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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 ... -
'Legs Feed The Wolf': An evolutionary perspective on psychosocial stress, physical activity, and their associations with telomere length in NCAA student-athletes and non-athletes
Psychosocial stress negatively impacts our mental and physical health, predisposing us to illness, worsened mental health, and accelerated aging. Conversely, regular physical activity, such as exercise and sports training, ... -
Limited Relief: Cause Lawyering on Behalf of Unacccompanied Chinese Youth
Each year, approximately 1,500 Chinese youth migrate alone and clandestinely to the U.S. While most intend to advance themselves and their families socially and economically, not all are immediately successful: a number ... -
Lithic raw material exploitation between 30,000 BP and 40,000 BP in the Perigord, France
(2002)The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition has been difficult to understand because of its vast scope. Yet, the issues might be solvable with more narrowly focused research. This dissertation tackles the question of whether ... -
Living our Values, Living our Hope: Building Sustainable Lifestyles in Seattle Intentional Communities
(2013-02-25)Sustainable consumption and the sustainable use of resources is a growing concern as negative environmental impacts such as carbon emissions, overuse of natural resources, and degradation of non-renewable resource stocks ... -
Living Through the Fall of Communism: Life Narratives of the Last Soviet Generation
(2010-12-11)This historically grounded ethnography presents the post-Soviet transition through the lens of the subjective experiences of ordinary people from the last Soviet generation, a generational cohort has had the unique experience ... -
Long-term chronology of subsistence and the role of intensive agriculture in the central part of the Korean peninsula during the Late Holocene
The transition from foragers to farmers and the role of intensive rice agriculture have been among the most controversial subjects in Korean archaeology. However, the relatively high acidity of sediment in the Korean ... -
Long-term interactions of climate, vegetation, humans, and fire in eastern Washington
(2002)Modern ecological studies are unable to examine long-term processes operating on the order of hundreds of years. Because of the limited length of modern and historic records, questions about long-term interactions between ... -
Magic, morality and medicine: madness and medical pluralism in Java
(2007)Javanese language and culture privilege the notions of order and disorder, act to preserve hierarchy and promote social harmony. Mental and physical illness are often diagnosed as the result of disturbances to order, insult ...