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Typological And Iconographic Analyses Of Casas Grandes Pottery At The Milwaukee Public Museum, Samantha Bomkamp
Typological And Iconographic Analyses Of Casas Grandes Pottery At The Milwaukee Public Museum, Samantha Bomkamp
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis presents the results of analyses conducted on 80 ceramic vessels from the
Casas Grandes region (Chihuahua, Mexico) currently housed at the Milwaukee Public Museum
(MPM). This collection, most of which was donated in 1977, was accompanied with little to no
provenience information, and no research has been conducted on the materials since they came
to the Museum. Drawing upon published studies of Casas Grandes pottery, a detailed coding
scheme was developed in order to record formal and stylistic data that could be used to classify
the vessels typologically and chronologically. Fifteen different ceramic types dating to the Viejo …
"The Ruins And Us Go Together": The Neoliberal Challenge To Archaeological Heritage And Patrimony In Mexico, Daniel Dean Kreutzer
"The Ruins And Us Go Together": The Neoliberal Challenge To Archaeological Heritage And Patrimony In Mexico, Daniel Dean Kreutzer
Theses and Dissertations
When it comes to the pursuit of archaeology, what would archaeologists like to do, what are they required to do, and what do they end up doing? These questions are at the heart of this dissertation, which studies how archaeologists from the United States who work in Mexico negotiate the web of relationships in which they find themselves. Foucault's concept of governmentality allows us to learn more about how power flows within and between these relationships and shows the tensions that exist when these relationships are unequal. As outsiders, foreign archaeologists need to become more informed about local culture, including …