Ph.D. Theses 1972-2012
| 2012 | Charest, Michelle | Emerald Pub to Silver Saloon: Building an Irish Saloon Community in the American Mining West. | |
| 2012 | Mesick, Cassandra | The Culture of Construction: Architectural Technology and Building Practices of the Classic Period Maya. | |
| 2011 | Ashley, Jennifer | Televising Exclusion: Democracy, Activism, and Urban Politics in Chile. | |
| 2011 | Koriouchkina, Elisaveta | Contigent Ethnicity in State(s) of Change: Meskhetian Turk's Journey from USSR to Post-Soviet World. | |
| 2011 | Millar, Kathleen | Reclaiming the Discarded: The Politics of Labor and Everyday Life on Rio's Garbage Dump. | |
| 2011 | Peter, Rebecca A. Warne | Development Effects: Cosmopolitanism, Governmentality and Angolan Engagements in the World. | |
| 2011 | Rosenmeir, Leah | Towards an Archeology of Descent: Spatial Practice and Shared Experience in M'Kmaw Communities. | |
| 2011 | Solomon, Harris | Life-Sized: Food and the Pathologies of Plenty in Mumbai. | |
| 2010 | Hoover, Elizabeth | Local Food Production and Community Illness Narratives: Responses to Environmental Contamination and Health Studies in the Mohawk Community of Akwesasne. | |
| 2010 | Judd, Maya | Gendering Men: Masculinities and Demographic Change in Contemporary Italy. | |
| 2010 | Krebhiel-Keefe, Susi | Romantic Desires & Polygynous Intentions: Islam and Gender and Divorce in Coastal Tanzania. | |
| 2010 | Mazzarino, Andrea | Being Independent Together: Urban Russian Businesswomen and New Forms of National Belonging | |
| 2010 | Reiser, Christine | Rooted in Movement: Spatial Practices and Community Persistence in Native Southwestern New England. | |
| 2010 | Rhine, Kathryn | AIDS, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity in Northern Nigeria. | |
| 2010 | Wawire, Salome |
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| 2009 | Esdale, Julie E. | Lithic Production Sequences and Toolkit Variability: Examples from the Middle Holecene, Northwest Alaska. | |
2009 |
Galemba, Rebecca B. |
Cultures of Contraband: Contesting (II) Legality at the Mexico-Guatemala Border. |
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2009 |
Mouser, Audrey E. | Maintaining Middle-Classness: Urban, Middle-Class, Malay Single-Mothers of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. | |
2009 |
Thompson, Dondrea R. | Black American Women in Sweden: Making Sense of Changing Fields. | |
2008 |
Brunson, Jan |
Reproducing Hierarchy: Women’s Positions and Empodiment of Social Change in the Kathmandu Valley. |
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2008 |
Hall, Catharine |
Defining Boundaries and Breaking Barriers: Access and Adaptation of Chesapeake Bay Watermen. |
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2008 |
Rogers, Juliette |
The Political Lives of Dairy Cows: Modernity, Tradition, and Professional Identity in the Norman Cheese Industry. |
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2008 |
Ryzewski, Krysta |
Archaeology of a Colonial Industry: Domestic Ironworking and Industrial Evolution in Rhode Island, 1642-1800. |
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2008 |
Trunzo, Jennifer |
“Buying into It” Propaganda, Consumerism, and the American Revolution in Southeastern Connecticut. |
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2008 |
White, Paul |
Chuckwalla and the Belligerent Burro: Timbisha Shoshone, Miners and the Footprints of Dispossession in the Panamints. |
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2007 |
Archambault, Caroline |
"Education is the Song of the Day": School in Maasai Society and Economy. |
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2007 |
Chattopadhyay, Sreeparna |
Interrogating Violence: Uncovering Silences-Investigating Marital Violence in India. |
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2007 |
Esara, Pilapa |
Changing Marriage, Changing Thai Society: Contradictions of Gender, Class, and Identity in an Era of Globalization. |
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2007 |
Howell, Angela McMillan |
Not Just 'Down Yonder': Growing up Black in Rural Alabama. |
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2007 |
Poliandri, Simone |
Identity Dynamics in the Mi'Kmaw Reserves of Nova Scotia, Canada. |
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2007 |
Searles, Donna B. |
Medicalizing Motherhood: San Carlos Apache Women and Birth. |
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2007 |
Stein, Ninian |
Abstract for: Native Peoples, Subsistence, and Cultural Identity in Late Woodland and Early Contact Period Southern New England. |
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2007 |
Whitehouse, Bruce |
Exile Knows No Dignity: African Transnational Migrants and the Anchoring of Identity. |
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2006 |
Harper, Walter Jr. |
Educational and Social Worlds in Context: An Anthropological Study of an Urban Elementary School Fifth Grade Classroom. |
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2006 |
