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The Emergence of the Ancient Kaqchikel Polity: A case of Ethnogenesis in the Guatemalan Highlands
(2019-07-29)
This 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 ...
“Fruit of the Vine, Work of Human Hands": An Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Slavery on the the Jesuit Wine Haciendas of Nasca, Peru
(2015-07-31)
This 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 ...
Post-Collapse Constructions of Community, Memory, and Identity: An Archaeological Analysis of Late Intermediate Period Community Formation in Bolivia's Desaguadero Valley
(2012-08-10)
Theory 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 ...
An Archaeology of Taki Onqoy: Revitalization and Entanglement in Colonial Peru
(2019-08-13)
This 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 ...
Networking Democracy: Brazilian Internet Freedom Activism and the Influence of Participatory Democracy
(2015-10-20)
This 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 ...
The Political Organization of the Belize Valley: New Evidence from Baking Pot, Xunantunich, and Cahal Pech
(2006-12-20)
Anthropologists have long sought to understand the political organization of complex societies. Investigations into the inter-site hierarchy of the Late and Terminal Classic in the Belize Valley have revealed evidence of ...
Technologies of Power: Ritual Economy and Ceramic Production in the Terminal Preclassic Period Holmul Region, Guatemala
(2008-12-09)
In 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 ...
Beyond the Commoner/Elite Divide: Illuminating Classic Maya Multi-Agent Production Systems at Tamarindito, Petén, Guatemala
(2021-07-20)
This 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 ...
Legacies of Colonial Dislocation: Resettlement, Agricultural Deintensification and Infrastructural Reclamation in Huarochirí, Peru
(2022-05-23)
During 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 ...
Gota a Gota—Drop by Drop: Forced Displacement, Debt and Credit, and Life in the Aftermath of Conflict
(2021-12-22)
Financialization 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, ...