All undergraduate students of Spanish Studies are invited to a special presentation on “New Perspectives on Community Archaeology and Social Inequality in Mexico” by guest speaker Gabriela Montero Mejía, an Anthropologist from the University of Kentucky. The presentation is part of course SPAN 302, but all students of Spanish are welcome to attend, since the topic will draw on course themes across the Spanish curriculum.
About the presenter: Gabriela Montero Mejía’s research focuses on the archaeological assessment of changes in quality of life of indigenous populations to measure economic impacts of the contact period in Mexico, exploring how alterations in access to agricultural land affected native communities after European conquest. Her project will contribute to anthropological understandings of culture contact, developing an approach through household quality of life that affords the possibility of identifying local and socioeconomic variation in the impact of colonialism.
This event is sponsored by Spanish for Community and SPAN 302.
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If you have questions, please contact Dr. Elizabeth Lagresa-González at elizabeth.lagresa@ubc.ca.
