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Rising from the Ashes: Remaking Community Around Conflict and Coal
(2020-03-26)
When 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 ...
Long-Term Resilience in Cultural Systems: An Araucanian Example from Santa Sylvia, South-Central Chile
(2012-05-21)
As one of the few indigenous groups in the Americas to actively resist European colonialism and the only group to successfully maintain cultural and political autonomy for over 350 years while expanding cultural influence, ...
In the Spirit of Sanctuary: Sanctuary-city Policy Advocacy and the Production of Sanctuary-power in San Francisco, California
(2016-07-26)
This dissertation provides a historical and anthropological analysis of sanctuary-city policy formation, power, and governance in San Francisco, California. This dissertation focuses on the discourses, practices, tactics, ...
Paradoxes in Sustainable Rainforest Production: Childhood and Child Labor in Açaí Extraction in the Brazilian Amazon
(2019-07-25)
Over 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 ...
Reconstructing Classic Maya Economic Systems: Production and Exchange at Cancuen, Guatemala
(2006-07-25)
The 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 ...
When Worlds Collide: Understanding the Effects of Maya-Teotihuacán Interaction on Ancient Maya Identity and Community
(2017-03-28)
My research, centered at the Early Classic (350-450 AD) site of La Sufricaya, located in the Holmul region of Peten, Guatemala, examines a contested topic in Ancient Maya history –the nature of cross-cultural interaction ...
Shrines of the Pasión-Verapaz Region, Guatemala: Ritual and Exchange along an Ancient Trade Route
(2007-06-25)
The 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. ...
Cooperation through War: Late Intermediate Period Warfare and Community Formation in the South-Central Andes
(2016-06-30)
This dissertation examines how warfare engendered new forms of sociality and mediated political relationships during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1450) in the Colca Valley of the southern Peruvian highlands. I ...
Mortuary Tradition and Social Transformation during the Late Intermediate Period (A.D. 1100-1450): A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Above-Ground Burials in the Colca Valley, Peru
(2016-06-30)
This dissertation investigates how new forms of burial involving the placement of mummies in above-ground sepulchers impacted, and were shaped by, processes of identity formation and political change during the Late ...
The Petexbatun Intersite Settlement Pattern Survey: Shifting Settlement Strategies in the Ancient Maya World
(2007-04-14)
Settlement 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 ...