The University of Arizona Press

Brenda J. Bowser is a professor in the Division of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. She is an archaeologist whose research focuses on landscape, materiality, identity, and Indigenous responses to colonialism from an ethnoarchaeological perspective, particularly in the Sápara Territory of the Ecuadorian Amazon. This research is part of an ongoing ethnographic research project, Anthropological Investigations in the Ecuadorian Amazon, begun in 1992 with John Q. Patton. The overall project concerns the nature of cooperation, social structures, and demography in this horticultural-forager society.