sociology and anthropology

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY

Ph.D. (University of Michigan)

Professor of Anthropology
308 Asbury Hall
Phone: (765) 658-4520
E-mail: dlalone@depauw.edu
Vita
 

Darrell La Lone joined the Department as Assistant Professor of Anthropology in 1980, after earning an undergraduate degree in anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley) and the PhD in anthropology at The University of Michigan (1978).  His subdisciplinary base at Michigan was ethnology (advisers Eric Wolf and Elman Service), and his dissertation work also linked archaeology (Jeffrey Parsons, co-chair) and history (Charles Gibson, co-chair).  His area focus has been in the Andes, with work in ethnography, archaeology, and ethnohistory.  His topic specializations continue to center on evolution and environment.  His teaching at DePauw emphasizes holistic anthropology, so that his courses are in biological anthropology and archaeology as well as ethnology.  His publications address Andean civilization, ethnohistory and archaeology, and world-systems, all from an environmental and evolutionary perspective.  In his current sabbatical project he is working with the pre-eminent evolutionary biologist/anthropologist David Sloan Wilson in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Evolution (EvoS) at Binghamton University.  

Fall 2009 On Leave

Fall 2008-Spring 2009 On Leave

Spring 2008

• Anth 252 Anthropology of Power and Violence
• Anth 258 Archaeology
• Anth 351 Human Nature & Anthropology

Fall 2007

• Anth 153 Human Origins
• Anth 253 Environmental Anthropology
• Anth 273 Indians: Southern and Central America