During Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s nearly fifteen years in office, he was both celebrated as a revolutionary hero and vilified as an autocratic populist. The …
Sweden has developed an international reputation as a progressive haven, promoting socioeconomic equality through its extensive welfare state. However, non-white and non-European migrants have disrupted …
While mortuary contexts have traditionally been key loci for the discussion of ritual within archaeological literature, there has been little discussion of the emotional dimensions …
It has been well-documented through the COVID-19 pandemic the disproportionate impact the disease, and the ensuing political and social consequences of the disease, has had …
This dissertation is about changing perspectives on marriage, family relations, and work life among older Italian women in their mid fifties to late sixties. These …
In polities headed by divine kings, the public performance of hierarchy and inequality is essential to political power. Yet what happens to that inequality when …
This dissertation traces how obesity developed as an acknowledged social problem in India. Although public health officials estimate that chronic diseases such as obesity and …
Many lithic analyses in recent decades have focused on the influence of lithic production techniques and artifact stages in the discard form of stone tools. …
The Mohawk community of Akwesasne relied on fishing and farming for its livelihood until the discovery of environmental contamination from neighboring industries. The community and …
Diets and foodways and are intimately shaped by interregional processes and connections, such as imperial expansion. Despite substantial archaeological research into the immediate impact of …
This dissertation traces how "Alternative Dispute Resolution" (ADR) traveled from corporate boardrooms, World Bank policy conferences, the U.S. State Department, and Harvard Negotiation Program to …
This dissertation is a study of the political aspects of indigenous language revitalization in Mexico. In 2003, the Mexican state passed the General Law of …
This dissertation explores the ways in which individuals and groups create and recreate their personal and collective histories, the membership boundaries of their group, and …
The population of transmasculine and non-binary identified birthing parents is growing, but there is still very little research within anthropology and the larger health field …
Despite their colonial legacies of extraction, museums have served as critical sites of engagement in grappling with global issues and hold the potential to propel …
This paper, located methodologically across the fields of Religious Studies and Anthropology, will investigate the relationship between religion and cultural heritage among a significant part …