Ross Hassig

Ross Hassig

Ross Hassig (b. December 12, 1945) [cite linked authority file|id=n83-194200|accessdate=2008-05-15] is an American historical anthropologist specialising in Mesoamerican studies, particularly the Aztec culture. His focus is often on the description of practical infrastructure in Mesoamerican societies. He is the author of several influential books, among them: "Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico"; "Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control"; and "Trade, Tribute, and Transportation: The Sixteenth-Century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico".

Hassig began his academic career as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, where his studies initially focussed on non-Western legal systems. He soon developed an interest in anthropology, later obtaining in 1974 his Master's degree from Vanderbilt in Law and Anthropology, with a thesis on political development among the Puebloan peoples at Acoma Pueblo. He then went on further his graduate studies at Stanford University, obtaining his Ph.D from the Department of Anthropology there in 1980. [School for Advanced Research (n.d.)]

During his time at Stanford, Hassig's research agenda switched to the cultures of Mesoamerica, where he investigated the economic and political foundations of pre- and post-conquest societies. Among the first of his studies was directed towards the underpinnings of the pre-Columbian Tarascan state. [School for Advanced Research (n.d.)]

For 1989–90 he was a scholar-in-residence of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, with a research project entitled "Warfare and the Mesoamerican Past". [cite web |year=n.d. |title=Scholars in residence for 1989–90 |url=http://www.doaks.org/fellows89-90.html |publisher=Dumbarton Oaks |accessdate=2008-04-07]

In 1997–98 Hassig spent a year as Resident Scholar under the Weatherhead Fellowship program at the School for American Research [Since renamed the "School for Advanced Research", in 2007.] in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a primary focus on researching the Aztec calendar. [School for Advanced Research (n.d.)]

In the 1999 UK academic year, Hassig was one awarded of the two residential Visiting Fellowships offered annually by the Sainsbury Research Unit at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, towards the study of 'Aztec thought and culture'. [cite web |year=n.d. |title=List of Former Fellows |url=http://www.sru.uea.ac.uk/fellowships-former_fellows.php |work=Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas |publisher=University of East Anglia, Norwich |accessdate=2008-04-07] Hassig held a chair as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, until 2003 when he relocated to Tucson, Arizona. [cite journal |year=2003 |date=Fall 2003 |title=Good Luck to OU Anthro ambassadors |url=http://www.ou.edu/anthropology/Forms_Documents/Newsletters/vol1_iss1.pdf |format=PDF online reproduction |journal=Ear to the Ground: Anthropology Department Newsletter |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=p.3 |location=Norman |publisher=Anthropology Department, University of Oklahoma |accessdate=2008-04-07] Since leaving OU Hassig has remained an independent scholar and author, continuing his research into Mesoamerican cultures and state societies. [Raaflaub (2007:x).]

Published works

Hassig's published works include:;authored books—
* |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |pages=xvi, 364 pp.|isbn=0-8061-1911-X |oclc=11469622
* |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |pages=xx, 404 pp.|isbn=0-8061-2121-1 |oclc=17106411
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* |pages=286 pp.|location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Vanderbilt University |isbn=0-935462-21-X |oclc=11047747;contributed chapters—
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Notes

References

: cite book |author=aut|Raaflaub, Kurt A. |authorlink=Kurt Raaflaub|year=2007 |chapter=Notes on contributors|title=War and Peace in the Ancient World |editor=Kurt A. Raaflaub (ed.)|series=The Ancient World: Comparative Histories series|others=Kurt A. Raaflaub (series ed.) |location=Malden, MA and Oxford |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |pages=ix–xii|isbn=978-1-4051-4525-1 |oclc=85819786: cite web |author=aut|School for Advanced Research |authorlink=School for Advanced Research |year=n.d. |title=Ross Hassig: Rethinking the Aztec Calendar |url=http://www.sarweb.org/scholars/scholars/individuals/scholars97-98/hassig.htm |work=Resident Scholar Fellowship Program - past scholars |publisher=School for Advanced Research |accessdate=2008-04-07

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