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Violence and Reclamation: Understanding HIV in Tanzania
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)This paper focuses on the dialogue between HIV, various forms of violence, and acts of reclamation based on ethnographic experience in Mufindi, Tanzania. Ethnographic examples in this paper are the product of ethnographic ... -
Holocene Maritime Hunter-Gatherer Lithic Assemblage Variability in the Eastern Aleutians, Alaska: Planning, Provisioning, and Predictability
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)This dissertation investigates toolstone provisioning and lithic production employed by the maritime hunter-gatherers of Unalaska Bay in the southern Bering Sea during the early and middle Holocene. Lithic assemblage ... -
An analysis of the skeletal material from Sugar Creek Ossuary
(University of Kansas, 1971-05-31)The purpose of this study is essentially twofold: first, to record and present the osteological data from the skeletal material recovered at the Sugar Creek Ossuary (23PL58) and, second, to assess this material's affinities ... -
Steed-Kisker and Nebraska ceramics : a new interpretation
(University of Kansas, 1997-05-31)Ceramic variation has been used as the major criterion for taxonomically separating archaeological complexes in the Central Plains during the Middle Ceramic period (A.D.900-A.D. I 500). The Steed-Kisker and Nebraska phases ... -
The Creation of Metropolitan Amazonia: Genetic Consequences of Migration and Urbanization
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Uniparental genetic markers were analyzed in a sample of 182 individuals from the Peruvian Amazonian city of Yurimaguas. The site of extensive pre-Columbian and modern migratory fluctuation, contemporary Yurimaguas is ... -
Inga Rimakkuna: Indigenous Frontiers in the Pastaza Basin, Peru
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)This dissertation examines the lives of Inga-speaking indigenous peoples living in the Pastaza basin in the northern reaches of the Peruvian Amazon. Through an in-depth historical overview, I demonstrate how the imposition ... -
Mitochondrial Haplogrouping and Short Tandem Repeat Analyses in Anthropological Research using Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)The field of anthropological genetics aims to reveal, characterize, and understand the biological diversity of modern and ancient human populations. This goal is achieved by analyzing different regions of the autosomes, ... -
Site Formation Processes at the Spring Valley Site (23CT389), Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)The Spring Valley site (23CT389) is stratified, multicomponent site associated with a co-alluvial fan in Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Carter County, Missouri. Recorded prehistoric occupations range from Middle Paleoindian ... -
The Invisible Violence That Follows: The Effects of Drought on Children, Kinship, & Gender In Tanzania
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Tanzania is considered to be food self-sufficient at the national level, but in recent years, food deficits are becoming more apparent at regional and household levels. This can be attributed to an over reliance on ... -
Transnational Migration and Group Cohesion in Five Pohnpeian Communities
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Long spared direct incursions by the global economy and colonial occupation, residents of the central Micronesian island of Pohnpei have shifted from being members of a regional center of influence to marginal players on ... -
Genetic Structure of the Iraqi Population at 15 STRs and the Consequent Forensic Applications
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)1061 individuals were sampled from the cities of Anbar, Baghdad, Basra, Diyala, Najaf, and Wasit in Iraq and typed for 15 forensic STRs to explore the genetic structure of Iraq and develop a forensic DNA database. Analyses ... -
A phonology of Okanogan
(University of Kansas, 1971)This paper presents a tentative phonology of the Okanogan dialect of Interior Salish. This phonology is based on materials elicited and recorded in Washington and British Columbia during the summer of 1970. -
Narratives of Contradiction: South African Youth and Post-Apartheid Governance
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)South Africa’s heralded democratic transition digressed from its 1994 euphoric optimism to a current state of public discontent. This stems from rising unemployment, persistent structural inequality, and a disappointment ... -
Being-in-Between-Worlds: Illness (Marad), Embodiment, and Social Suffering in Cairo’s City of the Dead
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)This dissertation is a phenomenological study of sickness and social suffering among cemetery squatters living and dying with clusters of incurable affliction (marad) including hypertension (al-daght), Type 2 diabetes ... -
Epigenetics of Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Phenotypically Normal Individuals
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Background It is difficult to distinguish between Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, as they share many symptoms and many susceptibility genetic loci. Due to the similarities in phenotype between Crohn’s disease and ... -
Forced Migration and Population Expansion: The Genetic Story of the Garifuna
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The Garifuna are an admixed population that are found on St. Vincent Island in the Lesser Antilles and in over 60 villages in Central American, stretching along the coasts of Belize to Nicaragua. They were born out of ... -
American physical anthropology : a historical perspective
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A Meshrep in Our Home... Where There Is No Meshrep: Contrasting Narratives in the Reinvention of a Uyghur Gathering
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The addition of Uyghur meshrep gatherings to the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2010 has influenced the way the gathering is promoted and understood by different segments of Uyghur society. Interviews and ... -
Subsistence strategy at a late Archaic site in south-central Kansas
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Going with the Flow: Southwest Kansas Farmers and the Declining Ogallala Aquifer
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)The Ogallala Aquifer provides irrigation water for much of the agricultural industry on the Great Plains. In southwest Kansas, the Ogallala is used to produce corn and other grains, much of which are fed to beef and dairy ...
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