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New World
Archaeology, Complex Societies, Households, Architecture, Indigenous
Interactions; Andes
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Current Research
- Past Research - Selected Publications
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How did officials in ancient
states and empires manage and control members of subordinate groups? I
am interested in the development of bureaucratic personnel and
governing institutions in early stratified-societies. I seek
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examine the transformation of informal power relations to state
practices through the study of articulations between households and the
activities of emergent leaders in residential and public arenas of
interaction. Incumbent to this research agenda are many
facets of
social relations and group identification; among these are gender,
ethnicity, and occupational affiliations.
To investigate these
practices and the different kinds of social relations as they are
represented in the archaeological record, I employ a multi-disciplinary
approach to define how people used different places. In
collaboration with colleagues who specialize in many aspects of
material culture that compliment my expertise in stone tools, the
remains of houses and communities are being documented and compared.
Through a context focused excavation strategy, I pursue this program of
investigation in the Andes of South America at sites of different
scales whose occupants were influenced by or were participating in the
expansive Imperial Wari Society (AD 550-1000).
See our Andean
Anthropology web page for other UIC and Field Museum
archaeologists working in the Andes. |
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2005
(With P. Ryan Williams) Architecture and Power: Relations on
the Wari--Tiwanaku Frontier. In
The Foundations of Power in the Prehispanic Andes, Kevin Vaugn,
Christina Conlee, and Dennis Ogburn, eds. Pp. 151-174.
2004 El Senorio de Chiribaya en la Costa sur del
Perú, a Review (by
Maria Cecilia Lozada & Jane E. Buikstra). Journal of
Anthropological Research 60(1): 114-116.
2003 (With P. Ryan Williams) Clash of the Andean
Titans:
Wari and Tiwanaku at Cerro Baúl. In The Field:
Summer 2003.
2002 (With P. Ryan Williams) Imperial Interaction
in the Andes: Wari and Tiwanaku at Cerro Baúl. In Andean
Archaeology I, W. Isbell and H. Silverman, eds. Pp. 243-266.
New York: Plenum. |
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