ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Louana M. Lackey's attempts to become an anthropologist. By the time she decided to become an archeologist, she was an elementary school art teacher and a potter. After four years as a part-time student, she received a BA in art history and anthropology at the age of forty-six, and six years later, a PhD in anthropology at the age of fifty-two. When she went back to school she had not yet decided whether to become an archaeologist or an anthropologist. She embarked on a double major in art history and in anthropology, both in order to help me reach a decision, and because neither the art department nor the anthropology department offered all of the requirements of their majors at night. After she finished his dissertation, she continued working in the state of Puebla, Mexico, for almost twenty years, documenting both traditional pre-Columbian pottery-making methods and Talavera Poblana, a Spanish-introduced tin-glaze tradition.
