Mark Leighton
Biographic Data
| ID | 79089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Leighton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Leighton |
| SIGNATURE | LEIGHTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5743-1923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 237 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Trust/distrust in Multi-disciplinary Collaboration
In this paper we theorize trust as emerging in different material/infrastructural and epistemic realities as part of our multidisciplinary collaboration about water, called Neighborhood Environments as Socio-Techno-Bio Systems: Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico City (NESTSMX)”. This collaboration, led by feminist anthropologists, brings together anthropology, environmental-public health, and environmental engineering researchers t…
Exploring dietary patterns in a Mexican adolescent population
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work
Using the example of Andean archaeology, this article focuses on subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship-based and egalitarian, rejecting explicit hierarchy. I describe this asperformative informalityand argue that it stems from a meritocratic ideology that inadvertently reproduces Euro-American white-male privilege. In a discipline that prides itself on its friendliness, openness, and alco…
Social and Chemical Life in Mexico City
Indigenous Archaeological Field Technicians at Tiwanaku, Bolivia
Archaeology is a science with an intimate investment in the bodies that labor to produce its objects of knowledge. Data comes into being through tactile skills: eyes that see, hands that touch, voices that name and debate. It matters, therefore, who constitutes and controls the labor force; yet little has been written about archaeological workers. Here I outline the relationship between archaeologists and indigenous workers at Tiwanaku, Bolivia, …
Excavation methodologies and labour as epistemic concerns in the practice of archaeology. Comparing examples from British and Andean archaeology
Archaeologists' excavation practices vary significantly from country to country and site to site. But variation in the most fundamental, 'common-sense' excavation practices is 'black-boxed' - it is not discussed outside casual, informal contexts, and is treated as having no effect on higher-level interpretation. These practices can, however, be a source of conflict when archaeologists from different communities of practice work together. In this …
Hornbill Social Dispersion
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
Personifying Objects/Objectifying People
Death and the bodies of the dead are managed and handled in contemporary Western society by various professions that include archaeology. The bodies of the dead exist in a variety of material forms, and generate conflicting responses from the archaeologists who work with them. Positioning archaeologists as professionals within a wider society, this article explores the relationship between the physicality of the body, the (de)construction of pers…
Defining fallback foods and assessing their importance in primate ecology and evolution
Physical anthropologists use the term “fallback foods” to denote resources of relatively poor nutritional quality that become particularly important dietary components during periods when preferred foods are scarce. Fallback foods are becoming increasingly invoked as key selective forces that determine masticatory and digestive anatomy, influence grouping and ranging behavior, and underlie fundamental evolutionary processes such as speciation, ex…
Breathing Life into the Archives
What is the fate of the material from old excavations? This article aims to generate attention towards this question by discussing the fragmentation of assemblages due to long and disjointed excavation campaigns as well as the eagerness of museums to have representative objects from famous sites. The challenge emerging is the need to explore ways of reinstating objects that may be widely dispersed and entirely decontextualized into our database. …
Comparative locomotor ecology of gibbons and macaques
To examine functional questions of arboreal locomotor ecology, the selection of canopy elements by Bornean agile gibbons ( Hylobates agilis ) and long‐tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis ) was contrasted, and related to locomotor behaviors. The two species, and in some cases, the macaque sexes, varied in their use of most structural elements. Although both species traveled most frequently in the main canopy layer (macaques: 56%, gibbons: 48%), …
Modeling dietary selectivity by Bornean orangutans
The Relationship of Size of Feeding Aggregate to Size of Food Patch
Mark Leighton, Donna R. Leighton, The Relationship of Size of Feeding Aggregate to Size of Food Patch: Howler Monkeys (Alouatta palliata) Feeding in Trichilia cipo Fruit Trees on Barro Colorado Island, Biotropica, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jun., 1982), pp. 81-90
Modeling dietary selectivity by Bornean orangutans
Defining fallback foods and assessing their importance in primate ecology and evolution
Physical anthropologists use the term “fallback foods” to denote resources of relatively poor nutritional quality that become particularly important dietary components during periods when preferred foods are scarce. Fallback foods are becoming increasingly invoked as key selective forces that determine masticatory and digestive anatomy, influence grouping and ranging behavior, and underlie fundamental evolutionary processes such as speciation, ex…
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work
Using the example of Andean archaeology, this article focuses on subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship-based and egalitarian, rejecting explicit hierarchy. I describe this asperformative informalityand argue that it stems from a meritocratic ideology that inadvertently reproduces Euro-American white-male privilege. In a discipline that prides itself on its friendliness, openness, and alco…
Comparative locomotor ecology of gibbons and macaques
To examine functional questions of arboreal locomotor ecology, the selection of canopy elements by Bornean agile gibbons ( Hylobates agilis ) and long‐tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis ) was contrasted, and related to locomotor behaviors. The two species, and in some cases, the macaque sexes, varied in their use of most structural elements. Although both species traveled most frequently in the main canopy layer (macaques: 56%, gibbons: 48%), …
Excavation methodologies and labour as epistemic concerns in the practice of archaeology. Comparing examples from British and Andean archaeology
