Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia Africa and Meso-America
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Kenneth Hirth is professor of anthropology at Penn State University and Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. He has authored, edited, and coedited eighteen books on different aspects of Mesoamerican archaeology and economy, including The Aztec Economic World; Merchants, Markets and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World; and Housework: Craft Production and Domestic Economy in Ancient Mesoamerica. He is a recipient of the National Geographic Society’s Chairman’s Career Achievement Award in Archaeology and the Excellence in Lithic Studies Award from the Society of American Archaeology. Ann Cyphers is senior research scientist at the Institute of Anthropological Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is coauthor of two Alfonso Caso Book Award winners, Retos y riesgos en la vida olmeca and Asentamiento prehispánico en San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, and five other books. She is the recipient of the 2018 National University Award in Humanities Research and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award from the National Autonomous University of Mexico; the Museum of Anthropology Medal from the University of Veracruz, Xalapa; and the Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.