Andrew Scherer

Brown University

09/01/2017-12/31/2017

Andrew K. Scherer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. He is author of Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul, co-editor of Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places: War in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes (with John Verano) and co-editor of Smoke, Flame, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice (forthcoming, with Vera Tiesler). At the Clark he is working on his next book, Baak: The Qualities and Craft of Ancient Maya Bone. The project is a study of the materiality of human and animal bone among the Pre-Columbian Maya (ca. 400 BC to AD 1502).