Archaeologists' excavation practices vary significantly from country to country and site to site. But variation in the most fundamental, 'common-sense' excavation practices is 'black-boxed' - it is not discussed outside casual, informal contexts, and is treated as having no effect on higher-level interpretation. These practices can, however, be a source of conflict when archaeologists from different communities of practice work together. In this …
Indigenous Archaeological Field Technicians at Tiwanaku, Bolivia
Archaeology is a science with an intimate investment in the bodies that labor to produce its objects of knowledge. Data comes into being through tactile skills: eyes that see, hands that touch, voices that name and debate. It matters, therefore, who constitutes and controls the labor force; yet little has been written about archaeological workers. Here I outline the relationship between archaeologists and indigenous workers at Tiwanaku, Bolivia, …
Personifying Objects/Objectifying People
Death and the bodies of the dead are managed and handled in contemporary Western society by various professions that include archaeology. The bodies of the dead exist in a variety of material forms, and generate conflicting responses from the archaeologists who work with them. Positioning archaeologists as professionals within a wider society, this article explores the relationship between the physicality of the body, the (de)construction of pers…
Breathing Life into the Archives
What is the fate of the material from old excavations? This article aims to generate attention towards this question by discussing the fragmentation of assemblages due to long and disjointed excavation campaigns as well as the eagerness of museums to have representative objects from famous sites. The challenge emerging is the need to explore ways of reinstating objects that may be widely dispersed and entirely decontextualized into our database. …
Exploring dietary patterns in a Mexican adolescent population
Social and Chemical Life in Mexico City
The Relationship of Size of Feeding Aggregate to Size of Food Patch
Mark Leighton, Donna R. Leighton, The Relationship of Size of Feeding Aggregate to Size of Food Patch: Howler Monkeys (Alouatta palliata) Feeding in Trichilia cipo Fruit Trees on Barro Colorado Island, Biotropica, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jun., 1982), pp. 81-90
Modeling dietary selectivity by Bornean orangutans
Comparative locomotor ecology of gibbons and macaques
To examine functional questions of arboreal locomotor ecology, the selection of canopy elements by Bornean agile gibbons ( Hylobates agilis ) and long‐tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis ) was contrasted, and related to locomotor behaviors. The two species, and in some cases, the macaque sexes, varied in their use of most structural elements. Although both species traveled most frequently in the main canopy layer (macaques: 56%, gibbons: 48%), …
Breathing Life into the Archives
What is the fate of the material from old excavations? This article aims to generate attention towards this question by discussing the fragmentation of assemblages due to long and disjointed excavation campaigns as well as the eagerness of museums to have representative objects from famous sites. The challenge emerging is the need to explore ways of reinstating objects that may be widely dispersed and entirely decontextualized into our database. …
Defining fallback foods and assessing their importance in primate ecology and evolution
Physical anthropologists use the term “fallback foods” to denote resources of relatively poor nutritional quality that become particularly important dietary components during periods when preferred foods are scarce. Fallback foods are becoming increasingly invoked as key selective forces that determine masticatory and digestive anatomy, influence grouping and ranging behavior, and underlie fundamental evolutionary processes such as speciation, ex…
Personifying Objects/Objectifying People
Death and the bodies of the dead are managed and handled in contemporary Western society by various professions that include archaeology. The bodies of the dead exist in a variety of material forms, and generate conflicting responses from the archaeologists who work with them. Positioning archaeologists as professionals within a wider society, this article explores the relationship between the physicality of the body, the (de)construction of pers…
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
Hornbill Social Dispersion
Excavation methodologies and labour as epistemic concerns in the practice of archaeology. Comparing examples from British and Andean archaeology
Archaeologists' excavation practices vary significantly from country to country and site to site. But variation in the most fundamental, 'common-sense' excavation practices is 'black-boxed' - it is not discussed outside casual, informal contexts, and is treated as having no effect on higher-level interpretation. These practices can, however, be a source of conflict when archaeologists from different communities of practice work together. In this …
Indigenous Archaeological Field Technicians at Tiwanaku, Bolivia
Archaeology is a science with an intimate investment in the bodies that labor to produce its objects of knowledge. Data comes into being through tactile skills: eyes that see, hands that touch, voices that name and debate. It matters, therefore, who constitutes and controls the labor force; yet little has been written about archaeological workers. Here I outline the relationship between archaeologists and indigenous workers at Tiwanaku, Bolivia, …
Social and Chemical Life in Mexico City
Trust/distrust in Multi-disciplinary Collaboration
In this paper we theorize trust as emerging in different material/infrastructural and epistemic realities as part of our multidisciplinary collaboration about water, called Neighborhood Environments as Socio-Techno-Bio Systems: Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico City (NESTSMX)”. This collaboration, led by feminist anthropologists, brings together anthropology, environmental-public health, and environmental engineering researchers t…
Exploring dietary patterns in a Mexican adolescent population
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work
Using the example of Andean archaeology, this article focuses on subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship-based and egalitarian, rejecting explicit hierarchy. I describe this asperformative informalityand argue that it stems from a meritocratic ideology that inadvertently reproduces Euro-American white-male privilege. In a discipline that prides itself on its friendliness, openness, and alco…
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