Anthropology

at Northern Kentucky University

Timothy D. Murphy

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Lecturer of Anthropology
Student Anthropology Association Faculty Sponsor

Curriculum Vitae

Northern Kentucky University
Department of Sociology/Anthropology/Philosophy
217F Landrum Academic Center
Highland Heights, KY 41099

Phone: (859) 572-6591
FAX: (859) 572-6086

Email: primary address & secondary address

Website: http://www.nku.edu/~murphyti/

Academic Degrees

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
B.A. Ohio University

Courses

ANT 100 Cultural Anthropology
ANT 245 Peoples of Latin America
ANT 320 Religion and Culture
ANT 360 Indians of Mexico and Guatemala
ANT 401 Culture Theory

Research Interests

fieldwork

Cultural anthropology; Latin America; Mexican Indians; religion; peasant societies; economic anthropology; kinship; gender roles; film-making; culture theory.

Accolades

2000-3 
Secretary of the Anthropology Division of the Kentucky Academy of Science

Selected Publications

1999
Indians of Mesoamerica. In Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Julio López-Arias and Gladys Varona-Lacey, editors, New York: Peter Lang Publishers.
1984
San Miguel Canoa: The Structure of Marriage, Family, and Kinship. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
1976
Marriage and Family in a Nahuat-speaking Community in the Sierra de Puebla. In Kinship and Social Relations in Mesoamerica. Hugo G. Nutini, Pedro Carrasco, and James M. Taggart, eds. Pittsburgh: Univeristy of Pittsburgh Press.