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Networks of Violence: Bioarchaeological and Spatial Perspectives on Physical, Structural, and Cultural Violence in the Lower Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru, in the Pre- and Early-Wari Eras
(2017-12-21)
This 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 ...
The Bodily Logics of Production: Intergenerational Perspectives on Adolescence, Exchange, and Aspiration among Kichwa Women in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(2014-11-25)
This 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 ...
Schooling the Forest: Land, Legacy, and Environmental Epistemological Practice in the Upper Napo
(2014-11-25)
This 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 ...
The Bioarchaeology of Collapse: Ethnocide and Ethnogenesis in Post-Imperial Andahuaylas, Peru (AD 900 - 1200)
(2012-12-05)
This 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 ...
The ambitions and ambiguities of community: state policy and artisan cooperation in rural Peru
(2013-12-10)
Based 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 ...
Ritual, Economy, and the Construction of Community at Ancient Hualcayán (Ancash, Peru)
(2017-12-07)
This 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 ...
Environmental Factishes, Variation, and Emergent Ontologies among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon
(2019-01-15)
Theories of environmental decision-making are based on “modern” conceptualizations of the world that are normalized and legitimized by scientific constructions of a reality that is assumed to be objective. Without recognizing ...
Enticidad, subalternidad, género y participación política: aspiraciones y estrategias de las mujeres Mayas del altiplano de Guatemala para acceder a espacios de poder
(2019-02-05)
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Etnicidad, subalternidad, género y participación política: aspiraciones y estrategias de las mujeres Mayas del altiplano de Guatemala para acceder a espacios de poder
Carmelina Espantzay Serech
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Food, Feasts, and the Construction of Identity and Power in Ancient Tiwanaku: A Bioarchaeological Perspective
(2010-03-16)
This dissertation examines the relationship between dramatic changes in Andean culinary traditions and the development of one of the earliest state level societies in the Americas, Tiwanaku. Located in the Southern Lake ...
Enacting Youth: political agency and youth subjectivities in Tactic, Guatemala
(2019-07-29)
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tactic, Guatemala, this dissertation explores the articulation of youth subjectivities and political agency in a context of social and political inequality. This research focuses on ...