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2007 Archambault, Caroline

"Education is the Song of the Day": School in Maasai Society and Economy.

2007 Chattopadhyay, Sreeparna

Interrogating Violence: Uncovering Silences-Investigating Marital Violence in India.

2007 Esara, Pilapa Changing Marriage, Changing Thai Society: Contradictions of Gender, Class, and Identity in an Era of Globalization.
2007 Howell, Angela McMillan

Not Just 'Down Yonder': Growing up Black in Rural Alabama.

2007 Poliandri, Simone

Identity Dynamics in the Mi'Kmaw Reserves of Nova Scotia, Canada.

2007 Searles, Donna B.

Medicalizing Motherhood: San Carlos Apache Women and Birth.

2007 Stein, Ninian

Abstract for: Native Peoples, Subsistence, and Cultural Identity in Late Woodland and Early Contact Period Southern New England.

2007 Whitehouse, Bruce Exile Knows No Dignity: African Transnational Migrants and the Anchoring of Identity.
2006 Harper, Walter Jr. Educational and Social Worlds in Context: An Anthropological Study of an Urban Elementary School Fifth Grade Classroom.

2006

Leichtman, Mara A Tale of Two Shi'isms: Lebanese Migrants and Senegalese Converts in Dakar.
2005 Barrett, Deirdre The Ceramic Oil Lamp as an Indicator of Cultural Change Within Nabataean Society in Petra and its Environs Circa CE 106.
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.
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.
2004 Alexander-Chase, Sarah

The Gender of Excellence: Symbols & Strategies Among Adolescents at a New England Preparatory School.

2004 Bergstresser, Sara

Therapies of the Mundane: Community Mental Health Care and Everyday Life in an Italian Town.

2004

Castellanos, Erick

Alarming Hoards and Ideological Masses: The Impact of Immigrants on the Definition of Community and Society in Bergamo Italy.

2004 Hartley, Jennifer Balancing Acts: Understanding Women’s Attitudes Toward Food.
2004 Larson, Mary Ann

The Evolution of the Qalgi in Post-Epidemic Point Hope.

2004 Moniz, Miguel

Strangers in Their Own Land: Criminal Deportee Forced Return Migrants and Transnational Identity, the Azorean Example.

2004 Reid, Sara Karz The Small Temple: A Roman Imperial Cult Building in Petra, Jordan.
2004 Zafiroglu, Alexandra

From Teleland to Information Society: Swedish Society and Mobile Telephony at the Turn of the Century.

