Penelope Dransart

Penelope Dransart FSA
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Thesis	Fibre to fabric: the role of fibre in Camelid economies in prehispanic and contemporary Chile (1991)
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology Anthropology History
Sub-discipline	Castellology
Institutions	Institute of Latin American Studies University of Wales Trinity Saint David University of Aberdeen

Penelope Dransart FSA is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian specialising in South American anthropology and the study of castles. Until 2016 she was a Reader at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is Honorary Reader at the University of Aberdeen. Dransart was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1998. She has written or edited several books, including Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding (2002, Routledge). Dransart completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 1991, titled Fibre to fabric: the role of fibre in Camelid economies in prehispanic and contemporary Chile. Between 1992 and 1993, Dransart was a research fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies. She has conducted fieldwork in the Andes since the 1980s and at Fetternear Palace in Scotland between 1995 and 2013 as part of the Scottish Episcopal Palaces Project. Dransart guest curated an exhibition about Fetternear at Blairs Museum in Aberdeen. She is part of the permanent committee of the Colloques Château Gaillard, a biannual conference for castellologists. Dransart is also Editor for Archaeology and Art for Studia Celtica, an academic journal about Celtic studies.

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External links

• Penny Dransart (2002). Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: an ethnography and archaeology of Andean camelid herding [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1000347
• Wenner-Gren Foundation grantee: Dransart, Penelope Zoe
• Lochleven Castle and the incarceration of Mary Queen of Scots, 2021 talk by Dr. Dransart