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Dissertations from 2009

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High stakes: A poly-communal archaeology of the Pocumtuck Fort, Deerfield, Massachusetts, Siobhan M. Hart

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The adoption of shamanic healing into the biomedical health care system in the United States, Lori L. Thayer

"To promote, encourage or condone:" Science, activism and the political role of moralism in the formation of needle exchange policy in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1998--2005, Jon E Zibbell

Dissertations from 2008

Unwrapping the anatomical gift: Donors, cadavers, students, Carol N Coan

"Driven" women: Gendered moral economies of women's migrant labor in postsocialist Europe's peripheries, Leyla J Keough

From infancy to death? An examination of the African burial ground in relation to Christian eighteenth century beliefs, Ruth Annette Mathis

Dissertations from 2007

Towards the within: Visual culture, performance, and aesthetics of acupuncture, Kevin Taylor Anderson

Historical erasure and cultural recovery: Indigenous people in the Connecticut River Valley, Margaret M Bruchac

Musculoskeletal attachment site markers and skeletal pathology of the forearm and carpal bones from Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates, c. 2300 BC, Janet M Cope

Localization of central vasopressin V1A receptors in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), Diane M Toloczko

The Croatian public sphere and the journalistic milieu, Richard Wallace

Dissertations from 2006

Chronic pain and working women in Berkshire County: Towards a critical physical therapy, James R Brennan

An integrative analysis of how zinc in teeth reflects maternal environments and predicts infant function in a rural Mexican community, Alexis E Dolphin

Breastfeeding and bone density change, Karen L Pearce

The house of the jaguar: The engaged anthropology of Gertrude Duby Blom at Museo Na Bolom, Mary L Robison

Good Fridays, Celtic Tigers and the Drumcree Church Parade: Media, politics and the state in Northern Ireland, Thomas H Taaffe

Archaeology and normalcy: Disciplining a discipline, Joannah L Whitney

Dissertations from 2005

Negotiating power: A new discourse of the maquiladora industry in Ciudad Juarez, James H Hamm

From scientific risk to paysan savoir-faire: Divergent rationalities of science and society in the French debate over GM crops, Chaia L Heller

The formulation of Turkish immigrant subjectivities in the German region of Swabia, Tilman Lanz

American Indian identity: The Menominee experience, Carol N Nepton

Dissertations from 2004

Confronting the tribal zone: Toward a critical ethnohistory of colonial state formation in San Juan through the system of encomiendas, 1509--1520, Gabriel De La Luz-Rodriguez

Of visions and sorrows: Manuel Quintin Lame's Indian thought and the violences of Colombia, Monica Espinosa Arango

Contested place, nature, and sustainability: A critical anthropo-geography of biodiversity conservation in the "Zona Maya" of Quintana Roo, Mexico, Jose Eduardo Martinez-Reyes

Reconstructing infant diet and weaning behavior of ancient Maya from Lamanai, Belize using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), Rhan-Ju Song

Making doctors in Malawi: Local exigencies meet global identities in an African medical school, Claire Leone Wendland

Dissertations from 2003

Masculinity and fatherhood: Stratified reproduction among the Puerto Rican partners of adolescent mothers, Jennifer Whitman Foster

When order becomes disorder: A cross-cultural study of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and its implications for the social construction of "normal", Kenneth D Jacobson

Hungry for the taste of El Salvador: Gastronomic nostalgia, identity, and resistance to nutrithink in an immigrant community, Sharon L Stowers

Dissertations from 2002

Space, society and self in Siena, Italy: A study of community, identity and social change in small, southern European city, Arthur L Figliola

Slavery's children: A study of growth and childhood sex ratios in the New York African Burial Ground, Susan Kay Goode-Null

In the shadow of the other: Explorations of German identity in the construction of difference, Amy Elizabeth Harper

Demography and death in emergent industrial cities of New England, Susan Irene Hautaniemi

The political ecology of wild mushroom harvester stewardship in the Pacific Northwest, Eric Todd Jones

Amalgamation, immigration, and the problem of racial and ethnic classification: New York City, 1890--1930, Teresa Elizabeth Leslie