Leichtman, Mara |
A Tale of Two Shi'isms: Lebanese Migrants and Senegalese Converts in Dakar. |
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2005 |
Barrett, Deirdre |
The Ceramic Oil Lamp as an Indicator of Cultural Change Within Nabataean Society in Petra and its Environs Circa CE 106. |
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| 2005 | Gale, Lacey Andrews | "Home is who you make it." Place, Agency and Relationships Among Fula Refugees in Guinea. | |
2005 |
McClard, Anne Page |
Nested Tales: Gendered Representations of an Azorean Festival Cycle. |
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2005 |
Sullivan, Celeste M. |
Language Use in Lahore: The Role of Culture, Social Structure, and Economics in Shaping Communication Patterns and Language Form in a Pakistani Multilingual Community. |
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2004 |
Alexander-Chase, Sarah |
The Gender of Excellence: Symbols & Strategies Among Adolescents at a New England Preparatory School. |
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2004 |
Bergstresser, Sara |
Therapies of the Mundane: Community Mental Health Care and Everyday Life in an Italian Town. |
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2004 |
Castellanos, Erick |
Alarming Hoards and Ideological Masses: The Impact of Immigrants on the Definition of Community and Society in Bergamo Italy. |
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2004 |
Hartley, Jennifer |
Balancing Acts: Understanding Women’s Attitudes Toward Food. |
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2004 |
Larson, Mary Ann |
The Evolution of the Qalgi in Post-Epidemic Point Hope. |
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2004 |
Moniz, Miguel |
Strangers in Their Own Land: Criminal Deportee Forced Return Migrants and Transnational Identity, the Azorean Example. |
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2004 |
Reid, Sara Karz |
The Small Temple: A Roman Imperial Cult Building in Petra, Jordan. |
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2004 |
Zafiroglu, Alexandra |
From Teleland to Information Society: Swedish Society and Mobile Telephony at the Turn of the Century. |
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2002 |
Holly, Donald H. |
From Space to Place: An Archaeology and Historical Geography of the Recent Indian Period in Newfoundland. |
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2002 |
Hunter, Charlotte |
The C-Shaped Structures of Haleakaka National Park: Vernacular Architecture in the Hawaiian Islands. |
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2002 |
Patterson, Susan P. |
Movers and Shakers: Spirit and Power in Native Northwestern California. |
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2002 |
Ramirez, Josue |
Against Machismo: Young Adult Voices in Mexico City. |
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2002 |
Rodrigues, Isabel |
Crafting Nation and Creolization in the Islands of Cape Verde. |
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2002 |
Rosen, Rochelle K. |
An Anthropological Perspective on Vaginal Microbicide Research. |
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2001 |
Allen, Scott J. |
Zumbi Nunca Vai Morrer History, The Practice of Archaeology, and Race Politics in Brazil. |
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2001 |
Crane, Hillary |
Men in Spirit: The Masculinization of Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns. |
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2001 |
DiCarlo, Lisa |
Migration and Identity Among Black Sea Turks. |
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2001 |
Garcia, Maria E. |
To Be Quechua Is To Belong: Citizenship, Identity, and Intercultural Bilingual Education in Cuzco, Peru. |
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2001 |
Robinson, Brian |
Burial Ritual, Groups, and Boundaries on the Gulf of Maine: 8600-3800 B.P. |
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2001 |
Woodhouse-Beyer, Katharine |
Gender Relations and Socio-Economic Change in Russian America: An Archaeological Study of the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska 1784-1867 A.D. |
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2000 |
Gregg, David |
Technonology, Culture Change, and the Introduction of Fiearms to Northwest Alaska, 1791-1930. | |
| 2000 | Lape, Peter |
Contact and Conflict in the Banda Island, Eastern Indonesia, 11th-17th Centuries. |
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2000 |
Lubkemann, Stephen |
Situating Wartime Migrations in Central Mozambique: Gendered Social Struggle and the Transnationalization of Polygyny. |
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2000 |
Touval, Amitai |
A Deposed Elite and the Problem of Accountability: How LeipzigÍs Communist-Era Politicians are Coping Since their Downfall from Power. |
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1999 |
Conlin, David |
The Wind-Made World: The Nautical Geography of theMycenaean Peloponnese |
