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| The CECD is an AHRC funded research group dedicated to examining the
evolutionary underpinnings of human cultural behaviour, past and present. more> |
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Current Visitor Profile
Dr Aimée Plourde
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
31-34 Gordon Sq.
London
WC1H 0PY
Tel: +44 020 7679 4608
Email: aimee.plourde@ucl.ac.uk |
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| Funding |
| US NSF International Research Fellowship |
| Research and Teaching interests |
I am interested in the role of prestige goods in the formation of sociopolitical hierarchy. I conduct fieldwork on this topic in the Lake Titicaca Basin, south-central Andean highlands of Peru, in South America, working with the Qaluyu and Pukara archaeological cultures.
More generally, I am interesting in developing evolutionary theory to explain the appearance and development of social institutions.
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| Educational Background |
BA, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
MA, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998
PhD, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. 2006
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Associated Continuing AHRC CEACB Projects (Phase 1): | | • | Project 042
Prestige and the origins of social inequality |
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