The Center for the Study of Religion and Culture and the Vanderbilt Divinity School present
The 2009 Howard L. Harrod Lecture / CSRC Spring Lecture

Tom D. Dillehay

Monday, April 20, 7:00 p.m.
Divinity School Art Room

Tom D. Dillehay is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt and Professor Extraordinaire and Honorary Doctorate at the Universidad Austral de Chile.

Professor Dillehay’s lecture will address how the origins of religious and ideological practices in ancient civilizations without writing systems are studied and inferred.  With a focus on death and funerals, political organization, and kinship geographies in the Andean region, he will discuss the empirical and ontological bases of inferred religious and ritual practices. He will also consider the different scales of empirical and temporal evidence required to approach this topic. A reception in Tillett Lounge will follow the lecture.

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