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aesthetic preferences, creativity, art and artists, household archaeology, modern material culture, ethnography, visual anthropology, interdisciplinary methods, Peru, Los Angeles, the U.S.-Mexico border
I was raised in the mountains of Northern Arizona. After working as a journalist for several years throughout the U.S., I returned to settle in the desert borderlands. I fell in love with four-fields anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, taking my bachelor's degree in 2003. In 2006 I completed my master's degree in cultural anthropology at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. I conducted my master's fieldwork with Spanish- and Quechua-speaking male and female weavers in the Andean city of Huaraz, Peru. I interviewed these artists in order to understand how they felt about changing their traditional weaving aesthetic in order to accomodate touristic purchasing preferences. I am just beginning my Ph.D. research this quarter.
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