Dr. Snipes is a sociocultural anthropologist who received her Ph.D.
in 1996 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works in the Andes
of Argentina and also has done research in Bolivia and Peru. Her publications
include When the Other Speaks: Animals and Place as Social Space in
the Argentine Andes (UMI dissertation), The 'Gaze' of the State: School
as Contested Territory in Studies in Third World Societies (Vol.56),
Libritos y destinos en una comunidad de los Andes argentinos in Revista
Anthropologica (PUCP, Lima), and Early Behavioral Development and Temperamental
Traits in Mother- vs. Peer-reared Rhesus Monkeys in Primates (Vol.39).
Her primary research interests are symbolic theory, pastoralism, socio-political
identity, religion, and high-altitude adaptation. Dr. Snipes currently
teaches 4-field Introduction to Anthropology, Peoples and Cultures of
Latin America, Animals and Culture, Anthropological Theory, Ethnographic
Field Methods, Symbolic Theory, Ethnohistory, and Myth, Magic, and Religion
and serves as co-editor of the Anthropology Newsletter for the Anthropology
Program.