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2006 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Erez BEN-YOSEF |
Technology and Social Process: Oscillations in Iron Age Copper Production and Power in Southern Jordan |
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2005 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Ted Gideonse |
Risky Subjectivity: The Effects of Cultural Discourses of Addiction on Methamphetamine Using HIV+Men Who Have Sex with Men in San Diego |
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Dr. Charlotte van den Hout |
Hysteria on the Borderline: Mental Illness, Cultural Change, and Subjective Experience Among Women in Morocco |
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Dr. Ana Paula Pimental Walker |
Face-to-Face Citizenship: the Effects, Ethics, andAesthetics of Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre,Brazil |
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2004 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Eli Elinoff |
Architectures of Citizenship: Democracy, Development, and the Politics of Participation in Thailand's Railway Communities |
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Dr. Naomi Haynes |
Ambitious Obligations: Pentecostalism, Social Life, and Political Economy on the Zambian Copperbelt |
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Dr. Edward F. Kennedy |
The Politics of Representing the Past in Bolivia |
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Dr. Anna Pagano |
Health in Black and White: Debates on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Brazil |
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Dr. Alexander K. Piel |
Savanna Sounds: Using Remote Acoustic Sensing to Study Spatiotemporal Patterns in Wild Chimpanzee Loud Vocalizations in the Issa Valley, Ugalla, Western Tanzania |
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Dr. Noga Shemer |
Public Ideologies and Personal Meaning-Making in Postcolonial Grenada |
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2003 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Ulrike Ulli Green |
Controlling Food Production and Consumption - Wari Imperial Strategies at Cerro Trapiche, Moquegua |
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Dr. F. Chandler Hallman |
Debating Death: Discourse and Legitimacy in the Northern Irish victims' rights movement |
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Dr. Sonja A. Schwake |
The Social Implications of Ritual Behavior in the Maya Lowlands: A Perspective from the Maya site of Minanha, Belize |
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Dr. Brendan Thornton |
The Cultural Politics of Evangelical Christianity in the Dominican Republic |
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2002 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Marc Beherec |
Nomads in Transition: Mortuary Archaeology in the Lowlands of Edom (Jordan) |
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Dr. Tara Carter |
Rethinking Secondary State Formation in Medieval Iceland: Trade and Social Connectivity in the Norse Economic Territory |
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Dr. Sandra Chacko |
“Why Do Females Live in Groups? Dominance, Grooming, and Experimental Testing of the Effects of Food Distribution on the Behavior of Commensal Bonnet Macaque (Macaca radiata) Females |
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Dr. Andrew W. Froehle |
Physical Activity and Metabolic Physiology in Postmenopausal Women: An Evolutionary Approach |
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Dr. Heather M. Spector |
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Dr. Scott L. VANDEHEY |
Suburban Citizenship |
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2001 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Nicole Barger |
“Social Behavior from a Comparative Neuroanatomical Perspective: The Amygdala in Human Evolution" |
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Dr. Ashwin Budden BUDDEN |
Moral Worlds and Therapeutic Quests: A study of medical pluralism and treatment seeking in the Lower Amazon |
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Dr. Alyssa Noelani CRITTENDEN |
Allomaternal Care and Juvenile Foraging among theHazda: Implications for the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Humans |
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Dr. Jason A. DANELY |
Departure and Return: Abandonment, Memorial and Aging in Japan |
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Dr. Priyantha KARUNARATNE |
Secondary State Formation During the Early Iron Age onthe Island of Sri Lanka: The Evolution of a Periphery |
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Dr. John C. PETTERSON |
All This Dies with Us: The Decline and Revision of a Mestizo Gentry (Chumbivilcas, Cuzco, Peru) |
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Dr. Neil Gordon SMITH |
Social Boundaries and State Formation in Ancient Edom:A comparative ceramic approach |
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Dr. Jeffrey Wescott |
“The Good Lake, the Possible Sea:Ethics and Environment in Northern Vanuatu” |
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2000 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Eric HOENES |
Ideologies of Language and Gesture among Q'eqchi'-Maya Mainstream and Charismatic Catholics |
