Ronald Spores

Ronald Spores

Ronald M. Spores (b. January 25, 1931) is an American academic anthropologist, archaeologist and ethnohistorian, whose research career has centered on the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica. He is Professor Emeritus of anthropology at Vanderbilt University's College of Arts and Science, where he has been a faculty member for over four decades. Spores is most renowned for his scholarship conducted on the cultural history of the Oaxacan region in southwestern Mexico. In particular, he is considered a leading authority on the Mixtec culture, with many contributions towards investigating its archaeological sites, ethnohistorical documents, political enconomies, and ethnohistory in both the pre-Columbian and Colonial eras.

Spores obtained his undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oregon in 1953. His graduate studies were undertaken at the Universidad de las Américas in Cholula, Mexico, where he obtained an M.A. in 1960. Spores continued graduate studies at Harvard, where he completed a Master's thesis in 1963 and his doctorate in anthropology in 1964. [cite book |author=Division of Public Affairs, Vanderbilt University|year=2007 |chapter=Faculty - College of Arts and Science |chapterurl=http://www.vanderbilt.edu/catalogs/undergrad/A&SFaculty.pdf |format=PDF online publication|title=Undergraduate Catalog, 2007–2008 |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Vanderbilt University |pages=p.754 |accessdate=2008-04-08]

Published works

Published works by Spores include:;authored books—
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References

: cite web |author=aut|Cirigo, Guillermo |year=2007 |date=2007-09-21 |title=En Huajuapan el investigador Ronal Spores presenta libro sobre la Cultura Mixteca |url=http://culturaspopulareshuajuapan.gob.mx/index.php?news=17# |work=Culturas populares Huajuapan: Sala de prensa |publisher=E-Mixteca |accessdate=2008-04-09 es icon: cite book |author=aut|Marcus, Joyce |authorlink=Joyce Marcus |coauthors=and aut|Judith Francis Zeitlin (eds.) |year=1994 |title=Caciques and their People: A Volume in Honor of Ronald Spores |series=Anthropological papers of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, nowrap|no. 89 |location=Ann Arbor |publisher=Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan |isbn=0-915703-37-8 |oclc=31076945

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