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M.A. Theses 1962-2007

2007 Ashley, Jennifer Mediating Fear: Discourses on Crime in Santiago, Chile.
2007 Barry, Rebekah Callard The Appropriation of Culture in a U.S. Military Context: An Ethnographic Case Study.
2007 Bethea, Indigo Journey to Motherhood.
2007 DeLair, Christy Performing Tradition: The Negotiation of a Pan-ethnic Community in Miss Indian World.
2007 Maldonado, Andrea A Members' Only Community: Distinction and Performance of Self and Other within Social Clubs in Mexico City.
2007 Peters, Rebecca Amanda Warne A Life's Work: The Production of International Development through the Professional Career.
2007 Solomon, Harris Brand Icon: Medical Tourism in India.
2006 Judd, Maya A Woman Without a Child Is No Woman At All Coping with Infertility in Southern Nigeria.
2006 Mazzarino, Andrea Landscapes for Sexuality for Urban Russian Women.
2006 Mesick, Cassandra The Modification of Maya Monuments: Towards a Local Theory of Sculpural Ontology.
2006 Millar, Kathleen Recycling Class: Politics of the Informal Economy at a Brazilian Garbage Dump.
2006 Soroko, Jennifer Water at The Intersection of Militarization, Development, and Democracy on Kwajalein Atoll, In the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
2006 Werner, Allison A Category Apart: Race, Identity and Assimilation Among Dominican Migrants in Washington, DC.
2005 Bocast, Brooke Debating the Educated Body: Gender, Discourse and Pedagogy in an Abayudayan Village.
2005 Dion, Sarah Consumer Choice: Findings from the W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite.
2005 Flores, Gabriel Medical Pluralism and Identity Among the Napo Runa of Ecuador.
2005 Meyers, Rebecca The Gendered and Ethnic Politics of Security in Tijuana, Mexico.
2005 Rhine, Kathryn Marriage and Reproduction Following HIV-positive Diagnoses Among Hausa Women.
2004 Prahl, Rebecca Unconventionalists: "Dreaming It" at the Rocky Horror Picture Show
2004 Reiser, Christine Safeguarding the 'Mint": Analysis of the Fort Island Collection in Comparative Perspective.
2003 Chattopadhyay, Sreeparna Rakta Ebong Biye: Blood and Marriage-Examing the relationship between arranged marriages and a Thalassemia Prevention program in West Bengal, India.
2003 Gohacki, Brian The Archaeology of the Steamship Omeo 1858-Present.
2003 Hoover, Elizabeth
Arbiters of Authenticity: Living History in Native American Museums.
2003 Whitehouse, Bruce

Staying Soninke: Migration, Multilocality and Identity in a Community of the
West African Sahel.

2002 Archambault, Caroline "A World of Women" Constraints and Opportunities of Rural "Stayers" in Ugweno, Tanzania.
2002 Koriouchkina, Elisaveta The Russians Are Leaving? Notions of Identity in the Context of Out-Migration of Russians from Kazakhstan.
2002 McMillan, Angela

African American Heritage Tours in Dakar, Senegal: Authenticity, Contradictions, and Diasporic Connections.

