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  • Comuneros : community and indigeneity in Saraguro, Ecuador 
    Stanger, James R; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Anthropology, 2011Arts and ScienceDepartment of Anthropology, 2011)
    This thesis examines the concept of the indigenous community in Saraguro, Ecuador. I explore the myriad and co-existing ideas of community and community participation at the local level, focusing on two of the defining ...
  • Feminist assemblages : Peruvian feminisms, forced sterilization, and paradox of rights in Fujimori's Peru 
    Stavig, Lucía Isabel; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of AnthropologyArts and SciencesDepartment of Anthropology, 2017)
    How does it come to pass that the rollout of a women’s rights regime becomes a condition for the violation of women’s rights? This thesis begins with the rollout of the PNSRPF 1996-2000 (a family planning program), as part ...
  • In search of a nobler past : incanismo and community tourism in Saraguro, Ecuador 
    Jenson, Jason; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Anthropology, c2011Arts and ScienceDepartment of Anthropology, 2011)
    Historical notions of Noble Savagery have been contemporarily translated and massified in popular culture so that traits that “Indigenous People” are believed to possess, are conflated with those of the Noble Savage of ...
  • Landscape, history, and opposition among the Kainai 
    Lanno, Kurt A.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of AnthropologyArts and ScienceDepartment of Anthropology, 2016)
    In this thesis I explore the connections between Kainai concepts of landscape, history, and cultures of opposition and resilience in the face of the state. The information I present is the data I collected during my fieldwork ...
  • Lived realities : climate change, neoliberalism, and livelihood strategies on the southern altiplano of Bolivia 
    Guthrie, Hunter J.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of AnthropologyArts and ScienceDepartment of Anthropology, 2017)
    This thesis examines the cumulative effects of climate change, neoliberal reform, resource extraction, and global quinoa demand and their implications for the livelihoods of villagers in the southern altiplano community ...
  • "Our grandparents are buried here; our grandparents know:" re-membering a Quijos territory and identity 
    Korn, Allison R.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Anthropology, 2013Arts and ScienceDepartment of Anthropology, 2013)
    In this thesis I explore how memory shapes Quijos notions of territory and identity. My research is based on fieldwork I conducted with the Amazonian Quijos in Napo, Ecuador. I examine how the places on the land are ...
  • Reinventing rituals and the role of music in the process of affirming identity among the Amazonian Kichwa-Quijos from Napo, Ecuador 
    Yunga Tacuri, Marco; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of AnthropologyArts and ScienceDepartment of Anthropology, 2016)
    In this thesis I study how the Kichwa-Quijos are reconstructing rituals in order to strengthen self-identity, and how music is an essential part of those practices. My research is based on fieldwork I conducted in the Napo ...