Cunningham, Jerimy
Chair/Associate Professor
- Phone
- (403) 329-5102
- jerimy.cunningham@uleth.ca
Office Hours
Wednesday: 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
About Me
I was born and raised in central Alberta. After completing an undergraduate degree in anthropology through Red Deer College and the University of Calgary, I worked in Cultural Resources Management before moving on to complete an MA at the University of Western Ontario and a PhD at McGill University.
Publications
2019tSlow Archaeology and the Politics of Ambiguity. Plenary Lecture. Theoretical Archaeology Group, Syracuse, NY.
2018tThe Perils of Ethnographic Analogy. Parallel logics in ethnoarchaeology and Victorian Bible customs books. Archaeological Dialogues 25(2): 161-189. (with Kevin M. McGeough).
2018tEthnoarchaeology. In: Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, edited by Sandra L. López Varela. DOI: 10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0232
2017tImagining Praxis: Making Complexity in the Casas Grandes Region. In: Collected Papers from the 19th Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference, edited by Lonnie C. Ludeman, pp. 181-88. Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM.
2017tModes of Production and Archaeology. University Press of Florida. (co-edited with Robert M. Rosenswig).
2017tIntroducing Modes of Production in Archaeology. In: Modes of Production and Archaeology, edited by Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham, pp. 1-28. University Press of Florida, Gainsville. (with Robert M. Rosenswig)
2017tThe Ritual Mode of Production in the Casas Grandes Social Field. In: Modes of Production and Archaeology, edited by Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham, pp. 174-206. University Press of Florida, Gainsville.
2016tCraft production and capitalism: Intangible interfaces. The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research, edited by Stefano Biagetti and Francesca Lugli, pp. 185-190. Springer, Switzerland.
2016tEthnoarchaeology as Slow Science. World Archaeology 48(5): 628-641. (with Scott MacEachern.)
2013 The Independence of Ethnoarchaeology. In: Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce G. Trigger, edited by Steven Chrisomalis and Andre Costopoulos, pp. 51-72. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
2012 The View from the Edge: The Proyecto Arqueológico Chihuahua (PAC) 1990 to 2010: An Overview. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 36: 82-107. (with Jane H. Kelley, A. C. MacWilliams, Joe D. Stewart, Richard E. Garvin, J. M. Maillol, Danny Zborover and Karen R. Adams).
2010tCeramic Decoration, Ethnicity and Political Economy in the Inland Niger Delta of Mali. In: The "Compleat Archaeologist": Papers in Honour of Michael W. Spence, edited by C. J. Ellis, N. Ferris, P. A. Timmins and C. D. White, pp. 265-277. Occasional Publications of the London Chapter, OAS. Ontario Archaeological Society, London, ON.
2009tEthnoarchaeology beyond Correlates, Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies 1(2): 115-136.
2009 Pots and Political Economy: Enamel-wealth, Gender & Patriarchy in Mali. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15(2): 276-294.
2009tBeyond Inventing Traditions: Radical Ethnoarchaeology in Africa. In: Postcolonial Perspectives in Archaeology, edited by P. Bikoulis, D. Lacroix, and M. Peuramaki-Brown, pp. 233-241. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Chacmool Conference. The University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
2007 Middle Range Approaches. In: Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Volume 2, edited by Deborah Pearsall, pp. 1620-1622. Elsevier Press, Burlington, MA.
2006 The Many Influences of Bruce Trigger. In: The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger: Theoretical Empiricism, edited by R. Williamson and M. Bisson, pp. 3-15. McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal. (with R. Williamson and J. Kelly)
2006 Integrating African Ethnoarchaeology. In: Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, compiled by Nicholas David. Open access publication available at: http://cohesion.rice.edu/CentresAndInst/SAFA/emplibrary/Cunningham,J.SAfA2006.pdf
2003 Rethinking Style in Archaeology. In: Essential Tensions in Archaeological Method and Theory, edited by T. L. VanPool and C. S. VanPool, pp. 23-40. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2003 Transcending the "Obnoxious Spectator": A Case for Processual Pluralism in Ethnoarchaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22: 389-410.
