{"id":2988,"date":"2022-10-27T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/anthropology\/?page_id=2988"},"modified":"2022-10-28T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:55:10","slug":"fall-2022-spotlight-dr-kayeleigh-sharp-changing-worlds-transforming-lifeways","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/fall-2022-spotlight-dr-kayeleigh-sharp-changing-worlds-transforming-lifeways\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2022 Spotlight: Dr. Kayeleigh Sharp | Changing Worlds, Transforming Lifeways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Kayeleigh Sharp<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology at NAU. I have a long-standing interest in Latin America and ancient Andean civilization. In 2010, I began what would become a long-term research project in the Lambayeque region of the north coast of Peru, one of the two centers of primary cultural development in the Central Andes. My fieldwork and research focus on academically overlooked, or \u2018underrepresented\u2019 archaeological groups. As such, the primary aim of my work is to expose underlying social and economic relationships that characterize this region\u2019s dynamic past through the lens of those who lived and worked together and interacted across social boundaries. Such complexities underly the phenomenon I call \u201ceconomic complementarity<\/em><\/strong>\u201d, a term that refers to the mutually interdependent production, distribution, consumption of goods, and the complementary social relationships that support them.<\/p>\n

Proyecto de Investigaci\u00f3n Arqueol\u00f3gica Gallinazo del Norte (or PIAGN)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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In July 2022, I launched a new long-term interdisciplinary research project on the outskirts of the Pomac Historical-Ecological Sanctuary<\/a> that continues to expand on these previous works.<\/p>\n

The Proyecto de Investigaci\u00f3n Arqueol\u00f3gica Gallinazo del Norte (or PIAGN) <\/strong>\u00a0is working to clarify the broader role of the first-millennium regional polity I recognize as the Northern Gallinazo<\/strong>, through expanded research on their multi-crafting industries, mining, and water management practices. An important part of this work is the endeavor to understand how social and economic relationships between the Northern Gallinazo and other first-millennium peoples persisted despite periodic climate disasters (flooding, drought and migrating sand dunes) in this dynamic part of the world.<\/p>\n

NAU in Peru: Changing Worlds, Transforming Lifeways<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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This summer (May 28-Jun 16), Changing Worlds-Transforming Lifeways<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will be offered in northern Peru. This experience focuses on four key themes of transition: (1) Effects of globalization and modern lifestyle in urban Peru, (2) Colonialism and the independence from Spain, (3) reclaiming traditional lifeways and the Quechua language in the nearby highlands of Incahuasi, and (4) Changing cultural and natural environment of the Pomac Forest over the past thousand years, the social\/cultural impacts of disasters like El Ni\u00f1o and especially drought, and what that means for local residents living both in the countryside and in the city.\"\"<\/p>\n

Students interested in education, history, anthropology, and\/or ecology (to name a few) will witness first-hand how inhabitants of one of the most ecologically and culturally diverse locations on the planet have survived and thrived over the last several millennia when faced with various transformative events. In addition, as part of students\u2019 service to a local community, toward professional development and preservation of the rich ecological and cultural heritage of the region, they will assist in the development of new virtual museum displays and educational materials in partnership with collaborating Sic\u00e1n National Museum in the city of Ferre\u00f1afe<\/a>. In exchange, participants from North America will experience in-depth and enriched educational experiences through immersive practical activities in northern Peru. How will YOU make a difference?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n