Search
Now showing items 11-20 of 31
USING ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES TO INTEGRATE THE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL MODELS OF DISABILITY
(2017)
The medical model of disability views the challenges and solutions to disability via medical terms. Within the social model of disability (SMD), impairment is the physical condition specific to a person, whereas disability ...
COMPARISON OF FIVE DIFFERENT DNA EXTRACTION METHODS FOR MICROBIOME RECONSTRUCTION FROM COPROLITES
(2017-05)
The human microbiome has become an intense area of research over the past fifteen years due to its importance for understanding human health and disease. The revolution in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques has ...
AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE EARSPOOLS OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY AND SURROUNDING REGIONS
(2018)
Earspools dating from the Mississippi Period are found throughout the Southeast
region of North America. Some of these artifacts were recovered from sites in the
Arkansas and Red River Valley regions which share similarities ...
Identifying Socialized Landscapes in the Bridger Mountains, Montana
(2017-05)
Archaeologists, working in the Rocky Mountains and throughout the world, have long recognized that people, regardless of time and space, invest social meanings into the landscape around them. Based on de Certeau’s (1984) ...
Native Subjectivity, Reproduction, and the Politics of Ethnography
(2017)
Birth and child-rearing have long figured as premiere sites for social scientific research. As Rapp & Ginsburg (1995) argue, anthropological inquiry into reproduction provides a unique opening for the study of socio-political ...
A Tale of Two Sites: a Lithic Analysis Examining Possible Nūche Emergence on the Uncompahgre Plateau, Colorado
(2017)
To explain the historic distribution of Numic (Uto-Aztecan) speakers across the American West, researchers hypothesized a largescale movement of people occurring between A.D. 900 and 1300. This migration, otherwise known ...
FROM PHENOMENOLOGY OF LANGUAGE TO A THEORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL PRAXIS: PERCEPTION, IDEOLOGY, AND MEANING IN MULTIMODAL LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE
(2016-05)
Linguistics has prioritized the auditory mode of transmission in language at the expense of written forms and their relevance to the social construction of meaning and identity. Due to the privilege of spoken language as ...
Language Ideologies and Practices among University Learners of Native American Languages
(2016-05-14)
This thesis examines language ideologies among university learners of Native American languages. Given that attitudes and beliefs toward these languages can have a direct impact on the learning process, recognizing ideologies ...
The plundering of Paquimé: the history of looting in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico
(2012)
The destruction of archaeological sites is a complex issue that affects sites around the world. Although site destruction could be the result of various factors, it is usually attributed to looting of artifacts for a local ...
Community-Based Archives, Museums and Language Revitalization: A Case Study From The Wichita And Affiliated Tribes In Anadarko, Oklahoma
(2018)
The last fluent speaker of the Wichita language passed away in 2016. According to many common language vitality scales in linguistics, the Wichita language would be considered extinct. However, the discourse about this has ...