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1939-2008

2008

"Kazane Höyük and Urban Life Histories in Third Millennium Upper Mesopotamia"

Andrew T. Creekmore III

Cynthia Robin-Advisor

"Working at Risk: An Ethnography of Making Markets in Chicago"

Gail E. Eby

Timohty Earle-Advisor

"Exploring the Early Development of Health Inequality: Culture, Stress, and Health among African American Adolescents"

Elizabeth Sweet

Thomas McDade-Advisor

"Radio Ways: Society, Locality, and FM technology in Koutiala Mali"

Craig Tower

Robert Launay

 

2007

"Tired Bodies and Traveling Women: Gender and Economy in the Bosnian Refugee Migration to the United States, 1992-2005"
Christiana Croegaert


"You're more poor": Squatter efforts to shape urban space, housing, and informal work in Windhoek, Namibia
Clinton Nichols III

2006

 

“The Creation of a Propertied Landscape: Land Tenure and Agricultural Investment in Medieval Iceland

Douglas J. Bolender

 

"Households, Daily Practice, and Cultural Appropriation at Sixth Millennium Tell Kurdu"

Rana D. Özbal

Stein/Robin-Advisors

"Spoken Tibetan, Written English: Communities of Practice and Linguistic Market Places in the Tibetan Diaspora of McLeod Ganj, India" 

Heidi Ann Swank
Robert Launay-Advisor

 

2004

 

“Platforms of Power: House, Community, and Social Change in the Formative Lake Titicaca Basin” 

Robin A. Beck, Jr.

James Brown-Advisor

“Energetics, Health, and Economic Modernization in the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia: A Biocultural Perspective on Lifestyle Change in a Circumpolar Population”

James Joshua Snodgrass

William Leonard-Advisor

 

2003

 

“The Political Economy of Inter-Regional Exchange in Fourth Millennium B.C. Anatolia: Geochemical Analyses of Bitumen Artifacts from Hacinebi Tepe, Turkey

Mark Samuel Schwartz

Stein-advisor

“Social and Biological Determinants of Cardiovascular Risk among Rural and Urban Yakut: The Impact of Socioeconomic Upheaval”

Mark Vincent Sorensen

William Leonard-Advisor

 

2002

 

“Gardening and Meaningful Lives: an Ethnography of Milwaukee Area Residential Vernacular Gardeners”

John T. Hammetter

Werner-Advisor

“Managing Menses for Reproductive Health and Pregnancy Avoidance in Guinea, West Africa: Beyond Contraception and Abortion”

Elise C. Levin

Caroline Bledsoe-Advisor

“Culture and Contract: Cross Cultural Conflict in US-Japan Business, The American Perspective”

Rebecca A. Radnor

Werner-Advisor

“Power and Poverty” Political History of a ‘non-agricultural’ Town in Rual Mali”

Neils F. Teunis

Robert Launay-Advisor

 

2001

 

“Between Starvation and Stardom: Chicago Blues Musicians as Cultural Workers”

Caleb Dube

Karen Tranberg Hansen-Advisor

“Working Here and Now: an Ethnography of Practice in Temporary Office Work”

Diane L. Gross

Helen Schwartzman-Advisor

 

2000

 

“Embodying Honor, Managing Misfortune Strategies and Ritual Practices of Fertility and Son-Infertility Among the Hadendowa Women of Eastern Sudan

Amal Hassan Fadlalla

Caroline Bledsoe-Advisor

“An Uncertain Honor: Schooling and Family Formation in Catholic Cameroon

Jennifer Johnson-Kuhn

Caroline Bledsoe-Advisor

“The Organization of Domestication at Gritille, A Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Site in Southeastern Turkey

Belinda Helene Monahan

Stein-Advsior

“The Near Northwest Side Story: Gender, Migration, and Everyday Life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico

Gina M. Perez

Micaela di Leonardo-Advisor

“Walking the Line: Women and Industrial Conflict in Southern West Virginia

Karaleah Sabina Reichart

Helen Schwartzman-Advisor

 

1999

 

“Double-Crossing the Color Line: Japanese Americans in Black and White Chicago, 1945-1996”

Jacalyn D. Harden

 

“The Rector in the Midst: Ritual as an Adaptive Mechanism in an Urban Religious Context”

John Peter Newkumet Massad

 

