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A Biocultural Examination of Student Learning Behaviors in Large Undergraduate Lectures
Humans rely on culturally acquired information. Survival and reproductive success often hinge on whether or not individuals are culturally adapted to the environment they live in. These cultural variants can include important ... -
A Home Without a Home: Vehicle Residency and Settled Bias
In 2018, over half of the people who slept in public space across Seattle/King County (Washington, USA) inhabited an automobile. However, the disaffiliation and criminalization of vehicle-homes in efforts to end homelessness ... -
Accounting for subsistence variation among maize farmers in Ohio valley prehistory
(2002)Four different causes (climatic change, demographic structure, resource availability and technology, and social context) have been suggested to account for aspects of the appearance of and variation in maize-based farming ... -
Akrotiri Aetokremnos and the Cypriot Pygmy Hippopotamus: An Interdisciplinary Look at a Late Pleistocene Large Mammal Extinction
The cause for large mammal extinctions in the Late Pleistocene has been debated for decades, with two main factors constantly discussed--human hunting and climatic change. The Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus represents a case ... -
Alluetain ethnoecology and traditional economy: the procurement and production of plant resources in the northern French Alps
(1986)This dissertation is an ethnoecological study of land and botanical resource use in the French northern alpine commune of Les Allues. It is based on at least two years of field research and extensive use of regional archives. ... -
An Archaeology of Survivance on the Grand Ronde Reservation: Telling Stories of Enduring Native Presence
This dissertation forwards an archaeological research framework grounded in Gerald Vizenor’s concept of survivance. Archaeologies of survivance center Native presence in all aspects of archaeological knowledge production. ... -
The Anatomy of Ephemeral Care: Health, Hunger, and Short-Term Humanitarian Intervention in Northwest Nepal
(2013-04-17)Drawing upon two and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2006 through 2010, this dissertation explores the experiences, traces and (after)lives of three prominent models of short-term care--medical ... -
Applying cultural evolutionary theory to the technological transition during the Late Pleistocene in Korea
The cultural-technological transition in stone artifacts from the Middle to Upper Paleolithic during the Late Pleistocene is considered as one of the major revolutions in the prehistory of humankind, along with the appearance ... -
Archaeological Evidence of Change in Social Organization at Kiwulan, an Iron Age site in Northeastern Taiwan, during European Colonization
Colonial encounters between Europeans and Indigenous people have long been an important topic in historical archaeology as scholars seek to explore their effects on Indigenous social, cultural, and material worlds. However, ... -
Banda Islands Archaeology Project (Data set to support dissertation)
(2015-04-02)This dataset contains chemical data for archaeological materials from sites in the Banda Islands, Indonesia. It includes two files. One contains 51 major, minor, and trace element concentrations for the paste constituent ... -
Barça ou Barzakh: The Social Elsewhere of Failed Clandestine Migration out of Senegal
This dissertation explores the social afterlives of forcibly returned clandestine migrants in Senegal. It takes as its starting point, the phenomenon of clandestine boat migration out of Senegal, which saw its peak in 2006, ... -
Being Latvian: Discourse and Identity Among Individuals of Black African Descent
(2013-04-17)This dissertation examines the dynamics of skin color and identity among individuals of black African descent in Latvia. I contend that the politics of blackness is constituted differently in Latvia by individuals of black ... -
Beyond statistics: the cumulative effect of vulnerability in management of HIV
Background: Health outcomes of antiretroviral therapy (ART) are well studied, while the psychosocial processes of seeking clinical care and adhering to lifelong medications to achieve viral suppression are understudied. ... -
Black Sea Change: A Revision of the Sinop Ceramic Chronology Using Luminescence Dating
Fifty-nine ceramic sherds from eleven archaeological sites within the Sinop promontory of the Turkish Black Sea coast were dated by luminescence to establish a regional ceramic chronology. This absolute chronology was ... -
Blackfeet Men, "Toxic Masculinity", and Gender Entanglement
Violence is one of the most serious issues Blackfeet men face today. Too often conversation about violence in and beyond the Blackfeet focuses on men as perpetrators while ignoring the complexity of how gender intersects ... -
Breathing Room: Climate Displacement, Biopolitics, and Indigenous Sovereignty in Northwest Alaska
This dissertation is a critical, engaged ethnography of climate change displacement and contemporary Indigenous politics in the context of an intergenerational struggle for environmental justice, self-determination, and a ... -
Broad spectrum diets and the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus): dietary change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Dordogne, southwestern France
(2004)In the Dordogne region of southwestern France, a broadening of the diet is known to have occurred toward the end of the Pleistocene, with diets heavily dependent on large ungulates being replaced by those heavily dependent ... -
Cambodia 1991-94: hierarchy, neutrality and etiquettes of discourse
(1997)The dissertation is concerned with how the negotiation of conventions of public discourse correlates to changing political economy. It focuses on Cambodia during the period immediately before and after the 1993 U.N.-sponsored ...