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Cambodian refugee use of indigenous and western healers to prevent or alleviate mental illness
(1987)
In this dissertation Cambodian refugee use of traditional and Western healing systems to prevent or alleviate mental illness are examined. Chrisman's (1977) Health Seeking Process model is used as a guide for data collection and analysis. The usefulness of the model for analysis of a rapidly changing population is then ...
Evolutionary human paleoecology: climatic change and human adaptation in the Pahsimeroi Valley, Idaho, 2500 BP to the present
(1982)
Two interdependent lines of thought are now converging into a form of archaeology herein called evolutionary human paleoecology, with a foundation in ecology and Darwinian evolutionism and comprised of variables measurable in the archaeological record, this approach promises to illuminate not only the processes of cultural ...
Explaining corrugated pottery in the American Southwest: an evolutionary approach
(1999)
Corrugated pottery is a unique utility ware made by leaving construction coils unobliterated, and manipulating these exposed coils to produce a rough exterior surface. Ancestral Puebloan populations in the American Southwest made this pottery in various forms between AD 650 and 1450. Although archaeologists have tried to ...
The functional morphology of the prosimian hindlimb: some correlates between anatomy and positional behavior
(1988)
Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in the functional morphology and ecology of the prosimian primates. Napier and Walker's (1967) vertical clinging and leaping hypothesis focused interest on the presence of saltatory adaptations in the hindlimb of certain prosimians. This dissertation presents a functional ...
Rational choice and collective action in an Andean community
(1999)
This thesis explores the value of rational choice theory in the explanation of social action in an Andean village in rural Cusco, Peru. The research on which it is based has been motivated by the question, "How do agropastoralists resolve collective action problems in securing access to productive resources and in producing ...
The politics of heritage: Native American museums and the maintenance of ethnic boundaries on the contemporary northwest coast
(1989)
This dissertation is an investigation of the role of Native American museums in the construction and maintenance of ethnic boundaries in contemporary Native American communities. It is posited that the Native American museum is an "artifact" (Ames 1986) of the sociopolitical context of activism and militancy associated with ...
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 and others continue to struggle toward an accepted definition of what specialization is and how it can ...