2002 Holly, Donald H. From Space to Place: An Archaeology and Historical Geography of the Recent Indian Period in Newfoundland.
2002 Hunter, Charlotte The C-Shaped Structures of Haleakaka National Park: Vernacular Architecture in the Hawaiian Islands.
2002 Patterson, Susan P. Movers and Shakers: Spirit and Power in Native Northwestern California.
2002 Ramirez, Josue Against Machismo: Young Adult Voices in Mexico City.
2002 Rodrigues, Isabel Crafting Nation and Creolization in the Islands of Cape Verde.
2002 Rosen, Rochelle K. An Anthropological Perspective on Vaginal Microbicide Research.
2001 Allen, Scott J. Zumbi Nunca Vai Morrer History, The Practice of Archaeology, and Race Politics in Brazil.
2001 Crane, Hillary Men in Spirit: The Masculinization of Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns.
2001 DiCarlo, Lisa Migration and Identity Among Black Sea Turks.
2001 Garcia, Maria E. To Be Quechua Is To Belong: Citizenship, Identity, and Intercultural Bilingual Education in Cuzco, Peru.
2001 Robinson, Brian Burial Ritual, Groups, and Boundaries on the Gulf of Maine: 8600-3800 B.P.
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.
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.
2000 Lubkemann, Stephen Situating Wartime Migrations in Central Mozambique: Gendered Social Struggle and the Transnationalization of Polygyny.
2000 Touval, Amitai A Deposed Elite and the Problem of Accountability: How LeipzigÍs Communist-Era Politicians are Coping Since their Downfall from Power.
1999 Conlin, David The Wind-Made World: The Nautical Geography of theMycenaean Peloponnese
1999 Upton, Rebecca Our Blood Does Not Agree: Negotiating Infertility in Northern Botswana
1999 Waldbauer, Richard Tending the Sacred Fire: The Archaeology of a Rural Ideal
1999 Wang, Danyu Flying from the Nest: Household Formation in a Village in Northeastern China
1998 Dowd, Anne Lithic Procurement and Social Complexity in New York's Hudson River Valley.
1998 Fridman, Eva J Sacred Geography: Shamanism in the Buddhist Republics of Russia
1998 Veech, Andrew Signatures of Gentility: Assessing Status Archaeologically in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Fairfax County, Virginia
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
1997 Malefyt, Timothy Gendered Authenticity: the Invention of Flamenco Tradition in Seville, Spain
1997 Souza, Donna The Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam
1996 Bouknight-Davis, Gail Markers of Ethnicity: A Theoretical Perspective of East Indians in Kingston, Jamaica.
1996 Kankaanpaa, Jarmo Thule Subsistence
1996 McMullen, Ann Culture by Design: Native Identity, Historiography, and the Reclamation of Tradition in Twentieth-Century Southeastern New England
1996 Odess, Dan Interaction, Adaptation, and Culture Change: Lithic Exchange in Dorset Society, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada
1996 Peterson, Mark Writing the Indian Story: Press, Politics and Symbolic Power in India
1996 Rankama, Tuija Prehistoric Riverine Adaptations in Subarctic Finnish Lapland: The Teno River Drainage
1996 Tieng-Trankul, Chanasai Modernity and Motherhood: Women and Employment in a Holy City
1995 Fitts, Robert Inventing New EnglandÍs Slave Paradise: Master/Slave Relations in Eighteenth Century Rhode Island
1995 Ybaborra, Steven Competition and Ethnic Conflict: The Dynamics of Native/Migrant Relations in the Basque Country of Spain
1994 Goodby, Robert G. Style, Meaning, and History: A Contextual Study of 17th Century Native American Ceramics From Southeastern New England.
1994 Khatib, Maha K. Beyond the Mysterious and Exotic: Women of the Emirates (And I) Assess their Lives and Society.
1994 Msemwa, Paul J. An Ethnoarchaeological Study on Shellfish Collecting in a Complex Urban Setting.
1993 McQuillan, Patrick J. 'Disneyland in the Jungle': The Myth of Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School.
1992 Chatterjee, Nilanjana Midnight's Unwanted Children: East Bengali Refugees and the Politics of Rehabilitation
1992 Fetterman, Marilyn H. Drought, Cattle Disease, Colonialism and Lokenbe: A Century of Change Among the Pasturalist Didinga, Eastern Equatoria Province, Sudan
1992 Hayami, Yoko Ritual and Religious Transformation Among Sgaw Karen Of Northern Thailand: Implications On Gender and Ethnic Identity
1992 Lim, Imogene L. A Site-Oriented Approach to Rock Art: A Study from Usandawe, Central Tanzania
1991 Bakewell, Elizabeth A. Picturing the Self: Mexican Identity and Artistic Representation, Post-1968
1991 Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth Landscape as Myth: The Contextual Archaeology of an Annapolis Landscape
1991 Ragone, Helena Surrogate Motherhood in America
1991 Reed, Susan Anita The Trasformation of Dance and Ritual in Sri Lanka
1991 Symonds, Patricia V. Cosmology and the Life Cycle Hmong Views of Birth Death, and Gender in a Mountain Village in Northern Thailand
1990 Bowen, Joanne Vickie A Study of Seasonality and Subsistence Eighteenth-Century Suffield, Connecticut
1990 Lourie, Kevin J. The Negatiation of Orthodoxy: An Etnographic Study of the Assimilation Strategies of Religious Soviet Jewish Immigrants to Israel
1990 Muncey, Donna E. Social Differentiation, Reputation and Return Migration in Eastern Andalucia: A Case Study from Rural Jaen
1990 Parker, Linda Ann The Role of Cultural Traditions in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention: A Native American Study
1989 Gerlach, S. Craig Models of Caribou exploitation, Butchery, and Processing at the Croxton Site, Tukuto Lake, Alaska