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Dr. Leslie LEWIS |
Piety and Activism in Egypt: Reflections on Framing, Motivation, Contradiction, and Desire |
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Dr. Adolfo MUNIZ |
Feeding the Periphery: Modeling Changing Early Bronze Age Environments and the Cultural Landscape of the Wadi Fidan, Southern Jordan |
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Dr. Heather RAE-ESPINOZA |
Devoted Abandonment: The Children Left Behind by Parental Emigration in Ecuador |
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Dr. Natalie M. SCHENKER |
Comparative Analysis of Broca's Area in Hominoids |
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Dr. Ryan E. SCHRAM |
Feast of Water: Christianity and the EconomicTransformation of a Melanesian Society |
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1998 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Yoav ARBEL |
The Historical Impact and Archaeological Reflections of Intense Religious Movements |
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Dr. Jon Anthony BIALECKI |
The Kingdom and its Subjects: Charisms, Language, Economy, and the Birth of a Progressive Politics in the Vineyard |
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Dr. Angelica MARCELLO |
Contemplating the Evolution of Attachment and Cognition in a Collaborative Learning Environment |
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Dr. Jonathan S. MARION |
Dance as Self, Culture, and Community: The Construction of Personal and Collective Meaning and Identity in Competitive Ballroom and Salsa Dancing |
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Dr. Jennifer POURNELLE |
Marshland of Cities: Deltaic Landscapes and the Evolution of Early Mesopotamian Civilization |
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1997 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Nicole PETERSON |
Casting a Wide Net: Decision-Making in a Mexican Marine Park |
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Dr. Gregory SIMON |
Self and Moral Obligations of Husbands and Fathers in a West Sumatran City |
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1996 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Margie BURTON |
Collapse, Continuity, and Transformation: Tracking Protohistoric Social Change Through Ceramic Analysis. Case Studies of Late 5th-Early 4th Millennium Societies in the Southern Levant |
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Dr. Bambi CHAPIN |
Hierarchy, Envy, and Spirit Possession: Case Studies of Internalization Among Sinhala Women in Central Sri Lanka |
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Dr. Timothy "Cage" HALL |
Social Change, Mental Health, and the Evolution of the Gay Male Identities: A Clinical Ethnography of Post-Communist Prague |
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Dr. April LEININGER |
Culture and Cognitive Psychodynamics in Vietnamese-American Families |
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Dr. Joylin NAMIE |
Good Intentions: Women, Diet, and Food Choice in "America's Finest City" |
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1995 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Steven G. CARLISLE |
The Self Divided: Obligation and Solitude in Contemporary Thailand |
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Dr. Ashidara DAS |
Asian Indian Immigrant Women in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area: Work, Home, and the Construction of the Self |
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Dr. Timothy KNICKERBOCKER |
Digo Discontents & the Future of Conservation Illusions in Kenya |
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1994 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Shawn M. BENDER |
Drumming Between Tradition and Modernity: Taiko and Neo-Folk Performance in Contemporary Japan |
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Dr. Sharla BLANK |
Women Don't Want to Stoop Too Low: Help-Seeking Among Female Household Heads in Dominica, West Indies |
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Dr. Marcia S. REGO |
Echoes From an Empire, Voices of the Nation: Hierarchy, Disorder, Speech, and Textuality in Cape Verde |
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Dr. Randy STURMAN |
A Matter of Life & Death: End-of-Life Decisions in Jerusalem, Israel: Cultural, Legal, Medical, and Ethical Considerations |
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Dr. LiAnne S. YU |
The Reemergence of Vietnam's Ethnic Chinese Community through Local, National, and Transnational Structures |
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1993 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Armine ISHKANIAN |
Hearths and Modernity: The Role of Women in NGOs in Post-Soviet Armenia |
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Dr. Lisa ROSEN |
Calculating Concerns: The Poltics of Representation in California's "Math Wars" |
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Dr. João H. Costa VARGAS |
Blacks in the City of Angels' Dust |
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Dr. Laura STANLEY |
Prodigal Sons & Daughters of Job: Navigating the Moral Landscape of AIDS. |
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Dr. Deana WEIBEL |
Kidnapping the Virgin: The Reinterpretation of a Roman Catholic Shrine by Religious Creatives |
