Anthropology

Reviews of two books: Yu'pik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head by Ann Fienup-Rirodan. Ciuliamta Akluit: Things of Our Ancestors by Marie Mead and Ann Fienup-Rirodan.

Discusses the sharing of culture and knowledge with scholars and collectors and the risks involved in doing so.

Focuses on the gathering process, with attempts to not rejudge the past, but rather offer evidence that the collecting of remains was of questionable legality.

Looks at how the official Spanish discourse disregarded any historical debate and avoided any reference to Aboriginal or Indigenous issues, but used the quincentenary as a propanda tool for their own purposes.

Scandinavian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2001.

Provides overview of project and its contribution to the deliberate shift to a post-colonial mode of curation and community-centred research process.

Book review of: Colonialism's Culture by Nicholas Thomas. Article located by scrolling to page 219.

Recent discoveries suggest settlement during the Pleistocene glacier pause 12,000 to 11,000 years before present.

Author details their experience of systemic and personal racism as graduate student and lecturer in the Anthropology department of a University in the United States.

The story of how Boas changed academic biases about Blacks, Afro-Americans and Native Americans.

Discussion, told in a personal narrative style, about fighting for rights and the contributions of Aboriginal culture.

[Anthropology?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1999.

Brief overview of anthropologists understanding of the role of the dance among Comanche in 1873-74.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Madison-Wisconsin, 1997.

Article examines the representations of Comanche religious practice in ethnographic writings from the early 1800s into the 20th century. Discusses the portrayal of the Comanche as skeptics or as a people without a cohesive religion.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010.

Sociology and Social Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2011.

Book review of: Coming to Shore edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin and Sergei Kan.

First collaborative collection of Northwest Coast ethnology since 1966; e-book contains papers from the conference Northwest Coast Ethnology held in Paris, June 2000.

Response to an article that suggested drive lanes to bluff chutes (used for funneling bison into corrals) should be thought of as monumental construction.

Discusses the boundaries that reviewers should take in criticizing an author and their work.

Author offers criticism on Dobyns’ analysis and use of archival resources in his article " Sixteenth-Century Tusayan," published in AIQ 15:2. Dobyns responds to the author’s criticism in " Superhuman Hearing, Superhorses, and Miraculous Maize."

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1995.

Contends that the Delgamuukw decision employed a type of argumentation in which over simplification of language and common sense resulted in a decision based on faulty grounds and inadequate versions of history.

[Anthropology?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1997.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2006.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.

[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2016.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 1994.

Examines the spiritual aspect of the location and the human and natural forces that caused it to be abandoned.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado, 2006.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 1976.

Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2001.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2006.

Government Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1969.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1992.

Pharmacology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 1997.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2008.

Talks about the ethnographic exhibition, Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch and the interpretive narratives.

Author uses the writings of early Euro-American explorers and anthropologists to describe the gender roles of male and female Lenni Lenape people; covers household/familial duties, lineage tracing, ceremony, social/political agency. Discussion queer individuals is not present.

[Ethnology] Thesis (Ph.D)--Univerzita Karlova [Charles University], 2017

Explains that hikwsi, which has often been translated as soul or a person's death breath, is much more complex and is actually used to explain human structure and behaviour.

Examines the primitive race concept in Elkin's writings of the 1930s.

Discusses the fine line of maintaining "right relations" and being a good anthropologist according to commonly held scholarly expectations.

Deals with historical data concerning postmarital residence.