This thesis carries out a discourse analysis on three popular newspapers in Mexico who reported on feminist protests in response to the feminicides of Ingrid Escamilla and Fátima Cecilia in...Show moreThis thesis carries out a discourse analysis on three popular newspapers in Mexico who reported on feminist protests in response to the feminicides of Ingrid Escamilla and Fátima Cecilia in February 2020. The research question aims to answer how newspaper writing reproduces structures of silence surrounding feminicide which prevents challenges to established structures of power. Using Fairclough’s method of discourse analysis, the thesis scrutinizes seven newspaper articles on the basis of two hypotheses. Hypothesis One postulates that news coverage focuses on vandalism rather than on feminicide, and hypothesis Two posits that the articles fail to link to the larger societal context and do not discuss the role of gendered violence in Mexico. The analysis concludes that the discursive practices of the newspapers represent a continuation of social practices of the past which support and reproduce structures of silence that prevent a resolution of the feminicide epidemic in Mexico.Show less
Monte Albán Tomb 7 is one of the more enigmatic burial tombs in the valley of Oaxaca. It is still unsure as to why the deposits are so fragmented and what the grave goods might have meant within...Show moreMonte Albán Tomb 7 is one of the more enigmatic burial tombs in the valley of Oaxaca. It is still unsure as to why the deposits are so fragmented and what the grave goods might have meant within the context of this tomb. Many different theories have been carefully devised to explain the circumstances of Tomb 7 and for the purpose of this thesis, two have been chosen to serve as an explanation. The theories as they were put forward by McCafferty et al. (1994), concerning Tomb 7 in relation to the veneration of the cult goddess Lady 9 Grass as well as the theories devised by Middleton et al. (1998) which explained the tomb through the concept of grave reuse, will be applied here to shed light on the situation of Tomb 7. Both will be examined and then related to the concepts of ancestor veneration. Through comparing the theories together and attempting to find common ground they both share within the spectrum of ancestor veneration, it will be attempted to fuse the theories together to form one whole that might serve to explain the burial context of Monte Albán Tomb 7.Show less
