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Professor Weismantel is a cultural anthropologist who writes about indigeneity in the Americas, with a focus on Andean South America (Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia). Her writing currently engages new materialisms, decoloniality, and temporality, as well as [trans]gender, sexualities, and ontologies of the nonhuman.
Education/Academic qualification
Anthropology, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… → 1986
Anthropology and Spanish, BA, Southern Illinois University
… → 1978
Research interests keywords
- Cultural anthropology
- Decoloniality
- Indigeneity in the Americas
- Indigenous peoples of Andean South America
- Materialisms
- Race and racism
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The Making of Incommensurability between Same-Sex Sexualities and Islam in Indonesia
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
8/1/22 → 12/31/24
Project: Research project
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Ancestral Monuments and Human-Environment Relationships in the Chachapoya Region, Peru (900-1470 CE)
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
6/19/22 → 3/31/24
Project: Research project
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TGS Interdisciplinary Dissertation Research Development Program (IDRDP)
Copeland II, H. G., Ray, A. G., Davis, T. C., Reno, W. S. & Weismantel, M. J.
Social Science Research Council
1/15/17 → 8/31/20
Project: Research project
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Dissertation Research: The World in a Bottle: Gender, Age, and Direct-Sales in Costa Rica
2/15/07 → 7/31/09
Project: Research project
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Dissertation Research: The World in a Bottle: Gender, Age, and Direct-Sales in Costa Rica
2/15/07 → 7/31/09
Project: Research project
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Towards a Transgender Archaeology: A Queer Rampage Through Prehistory
Weismantel, M., Jan 1 2022, The Transgender Studies Reader Remix. Taylor and Francis, p. 380-391 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Kinship in the Andes
Weismantel, M. & Wilhoit, M. E., Jan 1 2019, The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship. Cambridge University Press, p. 179-210 32 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
4 Scopus citations -
Making breakfast and raising babies: The zumbagua household as constituted process
Weismantel, M. J., Jan 1 2019, The Household Economy: Reconsidering The Domestic Mode of Production. Taylor and Francis, p. 55-72 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
5 Scopus citations -
Many Heads are Better than One: Mortuary Practice and Ceramic Heads in Ancient Moche Society
Weismantel, M. J., May 14 2015, Living with the Dead in the Andes. Shimada, I. & Fitzsimmons, J. L. (eds.). 2nd edition ed. University of Arizona PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Seeing like an archaeologist: Viveiros de Castro at Chavín de Huantar
Weismantel, M., Jun 9 2015, In: Journal of Social Archaeology. 15, 2, p. 139-159 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
35 Scopus citations