“Food Sharing and the Development of Feeding Behavior in Saguinus Imperator, the Emperor Tamarin (Family: Callitrichidae)”

Diane Lynn Wallander

 

 

1998

 

“Karibu Geto Langu/Welcome in My Ghetto: Urban Youth, Popular Culture and Language in 1990’s Tanzania

Pieter Walter Remes

 

“Chinese Multilingualism in Chicago

Daniel M. W. Strauss

 

 

1997

 

“Borders and Boundaries: Gender, Ideology, and Exchange Along the Benin-Nigeria Border”

Donna K. Flynn

Robert Launay-Advisor

“Identity and Politics in a Transnational Community: A Case of Chicago Korean-Americans”

Jung-Sun Park

Werner-Advisor

“The Spiritual Economy of Nioro Du Sahel: Islamic Discourse and Practices in a Malian Religious Center

Benjamin F. Soares

 

 

1996

 

“The Great East Road: Gender, Generation and Urban to Rural Migration in the Eastern Province of Zambia

Leslie Ann Ashbaugh

Karen Tranberg Hansen-Advisor

“The Natural History and Ecology of the Mona Monkey (Cercopithecus Mona Schreber 1774) on the Island of Granada, West Indies

Mary Elizabeth Glenn

Dow-Advisor

“A Zooarchaeological Model for the Study of Ethnic Complexity at Sepphoris”

Billy J. Grantham

Stein-Advisor

“Social Preferences Between Captive Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): The Influence of Behavioral Interactions in Determining Individual Social Integration”

Mary Johnston Knappenberger

Dagosto-Advisor

“Household Status, Marine Shell Bead Production, and the Development of Cahokia in the Mississippian Period”

Mary Beth Trubitt

James Brown-Advisor

“The Relationship Between Tooth Morphology and Mechanical Dietary Properties in Two Malagasy Lemur Families (Lemuridae and Indriidae)”

Nayuta Yamashita

Dagosto-Advisor

 

1995

 

“Shylocks and Mabisinesi: Trust, Informal Credit and Commercial Culture In Kabwe, Zambia

Carter Alan Roeber

Karen Tranberg Hansen-Advisor

"Manging the Social Clock: The Negotiation of Elderhood Among Rural Asante of Ghana"

Barbara Stucki

Caroline Bledsoe-Advisor

“Expert and Local Knowledge in the Two Cultures of Development: A Case Study of Household Businesses in Guatemala

Thomas Stuart Ullman

Helen Schwartzman-Advisor

 

1994

 

“Inseparable and Distinct: An Understanding of Navajo Nadleehi in a Traditional Navajo Worldview”

Carolyn Epple

Werner-Advisor

“Nobody’s Home: The Paradox of Aging in Place in Assisted Living”

Jacquelyn Beth Frank

Karen Tranberg Hansen-Advisor

“The Ontogeny of Knuckle-walking Behavior and Associated Morphology in the African Apes”

Sandra Emiko Inouye

 

“Leaping Behaviors and the Cross-Sectional Properties of Strepsirhine Primate Long Bones”

Carl J. Terranova

Dagosto-Advisor

 

1993

 

“Making a Difference: An Ethnographaphy of Women’s Career Motivations, Values, and Work Satisfaction in Nursing”

Maria Chiara

Werner-Advisor

“Assessment of Cognitive Development in the Kakariki” (Cyanoramphus Auriceps)

Mildred Sears Funk

Stone-Sade-Advisor

 

1992

 

“A Critique of the Adaptive Type Concept in Eastern Woodlands Prehistory”

John Paxton Hart

James Brown-Advisor

“The Dynamics of Ethnicity in a Polity Transformation of Argobba Social Identity”

Abebe Kefleyesus

 Robert Launay-Advisor

“Ontogeny and Body Size Dimorphism in Anthropoid Primates”

Steven Robert Leigh

Stone-Sade-Advisor

“The Waluguru are not Sleeping: Poverty, Culture, and Social Differentiation in Morogoro, Tanzania”

Pamela Ann Maack

Karen Tranberg Hansen-Advisor


1991

"Visits, Holidays and Celebrations: Women's Kin Networks in Tunis"

Paula Holmes-Eher

Helen Schwartzman-Advisor

"Sectarian Strategies for Stability and Solidarity: A Theory for the Remarkable Durability of the Lubavitch Movement"

