Richard Chacon is professor of Anthropology at Winthrop University. He has conducted anthropological investigations throughout Latin America and has the subsistence patterns, warfare, and belief systems of the Yanomamö of Venezuela, the Yora of Peru and the Achuar (Shiwiar) of Ecuador. His books include The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research: Reporting on Environmental Degradation and Warfare; Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians; North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence; and the book Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence. This event is the second in the series “Women and Agents of Violence” which is held in honor of Women’s History Month and is sponsored with the UAA Anthropology Dept.