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Dialogue as a Foundation for Development: Syrian Collective Trauma and Memory, Actor Mapping, and Perspectives on Syria
(2017-05)
In 1949, President Harry S. Truman called upon the global North to aid the “underdeveloped” global South. With Truman’s “Point Four” declaration, the United States sought to combat the rising threat of communism with ...
The Learner Varieties of the Chikasha Academy: Chickasaw Adult Language Acquisition, Change, and Revitalization
(2017-05)
This dissertation focuses on a specific language revitalization method used by
the Chickasaw Nation, currently located in Oklahoma. Language revitalization refers to
any effort intended to increase the use of a language, ...
Touching the Past: Examining Social Memory Practices in the Mimbres Region of Southwest New Mexico
(2017-05)
This dissertation develops a multi-pronged approach to examining social memory and forgetting throughout the occupation of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico, from A.D. 550-1350. I investigate the frequency and ...
Anxiety and Empowerment: An Ethnography of Science in the Middle
(2017)
Stacked within the Frontier Strip, 70,000 square miles of land constitutes the 46th state of the Union, Oklahoma. The state is known for its agriculture, energy, and aerospace industries, as well as rich cultural history ...
Alternate Pathways to Ritual Power: Evidence for Centralized Production and Long-Distance Exchange between Northern and Southern Caddo Communities
(2017-12)
The Formative Caddo lived throughout the Arkansas Valley of eastern Oklahoma and the West Gulf Coastal Plain region of east Texas, northwest Louisiana, southwest Arkansas, and southeast Oklahoma between approximately A.D. ...
"The Wish to be a Red Indian:" Indianthusiasm and Racial Ideology in Germany
(2017-12)
This dissertation analyzes the role of Indianer – Germans (and other Europeans) who wish to be Native American so much that they embody and practice essentialized notions of Native American cultural traditions – in German ...
The Ball Game of the Southeast: Stickball and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) in the Anthropocene
(2017-05)
Forests are an essential source of natural resources in the production of racquets used by Choctaw (Chahta) people to play Kapucha Toli, also known as stickball or the ball game of the southeast. Choctaw efforts to sustain ...