Laura Alter Klapman

Robert Launay-Advisor

"The Organization of Health in United States: Decision-Making of Physicians and Managing Care Programs"

Melissa LeCompte Rehfus

Werner-Advisor

"The Making of 'Just Mothers:' Multiple Realities in American Social Service Agency"

Mary Anna Thornton

Helen Schwartzman-Advisor

 

1990

"Historical Demography in the Blue Ridge of Central Virginia"

Susan R. Frankenberg

Dow-Advisor

"Stratification, Social Control, and Student Culture: An Ethnography of Three Japanese Junior High Schools"

Rebecca Fukazawa

Werner-Advisor

"Redefming Copena: A Regional Analysis of Mortuary Patterns in 'Southern Hopewell'"

Lane Beck

Bulkstra-Advisor

"The Skeletal Biology of Estuquina: A Late Intermediate Period Site in Southern Peru"

Sloan Williams

Bulkstra-Advisor

"Economic Models, Ethnoarchaeology, and Early Pastoralism in the High Sierra of the South Central Andes"

Lawrence A. Kuznar

Aldenderfer-Advisor

 

1989

"The Behavioral Ecology of Change Among the Mukogodo of Kenya"

Lee F. Cronk

William Irons-Adivsor

"...resolved to singlehood with one eye open to possibilities": The Changing Significance of Marriage Among Highly Educated American Women"

Adrianne R. Andrews

Werner-Advisor

"Indigenous Institution Building in an Afro-Christian Movement: The Aladura as a Cast Study"

Deidre Helen Crumbley

Robert Launay-Advisor

"Hunter Gatherer Site Structure and Sedentism: The Koster Site Middle Archaic"

John F. Doershuk

James Brown-Advisor

"Turnings: From Life History to Group Biography-Four Generations of Change in a Navajo Family"

Karen R. Rifts

Werner-Advisor

"Oneota Settlement Practices in the La Crosse Region: An Analysis of the coon Creek Drainage in the Driftless Area of Western Wisconsin"

Robert Sasso

James Brown-Advisor

"Planning and Functional Variability in Upper Palaeolithic Microwear Analysis of Perigordian Tools from Le Flageolet I (Dordogne)"

Larry R. Kimball

James Brown-Advisor

"Observations on Dominance Relations among Saguinas imperator, the Emperor Tamarin"

Kerry F. Knox

Sade-Advisor

"An Evaluation of Biomechanical and Non-Mechanical Models of Primate Circumorbital Form and Function"

Matthew J. Ravosa

Shea-Advisor

"Power Dynamics during the Rise of the State: An Application of the Rasch Model to Archaeology Data"

John A. Stahl

James Brown-Advisor

 

1988

"The Futures of Science: Young Scientists at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis"

Timothy McKeown

Werner-Advisor

"Deciduous Dental Microwear in Middle Woodland and Mississippian Populations from the Lower Illinois River Valley"

Jill Bullington

Bulkstra-Advisor

"'Task Force' Meetings and Life in a City Government: Making Nonsense and Sense"

Rebecca Hanson Berman

Helen Schwartzman-Advisor

 

1987

"Al Qabila, Inter-Group Relations, and the Environmental Conte Bani-hiher in Southwestern Saudi Arabia"

Abdulaziz Aloshban

Werner-Advisor

"Efficiency, Economy, and Prehistoric Lithic Assemblages in the American Midwest"

Robert Jeske

James Brown-Advisor

"Women, Western Education and Change: The Case Study of the Hausa-Fulani of Northern Nigeria"

Mararet Mary Knipp

Cohen-Advisor

"Population Genetic Models for Interpreting Prehistoric Intra-Cemetery Biological Variation"

Lyle Konigsberg

Bulkstra-Advisor

"The Organizational Character of Two Havan-Hopewell Chipped-Stone Lithic Assemblages from the Napoleon Hollow Site"

Michael Wiant

James Brown-Advisor

"Mexican and Mexican-American Adolescent Achievement in an Urban US Community: Making It Through High School"

Lesli Barger Beltram

William Irons-Advisor

"Marriage and Reproduction in the Kipsigis of Kenya"

Monique Borgerhoff-Mulder

William Irons-Advisor

 

1986

"Political Evolution in the Lower Illinois Valley"

Richard A. Kerber

James Brown-Advisor

"A Computer Simulation of the Spread of Tuberculosis in Prehistoric Populations of the Lower Illinois River Valley"