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1992 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Jeffrey D. BASS |
In Exile From the Self: Identity, Politics, and Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires |
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Dr. Jason JAMES |
Imagining Restoration: Loss and Redemption in an East German Cityscape |
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Dr. Leila MADGE |
Managing & Manipulating Modernity: Middle-Class Women and the Japanese Nation-State |
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Dr. William RHETT-MARISCAL |
Settling In: New Indian Communities & the Transformation of Citizenship in Mexico |
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1991 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Thomas K. BROWN |
Spiritual Seekers & "Finding a Spiritual Home": An Ethnographic Investigation of Conversion to Christian Spiritualist Churches in Southern California. |
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Dr. Rebecca LESTER |
My Name Would Be Jerusalem: Religious Formation & the Transformation of Subjectivity in a Mexican Convent |
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Dr. Marc L. "Marco" MOSKOWITZ |
Fetus-Spirits: New Ghosts in Modern Taiwan |
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Dr. Julia OFFEN |
Beyond the Ring: The European Traveling Circus |
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1990 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Dale BRETCHES |
Culture and Economy in Cuba's Transition: An Anthropological Perspective |
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Dr. Andrew BROWN |
Existing on Ogorodnaia Street: Accommodations & Confrontations with a Post-Soviet Economy (Kazakstan) |
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Dr. Heather L. CLAUSSEN |
Un(convent)ional Sisterhood: Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines |
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Dr. Lisa DIETRICH |
Coming of Age in the Barrio: Girls, Gangs, and Growing-Up |
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Dr. Erica PRUSSING |
Warriors & Survivors: The Culture of Sobriety in Northern Cheyenne Women's Narratives |
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Dr. Elizabeth THROOP |
Net Curtains & Closed Doors: Intimacy, Public Life, and the Family in Dublin |
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1989 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Joseph P. MASCO |
The Nuclear Borderlands: The Legacy of the Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico |
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Dr. Andrew C. WILLFORD |
Cage of Freedom: The Politics of Tamil & Hindu Identity in Malaysia & Bangalore, South India |
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1988 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Marysia GALBRAITH |
Polish Youth in Transition: Nation, Self, and Other in Post-Communist Poland |
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Dr. Jeffrey SNODGRASS |
Big Words, Little People : Cash and Ken in Modern Rajasthan |
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1987 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Axel AUBRUN |
Modeling Animism : In Defense of an Old Illusion |
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Dr. Susan L. BROWN |
This Is the Real Bahamas: Solidarity and Identity in Cat Island |
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Dr. Brian HAZLEHURST |
Fishing for Cognition : An Ethnography of Fishing Practice in a Community on the West Coast of Sweden |
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Dr. William REESE |
The Writer, the West, and the People: Calcutta's Populist Literary Tradition |
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1986 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Alexander H. BOLYANATZ |
Matriliny and mortuary feasting among the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea |
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Dr. Daniel M. T. FESSLER |
A Small Field With a Lot of Hornets: An Exploration of Shame, Motivation, and Social Control |
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Dr. Kendall W. KROESEN |
Es Otra Cosa: Emotion and World View in a Mexican Town |
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1985 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Kevin K. BIRTH |
Any Time Is Trinidad Time: Time and Social Organization in Eastern Trinidad |
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Dr. Mark A. CRAVALHO |
An Invisible Universe of Evil: Supernatural Malevolence and Personal Experience Among Amazon Peasants |
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Dr. Alasdair S. DONALD |
Stories of the 'Real Self': A Psychological Analysis of Popular Illness Categories in the Secular West |
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Dr. Elisa J. SOBO |
The Jamaican Body: A Study of the Use of Traditional Health Beliefs |
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1984 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Eva M. BAGG |
Children's Uses of Culture Through Self-Presentation: A Study of a Cretan Boy and Girl |
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1983 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Eiko TADA |