2001 Andrews, Barbara Migration Over the Life Course: Gender, Generation and Status Change in Afia, Senegal.
2001 Brunson, Jan Women's use of contraceptives in the Kathmandu Valley: Enduring side effects and strategizing fertility
2001 Esara, Pilapa "By and By" - Enacting Mobility, Experiencing Change
2001 Krehbiel, Susi Funga Kabisa and Hamna Athari: Permanency and Side-Effects Considering Female Sterilization and Contraceptive Choice Among the Pare in Ugweno, Tanzania.
2001 Leichtman, Mara From the Cross and Crescent to the Cedar: The Transformation of Religious Identities Among the Lebanese of Senegal
2001 Poliandri, Simone Mi'Kmaw Lobster Fishing in St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia: A Traditional Activity?
2001 Rosenmeier, Leah Economics of Subsistence or Exchange? Examining Production Among 18th Century Labrador Inuit.
2000 Roberston, Molly Migration and Marginalization: Health Knowledge and Practice in Garca Torta, Brazil
2000 Thompson, Dondrea The Politics of Display or the Display of Politics? Cultural Policy and the Museum of Dominican Man
1999 Bergstresser, Sara Young Adulthood and Life Choices for Women in South Korea
1999 Giaquinto, Elisa "Com 'Un Abbracio' Like an Embrace: The Walls of Buonconvento."
1999 Moyer, Natalie Kilmainham Gaol and Museum: A Monument to Irish Nationalism
1999 Rogers, Juliette The Current Middle Ages: The Selective World of Authenticity in the Society for Creative Anchronism
1998 Castellanos, Erick Il Campanile, la Nutella e l'Europa: Bolognese Identity in the Face of Immigration
1998 Karz, Sara The Change in Color of "Colorless" Glass at the Great Temple, Petra, Jordan
1998 Lang, Franklin Delano Witchcraft Beliefs Among the Ashanti: A Dynamic Form of Social Control
1997 DiCarlo, Lisa Honor and the Asymmetrical Efficiency of the Turkish Migration Network.
1997 Holly, Donald H. Jr. Revisiting Marginality: Settlement Patterns on the Island of Newfoundland
1997 Moniz, Miguel "Todos os Americanos sao Malucos" and "we are all Portuguese" Touradas, Forcados and festas - The creation of inferential intimacy through conceptions of ethnicity within the context of the Azorean Diaspora.
1996 Barrett, Deirdre G. How can the ceramic analysis of lamps reveal the fingerprint of Empire on the material culture of the Southern Temple, Petra, Jordan?
1996 Bonander, Jason Being a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner: Notes on the Constructing of Professional Identity and Practice in Belize
1996 Feldman, Aimee Social Nudism: Refashioning Naked Bodies
1996 Garcia, Maria E Cebiche, Penas and Chicha Morada: Food, Music and the Creation and Negotiation of Identity in a Peruvian Immigrant Community
1996 Harper, Walter An Anthropological Investigation of African-American Adolescent Male Parents in the South Providence Community of Providence, RI
1996 Hartley, Jennifer A. You Are What You Eat: The Food-Health Connection Model in a Maine Community
1996 Hrychuck, Beth The Archaeology of the Baptiste Settlement Site: Reconstructing Twentieth Century Metis Lifeways in Alberta
1996 Lanzendorf, Brenda The Grounding and Abandonment of the Maria Louisa: A Behaviorist Approach
1996 Rodrigues, Isabel Feo Homes for the Road: Resettlement of a Shantytown in Portugal
1996 Roy, Andrew Ivan Tattooing Against the Norm: Stereotype, Solidarity, and Choice in American Tattooed Identity
1996 Sullivan, Celeste Implications of Two Dialects of Old Egyptian in the Pyramid Texts
1996 Zafiroglu, Alexandra Remodeling the MainstreamÍs Adolescent: Straight Edge Attitudes, Practices and Identity
1995 Allen, Scott Africanisms, Mosaics, and Creativity: The Historical Archaeology of Palmares
1995 Fernando, Rolando Industrialization, Food Systems, and the Transformation of the Filipino Family
1995 Moser, Brigitte The Survival of the Fittest? An Ethnohistorical Study of the Last Commercial Fishing Fleet in the State of Connecticut
1995 Wang, Danyu Family, Kinship and Networks of Migration: A Study of a Migrant Community in Beijing
1994 Barnard, Suzanne N. Imagined Communities in Puerto Rico: The Strategy of Covert Nationalism
1994 Conlin, David L. The Loggerhead Reef Ship Trap: Maritime Site Formation Processes on DRTO-036 and Beyond
1994 Crane, Hillary, K. Spiritualizing Marianismo: The Virgin Mary as a Symbol of Religious Inversion for Filipinas in the United States
1994 Lubkemann, Stephen C. Contested Identities: The Narrative Construction of Refugee Identity in Portugal in the Wake of Decolonization
1994 Ramirez, Josue The Artist and the City: Gentrification and Multiculturalism in the East Village.
1994 Upton, Rebecca Making Ends Meet: Networks and Family Among Women of Color in New Orleans
1993 Hill, Nancy Discourse Strategies of the Egyptian Women's Health Collective in Hayat al mar'a wa-shihatuha
1993 Odess, Daniel Lithic Raw Material Exchange Among Frobisher Bay Paleoeskimos: Building a Model of Regional Contact and Interaction
1993 Touval, Amitai A Question of Character: Israeli Residents of Boston
1993 Veech, Andrew Material Expressions of Chieftainship During LaFlorida's Mission Period: An Analysis of Franciscan Mission Sites
1993 Velovski, Tony Living Together with AIDS: Identity Work in Social Context
1992 Busby, Virginia An Archaeological Examination of Occupational Phases in 17th Century Chapel Field St. Mary's City, Maryland
1992 Chase-Alexander, Sarah "BAD" is Better: An Analysis of the Learning & Conception of Self
