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This thesis is an inquiry into the lives of four women in Tallahassee, Florida, who have not only chosen to adopt New Age beliefs, but also to become New Age healers. Of particular interest are the life events that influenced their...
This dissertation explores how Q'eqchi' market women in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala use capitalist exchange spheres to generate personhood, persons, and kinship. Women use local kin categories to establish themselves as marketers and...
Ceramic anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines occur abundantly throughout Mesoamerica during the Middle Formative period. At the site of San Andrés in Tabasco, Mexico, archaeological excavations have recovered such figurines. The...
Santa Rita B (SRB) is a settlement in the Mid-Chao Valley on the northern coast of Peru. Over ten years of excavations by El Proyecto Arqueológico Santa Rita B (Proyecto Arqueológico Santa Rita – PASAR), material culture has been found...
The Gift in the Cave for the Gift of the World: An Economic Approach to Ancient Maya Cave Ritual in the San Francisco Hill-Caves, Cancuen Region, Guatemala
This thesis presents the results of a regional cave survey in the San Francisco Hills near the lowland Maya site of Cancuén, Petén, Guatemala. The survey was a component of the Cancuén Archaeology Project directed by Dr. Arthur Demarest...
One of the most pressing concerns facing archaeologists and cultural resource managers in the twenty-first century is how to protect cultural resources for meaningful research and future investigation while ensuring access to citizens...
Slavi Trifonov and the Commodification of Nationalism: Popular Culture, Popular Music, and the Politics of Identity in Postsocialist Bulgaria, 1990-2005
This dissertation is a study of the cultural meanings ascribed to the postsocialist Bulgarian pop-folk musician and television personality Slavi Trifonov. Since the early 1990s, Trifonov's career and popularity have been intricately...
This Master's thesis analyzes two hundred and twenty-nine Formative period (1500 BC – 250 AD) ceramic figurines, whistles, and iconographic vessel appliqués from the lower Río Verde valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. The lower Río Verde region...
Building on literature dealing with memory and hermeneutics as they relate to music and musical experience, this thesis explores the role of music and memory in the negotiation of place within the context of displacement through the life...
Over the last forty years American Indians have challenged the usage of their symbols and culture as mascots or emblems used by schools, universities, pro sports teams and businesses across the United States. One word often used is ...
One of the primary aspects of Hare Krishna worship is the practice of kirtan, or the musical chanting of sacred texts with particular emphasis on the Maha Mantra, a mantra composed of names for Krishna. Devotees teach that chanting...
Beyond being just a part of a somewhat interesting local fable, the story of the growth and development of an African American òrìs̱à devotees in Philadelphia is an Yorùbáland via Cuba. Its adoption by African American devotees is thus...
This thesis presents the meaning of anarchism, punk, and DIY anarchism in relation to Cakalak Thunder, a radical protest drum group in Greensboro, North Carolina. The author presents the history of Cakalak Thunder and its influences, ...
Based on primary and secondary sources that include declassified documents and eyewitness accounts, and using a theoretical approach informed by the works of Slavoj iek and Hannah Arendt, this thesis represents a profound examination of...
This thesis examines prehistoric watercraft documented in the region now inhabited by the Wabanaki, an indigenous maritime society living in New England and the Canadian Maritimes, from archaeological and oral traditions perspectives....
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