Browsing Electronic Dissertations and Theses - Anthropology by Title
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Sherpa Perceptions of Climate Change and Institutional Responses in the Everest Region of Nepal
(2012)In light of recent scientific reports and local observations in the Everest region in Nepal revealing the vulnerabilities of Sherpa people to the effects of climate change, this dissertation shows how Sherpa perceptions ... -
SOCIAL LEARNING DURING MIDDLE CHILDHOOD AMONG AKA FORAGERS AND NGANDU FARMERS OF THE CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC
(2013)Homo sapiens are uniquely characterized by a lengthy juvenile period we call childhood and a pronounced reliance on social learning for the acquisition of an adaptive behavioral repertoire, commonly referred to as culture. ... -
Space, Status, and Interaction: Multiscalar Analyses of Officers, Soldiers, and Laundresses at Nineteenth Century Fort Vancouver, Washington
(2014)In this study I investigated how the mid-19th century American military system at Fort Vancouver and the Vancouver Ordnance Depot, in southwest Washington, created and reinforced the dominant ideology simultaneously within ... -
STRANGERS IN A STRANGER LAND: LIVING HISTORY AND TRADITION IN THE LIVES OF ARAB-AMERICANS
(2018)Immigrants have been a part of the American story since the founding of the US state. However, while these experiences have undergone a transformation in the last forty years due to technological shifts and transformations, ... -
SURVIVAL AND DREAMS: LIVES OF LGBTQ HOMELESS YOUTH IN LOS ANGELES
(2017)In Los Angeles County, the majority of the homeless youth population self-identifies as LGBTQ. This research attempts to uncover some primary survival strategies for this population via personal narrative. In order to ... -
The Cajun Ideology: Negotiating Identity in Southern Louisiana
(2011)The Cajuns are an American ethnic group founded primarily on the ideology of a shared history and language. Their history begins with the expulsion of the Acadian peoples from Nova Scotia in 1755 and continues into modernity ... -
The Long Wait: African Migrant Communities and the Production of Local Identity in Istanbul, Turkey
(2011)For nearly twenty years Turkey has been a transit location for sub-Saharan African migrants traveling to Europe. The majority of African migrants cannot immediately proceed onward to Europe, and spend months or years in ... -
"THERE IS NO DEVELOPMENT HERE": SOCIAL POWER AND THE SHAPING OF A SOUTHERN ZAMBIAN COMMUNITY
(2012)Scale and power theory suggests that growth is an elite directed process that differentially benefits those who are already well-off. The present research is designed to explore the limits of scale theory by analyzing the ... -
TIS THE SEASON: AN EXPERIMENTAL EXAMINATION OF TOOLKIT VARIABILITY, LATE PLEISTOCENE- EARLY HOLOCENE INTERIOR ALASKA
(2018)Simultaneous use of two distinct projectile technologies in interior Alaska, during the end of the Pleistocene and early Holocene, is a study domain that has generated many diverse hypotheses. Some researchers view the ... -
Trade, territoriality, alliances and conflict : complexity science approaches to the archaeological record of the U.S. Southwest with a case study from Languedoc, France
(2016)This project utilizes network analysis and agent-based modeling to examine long-standing questions that can only now be asked with the rich data provided in southwestern Colorado and southern France: how Gauls and colonists ... -
Understanding Culture History Using Topographic Morphometrics of Lithic Projectile Points: Paleoindian Case Studies from the Great Plains and Northern Alaska
(2018)The classification of projectile points into types has long been used by archaeologists to develop regional chronologies and serves as a basis by which to explain cultural continuity or change over time. This study ... -
Wari Lithic Networks: An Examination of Stone Tool Use at Cerro Baul and Cerro Mejia
(2015)The Middle Horizon (A.D. 600 - 1000) marked a distinct shift in the sociopolitical landscape of the Andes with the development of the expansive polity known as the Wari. The Moquegua Valley of southern Peru is believed to ...