Considering all the developments and dynamics spanning the Andean cultural history, contact between Andeans and Europeans in the sixteenth century was unprecedented in terms of scope, impact and violence. Paradoxically, it is a time period that has received little archaeological attention. Historic Peru has almost always been studied through the ethnohistorical sources, revealing incomplete and often distorted by layers of European ethnocentrism and behavioral misperception of Andean cultures. Often, the very lives of people and the nuanced experiences of native cultures have remained unknown, obscured by a lack of data and wide range of assumptions about the colonial society that emerged in the wake of the conquest. This article applies bioarchaeological perspectives in the study of colonial Central Andes. The excavations in the village of Mórrope, Lambayeque Valley (northern Peru) allows us to integrate multiple independent lines of ethnohistoric, archaeological, and biological data to examine two central issues: (1) How did conquest impact patterns of pre-Hispanic health, diet, and physical activity? (2) What do burial patterns reveal about parallel processes of native cultural change and identity in colonial Peru? / Considerando la totalidad de los desarrollos y dinamicas culturales que abarca la historia andina, el contacto entre los andinos y los europeos a partir del siglo XVI no tiene precedentes en terminos de su alcance, impacto y violencia. Paradojicamente, es la epoca que ha recibido poca atencion arqueologica. El Peru historico, casi siempre, ha sido estudiado a traves de las fuentes etnohistoricas que son reveladoras e incompletas, a menudo distorsionadas por capas de etnocentrismo europeo y percepcion erronea del comportamiento de las culturas andinas. A menudo, la vida misma y los matices de las experiencias vividas por las culturas nativas son desconocidos, y estan cubiertos de misterio y de una amplia gama de supuestos acerca de la sociedad colonial que surgio de la estela de la conquista. En este articulo, se aplican las perspectivas bioarqueologicas en el estudio de los Andes Centrales coloniales. Las excavaciones en el pueblo de Morrope, valle de Lambayeque (Costa Norte del Peru), nos permiten integrar multiples lineas de datos independientes etnohistoricos, arqueologicos y biologicos para examinar dos cuestiones centrales: 1) .Como impacto la conquista en los patrones de salud, actividad fisica y dieta prehispanicos? 2) .Que revelan los patrones de enterramiento como experiencias paralelas de cambio cultural e identidad nativa en el Peru colonial?

The subject of this dissertation is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the transformations of cultural identity in the context of intercultural communication. In the course of processing the chosen topic the author used the theoretical knowledge acquired by studying professional books and other relevant sources as well as the empirical data which were gathered by the author during her anthropological field research over her two-year stay in Berlin. The main objective of the dissertation was to describe, analyse and interpret the phenomenon of cultural identity in the context of migration processes, globalization and the European refugee crisis. Special attention was, therefore, paid to the situation of foreigners who find themselves in a new different culture and are going through a difficult process of adaptation to a new environment. Transformations of the foreigners identity and their relationship to the majority culture are also being studied in terms of different types of immigration policies in host countries. In the focus of the research interest were the questions of the efficiency of assimilation, integration and multicultural policy. Among the sub-objectives of the work are included the description and analysis of the processes of formation, reproduction and transformation of...