1989 Pate, Frank Donald, Jr. Postmortem Chemical Changes in Buried Bone: An Investigation of Environmental Formation Processes at the Roonka Archaeological Site, South Australia.
1989 Potter, Parker B., Jr. Archaeology in Public in Annapolis: An Experiment in the Application of Critical Theory to Historical Archaeology
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
1987 Brown, Marley II Among Weighty Friends: The Archaeology and Social History of the Jacob Mott Family, Portsmouth, R.I., 1640-1800
1987 Magnuson, Douglas K. Islamic Reform in Contemporary Tunisia: A Comparative Ethnographic Study
1987 Mrozowski, Stephen The Ethnoarchaeology of Urban Gardening
1987 Nyce, James M. Convention, Power and the Self in German Mennonite Magic
1986 Ruddick, Abby Cole Charmed Lives: Illness, healing, Power and Gender in a Balinese Village
1985 Becker, Adeline The Role of The Public Schools in the Maintenance and Change of Ethnic Group Affiliation
1985 McKay, Joyce B. Architecture as Archaeological Artifact
1985 McNabb, Steven L. Interaction Conventions and the Creation of Stereotypes in Northwest Alaska: An Ethnography of Communication
1985 Moran, Mary H. "Civilized" Women: Gender and Prestige Among the Glebo of Cape Palmas, Liberia
1985 Szurek, Jane A. I'll Have a Collier for My Sweeheart: Work and Gender in a British Coal Mining Town
1984 Bader, Gail Eileen Professionalism and Unionism: Identity in the Workplace
1984 Johannsen, Christina Efforescence and Identity in Iroquis Arts.
1984 Kerber, Jordan E. Prehistoric Human Occupation and Changing Environment of Potowomut Neck, Warwick, R.I.: An Interdisciplinary Approach
1984 Saggers, Sherry Materialism and Archaeological Experimentation: Testing the Exotic Stones Hypothesis in the Central Desert of Australia
1984 Shields, Renee Rosa The Living End: Liminality in an American Nursing Home
1984 Ueki, Takeshi Process of Increasing Social Complexity on Kosrae, Micronesia
1983 Bray, David Barton Dependency, Class Formation and the Creation of Caribbean Labor Reserves: Internal and International Migration in the Dominican Republic
1983 Conway, John J. The Medieval Paradox: Urban Process and the Cultural Structure of Time in Kilkenny City, Ireland
1983 Groce, Nora E. Hereditary Deafness On the Island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: An Ethnohistory of a Genetic Disorder
1983 Mason, Lillian Zarakov Kukakuka, Talking Together: The Living Voices of Hawaii. (special doctoral candidate)
1983 Robertson, Linda B. Achiya Dekyap'bowa: Alliance and Polity in the Development of Cibola.
1983 Suchitta, Pornchai The History and Development of Iron Smelting Technology in Thailand
1982 Anderson, Patricia Reconstructing the Past: The Synthesis of Archaeological and Palynological Data, Northern Alaska and Northwestern Canada
1982 Goldenberg, David A. We Are All Brothers: The Suppression of Consciousness of Socio-economic Differentiation in a Kenya Luo Lineage
1982 Harris, Betty J. Nationalism and Development in Southern Africa: The Case of Lesotho
1982 Hemwall, Martha K. New Wine In an Old Skin: Innovation and Tradition In a School For the Deaf
1981 Abernathy, Leslie C. III Landscape, Communities, and "The Community at Palmers River": Settling a River System
1981 Babits, Lawrence E. Military Documents and Archaeological Sites: Methodological Contributions to Historical Archaeology
1981 Bartovics, Albert The Archaeology of Daniels Village: An Experiment in Settlement Archaeology
1981 Bragdon, Kathleen Another Tongue Brought In: An Ethno-historical Study of the Massachusetts Texts
1980 Beaudry, Mary Carolyn "Or What Else You Please to Call It": Folk Semantic Domains in Early Virginia Probate Inventories
1980 Yentsch, Anne E. Expressions of Cultural Diversity and Social Reality in 17th century New England
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
1979 Brown, Ian W. Early 18th Century French-Indian Culture Contact in the Yazoo Bluffs Region of the Lower Mississippi Valley
1979 Dixon, Edward J. Jr. A Predictive Model for the Distribution of Archaeological Sites on the Bering Continental Shelf
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
1979 Lawrence, Elizabeth A. The Wild and the Tame: Nature and Culture in American Rodeo
1978 Brettell, Caroline Bieler Hope and Nostlagia: The Migration of Portuguese Women to Paris
1978 Cabral, Stephen L. Portuguese-American Feasting: Tradition and Change in New Bedford, Mass.
1978 Friedlander, Eva Dimensions of Caste, Kinship and Marriage in a New Industrial Town
1978 Juli, Harold D. Ancient Herders of the Negev: A Study in Pastoral Archaeology
1978 Meintel-Machado, Diedre Cape Verdeans-Americans: Their Cultural and Historical Background
1977 Hickey, Clifford G. Process In Pre-History: A Structural Analysis of Eskimo Culture
1977 Stone, Linda Illness, Hierarchy and Food Symbolism in Hindu Nepal
1976 Lee, Kitchul An Attempt at a Radical Ethnography: Fishing for Tuna, Sociality or Zen
1976 Phillips, James Fe Wi Land A Come: Choice and Change on a Jamaican Sugar Plantation
1976 Sinclair, Karen Gropper Maramatanga: Ideology and Social Process Among the Maori of New Zealand
1974 Allen, Peter S. Social and Economic Change in a Depopulated Community in Southern Greece.
1973 McKean, Philip F. Tourism in Paradise: Anthropological Perspectives on Socio-Economic Change and Culture Conservation in Bali, Indonesia
1972 Wyatt, David J. The Indian History of Nicola Valley, British Columbia