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Unstable Boundaries and Communal Gatherings at the Prehispanic Archaeological Site of Wimba (1000-1532 CE), Amazonas, Peru
(2022-03-15)
Along the eastern slopes of the Andes, the montaña separates Amazonian and Andean South America. It is a dynamic zone, where multiple cultural groups come together, overlap, and interact in ways that are poorly documented ...
U.S. Solidarity with Latin America: The Formation of a Political Consciousness
(2022-02-21)
This dissertation explores how US activists involved in US Latin American Solidarity campaigns from the 1980s to the present developed a political consciousness of their own relationship to and role in influencing political ...
Mercury, Mitayos, and the Violence of the Everyday: The Bioarchaeology of the Santa Bárbara Mercury Mines in Huancavelica, Peru (16th-19th centuries CE)
(2021-07-15)
This 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 ...
Nahua-Pipil diasporic migration and symbolic landscape in Early Postclassic El Salvador
(2022-06-13)
This 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. ...
Commoners: Cooperation, Fairness, and Resource Management in Changing Tzotzil-Maya Communities, Southern Mexico
(2020-11-20)
This 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 ...
Powerful Buildings: The Evolution of Non-Domestic Architecture and Social Interaction in the Puuc
(2011-04-18)
This 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. ...
Paleoecology and sedentism of early coastal hunter-gatherers in north Chile
(2015-04-10)
During 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; ...
Investigating Terminal Preclassic and Classic Period Power and Wealth at K'o, Guatemala
(2009-04-13)
This 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 ...
Shellfish, Water, and Entanglements: Inter-community Interaction and Exchange during the Late Intermediate Period (1100-1470 CE) in the Huanangue Valley, Peru
(2015-04-06)
The 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 ...
“The Splendid Gifts of God to the South”: Struggles for Control on Tennessee Plantations
(2020-03-28)
This ethnographic study based in rural Tennessee explores how the mixed forms of labor control employers and the state impose on exploited rural workers affect those working people’s ability to build class alliances across ...