Mario Montaño
(Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1991)
Associate Professor of Anthropology: 2000-
First year at Colorado College: 1992
Office: Barnes 310
Phone Extension: 6824
E-mail: mmontano@coloradocollege.edu
Cultural anthropology, foodways, sociolinguistics, ethnographic methods, folk culture, Mexican Americans; Southwest.

Mario Montaño is a cultural anthropologist and folklorists. His research focuses on the Texas-Mexico border and northern region of Mexico. His interests are on the anthropology of food and tries to answer the following questions: How do foods centered activities influence the construction of cultural and gender identity? How do food preparation, distribution, and consumption contribute to men and women's social position and power? How does food symbolically connote maleness and femaleness? In addition, for the past six years, he has been teaching a course on the Rio Grande River, focusing on the different regional, Hispanic cultures living along the Rio Grande River. Currently, he is working on a research proposal for the National Endowment of the Humanities for a two-year, ethnographic-historical research project on the Rio Grande Basin.

Courses:

AN102: Cultural Anthropology
AN240: Qualitative Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology
AN242: The Anthropology of Food (with Emphasis on Writing)
AN243: Hispanic Folklore of the Southwest (with Emphasis on Writing)
AN245: Popular Culture
AN247: Theory in Cultural Anthropology
AN310: Anthropology and the History of Ideas
AN321: Rio Grande-Culture, History and Region
AN371: Culture Contact and Writing Cultures