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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 ... -
Male prostitution: a cultural expression of male homosexuality
(1986)In this study I demonstrate how adolescent male prostitutes have linked the meaning of a personal homoerotic preference and subsequent homosocial identity with the social action of prostitution. In several major studies, ... -
"A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People": Globalizing Cities, World-Class Waste, and the Biopolitics of Food Not Bombs
(2013-07-25)This is an ethnography of waste, cities, and social movements. Primarily one social movement in particular, Food Not Bombs, which recovers and freely redistributes wasted food in the public spaces of hundreds of cities, ... -
Measuring Cultural Transmission at Archaeological Scales: How Can We Improve Empirical Sufficiency?
Cultural transmission has long been a key organizing principle within anthropology, but the effort to formalize cultural transmission models and fit them to archaeological data is more recent, stimulated by work by Robert ... -
The Mississippian archaeological record on the Malden Plain, Southeast Missouri: local variability in evolutionary perspective
(1988)This is a study of Middle Mississippi expressions on the Malden Plain, Southeast Missouri. Middle Mississippi is recognized as a highly variable culture-historic unit of eastern North America during which late prehistoric ... -
Modeling hunter-gatherer ceramic production and use: a test case from the upper Texas coastal plain
(2007)Archaeological research continues to document the manufacture and use of ceramic containers in hunter-gatherer contexts in times and places unexpected by conventional anthropological and archaeological theories of ceramic ... -
Native conversion, native identity: an oral history of the Bahá'í faith among First Nations people in the southern central Yukon Territory, Canada
(2000)This dissertation examines the factors influencing religious conversion and retention among Yukon First Nations people in the Baha'i Faith. Research based on personal interviews, archival sources, and personal observations ... -
Negotiating the Confucian Religion in Indonesia: Invention, Resilience and Revival (1900 – 2010)
This dissertation investigates the process of inventing and negotiating the idiosyncratic Confucian religion in Indonesia. Widely known as a philosophy or ethics, even in China, its original place, I trace the trajectory ... -
Neo-Colonial Epidemiology: Public health practice and the right to health in Guatemala
(2013-07-25)This is a study of the everyday practice of epidemiology in Guatemala and how it shapes and is shaped by the notion of the right to health. Much of the research on the relationship between public health and human rights ... -
Networked Glass: Lithic Raw Material Consumption and Social Networks in the Kuril Islands, Far Eastern Russia
(2011-02)This research assesses the effects of environmental conditions on the strategic decisions of low-density foragers in regards to their stone tool raw material procurement and consumption behavior. Social as well as technological ... -
Of Mysterious Whispers and Biodiesel: The Engtanglement of Religion and Everyday Environmental Practices in Indonesia
This dissertation examines the entanglement of religion, ecology, science, and everyday political economy in the making of new socio-environmental practices. It shows how the practices are driven by various forces, including ... -
Of Pots and People: Investigating Hunter-Gatherer Pottery Production and Social Networks in the Kuril Islands
Ethnographic and archaeological research shows that hunter-gatherers have colonized and inhabited a diverse range of environmental settings. One example of this is the occupation of the unique sub-arctic, island environment ... -
On Art and Medicine: An Exploration of Values, Logics and Care Practices
Programs that foster creative activities such as drawing, creative writing, and making music are increasing in US hospitals. They are facilitated by licensed therapists, by professional artists, musicians or poets, or by ... -
On the Move across Phnom Dangrek: Mobilities and Silences in the Thai-Cambodian Borderland
This dissertation is a historical and ethnographic study of a mountainous landscape of Phnom Dangrek where it has always been the periphery of various political entities and marked by violent Cold War struggle and regional ... -
One significant ghost: Agent Orange narratives of trauma, survival, and responsibility
(2007)For nearly 50 years, scientists and politicians have debated the human consequences of the wartime use of toxic chemicals in Viet Nam. In 2002, the American ambassador to Vietnam called Agent Orange "the one significant ... -
Perceptions of Older Adults Regarding Exergames for Physical Activity
(2010-12)Background. Few older adults meet national recommendations for physical activity. While exergames (active video games) are commonly used among children and young adults, little is known about older adults’ views toward ...