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Nammour, Valerie Wheeler
(Univeristy of Oregon, 1974-12)
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Hickmott, Alexana
(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)
Optimal diet and functional response models are used to understand the evolution of primate foraging strategies. The predictions of these models can be tested by examining the changes in dietary diversity. Primate gut ...
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DiNapoli, Robert
(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)
Monumental architecture was an important and widespread component in the emergence and dynamics of many past human societies. These features figure prominently in global dialogues about the evolution of social complexity, ...
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Toepel, Kathryn Anne
(1985-08)
The culture of the Kalapuya Indians of the Willamette Valley, the largest interior valley in western Oregon, does not easily fit within the culture area schemes defined by anthropologists for native North America. ...
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Levin, Maureece
(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)
Food production, or the cultivation and processing of edible materials, is closely linked to both the physical environment and human social systems. This is especially true on the islands of Remote Oceania, where cultivation ...
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Hill, Tami Rene, 1967-
(University of Oregon, 2009-03)
This dissertation focuses on Latin American survivors of political violence and the staff members involved with one of the few torture treatment centers in the US. Relying primarily on life histories and semi-structured ...
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Guthrie, Emily Henderson
(University of Oregon, 2011-12)
This dissertation describes the postcranial functional morphology of Theropithecus brumpti , a fossil cercopithecoid primate from the Plio-Pleistocene of East Africa. Theropithecus is often used as an analogue for human ...
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Anderson, Monya
(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
Colobines are ecological referents that can be used to assess and reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions. Colobine taxa discussed here include Paracolobus mutiwa, P. Cercopithecoides williamsi, C. kimeui, and Rhinocolobus ...
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Sloan, Anna
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
This dissertation presents a social approach to archaeology at the Nunalleq site, located just outside the contemporary Yup’ik community of Quinhagak, Alaska. Nunalleq is a pre-contact village comprised of two sod house ...
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O'Bryan, Christina
(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)
In this study of Afghan women and the relationship of identity to gendered mobility, I found that the Afghan women in this study were affected by prevailing ideologies which recognized them as refugees no matter how long ...
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Lane, Brian
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
A myriad of local adaptations has been associated with the great human dispersal across the Pacific Ocean, occasionally expressing cultural change in dramatic ways. On the small and remote island of Rapa (Rapa Iti) in the ...
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Wasson, George B.
(University of Oregon, 2001-06)
My dissertation, GROWING UP INDIAN: AN EMIC PERSPECTIVE describes the historical and contemporary experiences of the Coquille Indian Tribe and their close neighbors (as manifested in my oven family, in relation to their ...
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O'Connor, John
(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
This dissertation project explores the timing and impacts of Polynesian colonization on the island of Raʻiātea in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. Raʻiātea, also known by the ancestral name Havaiʻi, is the largest ...
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Culleton, Brendan J.
(University of Oregon, 2012)
Identifying connections between land use, population change, and natural and
human-induced environmental change in ancient societies provides insights into the
challenges we face today. This dissertation presents data ...
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Greer, Aaron Andrew
(University of Oregon, 2011-12)
Globalization has inaugurated many rapid changes in local communities throughout the world. The globalization of media, both electronic and print, has introduced new pressures for local communities to confront while also ...
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Napolitano, Matthew
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
Chronology building is a fundamental part of archaeology. Questions related to the timing and duration of events are inextricably connected to larger questions about human activity in the past. Given its wide applicability ...
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Rohwer, Shayna A. (Shayna Alexandra), 1975-
(University of Oregon, 2010-09)
Human birth represents a complex interplay between our evolved biology and the cultural norms and expectations surrounding birth. This project considers both the evolutionary and cultural factors that impact the birth ...
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Daria, James
(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)
On March 17, 2015, tens of thousands of migrant jornaleros (rural salaried farmworkers) began a three-month long general strike that brought agricultural production to a grinding halt in the valley of San Quintín, Baja ...
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Riddell, James Coleman
(University of Oregon, 1970-06)
This is a study of labor migration and the changing village agricultural
production of the Mano society of West Africa brought about by
the participation in the developing western economy of the Republic of
Liberia. ...
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Munsell, Marvin Robert
(University of Oregon, 1967-06)
Economic change is one of the more visible effects of culture contact. This high visibility may well feature in its apparent primacy. Although culture change may result solely from the interplay of internal forces, few if ...