@article{THESIS,
      recid = {3225},
      author = {Burhenn, Madison},
      title = {The Application of Mortuary Studies to Colonial Encounters  in Peru},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2021-08},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {This paper examines the archaeology of mortuary contexts  in Colonial Peru (16th-17th centuries). In doing so, I  demonstrate both the importance of mortuary analysis in  studies of colonial contexts in this region as well as to  see what can be learned about the active and fluctuating  nature of religious and social interactions between early  Spanish Catholic colonists and Indigenous Andean  communities. My thesis comparatively analyzes three case  studies of sites of intense early colonial conversion  efforts, giving appropriate historic context to the  variability in both Spanish and Indigenous agendas and the  social and religious history of each region. I summarize  existing, and apply new, mortuary studies to the research  of each of these three case studies; the Collagua of the  Colca Valley, the Muchik of the Lambayeque Valley, and the  resettled groups at Magdalena de Cao in the Chicama Valley.  In each of these three case studies, viewing the early  interactions between Spanish and Indigenous groups through  the lens of changing mortuary traditions and interactions  with the dead yielded insights into the active negotiation  of hybrid practices in these regions, which I argue is  support for the need of further research in this field.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3225},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3225},
}