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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…

This thesis examines the construction of ethnic identity, autonomy and indigenous citizenship in plurinational Bolivia. In 2009, the Kallawayas, an Andean indigenous nation, took advantage of legislation in Bolivia's new constitution to begin a process of legally constituting th…

Deep contestations of essentialized identity categories are a contemporary reality for communities for whom cultural patrimony of land and water resources play a crucial role. Yet, archaeology has not been able to adequately recognize the dynamics of the changing nature of ident…

In a time when cotton was king, slavery was endemic, and secession represented Southern hope, the literati of the Confederate era hoped to assemble a foundation of words to support their new nation and declare their intentions for their future to the world. Beginning with the pu…

The ancient Assyrian Empire at its greatest extent in the 7th century BCE, spanned almost one million square kilometers. As the world’s first regional-scale empire, it established control over many pre-existing settlements, drawing them into the fold of not only Assyrian politic…