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1999 |
Upton, Rebecca |
Our Blood Does Not Agree: Negotiating Infertility in Northern Botswana |
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1999 |
Waldbauer, Richard |
Tending the Sacred Fire: The Archaeology of a Rural Ideal |
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1999 |
Wang, Danyu |
Flying from the Nest: Household Formation in a Village in Northeastern China |
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1998 |
Dowd, Anne |
Lithic Procurement and Social Complexity in New York's Hudson River Valley. |
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1998 |
Fridman, Eva J |
Sacred Geography: Shamanism in the Buddhist Republics of Russia |
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1998 |
Veech, Andrew |
Signatures of Gentility: Assessing Status Archaeologically in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Fairfax County, Virginia |
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1997 |
Foster, Joyce P. |
The Role of the Academy in the Construction of Ethnicity Among Black Caribbean Immigrants in the Urban United States: An Ethnographic Account of Commonwealth State College |
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1997 |
Malefyt, Timothy |
Gendered Authenticity: the Invention of Flamenco Tradition in Seville, Spain |
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1997 |
Souza, Donna |
The Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam |
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1996 |
Bouknight-Davis, Gail |
Markers of Ethnicity: A Theoretical Perspective of East Indians in Kingston, Jamaica. |
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1996 |
Kankaanpaa, Jarmo |
Thule Subsistence |
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1996 |
McMullen, Ann |
Culture by Design: Native Identity, Historiography, and the Reclamation of Tradition in Twentieth-Century Southeastern New England |
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1996 |
Odess, Dan |
Interaction, Adaptation, and Culture Change: Lithic Exchange in Dorset Society, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada |
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1996 |
Peterson, Mark |
Writing the Indian Story: Press, Politics and Symbolic Power in India |
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1996 |
Rankama, Tuija |
Prehistoric Riverine Adaptations in Subarctic Finnish Lapland: The Teno River Drainage |
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1996 |
Tieng-Trankul, Chanasai |
Modernity and Motherhood: Women and Employment in a Holy City |
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1995 |
Fitts, Robert |
Inventing New EnglandÍs Slave Paradise: Master/Slave Relations in Eighteenth Century Rhode Island |
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1995 |
Ybaborra, Steven |
Competition and Ethnic Conflict: The Dynamics of Native/Migrant Relations in the Basque Country of Spain |
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1994 |
Goodby, Robert G. |
Style, Meaning, and History: A Contextual Study of 17th Century Native American Ceramics From Southeastern New England. |
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1994 |
Khatib, Maha K. |
Beyond the Mysterious and Exotic: Women of the Emirates (And I) Assess their Lives and Society. |
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1994 |
Msemwa, Paul J. |
An Ethnoarchaeological Study on Shellfish Collecting in a Complex Urban Setting. |
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1993 |
McQuillan, Patrick J. |
'Disneyland in the Jungle': The Myth of Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School. |
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1992 |
Chatterjee, Nilanjana |
Midnight's Unwanted Children: East Bengali Refugees and the Politics of Rehabilitation |
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1992 |
Fetterman, Marilyn H. |
Drought, Cattle Disease, Colonialism and Lokenbe: A Century of Change Among the Pasturalist Didinga, Eastern Equatoria Province, Sudan |
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1992 |
Hayami, Yoko |
Ritual and Religious Transformation Among Sgaw Karen Of Northern Thailand: Implications On Gender and Ethnic Identity |
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1992 |
Lim, Imogene L. |
A Site-Oriented Approach to Rock Art: A Study from Usandawe, Central Tanzania |
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1991 |
Bakewell, Elizabeth A. |
Picturing the Self: Mexican Identity and Artistic Representation, Post-1968 |
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1991 |
Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth |
Landscape as Myth: The Contextual Archaeology of an Annapolis Landscape |
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1991 |
Ragone, Helena |
Surrogate Motherhood in America |
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1991 |
Reed, Susan Anita |
