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Title: Iconography of Transformation: The Question of Hallucinogenic Remnants in Ritual Artifacts at Chavin de Huantar
Author: Nooe, Ryan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: In a mountain valley of the South American country of Perú rests a site at the core of an ancient and influential culture. That site is known as Chavín de Huántar, a relatively small area which boasts monumental architecture and carved images of s...

Title: Jim Crow and Education: The Seldom Told Story
Author: Richardson, Zera
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Archaeology
Description: Rosenwald schools are under-documented in the archaeological record. However, these schools were of critical importance to education for Black Americans, particularly in the Jim Crow South. This paper presents the results of excavation and oral hi...

Title: Latino Narratives of Educational Experience in the Greater Charlotte Area
Author: Gray, Michelle
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: In analyzing interviews with ten Latino participants who have attended or are attending public school in the Greater Charlotte area using narrative discourse analysis, I found significant connections between identifying as self-motivated with rega...

Title: Life Course Theory and Dual Indexicality in Taiwanese American Households
Author: Fogal, Daniel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sociolinguistics
Description: Minority groups in the United States face unique challenges that help to shape and mould not only the migrants but their children as well. This study is concerned with Taiwanese-American young adults that have grown up in migrant households, how t...

Title: Linear Enamel Hypoplasia: An Analysis of Health Disparities Between the Early Intermediate Period and Middle Horizon of Nasca, Peru
Author: Moore, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: ABSTRACTELIZABETH MOORE. Linear Enamel Hypoplasia: An Analysis of Health Disparities of the Peruvian Coast. (Under the direction of DR. DENNIS OGBURN)There has been an abundance of research, archaeological and other, on the Nasca culture and linea...

Title: Locating the Enslaved Burial Ground at Rural Hill Plantation, Huntersville, North Carolina
Author: Gimson, Martha
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: This project addresses the structural violence inherent in the lack of preservation of the unmarked enslaved burial ground at the Rural Hill Plantation in Huntersville, North Carolina. When burial grounds of the enslaved are unmarked the legacy of...

Title: MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
Author: Caro, Lennin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Economics
Description: Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnog...

Title: Marshallese Participatory Mismatches in South Central United States' School Systems
Author: Anderson, Katlyn
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics, Education, Ethnology
Description: Since the Compact of Free Association between the Marshall Islands and the United States, many Marshallese Islanders have immigrated to the United States, leading to a growing number of Marshallese children enrolled in primary and secondary school...

Title: Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
Author: Blattenberger, Philip
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research, Museums--Study and teaching, History
Description: For six months in 2014 the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam hosted a temporary exhibition on Agent Orange. Entitled "Agent Orange: A Message from the Heart," the exhibit’s politically benign narrative tone featured reconciliatory r...

Title: Moving right along: The effect of habitat type on ranging patterns in white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) in western Thailand
Author: Sobaszek, Margaret
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Animal scientists, Wildlife management
Description: White-handed gibbons are found through Southeast Asia, but little is known about how they adapt to lower quality resources. At Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary in Western Thailand, these gibbons inhabit a heterogeneous landscape that encompasses...

Title: NEOPLASTIC DISEASES IN PRE-HISPANIC ANDEANS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECTS OF ALTITUDE BETWEEN THE HIGHLANDS AND COASTAL REGIONS
Author: Westbrook, Carita
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: This thesis is a comparative review of skeletal elements from coastal and highland regions of Peru to determine if altitude effects the incidence of skeletal cancer formations. Pathological analysis was completed on 372 skeletal elements: 299 elem...

Title: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Frontline COVID-19 Nurses
Author: Robbins, James
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Economics, Women's studies
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges to healthcare workers: with rising COVID cases, constantly changing guidelines, and an uncertain and rapidly unfolding situation, stress and burnout among nurses have risen as well. Narratives around ...

Title: Osteoarthritis and the Effects on the Accuracy of Age at Death Estimation
Author: Wiedre, Samantha
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Forensic anthropology
Description: There are many methods by which forensic anthropologists and bioarchaeologists estimate the age at death of an individual. Many of these methods, however, are flawed. Currently, anthropologists within these fields are researching which of these me...

Title: Osteoarthritis and the Effects on the Accuracy of Age at Death Estimation
Author: Wiedre, Samantha
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Forensic anthropology
Description: There are many methods by which forensic anthropologists and bioarchaeologists estimate the age at death of an individual. Many of these methods, however, are flawed. Currently, anthropologists within these fields are researching which of these me...

Title: PUT WHAT(?) IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT: A METHODICAL APPROACH TO THE SMOKING CULTURE OF A NINETEENTH CENTURY PLANTATION IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
Author: Bubp, Rebecca
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: Holly Bend, a prolific and successful late 18th and early 19th century plantation owned by the Davidson family in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina has seen multiple excavations and research projects over the past several years. In this project, ...

Title: Preliminary Assessment of Lead Glazed Coarse Earthenware Trade Relationships During Mid-18th and 19th Century North Carolina Piedmont through PXRF Analysis
Author: Dyer, Monica
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: Little documentation exists of the trade occurring in the central North Carolina Piedmont during the 18th and 19th century at wealthy farmstead sites or at surrounding sites of lower economic status. The intent of my research is to gain a greater ...

Title: Providing Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of North Carolina Nurses' Experiences with COVID-19 Positive Patient Care
Author: Lee, Abigail
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology
Description: This is a case study of nurses’ perceptions providing care in North Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses participated in semi-structured interviews via Zoom about the impact of the pandemic on their working and personal lives. Drawing fro...

Title: RECONSTRUCTING AFRICA'S EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES: DNA COLLECTION, CODING, ANALYSIS, and INTERPRETATION
Author: Winful, Olawunmi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Area studies, History
Description: Finding a way to successfully interpret African diversity is important in accurately reconstructing the evolutionary history of our species. By collecting high quality DNA, genealogical, and demographic data on a large cross section of African and...

Title: Raising Little Russians: Language Socialization and Language Shift in an Urban Kyrgyz Family
Author: McDermott, Ashley
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Sociolinguistics, Language and languages
Description: In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Russian prevails as the lingua franca despite efforts by policymakers and language activists to promote the Kyrgyz language. This study uses language socialization as a lens to investigate language shift in the city by analy...

Title: Reassessing Chronology of Inca and Cayambe Sites in Northern Ecuador through Obsidian Hydration Dating
Author: Griffin, Reilly
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: Obsidian Hydration Dating has continued to be seen as a viable dating method withinarchaeology to establish relative chronology for sites with obsidian artifacts. The prospect of a relatively fast and comparatively inexpensive dating method compar...