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Christine Hastorf focuses on social life, political change, agricultural production, foodways, and the methodologies that lead to a better understanding of the past through the study of plant-use. She mainly focuses in the Andean Region of South America

Her current projects related to water include:
1) Implications of changing water levels in Lake Titicaca on surrounding communities
2) An ethnographic study on importance of hail and rain to farmers in the Andean Region