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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 ... -
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 ... -
Canaries in a coal mine: conceptualizations and treatment of mental illness in a therapeutic community for the mentally ill
(2001)This dissertation is an ethnography of a therapeutic community for the mentally ill conducted in the US in 1996. It begins with a review of the experimental movement in psychiatry that occurred during the late 1960s and ... -
Caring Bodies: Cadavers, Technicians, and Hidden Labor in U.S. Continuing Medical Education
Human bodies are fundamental work tools in medical education. They are widely used, and indispensable, in the training of students, clinicians, and in biomedical research. However, contradictions abound in the use and ... -
Case Studies in Geoarchaeometry
This dissertation consists of four standalone papers. Each paper addresses a distinct geoarchaeological challenge through the application of specialized technical methods and experimental data. New approaches to data ... -
Certifying India: Everyday Aspiration and Basic Computer Training in Hyderabad
This dissertation investigates the impact of new technologies and a technology-centric economy for low-income and minority students in Hyderabad, India. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic research at basic computer-training ... -
Changes of Direction: Forces on the Human Talus
This dissertation explores the evolution of the human foot by understand the forces that impact foot morphology. The talus is a prime first suspect to focus this endeavor because it is the only bony connection between the ... -
Choosing Methadone: Managing Addiction and the Body Politic in Ukraine
This dissertation explores the lived experience of opiate substitution therapy (OST) patients in Ukraine. To complete this research, I conducted fourteen months of ethnographic research in OST programs across Ukraine between ... -
Co-Constructing Racial Identities at Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum
In the United States museums have played a key role in shaping our understandings of ourselves as members of particular geographical, national, and racialized groups. While many museums in the United States present this ... -
Collective Action, Reputation, and Social Support Networks in the Andes of Southern Peru
(2013-11-14)This research approaches two interrelated aspects of life in an Andean community. First, I explore the management of communally owned herds, gardens and other common pool resources. Specifically, I address how successful ... -
Community Health Workers: Lives, Labor, and Hopes for an AIDS-free generation in Maputo, Mozambique
In this dissertation, I describe how current efforts to meet the globally-defined ambitious HIV treatment goals to end AIDS by 2030 marginalize community health workers (activists and counselors) who have dedicated their ... -
Community-Based Herbalism and Relational Approaches to Harm Reduction in Healthcare
Despite the ability of mainstream healthcare in the United States to provide essential care in emergency and life-threatening situations, it often falls short of a broader mission to ensure that effective, equitable, ... -
A Comparative And Analytic Study Of Some Aspects Of Northwest Coast Religion
(1953)This study describes in detail religious concepts and practices of the Cowichan Indians of Vancouver Island; compares certain religious traits and complexes over the Northwest Coast and adjoining areas; and suggests religious ... -
Costly Signaling and Changing Faunal Abundances at Five Finger Ridge, Utah
(None, 2010-10)This research attempts to develop and test a series of predictions for identifying costly signaling forms of hunting in the prehistoric past. I predict that signaling hunters should place increasingly greater value in ... -
Cracking the Code: Navigating and Subverting Dominant Class Rule in Computer Science and Engineering
(2013-11-14)My dissertation investigates the reproduction of gender-differentiated outcomes in sites of technology production and why Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) remains highly segregated. Computer technology both reflects ... -
Creating an Empire: Local Political Change at Angamuco, Michoacan, Mexico
Regime change is a critical social process that has occurred throughout human history and yet much is still unknown about how political developments shape local communities. This dissertation examines the impacts of the ... -
Creating and Transcending Territorial Boundaries in Late Holocene Pacific Coast Communities
(2013-02-25)In this research, I investigate precontact territorial behavior in the San Juan Islands, Washington and San Nicolas Island, California. Drawing on economic defensibility models, I generate hypotheses for change over time ... -
Cultivating Subjectivities: The Class Politics of Convivial Labor in the Interstitial Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect
This dissertation explores home kitchen gardens and the role they play in the lives of a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual community of diaspora and low-income residents in San José, CA. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork from ... -
Cultural complexity and resource intensification on Kodiak Island, Alaska
(2003)Models created by archaeologists to explain the development of cultural complexity on the north Pacific coast frequently pose resource intensification, especially of salmon, as a possible cause. However, whether or not ...