Browsing Electronic Dissertations and Theses - Anthropology by Title
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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 ... -
Landscape-based Null Models for Archaeological Inference
(2014)How do we, as humans and as scientists, learn about the world around us? In this dissertation, I explore how models--epistemological tools that connect theory and reality--not only structure scientific inquiry (including ... -
LEADERSHIP, PRESTIGE, AND SOCIAL LEARNING ACROSS TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES
(2019)Evolutionary approaches to leadership are reinvigorating and unifying a diverse field. Influential evolutionary theories in anthropology have increasingly linked human leadership with prestige and social learning. Until ... -
Lithics and the Late Prehistoric: Interaction on the Southern Columbia Plateau
(2018)The people of the Columbia Plateau have been frequently characterized as a homogenous culture despite a 2,500-year depth of history and large spatial extent. Moreover, differences in artifact form, assemblage composition, ... -
Making Peace with the Warrior Next Door: Rituals in Identity, Wellness, and Transition in Veteran Communities
(2016)The nature of conflict requires service members to set aside peacetime roles and perhaps even disengage from closely-held self and worldviews. The transformation from civilian to service member is effectively addressed ... -
Morphological Variability in Clovis Style Hafted Bifaces Across North America
(2016)This study examines morphological variability of Clovis style hafted bifaces from across North America. In total 695 Clovis hafted bifaces were analyzed. These data are analyzed using a Lithic Technological Organization ... -
One Goal, Different Paths: Cultural Models, HIV/AIDS, and Minority Health Outcomes in Urban America
(2015)HIV, since its emergence in the 1980s, has affected millions of people across the globe. Although the U.S. has seen three decades of research that has increased our knowledge of the virus, created medications to suppress ... -
Overweight and Obesity among Women in rural Dominica: Models of body fat, attitudes, and social networks
(2015)Globally, overweight and obesity represent major threats to public health as they put individuals at risk for the development of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes milletus and hypertension. Shifting lifestyles and ... -
Paleoethnobotanical and Geoarchaeological Analyses at the Flying Goose Site (45PO435)
(2016-05)The Flying Goose Site (45PO435), located along the Pend Oreille River in northeastern Washington, is a small Late Prehistoric burned structure. This thesis presents the results of paleoethnobotanical and geoarchaeological ... -
Peak Experiences and Hegemony Resistance: Cultural Models of a Good Life and Group Identity in Carpathian Rus'
(2012)This dissertation is based on multi-site ethnography conducted in the Presov Region of Slovakia and the Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine during 2010 and 2011. To identify and analyze sharing and diversity of cultural models ...