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- Title
- A STUDY OF MATERIALIZATION, IDENTITY, AND AGENCY USING PXRF ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS FROM INCA PERIOD ECUADOR
- Author
- Sweitzer, Mackenzie
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Social structure, Archaeology, Area studies
- Description
- When the Inca Empire expanded across large portions of South America, they implemented various strategies to subdue and control their massively ethnically diverse subjects. One way that the Inca ideology and social order was imposed on the masses ...
- Title
- Afro-Brazilian Culture As a Means of Transformation: Spaces, Businesses and Political Participation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- Author
- Timoteo de Oliveira, Carolina Helena
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Ethnology, Area studies
- Description
- CAROLINA HELENA TIMÓTEO DE OLIVEIRA. Afro-Brazilian culture as a means of transformation: spaces, businesses and political participation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. (Under the direction of DR. OSCAR DE LA TORRE) This research investigates the conne...
- Title
- BASEBALL FROM BELOW: HOW AMERICA’S PASTIME BECAME A HEMISPHERIC CULTURAL PHENOMENON
- Author
- Gallemore, Michael
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History
- Description
- The game of baseball has rarely changed since its beginnings, and its resultant ascent to the United States national pastime has done little to change the fundamentals of the sport. However, there have been significant shifts in the demographics o...
- Title
- BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF A BRONZE AGE SKELETAL SAMPLE FROM THE QIJIA CULTURE CEMETERY MOGOU (1750-1100 BCE) IN GANSU PROVINCE, CHINA
- Author
- Johnson, Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Physical anthropology, Archaeology, Area studies
- Description
- Bronze Age China has consistently been an area of research foci for both domestic and international researchers. However, paleopathological analysis of certain cultures within the "Northern Zone" is relatively new and demands scholarly exploration...
- Title
- Counting Days in Ancient Babylon: Eclipses, Omens, and Calendrics during the Old Babylonian Period (1750-1600 BCE)
- Author
- Jedael, Steven
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Astronomy, Area studies
- Description
- STEVEN JEDAEL. Counting days in ancient Babylon: eclipses, omens, and calendrics during the Old Babylonian period (1750-1600 bce).(Under the direction of DR. JOHN C. REEVES) Prior to the sixth century BCE, each lunar month of the Babylonian calend...
- Title
- Doctors in Dictatorship: An Oral History Approach to the Chilean Medical Body’s Role in Regime Change.
- Author
- Urrutia, Ana
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History, Labor economics
- Description
- From 1970 until the end of the military dictatorship, doctors in Chile became deeply entangled with the state in their efforts to secure and expand their professional authority and power. Working both collectively through their professional associ...
- Title
- HAZARA DIASPORA RELIGIOUS DISAFFILIATION: AFGHANISTAN’S SHI'A WHO TURN AWAY FROM ISLAM
- Author
- Fekrat, Nasim
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Ethnology, Area studies, Islam--Study and teaching
- Description
- The topic of irreligiosity and secularism among Muslim immigrants is an understudied subject. Academic studies of Muslim immigrants, in particular, tend to focus on religious beliefs at the expense of other issues. This is particularly evident in ...
- Title
- Healthcare at the Intersections of Race and Gender: Critiquing Eugenics in Rosario Castellanos's Ciudad Real and Renee Tajima-Peña's No más bebés/No More Babies
- Author
- Pinales Frutos, Perla
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the use of medicine as a technology of power used to uplift white hegemonic actors: whites in the United States and mixed-race Ladinos in Mexico. Through this lens I discuss and analyze two mid-twentieth ce...
- Title
- Indigenous Rights at the Crossroads of Development and Environmental Protection in the TIPNIS, Bolivia
- Author
- Walton, Leah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History
- Description
- On September 25, 2011, Bolivia garnered international attention when federal police violently attacked the camp of indigenous protestors marching against the construction of a highway through the Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécur...
- Title
- MEMORIAL CINEMA IN LATIN AMERICA: FILMIC DEPICTIONS OF THE DIRTY WARS IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO
- Author
- PAIVA DE ARAUJO, SOFIA
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Motion pictures, Area studies, History
- Description
- Notably, the authoritarian regimes of Latin America during the Cold War have been discussed not only in the academy but also by the arts. The conflicts and violence of the period have been depicted in several plays, performances, testimonios, memo...
- Title
- Mark: A Messianic Post-War Gospel
- Author
- Beaumont, Jenny
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, Bible, Theology
- Description
- The Gospel of Mark, understood as our earliest post-70 CE early Christian/Jewish writing, can provide a new interpretive lens for setting forth the parameters of an understanding of spirituality for Mark’s community in a new era in which Jerusalem...
- Title
- Meal Patterns, Binge Eating, and BMI Among Latinas
- Author
- Thomas, Colleen
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Clinical psychology, Area studies
- Description
- The underrepresentation of ethnically diverse women in the binge eating literature contributes to the false assumption that eating disorders are less prevalent among these women. This thesis represents the first known study examining a sample of e...
- Title
- Mi Rey, El Narco: Masculinity in Mexico’s Narco Culture
- Author
- Ruiz-Gonzalez, Nashaly
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- This thesis analyzes two works of narco culture: Yuri Herrera’s Trabajos del reino and Luis Estrada’s El infierno. In these works, the themes of masculinity and its relationship to honor and power were found to be prevalent. This thesis will disse...
- Title
- Music and Interracial Romance in Golden Age Mexican Cinema: A Case of Two Films
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Alexandra
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- ABSTRACTALEXANDRA JEAN FITZGERALD. Music and Interracial Romance in Golden Age Mexican Cinema: A Case of Two Films (Under the direction of DR. DAVID DALTON) The purpose of this thesis is to address how film composers and film directors in the Gold...
- Title
- Naming The Boogeyman: Constructing Marginalized Religion As Threats To White Bodies In The X-Files
- Author
- Richards, Oliver
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Area studies
- Description
- The X-Files is an American science fiction television series that ran from 1993 to 2002, spawning an extended universe of books, two feature films, and an additional two seasons of the show which aired in 2016 and 2018. The show revolves around tw...
- Title
- Needles and Dust
- Author
- Douglas, Charles
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
- Description
- Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, befriends the picaresque Vang Neng, who enchants Dena...
- Title
- PENETRATING THE SEVENTH PALACE: READING THE SEXUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HEBREW BOOK OF ENOCH AND THE HEKHALOT GENRE
- Author
- Kimbrel, Suzannah
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Area studies
- Description
- This thesis looks at the Late Antique mystical literary genre of Hekhalot alongside contemporary queer theory and modern psychoanalysis. Part 1 opens with an excerpt from "3 Enoch." The methodology is explained, and the relevant works of Sigmund F...
- Title
- Praise the Sun: The Game Dark Souls Illuminated by Ritual Theory
- Author
- Gonzales, Aaron
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- By focusing on the social meaning-making of ritual Catherine Bell paved the way for new avenues of exploration for religious studies. My paper pulls this theory into a realm of playful activity unique to the digital age: the world of video gaming....
- 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
- RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ, ROSALINA TUYUC, AND LAURA REYES: CONTEMPORARY MAYA WOMEN IN GUATEMALAN POLITICS
- Author
- Moore, Mary
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Area studies, History
- Description
- This Master’s thesis analyzes the role of notable human rights activists, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, and Laura Reyes Quino, examining their directed efforts toward relieving the plight of the Mayan people in Guatemala facing g...