Affiliated Faculty Profile

Takahashi Inomata

Associate Professor of Anthropology
PhD. in Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, 1997

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Research interests: Mesoamerican archaeology, with specific reference to social change and social reproduction, settlement, architecture, households, statistical and computer analyses, economic systems, and formation theory.

Area studies courses: Mesoamerican Archaeology (Maya), Mesoamerican Archaeology (Mexico), Seminar in Maya Archaeology, Seminar in Mesoamerican Archaeology

Selected Publications

Inomata, T, and L. Coben, eds.  2006.  Theaters of Power and Community: Archaeology of Performance and Politics.  Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.

Inomata, T, E. Ponciano, O. Chinchilla, O. Román, V. Breuil-Martínez, and O. Santos.  2004.  “An Unfinished Temple at the Classic Maya Center of Aguateca, Guatemala.”  Antiquity 78 (302): 798-811.

Inomata, T. and R. Webb, eds.  2004.  The Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment in Middle America.  Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Inomata, T.  2004.  “The Spatial Mobility of Non-Elite Populations in Classic Maya Society and its Political Implications.”  In Ancient Maya Commoners, eds. J. C. Lohse and F. Valdez, Jr., 175-196.  Austin: University of Texas Press.

Inomata, T.  2003.  “Aguateca: New Revelations of Maya Elite.”  National Geographic May: 110-119.

Inomata, T, and D. Triadan.  2003.  “El espectáculo de muerte en las tierras bajas mayas.”  In Entrar en el camino: La muerte en la civilización maya, eds. A. Ciudad Ruiz, M. H. Ruz Sosa, and M. J. Iglesias Ponce de León,  195-208. México, D.F.: Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas, Madrid and Centro de Estudios Mayas, Universidad de Autónoma de México.