Course Description: The Water Heritage Anthropological Project focuses on the relationship between historic and ancient water features and associated communities. By researching and documenting the history of water management and the use of irrigation, its infrastructure, and agricultural practices in Utah, the WHAP aims to create widely available products to educate the public about this history. In this course, participants explore water heritage and its meaning for our communities and ourselves. Each day we will take a new approach to water heritage studies exploring personal reflections, archives, spatial data, material culture, and oral history accounts. You will have the chance to contribute to the ongoing research of the WHAP with your participation in this week-long seminar and research lab.

Course Instructor: Molly Boeka Cannon, Ph.D. Executive Director and Curator for the Museum of Anthropology interests including spatiality, behavior, and material culture conducts fieldwork throughout the Intermountain West, sharing her studies with students and the public through experiential learning in research and practice. Anna Cohen, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor in Anthropology research interests include political economy and political incorporation, consumption, comparative urbanism, and material culture studies. She conducts fieldwork throughout the Latin America, Mesoamerica and the American West.
molly.cannon@usu.edu