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[email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GENDER, CONTEXT, AND FIGURINE USE: CERAMIC IMAGES FROM THE FORMATIVE PERIOD SAN ANDRÉS SITE, TABASCO, MEXICO By MARIA B. DERILO TWAY A Thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2004 The members of the Committee approve the Thesis of Maria B. Derilo Tway defended on April 23, 2004. Mary Pohl Professor Directing Thesis Kathryn Josserand Committee Member Michael Uzendoski Committee Member ______________________________ Dean Falk Department Chair The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With sincere gratitude for giving me the opportunity to study the San Andrés figurines, and whose patience, understanding, and guidance throughout this whole endeavor made its completion possible, I acknowledge Dr. Mary Pohl. For her guidance, support, and encouragement throughout my graduate experience, with heartfelt gratitude I acknowledge Dr. Kathryn Josserand. For offering much-needed additional perspective in my study and for his support, I acknowledge Dr. Michael Uzendoski. For his kind hospitality and encouragement at the New World Archaeological Foundation laboratory in Chiapas, Mexico, I acknowledge Dr. John Clark. For helping me with the chronological framework and for sharing his ceramic expertise to aid in my study of the figurines, I acknowledge Christopher von Nagy.