Anya Peterson Royce

Indiana University, Bloomington | Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Comparative LiteratureMember since 1967

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My Biography

Dr. Peterson Royce’s areas of expertise are cultural anthropology, anthropology of dance and performing arts, identify, landscape, pilgrimage, and ethnography of Mexico. After having received a PhD in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, in December of 1974, Dr. Peterson Royce published books from several research projects about the Isthmus Zapotec people of Oaxaca, dance, and performing arts. Dr. Peterson Royce’s first AAA Annual Meeting was in 1969 in New Orleans.

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