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 obfuscated the realities of the Indigenous experience of c…
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Peru has been the centre of origin and diversity of more than 3,000 varieties of native potato, although only a few varieties were typically consumed beyond the Andean region. Of little value outside the Andes, these tubers were long considered the food of the poor and the indig…
This dissertation examines the seventeenth-century Quechua manuscript known as the Huarochirí Manuscript, as an example of a violent contact zone in which European cultural, ideological, and religious beliefs and knowledges confront indigenous ways of thinking and knowing about …
In this thesis, I examine the way that infrastructure helped structure inequality in the 18th century Andes through the production of qualitatively different experiences of movement. Using a combination of historical, geospatial, and archaeological methods, I argue that an indiv…