Browsing Electronic Dissertations and Theses - Anthropology by Title
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Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Fish Distribution in a Trinidad Village
(2012)This dissertation utilizes human behavioral ecology (HBE) and cognitive anthropology (CA) approaches to try and understand fish distribution in a Trinidadian village. HBE identifies universal (i.e., reproductive fitness) ... -
Costly Signaling Among Great Houses on the Chaco Periphery
(2015)Despite decades of Chaco-style great house research, the impetus for their construction and the extent to which their communities directly interacted across the northern Southwest remain poorly understood. A key question ... -
Cultural Scale and Food System Sustainability in the Pacific Northwest: Columbia Basin Case Studies
(2011)To meet contemporary goals of long-term food system sustainability it is critical to analyze how people have constructed and maintained food cultures in specific geographic regions through time. This dissertation draws on ... -
DETECTION OF ANTHROPOGENIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS IN HOLOCENE EAST AFRICA: MICROBOTANICAL AND FUNGAL PROXY EVIDENCE
(2017)This dissertation examines landscape disturbance and modification related to food production in East Africa. Pollen, fungal spore, microcharcoal, and phytolith records are employed here to reconstruct histories of landscape ... -
Diet and Nutrition Among the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation
(2019)The purpose of this study is to document the ethnohistory of nutritional trauma and understand resiliency responses among the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation. What local strategies and responses to nutritional ... -
EFFECTS OF STRESS ON ONSET OF MIDDLE CHILDHOOD AMONG SIDAMA AGROPASTORALISTS
(2016)Current research suggests that human childhood evolved as a phase of assessment, where children use experience with their social and physical environments to determine future development and reproductive strategies. Yet, ... -
ETHNOBIOLOGICAL COLLABORATION WITH TWO SOCIETIES OF THE LATIN AMERICAN TROPICS
(2018)Ethnobiology, defined as the scientific study of dynamic relationships among peoples, biota, and environments (SoE, 2017), is a field that combines different approaches from other disciplines while also including issues ... -
ETHNOBIOLOGY, ILLNESS PERCEPTIONS, AND HEALTH EDUCATION AMONG MAASAI CHILDREN IN NORTHERN TANZANIA
(2019)Medical anthropology specializes in documenting the nuances of ethnomedical systems across cultures and works with stakeholders at various levels of socio-ecological systems to address illness-related problems and promote ... -
Family poultry systems on the southern pacific coast of Guatemala: livelihoods, ethnoveterinary medicine and Healthcare decision making
(2017)Small-scale poultry rearing provides a livelihood for many households globally, and is a means for women to contribute to household income while raising children. This is an ethnographic case study of smallholder Guatemalan ... -
Fishers of Men: Center-Men and Fish Aggregating Device Technology in Dominica
(2014)Fishers in Desa Ikan, Dominica adopted fish aggregating device technology (FADs) in around 1998. FADs attract large migratory pelagics to known locations and have dramatically increased the catch rate of fishers in the ... -
HOHOKAM ROCK ART, RITUAL PRACTICE, AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE PHOENIX BASIN
(2011)Rock art, once an often-neglected subject, is increasingly considered a meaningful social practice among past and present communities. This thesis adds to a growing body of research that regards rock art as more than art ... -
In the Habit of Being Kinky: Practice and Resistance in a BDSM Community, Texas, USA
(2012)"Kinky" is a stigmatized identity in wider American culture. People in kinky communities renegotiate their relationships to themselves and others to incorporate their desires into a positive identity. People take advantage ... -
INTENSIFYING WITH FIRE: FLORAL RESOURCE USE AND LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT BY THE PRECONTACT COAST SALISH OF SOUTHWESTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA
(2012)At European contact, indigenous societies of the Northwest Coast employed complex rules governing land tenure and resource ownership, especially as such rules related to food production. While the intensive exploitation ... -
Investigating Restricted Knowledge in Lithic Craft Traditions Among the Pre-Contact Coast Salish
(2015)Using cultural transmission (CT) models, I predicted a shift towards more restricted household learning in a wide range of technologies, not simply the prestige items typically associated with the emergence of peer-elite ... -
La Manta and La Clinica: Raising children in a Limeno migrant community
(2019)This dissertation investigates experiences and practices of childrearing in an impoverished community of Andean migrants living in a single neighborhood in Lima, Peru. Research was conducted with families with children ...