Margarita Huayhua, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sociology / Anthropology
Contact
508-999-8698
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Liberal Arts 393B
Education
| 2010 | University of Michigan | PhD |
Teaching
- Introduction to Social Thought
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Language and Social Diversity
- Race & Ethnicity: Social Relations in the "Post-racial" Era
- Ethnic Comparative Relations: Beyond Boundaries
Teaching
Programs
Teaching
Courses
An introduction to the basic concepts of social and cultural anthropology. Readings emphasize the comparative study of societies at different levels of socio-cultural integration and from different areas of the world. This may include a brief introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology.
An introduction to the basic concepts of social and cultural anthropology. Readings emphasize the comparative study of societies at different levels of socio-cultural integration and from different areas of the world. This may include a brief introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology.
An introduction to the enterprise of sociological theory. As such, it attempts to introduce students to the questions, problems, and intellectual tasks of theorizing about society and our social lives as well as to expose students to some of the most important competing ways in which previous social theorists have gone about this task.
Research
Research Interests
- Everyday interactions and the reproduction of social hierarchies
- Language, power, and race
- Social hierarchies among women
- Indigenous people & South America
Select publications
Margarita Huayhua (2018).
Building Differences: The (Re)production of Hierarchical Relations among Women in the Southern Andes
Indigenous Languages, Politics and Authority in Latin America edited by Alan Durston and Bruce Mannheim, 231-246.
Margarita Huayhua (2016).
Social Subordination and Language
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology edited by Nancy Bonvillain, 109-124.
Margarita Huayhua (2014).
Racism and Social Interaction in a Southern Peruvian combi
Ethnic and Racial Studies 3, 37(13), 2399-2417.
Margarita Huayhua (PhD University of Michigan 2010) is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Huayhua is a sociocultural anthropologist with a background in linguistic anthropology, video production, translation, Quechua language, and education.
