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Fall 2019

Companiytsev, Nicole V

Storytelling is an essential part of our experience as human beings. We turn to narrative to explain our own lives – casting ourselves as protagonists, others as secondary characters and antagonists, and the myriad of events that happen to us as a coherent, linear story. Fiction and metaphor are...

Spring 2015

Highet, Megan J.

The research upon which this thesis is based explores the concept of ‘doing ethnography in the archives’ as a methodology to inform a case-study approach to studying the historic population of stampeders residing in and around Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. As an example of research...

Fall 2023

Baker, Josephine M. K.

This study explores the social functions of humour in present-day Cuba. Nine participants located in the area of Santa Marta, Cuba, of varying age, sex, and occupation responded to ten questions on a questionnaire related to humour and Cuban life. Transcripts of their answers were analyzed...

Fall 2009

Benschop, Diana

This thesis describes the role of Spanish as a common language in the construction of social networks among the diverse Spanish-speaking population of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Analysis of the data confirms the low public visibility of the community observed initially, despite the even larger...