Introduction

Greetings classmates. My name is Alysha. I am a third year student, and I recently decided that I will be pursuing a double major in anthropology and history (I was just going to do anthro before, but I just couldn't leave my beloved history out in the cold). Archaeology is probably my favourite subfield of anthropology, so even though I'm pretty sure I've technically fulfilled my archaeology requirements for my degree (I went on the field school to South Africa this summer, and I would recommend it to anyone that likes archaeology and doesn't mind palaeo...) I would like to take more archaeology courses and this one caught my eye as I'm one of the many people these days that has one of those fascinations with death (for instance, last semester in my Soviet history class my paper was on how Russian death culture altered under the Bolsheviks as compared to the last few decades of Imperial Russia). Apart from anthropology I obviously love history, Russian history in particular. I'm a vegetarian (have been for two years), and I have a slight obsession with Charlie Chaplin...