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Purism, Prescriptivism, and Privilege: Choctaw Language Ideologies and Their Impact on Teaching and Learning
(2015-12)
Oklahoma Choctaw, a Muskogean language originally spoken in the American southeast, is currently the focus of language revitalization efforts by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The School of Choctaw Language, which has ...
FÚTBOL IN THE HEARTLAND: MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS, TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND RECREATIONAL SPORT IN OKLAHOMA CITY
(2015-05-05)
When immigrants traverse international borders they bring with them many cultural practices and traditions from their lives back home. This research focuses on how a modern sport, fútbol (soccer), operates as a cultural ...
SOCIAL BOUNDARIES BETWEEN CERAMIC DESIGN PRODUCTION GROUPS AT CLASSIC MIMBRES SITES, A.D. 1000-1130
(2015-05-05)
The identification of social boundaries relies on the presumption that differences between production groups only reliably manifest in aspects of material culture that are not overt, because the more rote a choice made in ...
Digging Deeper: Enhancing Archaeoparasitology By Combining Molecular Methods With Traditional Morphological Approaches
(2015-05-01)
Coprolite science, human parasitism and ancient DNA methodology, converge most appropriately in the sub-specialty of archaeoparasitology – the study of prehistoric parasitism. In this study, we have applied targeted PCR ...
Speaking Kiowa Today: Continuity and Change Through the Generations
(2015-05-08)
Speaking Kiowa Today constitutes a systematic, in-depth look at language change over four generations, focusing on one language, Kiowa, during a period of intense language change, often called obsolescence. The integration ...
The Development of Paleoindian Communal Bison Kills: A Comparison of Northern to Southern Plains Arroyo Traps
(2015-05)
This dissertation addresses the questions: Is there a link between environmental change, bison mobility behavior, and large-scale hunting? What were the mobility patterns of bison hunted in large kills during the Folsom ...
Viral Metagenomics and Anthropology in the Americas
(2015-05-08)
Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on earth. As humans, we could not exist without them. For billions of years they have been the unseen mediators of microbial and multicellular life. They are ...