Mexico and Central America (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Koji Mizoguchi.

This resource is an application for the Conference Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The World Archaeological Congress (WAC) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization whose members seek to promote interest in the past in all countries, to encourage the development of regionally-based histories and to foster international academic interaction. Its aims are based on the need to recognize the historical and social roles as well as the political context of archaeology, and the need...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Silva-Caballero.

This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Sleep is crucial for human health and development, including restorative functions, learning, energy conservation and emotional life. The amount of sleep for functional human development remains unclear and likely reflects contextual variation. Using bio-social, anthropological perspectives, my study compares sleep patterns of adolescents living in two non-industrial and one industrial society in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bernardo Yáñez.

This resource is an application for a Global Initiative Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Our aim is to constitute the Bioanthropological Latin American Network, with the purpose of improving the management and ethical standards for conducting bioanthropological research. Our starting point focuses on establishing ethical guidelines for the work with ancient human remains, specifically ancient DNA research, where we identify major asymmetries between and within scholars in Latin America...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maia Dedrick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gateways to Future Historical Archaeology in Mexico and Central America", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The history of archaeological practice in Mexico and Central America reveals strong imperial desires to claim artifacts, monuments, and heritage for foreign powers. As a still emerging area of study, regional historical archaeology has the potential to help forge a different path for archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Jackson.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigated how Classic Maya individuals understood the objects that archaeologists characterize as 'artifacts,' and applied this Maya material perspective to modern archaeological practices in order to transform how we interpret excavations at Classic Maya sites. To accomplish this, the project focused on three activities: reconstructing elements of a Classic Maya perspective on the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pedro Ramon Celis.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project traces one of Oaxaca’s legendary migration events, the Zapotec migration and conquest of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the construction of the fortress and city of Guiengola during the Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1250-1521). Ethnohistoric documents suggest that the Zapotec elite migrated from the highland Central Valleys to the coastal Isthmus of Tehuantepec for their own...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bianca Chizzolini.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This ethnographic project investigates the role that artisanal objects and ornamentation play in the constitution of gendered daily practices and ways of life in Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico). Hand-made textile production is at the center of the social life of several rural Mexican communities. In this plural cultural context, servilletas are ordinary and richly adorned pieces produced by women...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mariana Mora.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Through an ethnography focused on cases of forced disappearance in the Tlapaneco, Nahua and Mixteco indigenous regions of the state of Guerrero, Mexico, my proposed research project seeks to analyze the ways that the upsurge in extreme forms of violence since the undeclared war against organized crime launched in 2006, at the beginning of the Calderón administration, potentially fuels long-term...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ian Roa.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates ritual engagement with animals from well-documented, previously excavated ritual contexts at four major Maya polities - Baking Pot, Cahal Pech, Lower Dover, and Xunantunich in the Belize River Valley. In contrast to much previous Maya zooarchaeological research, this project takes ritual economy and social zooarchaeology approaches in a multi-sited comparative study to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa Manus.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The human microbiome -the collection of microorganisms (and their genes) that live in, on, and around us- represents an interface through which contact with the environment impacts human biology. More specifically, contact with the social environment shapes host microbial communities, which in turn influence host physiology and immune system development. Despite these important connections,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ariana Rodriguez Medel.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research is situated at the intersection of two subfields of gender studies: trans* studies and masculinities studies. It offers an intimate look at the experiences of transmasculine people and their paths to becoming men in rural and urban spaces in five regions of Mexico (Northwest, Northeast, West, Central, and Southeast), where transmasculine voices have been largely excluded from a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fernando Montero.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My research examines new configurations of sovereign power in Central America in the context of two momentous transformations currently taking place on the Afro-indigenous Miskitu Coast of Nicaragua. The first of these is the escalating militarization of the coast by the neo-Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega, allegedly in response to high volumes of cocaine trafficking. The second is the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Isaac Vargas.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My dissertation explores different registers of sovereignty amid Mexico’s war on drugs, explained as the nationwide deployment of the army to combat drug trafficking and annihilate drug lords, which to date has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. My research is focused on Guadalajara, the second largest city in the country, in which criminal groups assert their power to take life over the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paloma Contreras.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Water insecurity is a worldwide problem involving water access, water quality, and water affect (i.e. the emotional, cultural, and subjective experiences of water). It presents a major stressor that negatively impacts mental and physical health. Despite this burden, studies addressing the connections between water insecurity, psychological stress, and human biology are lacking. This project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Hanson.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Building on recent work at the nexus of primatology, science studies, and multispecies anthropology, this research investigates the significance of primate field schools within the discipline of primatology, and more broadly how knowledge is created with nonhumans. Primate field schools are often regarded as an obligatory rite of passage into the world of field primatology, shaping generations...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Columba González-Duarte.

This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The iconic Monarch butterfly, known for its epic North-South migration, is today in decline despite numerous efforts to protect it. Thinking with the Monarch, this book provides new insight into this phenomenon, arguing that human-monarch relations can help us reimagine North American politics amidst urgent ecological and social challenges. Based on a two-year multi-sited ethnography that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Luisa Rivera.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. What can anthropology do to reconcile the ubiquity of generational resilience with the growing science of heritable alterations to the stress response to adversity? Engaging a critical biocultural approach, I investigate the intergenerational embodiment and transmission of trauma in the wake of the Guatemalan genocide. My work is rooted in three generations of indigenous genocide survivors...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carlos Mario Tobon Franco.

This resource is an application for the Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This Wadsworth International Fellowship is to support training in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Texas.