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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 ... -
Performing our pasts: representing history, representing self
(1998)Anthropological research is based on oral testimony, but using it as research data in history remains contentious, because, apart from problems of memory, it is assumed that self-interest colors accuracy. Yet some ... -
The Physical Stratigraphy Of Wakemap Mound: A New Interpretation.
(1960-02-25)Knowledge of the physical stratigraphy at a site is of fundamental important in reconstructing its culture history. The various component parts of the physical stratigraphy are the surviving remnants of the cultural and ... -
The politics of heritage: Native American museums and the maintenance of ethnic boundaries on the contemporary northwest coast
(1989)This dissertation is an investigation of the role of Native American museums in the construction and maintenance of ethnic boundaries in contemporary Native American communities. It is posited that the Native American ... -
Population Structure and Large-Scale Cooperation in Pohang, South Korea
(2013-11-14)Large-scale cooperation is one of the fundamental questions in the social sciences. In order to explain cooperation beyond household members and explain the creation of public goods, the peculiarities unique to human culture ... -
Predictors and consequences of maternal-origin microchimerism: A study of women in the Philippines
Microchimerism (Mc) refers to the presence of a small number of cells or DNA from a genetically distinct individual. This phenomenon occurs naturally with bidirectional maternal-fetal exchange during pregnancy, and Mc can ... -
Rational choice and collective action in an Andean community
(1999)This thesis explores the value of rational choice theory in the explanation of social action in an Andean village in rural Cusco, Peru. The research on which it is based has been motivated by the question, "How do ... -
(Re)Constructing the Body: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
University of Washington Abstract (Re)Constructing the Body:An Ethnographic Study of Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Lily N. Shapiro Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Sareeta ... -
Re-thinking the Emergence of Iron Metallurgy in Taiwan - a Trade Diaspora Model
As a society is composed of waves of immigrants, overseas influences have been common to Taiwan since ancient times. Among these external forces, the overseas immigrant-influenced technological leap is believed to be the ... -
Reconstructing the Rural: Peasant Organizations in a Chinese Movement for Alternative Development
(2013-07-25)This ethnography examines four peasant organizations affiliated with New Rural Reconstruction (NRR), an ongoing alternative development movement in China. NRR consists of a diverse network involving hundreds of organizations, ... -
Restoring Coast Salish Foods and Landscapes: A More-Than-Human Politics of Place, History and Becoming
This dissertation seeks to develop an ethics of place through a study of people-plant relations in Puget Sound Coast Salish territory. The study follows the evolving relationship between Puget Sound Coast Salish people, ... -
Risk, pollution and sustainability in rural Sichuan, China
(2004)In this dissertation, I illustrate how people's perceptions of risk from industrial pollution in southwest China are shaped by political, social and economic factors at work within and beyond the study community. Futian ... -
The Role of Road Networks in Social Definition and Integration of Angamuco, Michoacán (250–1530 CE)
(2019)Road networks can be defined as the movement infrastructure of a city. They are both the resource that guides inhabitants within a settlement, and that defines different levels of social interaction and social organization. ... -
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 ...