The Trasformation of Dance and Ritual in Sri Lanka |
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1991 |
Symonds, Patricia V. |
Cosmology and the Life Cycle Hmong Views of Birth Death, and Gender in a Mountain Village in Northern Thailand |
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1990 |
Bowen, Joanne Vickie |
A Study of Seasonality and Subsistence Eighteenth-Century Suffield, Connecticut |
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1990 |
Lourie, Kevin J. |
The Negatiation of Orthodoxy: An Etnographic Study of the Assimilation Strategies of Religious Soviet Jewish Immigrants to Israel |
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1990 |
Muncey, Donna E. |
Social Differentiation, Reputation and Return Migration in Eastern Andalucia: A Case Study from Rural Jaen |
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1990 |
Parker, Linda Ann |
The Role of Cultural Traditions in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention: A Native American Study |
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1989 |
Gerlach, S. Craig |
Models of Caribou exploitation, Butchery, and Processing at the Croxton Site, Tukuto Lake, Alaska |
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1989 |
Pate, Frank Donald, Jr. |
Postmortem Chemical Changes in Buried Bone: An Investigation of Environmental Formation Processes at the Roonka Archaeological Site, South Australia. |
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1989 |
Potter, Parker B., Jr. |
Archaeology in Public in Annapolis: An Experiment in the Application of Critical Theory to Historical Archaeology |
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1988 |
Wheelersburg, Robert |
The Interaction of Sami Reindeer Herders with Scandinavian Society and Its Effects on Sami Land and Resource Utilization, Economic Behavior and Settlements in Northern Sweden, 1600-1986 |
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1987 |
Brown, Marley II |
Among Weighty Friends: The Archaeology and Social History of the Jacob Mott Family, Portsmouth, R.I., 1640-1800 |
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1987 |
Magnuson, Douglas K. |
Islamic Reform in Contemporary Tunisia: A Comparative Ethnographic Study |
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1987 |
Mrozowski, Stephen |
The Ethnoarchaeology of Urban Gardening |
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1987 |
Nyce, James M. |
Convention, Power and the Self in German Mennonite Magic |
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1986 |
Ruddick, Abby Cole |
Charmed Lives: Illness, healing, Power and Gender in a Balinese Village |
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1985 |
Becker, Adeline |
The Role of The Public Schools in the Maintenance and Change of Ethnic Group Affiliation |
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1985 |
McKay, Joyce B. |
Architecture as Archaeological Artifact |
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1985 |
McNabb, Steven L. |
Interaction Conventions and the Creation of Stereotypes in Northwest Alaska: An Ethnography of Communication |
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1985 |
Moran, Mary H. |
"Civilized" Women: Gender and Prestige Among the Glebo of Cape Palmas, Liberia |
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1985 |
Szurek, Jane A. |
I'll Have a Collier for My Sweeheart: Work and Gender in a British Coal Mining Town |
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1984 |
Bader, Gail Eileen |
Professionalism and Unionism: Identity in the Workplace |
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1984 |
Johannsen, Christina |
Efforescence and Identity in Iroquis Arts. |
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1984 |
Kerber, Jordan E. |
Prehistoric Human Occupation and Changing Environment of Potowomut Neck, Warwick, R.I.: An Interdisciplinary Approach |
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1984 |
Saggers, Sherry |
Materialism and Archaeological Experimentation: Testing the Exotic Stones Hypothesis in the Central Desert of Australia |
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1984 |
Shields, Renee Rosa |
The Living End: Liminality in an American Nursing Home |
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1984 |
Ueki, Takeshi |
Process of Increasing Social Complexity on Kosrae, Micronesia |
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1983 |
Bray, David Barton |
Dependency, Class Formation and the Creation of Caribbean Labor Reserves: Internal and International Migration in the Dominican Republic |
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1983 |
Conway, John J. |
The Medieval Paradox: Urban Process and the Cultural Structure of Time in Kilkenny City, Ireland |
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1983 |
Groce, Nora E. |
Hereditary Deafness On the Island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: An Ethnohistory of a Genetic Disorder |
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1983 |
