Research and Publications

PAHN is dedicated to making the results of our research available to the descendant communities, the general public, and the academic community. We aim for scholarly excellence and our work appears in a number of internationally renowned archaeology and interdisciplinary journals. In addition to the list of resources below, full text of many of these works can be found on the academia.edu and researchgate.net profiles of our director, Dr. Brendan Weaver.


Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Weaver, Brendan J. M., Lizette A. Muñoz, & Karen Durand. 2003. “From Slavery to Servitude: Transformations and Continuities in Hacienda Labor, Wellbeing, and Foodways in Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Nasca.” Latin American Antiquity.

Weaver, Brendan J. M. 2022. “Reflections on ‘material histories’ and the archaeology of slavery in Peru.” Colonial Latin American Review 31(4):591-598.

Weaver, Brendan J. M. 2022. “La estética política, espectadores artísticos y la esclavitud: Las haciendas jesuitas de Nasca, Perú” [Political aesthetics, artistic audiences, and slavery: The Jesuit haciendas of Nasca, Peru]. Revista de Arqueología Histórica Argentina y Latinoamericana. 15(2):12-37.

Weaver, Brendan J. M. & Miguel Fhon. 2022. “La arqueología como instrumento para la descolonización de las representaciones afroperuanas” [Archaeology as an instrument for the decolonization of Afro-Peruvian representations]. In Narrativas Subalternas: Voces desde la Arqueología Peruana, edited by Henry Tantaleán & Luís Muro. Pp. 173-196. Lima (Perú): IFEA.

Weaver, Brendan J. M., Miguel Fhon, & Lady Santana. 2022. “Heritage and the Archaeology of Afro-Peru: Community Engagement in the Valleys of Nasca.” Historical Archaeology 56(1):131-152.

Weaver, Brendan J. M. 2021. “‘The Grace of God and Virtue of Obedience’: The Archaeology of Slavery and the Jesuit Hacienda Systems of Nasca, Peru, 1619-1767.” Journal of Jesuit Studies 8(3):430-453.

Weaver, Brendan J. M. 2021. “An Archaeology of the Aesthetic: Slavery and Politics at the Jesuit Vineyards of Nasca.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 31(1):111-118.

Weaver, Brendan J. M. 2020. “Ghosts of the Haciendas: Memory, Architecture, and the Architecture of Memory in the Post-Hacienda Era of Southern Coastal Peru.” Ethnohistory 67(1):149-173.

Weaver, Brendan J. M., Lizette A. Muñoz, & Karen Durand. 2019. “Supplies, Status, and Slavery: The Contested Aesthetics of Provisioning at the Jesuit Haciendas of Nasca.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 23(4):1011-1038.

Weaver, Brendan J. M. 2018. “Rethinking the Political Economy of Slavery: The Hacienda Aesthetic at the Jesuit Vineyards of Nasca, Peru.” Post-Medieval Archaeology 52(1):111-127.

Weaver, Brendan J. M. 2016. “Perspectivas para el desarrollo de una arqueología de la diáspora africana en el Perú: Resultados preliminares del Proyecto Arqueológico Haciendas de Nasca” [Perspectives for the Development of an Archaeology of the African Diaspora in Peru: Preliminary Results from the Haciendas of Nasca Archaeological Project]. Allpanchis (Cuzco, Perú) 80 (2do semestre, 2012):85-120.