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Some of the most famous anthropologists are women: Margaret Mead, Mary Leakey, Alice Roberts, and Jane Goodall, to name a few. Even in times when men were typically leaders in the field, women still made a name for themselves and continue to do so now. During Women’s History Month, the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is honoring university women in Anthropology and hosting a series of talks. Anthropology department administrator Jennifer George and graduate students Laura Steele and Stephanie Fox have compiled a Women’s History Month web page to highlight the women and events, working on behalf of the department s IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-bias) committee. The UNM Anthropology department has a strong population of women as faculty, students, and alumni who have gone on to work in the field and make significant contributions. ....
The next time Taos citizens debate whether to change the name of Kit Carson Park, they should consider calling it Acequia Madre Park. There would be no Placita de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, or town of Don Fernando de Taos, without the Acequia Madre del RÃo Pueblo. There would be no park. The Acequia Madre del RÃo Pueblo permitted growth that one day would threaten its very existence. Originally it conveyed only sobrante or surplus water rights to settlers of the 1796 Don Fernando de Taos land grant. These vecinos inserted their acequia madre upstream from community diversions in Ranchitos and downstream from Taos Pueblo. They received sobrantes to supplement the irrigation water they were already diverting, along with people in Cañon, from the RÃo Fernando. ....