Dissertations from 2001

Nightclub capitalism and expatriate jazz musicians in Paris, Scott M Cashman

Ceramic style and the Late Woodland period (1000--400 B.P.) sachemships of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Frederick James Dunford

Porotic hyperostosis as an indicator of anemia: An overview of correlation and cause, Mary Cassandra Hill

Transculturalism, affiliation and the epistemological verities of "normative identity": Deafness and the African diaspora, G. L Mazard Wallace

W. E. B. Du Bois and the house of the Black Burghardts: Land, family and African Americans in New England, Nancy Ladd Muller

Sueno nuestro (our dream): Anarchism and anthropology in a Spanish village, Mary Nothom Orgel

Beyond the cult of domesticity: Exploring the material and spatial expressions of multiple gender ideologies in Deerfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1750--ca. 1911, Deborah L Rotman

Women's social power, child nutrition, and poverty in Mali, Dominique M Simon

Mapping cultural and archaeological meanings: Representing landscapes and pasts in 19th century Ireland, Angele Patricia Smith

Heterochronic perturbations in the craniofacial evolution of Homo (Neandertals and modern humans) and Pan (P. troglodytes and P. paniscus), Frank L'Engle Williams

Dissertations from 2000

The construction and practice of place in Weimar Republic Berlin, Skyler J Arndt-Briggs

The Navajos and nature: Changing world and changing self, Beth Ellen King

Northeastern ceramic diversity: An optical mineralogy approach, John P Pretola

Contextualizing the history and practice of Paleolithic archaeology: Hamburgian research in northern Germany, Blythe E Roveland

Constitutive contradictions and "belonging" in Montreal: Cultural mediaries and anthropological theory, Janis Katherine Steele

Paleoobstetrics: Reproduction, workload and mortality for Ancestral Pueblo women, Pamela Kendall Stone

Dissertations from 1999

"Detention castles of stone and steel": An historical archaeology of the first Rhode Island State Prison, 1838--1878, James Curtis Garman

Constructing ancestors: Archaeology and folklore in Scotland, Amy Gazin-Schwartz

Coping strategies among HIV+ Latina and African American women in the inner-city: Ethnic and generational differences, Pushpinder Pelia Lubana

Dissertations from 1998

Households in industrial agriculture, Gregory M Briggs

Hegemony and the construction of selves: A dialogical ethnography of homelessness and resistance, Vincent A Callo

Image brokering and the postmodern peasant: Material culture and identity in the Stubaital, Kelli Ann Costa

The embodiment of marime: Living Romany Gypsy pollution taboo, Janet Larkin

Biocultural assessment of health strategies among the Caddo Indians of southwestern Oklahoma, Ann Marie Wagner Mires

Vision and practice: Resistance and dissent in Shaker communities, Ellen-Rose Savulis

The micromorphology of landscapes: An archaeological approach in Southern New England, Michael A Volmar

Dissertations from 1996

Embodiments of choice: Native American ceramic diversity in the New England interior, Elizabeth S Chilton

An archaeology of crisis: The manipulation of social spaces in the Blue Mountain coffee plantation complex of Jamaica, 1790-1865, James Andrew Delle

Governing the poor: Women and the politics of community activism in England, Susan Brin Hyatt

Native copper, hunter-gatherers, and northeastern prehistory, Mary Ann Levine

The contradictions of consumption: An archaeology of African America and consumer culture, 1850-1930, Paul Raymond Mullins

Dissertations from 1995

The fabric of Cambodian life: Sarongs at home, dungarees at work, Ronnie Jean Booxbaum

Public high school teachers and archaeology: Exploring the field, Dorothy Schlotthauer Krass

Dissertations from 1994

Hopi foodways: Biocultural perspectives on change and contradiction, Barrett Paul Brenton

Pull of the hills: Affluent foragers of the western Black Hills, Marcel Kornfeld

Changes in the landscape during the transition from feudalism to capitalism: A case study of Montblanc, Catalonia, Spain, Patricia Hart Mangan

Dissertations from 1993

Negotiating the meaning of Africa: Mandinka praisesingers in transnational contexts, Paulla Angeleac Ebron

"Some by flatteries and others by threatenings": Political strategies among Native Americans of seventeenth-century southern New England, Eric Spencer Johnson

