Frances Hayashida
Lecturer, Research  |  2018-19

Chile

Project Title: Pre-Columbian Copper Rituals and Economy and Graduate Training in Archaeology: A Proposal for Research and Teaching

Dr. Frances Hayashida is Professor of Anthropology and the director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM.  An archaeologist, her research centers on the political economies and ecologies of the Inka and other late prehispanic societies in the Andes.  For the last ten years she has co-directed a collaborative, interdisciplinary project on water management, agricultural landscapes, communities, and political change in the high-altitude Atacama Desert with colleagues from the Universidad de Chile and the Spanish National Research Council.  This project and others are highlighted in a new co-edited volume, Rethinking the Inka: Community, Landscape, and Empire in the Southern Andes (Hayashida, Troncoso, and Salazar, University of Texas Press, 2022). 

"I had the great privilege of traveling to Chile in the fall of 2018 as a research and teaching Fulbright Scholar.  In Santiago, I taught a graduate seminar in ancient technology and culture at the Universidad de Chile.  I also collaborated with faculty from that institution and from the Universidad Católica del Norte in San Pedro de Atacama on fieldwork at the archaeological site of Turi.  Our shared research continues to benefit us and our students.  I am deeply grateful to my colleagues for the opportunity to work together in Chile and to the Fulbright Scholar Program and UNM for their support."