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Rita P. Wright
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Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 1984, Harvard, M.A. 1978, Harvard, 1975, B.A. Wellesley.

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Research Interests:

Urbanism; state formation; gender relations; the ancient Near East, Egypt and South Asia.

Affiliations:

Member of the Center for the Study of Human Origins

Selected Works:

"Prehistory of Urbanism" (2002) - Encyclopedia of Urbanism. M. and C. Ember, editors. Grolier Press.

"Digging Women". (2000) Women’s Review of Books, February Vol. XVII, No. 5.

Craft and Social Identity (1998) (with Cathy Lynn Costin, editors). Washington D.C.: American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division Monograph 8.

Gender and Archaeology (1996) (editor) - University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Contexts of Specialization: V. Gordon Childe and Social Evolution". In B. Wailes, editor, Craft Specialization and Social Evolution: In Memory of V. Gordon Childe. Philadelphia PA: University Museum Monograph 93:123-132.

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