2018tThe Perils of Ethnographic Analogy. Parallel logics in ethnoarchaeology and Victorian Bible customs books. Archaeological Dialogues 25(2): 161-189. (with Kevin M. McGeough).
2018tEthnoarchaeology. In: Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, edited by Sandra L. López Varela. DOI: 10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0232
2017tImagining Praxis: Making Complexity in the Casas Grandes Region. In: Collected Papers from the 19th Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference, edited by Lonnie C. Ludeman, pp. 181-88. Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM.
2017tModes of Production and Archaeology. University Press of Florida. (co-edited with Robert M. Rosenswig).
2017tIntroducing Modes of Production in Archaeology. In: Modes of Production and Archaeology, edited by Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham, pp. 1-28. University Press of Florida, Gainsville. (with Robert M. Rosenswig)
2017tThe Ritual Mode of Production in the Casas Grandes Social Field. In: Modes of Production and Archaeology, edited by Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham, pp. 174-206. University Press of Florida, Gainsville.
2016tCraft production and capitalism: Intangible interfaces. The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research, edited by Stefano Biagetti and Francesca Lugli, pp. 185-190. Springer, Switzerland.
2016tEthnoarchaeology as Slow Science. World Archaeology 48(5): 628-641. (with Scott MacEachern.)
2013 The Independence of Ethnoarchaeology. In: Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce G. Trigger, edited by Steven Chrisomalis and Andre Costopoulos, pp. 51-72. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
2012 The View from the Edge: The Proyecto Arqueológico Chihuahua (PAC) 1990 to 2010: An Overview. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 36: 82-107. (with Jane H. Kelley, A. C. MacWilliams, Joe D. Stewart, Richard E. Garvin, J. M. Maillol, Danny Zborover and Karen R. Adams).
2010tCeramic Decoration, Ethnicity and Political Economy in the Inland Niger Delta of Mali. In: The "Compleat Archaeologist": Papers in Honour of Michael W. Spence, edited by C. J. Ellis, N. Ferris, P. A. Timmins and C. D. White, pp. 265-277. Occasional Publications of the London Chapter, OAS. Ontario Archaeological Society, London, ON.
2009tEthnoarchaeology beyond Correlates, Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies 1(2): 115-136.
2009 Pots and Political Economy: Enamel-wealth, Gender & Patriarchy in Mali. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15(2): 276-294.
2009tBeyond Inventing Traditions: Radical Ethnoarchaeology in Africa. In: Postcolonial Perspectives in Archaeology, edited by P. Bikoulis, D. Lacroix, and M. Peuramaki-Brown, pp. 233-241. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Chacmool Conference. The University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
2007 Middle Range Approaches. In: Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Volume 2, edited by Deborah Pearsall, pp. 1620-1622. Elsevier Press, Burlington, MA.
2006 The Many Influences of Bruce Trigger. In: The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger: Theoretical Empiricism, edited by R. Williamson and M. Bisson, pp. 3-15. McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal. (with R. Williamson and J. Kelly)
2006 Integrating African Ethnoarchaeology. In: Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, compiled by Nicholas David. Open access publication available at: http://cohesion.rice.edu/CentresAndInst/SAFA/emplibrary/Cunningham,J.SAfA2006.pdf
2003 Rethinking Style in Archaeology. In: Essential Tensions in Archaeological Method and Theory, edited by T. L. VanPool and C. S. VanPool, pp. 23-40. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2003 Transcending the "Obnoxious Spectator": A Case for Processual Pluralism in Ethnoarchaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22: 389-410.
Research Interests
I am an anthropological archaeologist interested in domestic production and exchange. I have conducted archaeological research in the Canadian Great Plains, southern Ontario and the American Southwest and ethnographic research in West Africa. My last project was an ethnoarchaeological study of ceramic exchange and consumption in the Inland Niger Delta of Mali. I am currently developing a new archaeological research program focused on how households negotiated their integration into the 13th-15th C. Casas Grandes Regional System in what is now Chihuahua, Mexico.
In The Media
Archaeology Magazine: http://archive.archaeology.org/1207/letter/mexico_cerro_de_trincheras_paqume_casas_grandes.html