Browsing by Department "Anthropology"
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(2022-06-13)Department: AnthropologyThis research explores the Postclassic period migrations of Nahua speaking groups from Mexico to Central America, which is known as one of the best examples of large-scale population movements in New World culture history. ...
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(2015-10-20)Department: AnthropologyThis ethnographic study examines the pioneering tactics Brazilian Internet freedom activists have used to defend what they refer to as the Internet livre - a free and open Internet. In particular, it explores how the concept ...
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(2017-12-21)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation examines mortuary traditions, cranial trauma, violent dismemberment, and cranial hyperostoses among a mortuary population from the cemetery of Uraca, in the Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru. AMS dates show ...
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(2015-04-10)Department: AnthropologyDuring the early-middle Holocene (7500-4000 BP) on the west coast of South America, the intense exploitation of a changing marine environment led to sedentism and an increase in social complexity (e.g., Moseley 1975, 1988; ...
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(2019-07-25)Department: AnthropologyOver the last decade açaí (Euterpe oleracea Mart.), a palm fruit traditionally eaten as a staple food in the Brazilian Amazon has become a popular health food for global consumers. Marketed as an exotic tropical berry ...
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(2012-08-10)Department: AnthropologyTheory in archaeology often concentrates on the “rise” or “collapse” of civilizations, while periods of instability following collapse have been underresearched. This is especially true in Bolivia’s southern Titicaca ...
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(2011-04-18)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation investigates the relationship between non-domestic architecture, political rituals, and social production during the Late to Terminal Classic periods (700 to 1000 AD) in the Puuc region of Yucatan, Mexico. ...
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(2006-07-25)Department: AnthropologyThe research presented in this dissertation concerns preindustrial economic systems, specifically Classic Maya (A.D. 600-900) economic systems, using the site of Cancuen, Guatemala as a case study. The site of Cancuen was ...
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(2020-03-26)Department: AnthropologyWhen autonomous rural people are forced to reorganize their lives to accommodate extractive capitalism, they remake their families, communities, and identities. In Colombia’s La Guajira region, the Cerrejón Coal Company ...
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(2017-12-07)Department: AnthropologyThis research investigates how communities reorganize during periods of widespread social, economic, and religious transformation. In particular, the study traces the process through which the people of Hualcayán, an ancient ...
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(2014-11-25)Department: AnthropologyThis study focuses on intergenerational changes to environmental knowledge, reasoning, valuation, and practice in Sacha Loma, an indigenous Kichwa community on the banks of the Napo River in the Ecuadorian Amazon. While ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: AnthropologyThe processes of population movement, culture contact and interaction have been shaping human societies for millennia. Though there is a wide and diverse body of literature on interaction and network theory in the social ...
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(2007-06-25)Department: AnthropologyThe Pasión-Verapaz Region is located at the highland-lowland transition in central Guatemala. It was the mid-point of the Great Western Trade Route, one of two principal arteries connecting the Maya highlands and lowlands. ...
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(2008-12-09)Department: AnthropologyIn this dissertation I use the theoretical framework of ritual economy combined with ceramic analysis to understand the function and meaning of the introduction of orange slipped pottery to the Holmul Region during the ...
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(2013-12-10)Department: AnthropologyBased on fieldwork among artisans in the rural district of Quinua, Peru, this dissertation analyzes recent state policies to promote creative industries and organize business associations. I focus on two concrete practices ...
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(2012-12-05)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation investigates the bio-cultural impacts of Wari imperial collapse in the highland Andean region of Andahuaylas, Peru. Using a comprehensive social bioarchaeological approach based on both lab work and ...
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(2014-11-25)Department: AnthropologyThis study examines the emergence of adolescence in Sacha Loma, a small, indigenous Kichwa community in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The new cohort of teenagers in Sacha Loma is the first generation to be encouraged to remain ...
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(2020-07-27)Department: AnthropologyMy dissertation, “The Diet of Sovereignty: Bioarchaeology in Tlaxcallan”, explores the role of foodways and food sovereignty in contexts of imperial resistance. As the Aztec Empire spread across Late Postclassic Central ...
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(2019-07-29)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation explores the Kaqchikel ethnogenesis as an expression of resistance against the K’iche during the Late Postclassic period (1200 -1524 C.E.) in the highlands of Guatemala. Ethnogenesis is understood as a ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: AnthropologySettlement pattern research – the study of the spatial distribution of settlement across a landscape – is a fundamental aspect of archaeological investigations. This dissertation is a study of ancient Maya settlement on ...