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Settlement change documentation and analysis: a case study from the Mogollon region of the American Southwest
(1999)American archaeologists have been interested in changing patterns of prehistoric settlement for more than 50 years. Despite this interest, many settlement patterns remain poorly documented and unexplained. Adherence to the ... -
Signature Injury: An Ethnographic Study of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Post-9/11 VA Health Care System
This dissertation is an ethnography of a politically symbolic injury: mild traumatic brain injury. It explores the dynamics of institutional mandates, clinical uncertainty, and the ideology of rehabilitative fantasies as ... -
Sobreviví Como Flor De La Sierra: Women, Violence, and Resistance in Peru
Drawing upon twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2012, this dissertation explores the experiences and lives of primarily indigenous, rural-to-urban migrant women living in grassroots domestic ... -
Social complexity in ancient Egypt: functional differentiation as reflected in the distribution of apparently standardized ceramics
(2004)"Mass-production" of vessels and by extension the emergence of pottery specialists is a function of the economics of monumental constructions in Old Kingdom Egypt (ca 2700--2200 BC, historically). Evidence for pottery ... -
Social Movements and Scientific Forestry: Examining the Community Forestry Movement in Indonesia
(2013-02-25)Industrial scientific forestry has been one of the main tools of state control over land and forest resources in post-colonial Indonesia, particularly since the beginning of the New Order era inaugurated by the military ... -
Social Support Networks and Self-Efficacy of Peruvian Women Diagnosed with Cancer: A Biocultural Analysis of Health Behavior Constructs
Objectives The primary goal of this dissertation research study was to contextualize health behavior psychological constructs such as self-efficacy and fatalism among cancer patients in Peru, identifying individual, social, ... -
The spatial structure of Kom el-Hisn: an Old Kingdom town in the western Nile Delta, Egypt
(2001)The nature of Old Kingdom settlement patterns is poorly understood due to a lack of well-excavated sites of a variety of sizes and locations. Most of our knowledge of Old Kingdom settlement function comes from epigraphic ... -
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 ... -
Spirit Breaking: Uyghur Dispossession, Culture Work and Terror Capitalism in a Chinese Global City
This study argues that Uyghurs, a Turkic-Muslim group in contemporary Northwest China, and the city of Ürümchi have become the objects of what the study names “terror capitalism.” This argument is supported by evidence of ... -
Stories of Sugpiaq Survivance: Uncovering Lifeways at Ing'yuq Village
This dissertation explores various storytelling methods in archaeology, as situated within a community-based project in Old Harbor, Alaska, a Sugpiaq village in the Kodiak Archipelago. The research is grounded in archaeologies ... -
Stratified Foreign Bodies and Geopolitics of Desire: Gender, Class and Race in the Transnational Marriage Market in Taiwan
(2013-02-25)This dissertation investigates the market formation of transnational brokered marriages between Taiwanese men and foreign women mainly from China, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. It looks at what kind of desire and needs ... -
Success and failure in post-miracle Taiwan
(1999)Drawing extensively (though not exclusively) from psychoanalytic and Marxian theories as they apply to and reflect the technological paradigm of production and consumer desire, this dissertation provides an ethnographic ... -
Swahili identity in post-colonial Kenya: the reproduction of gender in educational discourses
(1992)In post-colonial Kenya, education is a key discourse within which struggles of power and identity among Kenyan peoples, and between Kenyans and the state are played out. This dissertation employs a series of parallel, ... -
Swears and swearing among Landogo of Sierra Leone: aesthetics, adjudication, and the philosophy of power
(1991)This dissertation discusses how swears and swearing enactments act as adjudicational mechanisms among Landogo of northern Sierra Leone. A swear (a kind of curse object) reveals power and aesthetic thought. As process, ... -
Testosterone, Energetics, and Male Life-History
(2013-02-25)Testosterone-mediated behavior and muscle mass convey advantages to male fitness. However, high-testosterone phenotypes entail energetic and immunologic costs: the physiological and somatic effects of testosterone require ... -
The Effects of Demographic Processes on Dynamic Networks and The Role of Sexual Behavior and Acquired Immunity on Chlamydia Transmission in Young Adults
The complex social networks that we maintain and navigate every day make our uniquely elaborate life possible, but also put us at risk of exposure to infectious diseases. This dissertation explores the effects of different ... -
The Effects of Postural Loading, Sacral Orientation, and Age on Sex Differences in Lumbar Functional Morphology and Health
This dissertation explores sexual dimorphism in the human lumbar spine by applying evolutionary theory to understanding variability in lumbar functional morphology and health risks between sexes. Three separate studies ... -
The Health Implications of Periodic Dietary Restrictions on Animal Products among Orthodox Christians in the United States
Despite increasing recognition that dietary factors are major contributors to cardiovascular and metabolic (cardiometabolic) related disability and mortality in the United States and worldwide, the optimal diet for reducing ...