Browsing by Department "Anthropology"
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(2019-08-13)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation presents the results from the first archaeological study of Taki Onqoy, a sixteenth-century religious revitalization movement practiced by Andean peoples in Peru in resistance to Spanish cultural traditions ...
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(2021-07-20)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation examines the relationship between social structure, production, and economic systems at the Late Classic site of Tamarindito in Guatemala. Maya economies, especially those involving obsidian, have ...
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(2020-11-20)Department: AnthropologyThis study focuses on social change, resource management, cooperation, and fairness among Tzotzil-Maya communities in the highlands of Chiapas, southern Mexico. Maya groups in Chiapas have undergone drastic changes over ...
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(2016-06-30)Department: AnthropologyThis 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 ...
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(2019-07-29)Department: AnthropologyBased 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 ...
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(2019-02-05)Department: AnthropologyANTHROPOLOGY 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 Dissertation ...
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(2019-01-15)Department: AnthropologyTheories 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 ...
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(2010-04-14)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation explores early mound building and community development on the Pacific coast of Mesoamerica by considering the changing ways that people interacted with the landscape and ecology at the site of Chiquiuitan ...
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(2010-03-16)Department: AnthropologyThis 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 ...
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(2015-07-31)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation combines archaeological and ethnohistorical methods to examine the lived experiences of enslaved African laborers on the wine haciendas of San Joseph de la Nasca and San Francisco Xavier de la Nasca, owned ...
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(2021-12-22)Department: AnthropologyFinancialization intensifies and expands credit—credit that is often exploitative and predatory— to populations that cannot afford it. If economically marginalized people struggle to repay debt, who lends money to them, ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: AnthropologyThis 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, ...
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(2009-04-13)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation investigates the relationship between power and wealth in past societies by examining the economic networks through which wealth was distributed at K’o, Guatemala from the Terminal Preclassic through the ...
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(2022-05-23)Department: AnthropologyDuring a single decade—the 1570s—Francisco de Toledo, fifth Viceroy of Peru, executed Reducción General de Indios (General Resettlement of Indians)—which forcibly displaced some 1.4 million Indigenous Andeans into over a ...
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(2019-06-17)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation investigates local community experiences of Inka imperialism between the 15th and 16th centuries t in the central highlands of Peru. It builds on studies of Inka imperialism in the province, with a focus ...
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(2012-05-21)Department: AnthropologyAs 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, ...
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(2016-07-12)Department: AnthropologyThe ongoing public debate over teaching evolution is typically disembodied from the social reality in which it occurs and is framed as a collision of mutually incompatible beliefs—Bible-based creationism vs. naturalistic ...
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(2021-07-15)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation evaluates how unequal power structures generate a form of structural violence that becomes embodied by people who live within them, and explores how historical narratives of the colonial experience have ...
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(2023-03-09)Department: AnthropologyDrawing on ethnographic research conducted in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, I examine how Mexican immigrants—primarily current and former farmworkers—attempt to create a good life in agriculture by founding their own farm ...
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(2016-06-30)Department: AnthropologyThis 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 ...