1992 Esons, Susan Narrating Identity: Indians, Children and Anthropology
1992 Foster, Joyce The Blending of Black: Different Ethnicities Selecting a Shared and/or Distinctive Identity in the United States
1992 Hall, Catharine K. Hunters & Harvesters: Adaptive Strategies Among the Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay
1992 Kingsbury, Mary Beth Hospice Care: Negotiation for a Domain of Care Within a Discourse of Hope
1992 Soman, Kanchan L. "Traditional Fabric, Modern Times": A Study of the Values of Handloom Cloth in India With Special Reference to Ikat Production at Koyalaguddam in the Post-colonial Context
1991 Bouknight, Gail A. A Study in the Chinese Retail Grocery Trade and Its Impact Upon Chinese Ethnicity and Sino-Jamaican Relations
1991 Cheung, Donna Y. Invisible Autonomy: Women, Aids Prevention, and the Struggle of Meanings
1991 Choi, Kildo Experimental Analysis of the Backel Blades From Star Carr Site
1991 Fish, Steven T. Development, Power and the Peace Corps
1991 Malefyt, Timothy D. The Social Construction of Self in Dance: An Ethnography of the Dancers of Ballet Hispanico
1991 Rosen, Rochelle K. "Is it Real?" The Representation of the Other in an Anthropology Museum Education Program
1991 Souza, Donna J. An Archaeological Survey of a 19th Century Shipwreck
1990 Khatib, Maha K. The Role Played by Honour in Shaping the Conduct of Palestinian Women in the United States
1990 McMullen, Ann Rereading and Rewriting the Past: Toward an Historic Ethnography of the Etchemin
1990 Stevens, Alta Mae Hallelujah and Amen!
1990 Tieng-Trakul, Chanasai Equality Under the Eyes of God
1989 Fitts, Robert K. Puritans, Yankees, and Gravestones A Linguistic Analysis of New England Gravestone Inscriptions
1989 Kim, Hyunchul The Controlling Hands in Corporation: The Van Scoy Case
1989 Kim, Tongwey I am the Other?
1989 Larson, Mary Ann An Interpretation of the Band 3, Level 2 Choris House at the Site of Onion Portage, Alaska
1989 Murphy, Larry E. SSL17: Natural Site Formation processes of a Multiple-Component Underwater Site in Florida
1989 Niver, William Michael Grist Mills and the Theory of Agglomeration
1988 Anderson, Kenneth Thomas An Ethnography of Communication Approach to Electronic Mail in a Computer Science Department
1988 Chami, Felix A. The Coastal Iron Age Site in Kirsarawe Tanzania
1988 Goodby, Robert G. The Seabrook Phase and Post-Hopewillian Interaction in the Northeast
1988 Kusel, Lisa G. B-Flat on the Mall: Street Musicians as a Reference Group
1988 Kyara, Onesphor A. Raw Material Considerations as Deteminants of Pleistocene Stone Tool Variation in Africa
1988 Matteru, Elikunda Pre-Portuguese Contact along the coast of Tanzania: A Discourse
1988 McClard, Anne Page Becoming Butterflies: The Mediation of Paradox at Paradise Street Theater
1988 Titterington, Patrice An Historical and Archaeological Perspective on Community Decline and Abandonment: Dogtown, MA.
1987 Alaug, Abdul Karim S. Motives for Migration and Structural-cultural Assimilation: The Yemeni Immigrant Community in Detroit, Michigan
1987 Chatterjee, Nilanjana Defining the Self: Bihari Doms in Calcutta
1987 Finn, Leila P. Change in an American order of Catholic Nuns: The Sisters of Mercy of the Union
1987 Hodge, Laura Q. Womens' Roles and Migration Strategies
1987 Hsieh, Camilla Staying Buddhist Or Turning Christian
1987 Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth The Jireh Bull Site Reanalyzed. The Formation of a Seventeenth Century Frontier
1987 Newman, David D. Culture Contact in 17th Century Souteastern New England: An Ethnohistorical and Material Culture Analysis
1987 Ragone, Helena The Differential Impact of AIDS on Gay Male Lifestyle
1987 Robinson, Brian S. Middle Archaic Mortuary Evidence and a Proposed Chronological Sequence for the Northeast Coastal Archaic Tradition
1987 Ybarrola, Steven Intermarriage Assimilation, and Ethnicity Maintenance: A Basque American Case Study
1986 Hoffmann, Mary Ann Mugangala: The Structure of an Enanga Epic
1986 Lourie, Kevin J. On the Contradictions of Working Class Drug Subscultures: A Comparative Ethnography
1986 Msemwa, Paul J. Pattern Recognition: Some Reflections on Lithic Use From Paleo-Indian Sites of New England
1986 Parker, Linda Ann The Providence Black Community in Early 19th Century: A Problem in Archaeological Visibility
1986 Reinhardt-Brophy, Kristen Tuluata and the Maupua Adze Quarry: The Lithic Manufacturing Center of Samoa
1985 Adams, Virginia H. Individual Agrarian Economic Strategies: Exchange in Eighteenth Century Rehoboth, Massachusetts
1985 Busby, Annette C. The Development and Maintenance of Kurdish Ethnic Identity among Kurdish Immigrants in Sweden
1985 Loparto, Leonard V. A Preliminary Observation on Behalf of a Revised View of the Expansion of the Susquehanna Tradition into Southeastern New England and the Coexistence of the Coburn and Orient Phases
1985 Wheelersburg, Robert The Development of Fort Ancient Through an Archaeo-botanical Analysis of the State Line Site, Ohio
1985 Zacks, Sarah An 18th Century Plantation Support Structure on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat
1984 Harrington, Peter Museum Studies (NO PAPER NEEDED)
1984 Kavanagh, Nancy E. Through the Safety Net: Urban Homeless Women
1984 Pate, Frank Donald, Jr. Mortuary Practices & Paleodiet as Archaeological Signatures of Social Organization & Status at Roonka on the Lower Murray River of So. Australia