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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 ...
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 ...
Enticidad, subalternidad, género y participación política: aspiraciones y estrategias de las mujeres Mayas del altiplano de Guatemala para acceder a espacios de poder
(2019-02-05)
ANTHROPOLOGY
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
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Food, Feasts, and the Construction of Identity and Power in Ancient Tiwanaku: A Bioarchaeological Perspective
(2010-03-16)
This 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 ...