Mason, Lillian Zarakov |
Kukakuka, Talking Together: The Living Voices of Hawaii. (special doctoral candidate) |
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1983 |
Robertson, Linda B. |
Achiya Dekyap'bowa: Alliance and Polity in the Development of Cibola. |
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1983 |
Suchitta, Pornchai |
The History and Development of Iron Smelting Technology in Thailand |
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1982 |
Anderson, Patricia |
Reconstructing the Past: The Synthesis of Archaeological and Palynological Data, Northern Alaska and Northwestern Canada |
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1982 |
Goldenberg, David A. |
We Are All Brothers: The Suppression of Consciousness of Socio-economic Differentiation in a Kenya Luo Lineage |
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1982 |
Harris, Betty J. |
Nationalism and Development in Southern Africa: The Case of Lesotho |
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1982 |
Hemwall, Martha K. |
New Wine In an Old Skin: Innovation and Tradition In a School For the Deaf |
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1981 |
Abernathy, Leslie C. III |
Landscape, Communities, and "The Community at Palmers River": Settling a River System |
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1981 |
Babits, Lawrence E. |
Military Documents and Archaeological Sites: Methodological Contributions to Historical Archaeology |
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1981 |
Bartovics, Albert |
The Archaeology of Daniels Village: An Experiment in Settlement Archaeology |
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1981 |
Bragdon, Kathleen |
Another Tongue Brought In: An Ethno-historical Study of the Massachusetts Texts |
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1980 |
Beaudry, Mary Carolyn |
"Or What Else You Please to Call It": Folk Semantic Domains in Early Virginia Probate Inventories |
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1980 |
Yentsch, Anne E. |
Expressions of Cultural Diversity and Social Reality in 17th century New England |
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1979 |
Blanchette, Jean-Francois |
The Role of Artifacts in the Study of Foodways in New France, 1720-1760: Two Case Studies Based on the Analysis of Ceramic Artifacts |
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1979 |
Brown, Ian W. |
Early 18th Century French-Indian Culture Contact in the Yazoo Bluffs Region of the Lower Mississippi Valley |
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1979 |
Dixon, Edward J. Jr. |
A Predictive Model for the Distribution of Archaeological Sites on the Bering Continental Shelf |
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1979 |
Horvath, Steven M. Jr. |
The Social and Political Organization Of the Genizaros Of Plaza de Nuestra Senora de los Dolores de Belen, New Mexico, 1740-1812 |
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1979 |
Lawrence, Elizabeth A. |
The Wild and the Tame: Nature and Culture in American Rodeo |
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1978 |
Brettell, Caroline Bieler |
Hope and Nostlagia: The Migration of Portuguese Women to Paris |
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1978 |
Cabral, Stephen L. |
Portuguese-American Feasting: Tradition and Change in New Bedford, Mass. |
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1978 |
Friedlander, Eva |
Dimensions of Caste, Kinship and Marriage in a New Industrial Town |
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1978 |
Juli, Harold D. |
Ancient Herders of the Negev: A Study in Pastoral Archaeology |
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1978 |
Meintel-Machado, Diedre |
Cape Verdeans-Americans: Their Cultural and Historical Background |
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1977 |
Hickey, Clifford G. |
Process In Pre-History: A Structural Analysis of Eskimo Culture |
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1977 |
Stone, Linda |
Illness, Hierarchy and Food Symbolism in Hindu Nepal |
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1976 |
Lee, Kitchul |
An Attempt at a Radical Ethnography: Fishing for Tuna, Sociality or Zen |
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1976 |
Phillips, James |
Fe Wi Land A Come: Choice and Change on a Jamaican Sugar Plantation |
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1976 |
Sinclair, Karen Gropper |
Maramatanga: Ideology and Social Process Among the Maori of New Zealand |
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1974 |
Allen, Peter S. |
Social and Economic Change in a Depopulated Community in Southern Greece. |
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1973 |
McKean, Philip F. |
Tourism in Paradise: Anthropological Perspectives on Socio-Economic Change and Culture Conservation in Bali, Indonesia |
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1972 |
Wyatt, David J. |
The Indian History of Nicola Valley, British Columbia |