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Re-thinking the Emergence of Iron Metallurgy in Taiwan - a Trade Diaspora Model
As a society is composed of waves of immigrants, overseas influences have been common to Taiwan since ancient times. Among these external forces, the overseas immigrant-influenced technological leap is believed to be the ... -
Reconstructing the Rural: Peasant Organizations in a Chinese Movement for Alternative Development
(2013-07-25)This ethnography examines four peasant organizations affiliated with New Rural Reconstruction (NRR), an ongoing alternative development movement in China. NRR consists of a diverse network involving hundreds of organizations, ... -
Restoring Coast Salish Foods and Landscapes: A More-Than-Human Politics of Place, History and Becoming
This dissertation seeks to develop an ethics of place through a study of people-plant relations in Puget Sound Coast Salish territory. The study follows the evolving relationship between Puget Sound Coast Salish people, ... -
Risk, pollution and sustainability in rural Sichuan, China
(2004)In this dissertation, I illustrate how people's perceptions of risk from industrial pollution in southwest China are shaped by political, social and economic factors at work within and beyond the study community. Futian ... -
The Role of Road Networks in Social Definition and Integration of Angamuco, Michoacán (250–1530 CE)
(2019)Road networks can be defined as the movement infrastructure of a city. They are both the resource that guides inhabitants within a settlement, and that defines different levels of social interaction and social organization. ... -
Settlement change documentation and analysis: a case study from the Mogollon region of the American Southwest
(1999)American archaeologists have been interested in changing patterns of prehistoric settlement for more than 50 years. Despite this interest, many settlement patterns remain poorly documented and unexplained. Adherence to the ... -
Signature Injury: An Ethnographic Study of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Post-9/11 VA Health Care System
This dissertation is an ethnography of a politically symbolic injury: mild traumatic brain injury. It explores the dynamics of institutional mandates, clinical uncertainty, and the ideology of rehabilitative fantasies as ... -
Sobreviví Como Flor De La Sierra: Women, Violence, and Resistance in Peru
Drawing upon twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2012, this dissertation explores the experiences and lives of primarily indigenous, rural-to-urban migrant women living in grassroots domestic ... -
Social complexity in ancient Egypt: functional differentiation as reflected in the distribution of apparently standardized ceramics
(2004)"Mass-production" of vessels and by extension the emergence of pottery specialists is a function of the economics of monumental constructions in Old Kingdom Egypt (ca 2700--2200 BC, historically). Evidence for pottery ... -
Social Movements and Scientific Forestry: Examining the Community Forestry Movement in Indonesia
(2013-02-25)Industrial scientific forestry has been one of the main tools of state control over land and forest resources in post-colonial Indonesia, particularly since the beginning of the New Order era inaugurated by the military ... -
Social Support Networks and Self-Efficacy of Peruvian Women Diagnosed with Cancer: A Biocultural Analysis of Health Behavior Constructs
Objectives The primary goal of this dissertation research study was to contextualize health behavior psychological constructs such as self-efficacy and fatalism among cancer patients in Peru, identifying individual, social, ... -
The spatial structure of Kom el-Hisn: an Old Kingdom town in the western Nile Delta, Egypt
(2001)The nature of Old Kingdom settlement patterns is poorly understood due to a lack of well-excavated sites of a variety of sizes and locations. Most of our knowledge of Old Kingdom settlement function comes from epigraphic ... -
Specialization: stoneware pottery production in northcentral Texas, 1850-1910
(1992)Ceramic specialization, a key concept in both scientific and cultural evolutionary archaeology, continues to be poorly defined more than ten years after Rice published her model of ceramic specialization (Rice 1981). Rice ... -
Spirit Breaking: Uyghur Dispossession, Culture Work and Terror Capitalism in a Chinese Global City
This study argues that Uyghurs, a Turkic-Muslim group in contemporary Northwest China, and the city of Ürümchi have become the objects of what the study names “terror capitalism.” This argument is supported by evidence of ... -
Stories of Sugpiaq Survivance: Uncovering Lifeways at Ing'yuq Village
This dissertation explores various storytelling methods in archaeology, as situated within a community-based project in Old Harbor, Alaska, a Sugpiaq village in the Kodiak Archipelago. The research is grounded in archaeologies ... -
Stratified Foreign Bodies and Geopolitics of Desire: Gender, Class and Race in the Transnational Marriage Market in Taiwan
(2013-02-25)This dissertation investigates the market formation of transnational brokered marriages between Taiwanese men and foreign women mainly from China, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. It looks at what kind of desire and needs ... -
Success and failure in post-miracle Taiwan
(1999)Drawing extensively (though not exclusively) from psychoanalytic and Marxian theories as they apply to and reflect the technological paradigm of production and consumer desire, this dissertation provides an ethnographic ... -
Swahili identity in post-colonial Kenya: the reproduction of gender in educational discourses
(1992)In post-colonial Kenya, education is a key discourse within which struggles of power and identity among Kenyan peoples, and between Kenyans and the state are played out. This dissertation employs a series of parallel, ...