Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Cultural anthropology"
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21st Century Bricoleurs: Remaking Rural Japan
(2021-07-15)Isumi lacks the trappings that are often associated with ‘a city’. No high-rises adorn its skyline, no central business district hums 24/7 with energy generated by foot traffic and commerce, and no cultural hub serves as ... -
African Migrants & Pentecostal World-Making in South Africa
(2022-05-10)This dissertation examines the intersections between African migrant journeys and Pentecostal Christianity in contemporary South Africa. We live in a world ever more in motion, with more international migrants and refugees ... -
After-Taste
(2013-08-09)This dissertation investigates the symbolic uses of food in twentieth-century America using, as case studies, major works by Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, W.H. Auden, and Wallace Stevens. By incorporating different literary ... -
An Anthropology of the Iranian Film Industry: The making of The Willow Tree
(2014-10-21)This dissertation offers a detailed empirical study of a film industry by closely following the industrial process involved in the making of an Iranian feature length film, The Willow Tree (dir. Majid Majidi, 2005). What ... -
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 ... -
Black, Boricua and Online: Afro-Puerto Rican Feminist Movement Building Online and on the Island
(2022-06-06)Black, Boricua and Online: Afro-Puerto Rican Feminist Movement Building Online and on the Island follows the on and offline works of contemporary Black Puerto Rican feminist movements and movement builders that center ... -
C/Harm City: The Drama of the Baltimore Street in Three Acts
(2021-09-09)This is an ethnography of homicide and its effects in inner-city Baltimore based on over 14 months of fieldwork in the city, much of it in support groups, at community meetings, candlelight vigils, on street corners, and ... -
Clearing Space: Postapartheid liberalism and the evolution of spatial segregation in Johannesburg’s new urban enclaves
(2023-03-14)This study is based on 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Dainfern Golf & Residential Estate and among gated community industry professionals in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is broadly concerned with how the hard ... -
Co-Producing Futures: The Making of “Hollywood’s” Apocalyptic Aesthetic in South Africa
(2021-09-08)This dissertation explores the presence of “global Hollywood” in South Africa and the social worlds of the Western Cape’s film-service economy; a significant segment of South Africa’s film industry that facilitates the ... -
Complex Care: Health, Bureaucracy, and Neo-Welfarism in Los Angeles County
(2021-07-12)Over the past 20 years, healthcare organizations in the United States have focused increasing attention on controlling costs by providing extra services and support to “the sickest and most marginalized” patients. While ... -
Continuities of Change: Conversion and Convertibility in Northern Mozambique
(2014-10-21)Recent scholarship on Africa gives the impression of a singular narrative regarding Pentecostalism, that of inexorable rise. Indisputably, Pentecostalism's "explosion" throughout the global South is one of today's more ... -
Dangerous Encounters: Riots, Railways, and the Politics of Difference in French Public Space (1860-2012)
(2013-09-26)This dissertation builds a socio-cultural biography of Paris's Gare du Nord, Europe's largest railway station, from its transnational aims to connect Europe in the nineteenth century, to early twentieth century strikes, ... -
Déjala Correr: The Sonic Infrastructure of Sociality on Colombia's Caribbean Coast
(2023-09-07)This dissertation centers on the city of Barranquilla, Colombia, located on the country's northern Caribbean Coast, and the musical technologies that are ubiquitous sites of entertainment, musical interest, and social ... -
Elemental Mediations: Art, Cinema, and Performance in Contemporary China
(2022-05-20)Elemental Mediations is an ethnographic study of artists who work in the fields of popular performance, independent cinema, and contemporary art in China. Drawing on two years of fieldwork, I use the concept of “elemental ... -
Food after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines questions of citizenship and risk after the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. I argue that for sectors of the population concerned with the health effects of radiation exposure, the disaster ... -
Forging Steel: Schools, Success, and the Making of Persons in a Chinese County Seat
(2014-02-25)This dissertation addresses the question of how teenagers are educated for success in Chinese schools. Drawing upon 16 months of fieldwork in a county-level town located in northwest China (Shaanxi Province), this study ... -
Governance and Marginality: Politics of Belonging, Citizenship, and Claim-Making in the Muslim Neighborhoods of Mumbai
(2013-03-14)This dissertation analyzes how governance and community-based politics of claims in marginalized Muslim neighborhoods of Mumbai are continually reconfigured in relation to one another. By tracing this relationship, I ... -
Guerrilla Marketing: Information War and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels
(2014-06-06)According to the Colombian Ministry of Defense nearly 17,000 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) demobilized between 2003 and 2013, this dissertation examines the way the Colombian states uses ... -
Honor and Shame in the Deuteronomic Covenant and the Deuteronomistic Presentation of the Davidic Covenant
(2013-09-30)The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the semantics of honor and shame in the Hebrew Bible and to demonstrate how these social values intersect with Israel's fundamental social organizing principle, covenant. ... -
Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia
(2013-03-18)In “Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia,” I examine the humanitarian involvement in Aceh, Indonesia following two momentous events in Aceh’s history: the earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004 and ...