Janet W. McGrath

Bulkstra-Advisor

"A Network Analysis of Hutterite Population Structure and Genetic Variability: A Study of Forty-Four Schmiedenleut Colonies"

Elizabeth O'Brien

Bulkstra-Advisor

"Analysis of Microstructural Enamel Defects in Prehistoric American Populations from the Midwest"

Bridget A. Reilly

Bulkstra-Advisor

"Variability in Historic Norton Bay Subsistence and Settlement"

William L. Sheppard

William Irons-Advisor

"Self-Help Groups for Families of the Mentally Ill: Growth, Conflict and Change"

Shalom Zev Kailfon

Helen Schwartzman-Advisor

"Legal Change and Social Structure: The Politics of Law in Eastern Sudan"

Deborah Mack

Robert Launay-Advisor

 

1985

"Corporate Symbols: An Interpretive Prehistory of Indian Burial Mounds in West Central Illinois"

Douglas K. Charles

Bulkstra-Advisor

"From Nega' to 'Izba: Continuity and Change Among the Awlad'ali of Egypt's Western Desert"

Francis J. Drejer

Kock/Irons-Advisor

"The Ethology of Captive Juvenile Caiman Sclerops: Predation, Growth and Development and Sociality"

John J. Lewis

Sade-Advisor

"The Informative Process in the Clinical Setting"

Joan J. Mathews

Helen Schwartzman-Advisor

"Health, Disease and Social Organization in the Mississippian Community at Moundville"

Mary Lucas Powell

Bulkstra-Advisor

"English/Spanish Test of Decentering for the Translation of Questionnaires"

Alicia S. Schoua-Glusberg

Werner-Advisor

"Amaeru: A Japanese American Context for Independence"

Nathaneil Tashima

Hsu-Advisor

"Fertility Determinants on Ifaluk and Yap: Tests of Economics and Darwinian Hypotheses"

Paul W. Turke

Irons-Advisor

"Household Agricultural Production and Off-Farm Work in a Sudanese Village"

Victoria Bernal

Werner-Advisor

"An Evolutionary Ecological Analysis of the Social Organization of the Ayoreo of the Northern Gran Chaco"

Paul E. Bugos Jr.

Chagnon-Advisor

"L S Vygotsky and Soviet Activity Theory: New Conceptions of the Relationship Between Mind and Society"

Norris J. Minick

Werner-Advisor

"A Study of Normal and Pathological Craniofacial Morphology and Growth Using Finite Element Methods"

Joan T. Richtsmeier

Cheverud-Advisor

 

1984

"Intra-Individual Variability in Human Cortical Bone Remodeling"

Bruce P. Bradtmiller

Bulkstra-Advisor

"Political Economy Among the Pastoral Gable Orma: The Effects of Market Integration"

Jean Ensminger

Cohen-Advisor

"Signing Up: The Culture and Careers of Silicon Valley Computer People"

Kathleen L. Gregory

Werner-Advisor

"Household Dynamics and Rural Political Economy Among Emby Farmers in the Kenya Highlands"

Angelique L. Haugerud

Cohen-Advisor

"A Comparative Study of East Asian American and Anglo American Academic Achievment: An Ethnographic Study"

Yongsook A. Lee

Werner-Advisor

"Ecological Stress and Adaptive Response: The Kenya Somali in the Twentieth Century"

James L. Merryman

Cohen-Advisor

"Ecomony and Ecological Stress: Household Strategies of Transitional Somali Pastoralists in Northern Kenya"

Nancy H. Marryman

Cohen-Advisor

"Patterns of Degenerative Joint Disease in Middle Woodland, Late Woodland, and Mississipian Skeletal Series from the Lower Illinois Valley"

Robert B. Pickering

Bulkstra-Advisor

"Reproductive Behavior of Captive Nicobar Pigeons, Calocnas Nicobarica"

Shauna S. Roberts

Sade-Advisor

"Food Habits and Pregnancy Outcome in a Sample of Urban Black, Pregnant Adolescents: Interaction of Biology, Environment and Culture"

Laurie Watson Rush

Bulkstra-Advisor

"The Transformation of Farming in Gadsden County, Florida: A Micro-Level Example of a Macro-Level Phenomenon"

Robert E. Zabawa

Werner-Advisor

 

1983

"Navajo Conflict Management"

