This historical ethnography of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone draws from both Northern Paiute oral traditions—that were the object of over thirteen months of fieldwork in the community—and the written documentary record—including military records from the U.S. National Archi…
This dissertation uses regional archaeological settlement data to develop a model of Inca imperialism along the south-central Peruvian coast during the terminal decades of the fifteenth century CE. A close investigation of lower and middle valley of Cañete, home to the Late Inte…
This thesis looks at the people of Nueva Vizcaya's history of resistance to incorporation into the state during the colonial age, and how this history is connected to the contemporary context in the Sierra Tarahumara. To do this, I use and frame the concepts of community, resist…
On the Edge of the Wild demonstrates how Indigenous peoples, Spanish conquistadors, missionaries, scientific explorers, and early national elites have formulated conceptions of the montaña region—located at the eastern slopes of the Andean highlands in northern Peru—and how thes…
This title provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period - as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish. It views the indigenous world from the inside out focusing first on the householders and the …
This title provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period - as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish. It views the indigenous world from the inside out focusing first on the householders and the …
This title provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period - as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish. It views the indigenous world from the inside out focusing first on the householders and the …
"Articles review Spores' contributions to Mixtec archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnology. Other topics include archaeological theory, the colonial period, Xaltocán, Cholula, codex-style vessel from Nochixtlan, Codex Selden, irrigation in Mixtec cacicazgos and Cuicatlan, Mixtec …