Julia Zumstein
Research Student
Education
2006 - BA(hons) / MA Cantab in Archaeology & Anthropology. University of Cambridge, UK.
2010 - MA in the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas. SRU, University of East Anglia, UK.
Research Interests
Formative Period Peru, specifically the Initial Period / Early Horizon on the North coast; Cupisnique and Tembladera material culture and imagery.
PhD Thesis
Study of Formative Period Peru North Coast ceramic styles and their cultural labels (Cupisnique, Tembladera, Chongoyape, Chavin), with a specific interest in the representation of humans (figurines) and the presentation of the human body (personal adornment). This builds on and expands my previous research on Tembladera figurines.
Further Interests
The development of complex society, hierarchy, and the sources power; archaeology of ritual and shamanism; music in the Formative Period; expressions of identity and personhood; anthropomorphism and the origins of figurative representation.
Julia Zumstein
Tembladera figurine showing a elaborately adorned male playing a flute (Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen. Photo © J.Zumstein).