Maintaining a Balance: Between Hito ("Person") and Kojin ("Individual") in a Japanese Farming Community |
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1982 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Daniel J. DOYLE |
Democracy in the Context of Fraud: The Mexican Presidental Election of 1988 |
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Dr. Sara Ann DICKEY |
Going to the Pictures in Madurai: Social, Psychological, and Political Aspects of Cinema in Urban Working Class South India |
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1981 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Karen BRISON |
Gossip, Innuendo, and Sorcery: Village Politics Among the Kwanga, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea |
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Dr. Stephen L. EYRE |
Revival Christianity Among the Urat of Papua New Guinea: Some Possible Motivational and Perceptual Antecedents |
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Dr. Brian P. FARLEY |
Existential Dilemmas. Anxiety. and Social Control in a Tlaxcalan Village |
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Dr. Dana A. FARNHAM |
Animal Traction at Agbassa: The Change From Hoes and Plows on a Government-Sponsored Land Settlement Project in Northern Togo |
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Dr. Rebecca M. JOSEPH |
Diffused Batik Production in Central Java |
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Dr. Stephen LEAVITT |
Cargo. Christ. and Nostalgia for the Dead: Themes of Intimacy and Abandonment in Bumbita Arapesh Social Experience |
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Dr. Yasuko WACHI |
What comes next? Native Americans of San Diego County: A Study of Uncertainty for an Ethnic Minority Group of Southern California |
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1980 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Eloise HIEBERT-MENSES |
Aspects of Cheating in a South Indian Market |
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Dr. Daniel T. LINGER |
Beyond Carnaval : Dangerous Ritual in São Luis |
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Dr. Susan THICKSTUN |
Culture and Self: A Study of Cultural Ideas in the Discourse of Five American Psychotherapy Patients |
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Dr. Anne WOODRICK |
The Sign of the Cross: Folk Catholicism in a Rural Yucatecan Community |
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1979 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Michael A. DOWNS |
Sociocultural Change and Ethnic Identity: The Effect of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in Unalaska, Alaska |
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Dr. Eugene S. KUMEKAWA |
Person, Group, And Context : The Foundations of Ethnic Identity Among the Chinese in Fiji |
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Dr. Steven PARISH |
Hierarchy and Person in the Moral World of the Newars |
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Dr. Raquel PRIEGUEZ |
The Power of Demeanor: Charismatic Leadership in a Spiritual Organization |
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Dr. Elizabeth STERN |
Conflicts in a Swiss valley |
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Dr. Alan N. TIMMERMAN |
Tradition and Community in Modern Japan: Tradition as a Mediating Agent in Social Change at the Family and Local Level |
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1978 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Mark W. BUSSE |
Sister Exchange Among the Wamek of the Middle Fly |
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Dr. John DART |
Ethnic Identity and Marginality Among the Coast Veddas of Sri Lanka |
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Dr. Mary Kay GILLILAND |
The Maintenance of Family Values in a Yugoslav Town |
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Dr. Sunil GOONASEKERA |
Renunciation and Monasticism Among the Jainas of India |
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Dr. Douglas HOLLAN |
"Disruptive" Behavior in a Toraja Community |
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Dr. Jane WELLENKAMP |
A Psychocultural Study of Loss and Death Among the Toraja |
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1977 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Kathleen BARLOW |
Learning Cultural Meanings Through Social Relationships : An Ethnography of Childhood in Murik Society, Papua New Guinea |
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Dr. Ernestine McHUGH |
The Social, Cultural, and Personal Worlds of the Gurungs of Nepal |
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1976 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Joshua AKONG'A |
Social Training: Perspectives on Obedience and Autonomy in Boys Among the Swahili of Old Town, Mombasa and the Upper-Middle Class of La Jolla, California |
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Dr. Daniel W. FORSYTH |
Motivational Bases for Conformity to Religious Norms |
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Dr. David M. LIPSET |
Authority and the Maternal Presence: An Interpretive Ethnography of Murik Lakes Society (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea) |
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1975 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Ruth L. MOORE |
