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Cooperative Borderlands: Trafficking Values and Waste Across Nesting Boundaries in Russian Karelia
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In my dissertation, I explore the sense of place and the local identity in Petrozavodsk, the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation. We are aware of the geographical and political borders, of those visible dividing lines on the map that insulate ethnic groups and nation...
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1984
Masters thesis. Presents a technological analysis of nineteenth century Copper Inuit antler artifacts from several sites on Banks Island. The island was occupied by Inuit involved in salvaging large quantities of raw materials from a cache abandoned there in 1845 by a British exploration vessel.
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Fall 2012
This thesis is an anthropological study of the interactions between the coffee industry and the tourism industry in Costa Rica. It focuses on how coffee production, marketing and consumption have been affected by the presence of tourists and how tourists come in contact with coffee. I conducted...
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Counter-Mapping the Lands and Material Heritage of Nineteenth-Century Métis in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta) Using Historical Documents
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When telling the tale of the city of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada (amiskwaciy-wâskahikan), history writers, textbook authors, and local interest enthusiasts alike locate her roots in the nineteenth century, training their attention above all firstly upon the fur trading posts which became Fort...
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Fall 2016
The documentation of other places and other peoples, in an attempt to understand the human condition, has been of interest to anthropology since its beginnings as an academic discipline. Experiencing the food and drink of these places and peoples became important components for not only enjoying...
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Creative Factors and Ethnic-folk Dance: A Case Study of the Peacock Dance in China (1949-2013)
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My dissertation topic focuses on the interaction between dances, their contexts and their meanings. I am interested in a wide range of creative factors that are involved in the dance-context interaction. I chose to investigate these factors by looking at the Peacock Dance, which originates in the...
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Critical analysis of the factors affecting the "cranial suture aging method" using the Hamann Todd Collection
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Cranial suture closure has been regarded as an unreliable method for age estimation due to the large amount of variability in the commencement, progression and termination of fusion. A preliminary study done on the J.C.B. Grant Collection (University of Toronto; Toronto, Ontario) showed that...
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Cultivating Place, Livelihood, and the Future: An Ethnography of Dwelling and Climate in Western Greenland
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In order to investigate how Inuit Greenlanders in western Greenland are experiencing, responding to, and thinking about recent allegedly human-induced climate change, this dissertation ethnographically examines the lives of Greenlanders as well as Norse and Danes in the course of past historical...
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Cultural Identity and Transnational Networks in a Chinese Diaspora Society in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia
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This research investigates transnational networking and cultural identity in a Chinese diaspora community in Sibu, Sarawak. In particular, I focus on the surge in public expressions of cultural identity among Chinese sub-ethnic groups in this bazaar town since the late 1970s. The activism of...