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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...