Women and Warriors: Defending Islam in the Southern Philippines |
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Dr. John S. PETTERSON |
The Political Significance of Fishing Cooperatives: A Mexican Case Study |
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Dr. Betsy R. STRICK |
Ideology and Expressive Culture in the Druze Family |
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1974 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Susan ACKERMAN-LEE |
Cultural Process in Malaysian Industrialization: A Study of Malay Women Factory Workers |
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Dr. Bruce M. HARRIS |
What Go 'Round, Come 'Round: Dissimilation in a Caribbean Society |
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Dr. Sandra C. MURRAY |
All in the Family: A Study Of Family Life in a Jat-Sikh Village |
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Dr. Lawrence A. PALINKAS |
The Force of Words: Rhetoric and Social Change in a Chinese Christian Community |
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1973 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Namika RABY |
Bureaucracy, Politics, and Society in a Provincial Town in Sri Lanka |
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Dr. George SCOTT |
Migrants Without Mountains: The Politics of Sociocultural Adjustment Among the Lao Hmong Refugees in San Diego |
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Dr. Elizabeth YOUNG |
Topeng in Bali: Change and Continuity in a Traditional Drama Genre |
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1972 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Kevin A. AVRUCH |
American Immigrants in Israel: Social Identities and Change |
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Dr. James MacMURRAY |
Modernization and Psychopathology: An Anthropological Perspective of the Borderline Personality Syndrome |
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Dr. John C. RUSSELL |
In the Shadows of Saints : Aspects of Family and Religion in a Rural Irish Gaeltacht |
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Dr. Terry TOMBS |
Women, Politics and Social Change in Spain |
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Dr. Jack McIver WEATHERFORD |
Family Culture, Behavior, and Emotion in a Working-Class German Town |
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1971 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. John L. AGUILAR |
Self-Esteem and Reputation Management Among Lower Class Males of a Southern Mexican Town |
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Dr. Peter D. BELL |
Social Change and Social Perception in a Rural Hungarian Village |
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Dr. M. Griffin DIX |
The East Asian Country of Propriety: Confucianism in a Korean Village |
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Dr. Paula F. LEVIN |
Students and Teachers on Tubuai: A Cultural Analysis of Polynesian Classroom Interaction |
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Dr. Michael W. MELTZER |
Psychosocial Activity Among Elderly Members of the Legal Profession |
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Dr. Michael D. MURPHY |
Between the Virgin and the Whore: Local Community and the Nuclear Family in Seville, Spain |
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Dr. Joseph NALVEN |
The Politics of Urban Growth: A Case Study Of Community Formation in Cali, Colombia |
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Dr. Michael K. ORBACH |
The Cultural Systems of the Tuna Seinermen of San Diego, California |
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Dr. George R. SAUNDERS |
The Family Bond: Individual and Communal Experience in a Modernizing Italian Village |
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Dr. Carlos G VELEZ -IBANEZ |
Culture, Process, and Politics in Central Urbanizing Mexico |
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Dr. Geoffrey M. WHITE |
Big Men and Church Men: Social Images in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands |
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1970 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Edwin HUTCHINS |
Reasoning in Discourse: An Analysis of Trobriand Island Land Litigation |
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Dr. Michael French SMITH |
Good Men Face Hard Times in Koragur: Ideology and Social Change in a New Guinea village |
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Dr. Shiu-kuen Fan TSUNG |
Moms, Nuns And Hookers: Extrafamilial Alternatives for Village Women in Taiwan |
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Dr. William A. WEDENOJA |
Religion and Adaptation in Rural Jamaica |
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1969 Entering Class |
Dissertation Title |
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Dr. Peter W. BLACK |
Neo-Tobian Culture: Modern Life on a Micronesian Atoll |
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Dr. Michael L. CHATFIELD |
Interpersonal Conflict in a Colombian Town |
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Dr. Eleanor R. GERBER |
The Cultural Patterning of Emotions in Samoa |
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Dr. Manisha Dasgupta ROY |
Ideal and Compensatory Roles in the Life Cycle of Upper-Class Bengali Women |