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Ecological Pressures Selecting for Singing Behavior in Primates
This dissertation explores the social, behavioral, and habitat based influences on the evolution of elaborate vocalizations in primates. The goals of this project were to merge and test hypotheses derived from both the ... -
The Ecology of Human Diets during the Holocene at North Creek Shelter, Utah
This research examines the ecology of human diet using archeological evidence from a specific site in western North America, North Creek Shelter (NCS) near Escalante, Utah. I use ecological measures and theory to quantify ... -
Edible Memory: Revitalizing Ancestral Appetite, Taste, and Flavor through Indigenous Culinary Art and Cuisine as Food Sovereignty
This dissertation presents a culinary ethnography focusing on the Indigenous Food Sovereignty movement within the kitchens and kitchenspaces of Turtle Island. By adopting decolonizing methodologies and alterNative Indigenous ... -
Entre Nosotres: The Social and Political Spheres of Women against Prisons
For the past three decades, the number of incarcerated women in Latin America has increased exponentially. This dissertation examines how women in Buenos Aires, Argentina, reimagine their lives during and after prison. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Foraging Variability in the Prehistoric Caribbean: Multiple Foraging Optima, Resource Use, and Anthropogenic Impacts on Carriacou, Grenada
(2013-07-25)This research assesses the zooarchaeological evidence for variable foraging strategies at two matched Caribbean sites, Sabazan and Grand Bay, on the Grenadine Island of Carriacou during the Late Ceramic Age, ca. AD 400 - ... -
Forked Tongues at Sequalitchew: A Critical Indigenist Anthropology of Place in Nisqually Territory
(2013-07-23)Ten years ago, Nisqually Hereditary Chief and Elder Leonard Squally asked for my help in protecting the graves of his ancestors within the sentient ancestral village landscape of Sequalitchew and the places within this ... -
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 ... -
Hateful and Heartwarming Bonds: The Senses as Strategy in the South Korean Family
This dissertation investigates women’s strategizing around the senses in South Korea, tracing the ways that women move between sensory experience as an ideal and as an object to put into motion. I argue that the language ... -
Imagining Lamanites: Native Americans and the Book of Mormon
(2003)The Book of Mormon, first published by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830 in Palmyra, New York, draws upon colonial and antebellum biblical hermeneutics and nineteenth century myths of the origin and fate of an ancient American ... -
Immunocompetence and the Hygiene Hypothesis
(2012-09-13)Background: Evidence from the United States and Europe supports the hygiene hypothesis-- exposure to infectious agents during immune system development protects against immune-mediated disorders (allergy and autoimmunity). ... -
Instituting Care: A Dementia Unit in Mainland China
As China’s population ages, its government and medical marketplace are developing new forms of institutional, non-family-based eldercare and dementia care. This dissertation explores one such site, providing an organizational ... -
Insularity and Interaction: Investigating the role of exchange and inter-island interaction in the Banda Islands, Indonesia
Trade and exchange exerted a powerful force in the historic and protohistoric past of Island Southeast Asian communities. Exchange and interaction are also hypothesized to have played an important role in the spread of new ... -
“I’m Black and I’m Strong:” The Health Effects of Resilience in the Face of Discrimination among Black American Men in Metropolitan Seattle
Research and viral videos have repeatedly confirmed what Black men have been exclaiming since the beginning of American history: that they frequently experience multifaceted forms of discrimination (and adversity) throughout ... -
Japan's war orphans and new overseas Chinese: history, identification and (multi)ethnicity
(2004)Japanese "war orphans" are people of Japanese parentage who were stranded in China as children following the end of World War Two. This dissertation discusses war orphans in terms of their historical circumstances in China, ... -
Large mammal resource depression and agricultural intensification: an empirical test in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico
(2001)Many archaeologists have argued that reductions in the energetic returns provided by wild resources led people in the past to devote more time to farming. Despite the popularity of this explanation, however, no one has ... -
Late Pleistocene human adaptations in eastern North America
(1984)Late Pleistocene human adaptations in eastern North America have long been treated as essentially homogeneous and like the highly specialized adaptive strategies practiced by contemporary Paleo-indian groups on the southern ...