Browsing by Subject "Andes"
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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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(2007-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesCultural factors affecting food preference and tarwi consumption in three departments of the Peruvian Andes were evaluated. This study suggests that tarwi consumption in Peru is location specific. Moreover, the contact ...
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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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(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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(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 ...
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(2012-08-10)Department: AnthropologyTheory 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 ...
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(2017-12-07)Department: AnthropologyThis research investigates how communities reorganize during periods of widespread social, economic, and religious transformation. In particular, the study traces the process through which the people of Hualcayán, an ancient ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: AnthropologyThe 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 ...
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(2018-03-08)Department: Latin American StudiesThe small town of Chinchero in the highlands of Cusco, Peru is a popular tourist stop known for its rich tradition of handmade textiles and weaving techniques. The female weavers and vendors in Chinchero have developed a ...
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(2012-12-05)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation investigates the bio-cultural impacts of Wari imperial collapse in the highland Andean region of Andahuaylas, Peru. Using a comprehensive social bioarchaeological approach based on both lab work and ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: AnthropologyPrehispanic Andean people constructed monumental-scale agricultural infrastructure in the form of canals and agricultural terracing, transforming the steep and arid Pacific slopes of the south-central Andes into highly ...