editors Joan M. Gero, Margaret Wright Conkey, Wiley-Blackwell, 1991,
References
American women anthropologists
Wellesley College alumni
Harvard University alumni
MacArthur Fellows
New York University faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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