Browsing by FAS Department "Anthropology"
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The Archaeology of the Pueblo Revolt and the Formation of the Modern Pueblo World
(Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, 2007)The Pueblo Revolt and its aftermath (AD 1680-1696) was a crucial period in the history of the American Southwest. Previous studies of this era have focused primarily on the causes of the Revolt, often casting it as an ... -
The Architecture and Pottery of a Late 3rd Millennium BC Residential Quarter at Tell Hamoukar, Northeastern Syria
(British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2011)The 2001 excavations in Area H on Hamoukar’s lower town produced a wealth of information on a residential neighbourhood of a late third-millennium BC city. The excavations were intended to address several issues, including ... -
Arrested Autonomy: An Ethnography of Orangutan Rehabilitation
(2013-02-12)This dissertation is an ethnographic study about ecological displacement, affective encounters, the work of care, and human and animal subjectivities involved in rehabilitating endangered orangutans in Sarawak, Malaysia. ... -
The art of medicine: caring for memories
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Association Patterns Among Wild Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes Schweinfurthii) Reflect Sex Differences in Cooperation
(Springer Verlag, 2008)Theory predicts that frequent dyadic association should promote cooperation through kin selection or social tolerance. Here we test the hypothesis that sex differences in the strength and stability of association preferences ... -
At the Mouth of the Wolf: The Archaeology of Seventeenth-Century Franciscans in the Jemez Valley of New Mexico
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Automated Classification of Starch Granules Using Supervised Pattern Recognition of Morphological Properties
(Elsevier, 2010)Image analysis techniques have been used to investigate the likelihood of being able to classify and assign a probability regarding the plant origin of individual starch granules in a collection of granules. Quantifiable ... -
Bad Biocitizens?: Latinos and the US "Obesity Epidemic"
(Society for Applied Anthropology, 2014)For years now, the United States has faced an “obesity epidemic” that, according to the dominant narrative, is harming the nation by worsening the health burden, raising health costs, and undermining productivity. Much of ... -
Basic Kinship Terms: Christian Relations, Chronotopic Formulations, and a Korean Confrontation of Language
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)This ethnographic analysis of the pragmatic links among forms of address, honorifics, and narratives of spiritual maturity clarifies a conflict between two Christian models of social change in South Korea: absolute social ... -
The Battle of Astialakwa: Conflict Archaeology of the Spanish Reconquest in Northern New Mexico
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Be-Longing: Fatanis in Makkah and Jawi
(2013-09-24)This dissertation is a study about belonging among the Fatanis who are caught between two places, namely Makkah and Jawi. Using historical and ethnographic data collected during two years of transnational fieldwork in Saudi ... -
Bear in Mind: Bear Hunting in the Mesolithic of the Southern Caucasus
(Elsevier, 2009)We present new faunal data from Kotias Klde rockshelter, Republic of Georgia, where a substantial part of the faunalv assemblage consists of brown bear remains (Ursus arctos) found in clear association with Mesolithic ... -
Beauty: In the gonads of the beholder — and the beheld
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Becoming Euro-Mediterranean: Reframing Urban Space and Identity in Southern France
(2016-05-16)This dissertation analyzes how changes in infrastructure interact with cultural programming and rhetoric in a multi-faceted urban redevelopment project by examining social interactions, physical construction, and symbolic ... -
The Biologistical Construction of Race: "Admixture" Technology and the New Genetic Medicine
(Sage Publications, 2008)This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two interconnected laboratories of medical genetics. Specifically, it examines how researchers committed to reducing health disparities in Latinos with ... -
The Biomechanics and Evolution of High-Speed Throwing
(2012-10-31)Throwing with power and accuracy is a uniquely human behavior and a potentially important mode of early hunting. Chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, do occasionally throw, although with much less velocity. At some ... -
Body fat, energy balance and estradiol levels: a study based on hormonal profiles from complete menstrual cycles
(Oxford University Press, 2008)BACKGROUND: Female fecundity is regulated by nutritional status. Although widely cited, this hypothesis is not strongly supported by empirical data from non-obese, healthy women of reproductive age. METHODS: Healthy, ... -
A bottleneck in the plenum
(HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2016)