Dissertations from 1992

Collagen composition in human skeletal remains from the NAX cemetary (A.D. 350-550) in lower Nubia, Brenda Jane Baker

The Atlantic salmon in New England prehistory and history: Social and environmental implications, Catherine Carroll Carlson

Prehistoric foragers of the North Atlantic: Perspectives on lithic procurement and social complexity in the north Norwegian Stone Age and the Labrador Maritime Archaic, Bryan C Hood

Princes and princesses of ragged fame: Innu archaeology and ethnohistory in Labrador, Stephen G Loring

Pastoral production and its discontents: Alpaca and sheep herding in Caylloma, Peru, Lisa Beth Markowitz

Fun and power: Experience and ideology at the Magic Kingdom, Maria-Lydia Spinelli

Dissertations from 1991

The articulation of social inequality and faunal resource use in the Preclassic community of Colha, northern Belize, Leslie Carol Shaw

Dissertations from 1990

Specialized production in nonstratified society: An example from the Late Archaic in the Northeast, John R Cross

Thresholds to group mobility among hunter-gatherers: An archaeological example from southern New England, Elena Louise Filios

Growth and transverse line formation in contemporary children, Ann L Magennis

The archaeology of early place: Early postglacial land use and ecology at Robbins Swamp, northwestern Connecticut, George Peter Nicholas

Afro-American biohistory: Theoretical and methodological considerations, Lesley Marguerite Rankin-Hill

Dissertations from 1988

Explanation, understanding, and making sense in anthropology, Richard Douglas Holmes

Dissertations from 1987

COMMUNAL HUNTS, HUMAN AGGREGATIONS, SOCIAL VARIATION, AND CLIMATIC CHANGE: BISON UTILIZATION BY PREHISTORIC INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT PLAINS (PALEOECOLOGY), WILLIAM BLOYS FAWCETT

THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT: CHANGING RESOURCE RELATIONS AND THE IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN ST. THOMAS, UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS, BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTON

Socialization of children in Belize: Identity, race and power within the world political economy, Nancy Lundgren

Dissertations from 1985

THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY: NATIONALISM IN CATALONIA (SYMBOLISM, LANGUAGE, SPAIN, IDEOLOGY), SUSAN M DIGIACOMO

Dissertations from 1984

PUERTO RICAN ELDERLY WOMEN: AGING IN AN ETHNIC MINORITY GROUP IN THE UNITED STATES, MELBA SANCHEZ-AYENDEZ

CHILDREN AND CHANGE IN A SERBIAN VILLAGE, 1870-1975 (FERTILITY, DEMOGRAPHY), RICHARD A WAGNER

Dissertations from 1983

MATERIAL CULTURE AND THE REPRODUCTION OF SOCIAL COMPLEXITY: A LITHIC EXAMPLE FROM THE PERUVIAN FORMATIVE, JOAN MARGARET GERO

Dissertations from 1981

FORM AND FUNCTION OF THE HOMINOID FOOT, DAVID NEIL GOMBERG

THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY: TRANSYLVANIAN SAXONS IN SOCIALIST ROMANIA, MARILYN MCARTHUR

Dissertations from 1979

IN THE MAELSTROM OF CHANGE. THE INDIAN TRADE AND CULTURAL PROCESS IN THE MIDDLE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY: 1635-1665, PETER ALLEN THOMAS

THE PRECOLONIAL IVORY TRADE OF EAST AFRICA: RECONSTRUCTION OF A HUMAN-ELEPHANT ECOSYSTEM, PETER FREDERIC THORBAHN

Dissertations from 1978

A COMMUNITY STUDY OF AGING AND RELIGION AMONG RURAL PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS, CHARLOTTE MEIER COLLIER

Dissertations from 1977

HISTORICAL ARCHEOLOGY AND THE NATIONAL MARKET: A VERMONT PERSPECTIVE 1795-1920, SUZANNE WOOD ELLIOTT

OPTIMUM DIET MODELS AND PREHISTORIC HUNTER-GATHERERS: A TEST ON MARTHA'SVINEYARD, STEPHEN MAYER PERLMAN