Mark C. Bauer

Werner-Advisor

"Agrarian Production and Labor Investment Strategies in a K'ekchi' Village, Belize"

Nancy Berte

Chagnon-Advisor

"Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History"

Laura Lynne Betzig

Chagnon-Advisor

"Resource, Mating, and Kinship: The Behavioral Ecology of a Trinidadian Village"

Mark V. Flinn

Chagnon-Advisor

"Resettlemant and Replacement: Social Dynamics in East Kalimation, Indonesia"

Mary Fuicher

Robert Launay-Advisor

"Diet Optimization Models for the Lower Illinois River Valley"

John S. Hewitt

Vierra-Advisor

"A Resettlement Project in Upper Volta"

Della E. McMiJlan

Dalton-Advisor

"Fluctuating Asymmetry as a Measure of Development Stability in Illinois Woodland Populations"

Barbara L. H. O'Connell

Bulkstra-Advisor

"American Core Value and the Character of Sociomoral Guidance in the Elementary School"

Frank Pasquale

Hsu-Advisor

"The Dialogue Between State and Individual: An Analysis of Inca Legitimation as a Communication Process"

Judith Tolaud

Cohen-Advisor

"A Study of Late Woodland Cultural Change in the Lower Illinois River Valley"

Vernon H. Wettersten

Brown-Advisor

"Interethnic Marriage in Ghana"

Barbara Zaveruha

Cohen-Advisor

 

1982

"Role of Males in Group Fission in Macaca Mulatta"

B. Diane Chepko-Sade

Irons-Advisor

"Differentail Dental Variability and Field Effects in Primates"

Claire Gordon

Bulkstra-Advisor

"Economic Models of Stone Tool Manufacture and Use: the Koster Site Middle Archaic"

Rochelle Lurie

Vierra-Advisor

"Measuring Prehistoric Levels of Health: A Study of Mississippian Period Skeletal Remians from the American Bottom Illinois"

George Milner

Bulkstra-Advisor

"Early-Middle Archaic Subsistence Strategies: Changes in Founal Exploitation at the Koster Site"

Sarah W. Neusius

Vierra-Advisor

"An Epistemological Study of Navajo Divination and European Science"

Judith A. Remington

Werner-Advisor

"Economic and Social Development as an Adaptation to a Marginal Environment in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico"

John D. Schelberg

Vierra-Advisor

"The Changing Peasant Society in Catalonia: The Transformation of the Masoveria System"

Mariko Tamanoi

Dalton-Advisor

 

1981

"Uyenzhena Mwibalo: Toward a Grammatical Sketch of Components of Visual Communication Events in Eastern Zaire: Proxemic Aspects of the Semiosis of Hemba Gazing"

Thomas D. Blakely

Werner-Advisor

"On the Evolution of Brain Lateralization and its Implications for LAnguage"

Janet Dunaif-Hattis

Sade-Advisor

"Culture Change and the Response to Acculturative Pressures Among the Indian Population of the Western Great Lakes: A Psychosocial study"

Dennis Fransted

Werner-Advisor

"Navajo Children's Lexical Development and the Acquisition of World View"

Madelyn A. Iris

Werner-Advisor

"The Politics of Age: Conflict, Liminality and the Microgenesis of Social Structure"

Kevin Keating

Cohen-Advisor

"P'UMASSI: Patterns of Interpersonal Relationships in a Korean Village"

Joohee Kim

Hsu-Advisor

"Developing a Culture of Retirement: Structural Conditions and Adaptive Strategies in a Planned Retirement Community"

Richard Levine

Werner-Advisor

 

1980

"A Hermeneutic Approach to Hausa Therapeutics: The Allegory of the Living Fire"

Allan C. Darrah

Cohen-Advisor

"A Navajo Philosophy"

John Farella

Werner-Advisor

"The Anthropology of development: Village-Level Development of the Post-Colonial Period"

Mustapha Hajimohamedjar

Dalton-Advisor

"A Critical Assessment of the Marxist Approach to Economic Anthropology"

Jasper Koecke

Dalton-Advisor

"Ethnoaesthetics of Northern Arapaho Indian Music"

Ronald L. Lab

Becker-Adivsor

"Socio-Cultural Influences on the Pregnancy Experience: An Analysis of the Differences Between Hypertensive and Normotensive Women"

Charlene A. S. Lewis

Britan-Advisor

 

1979

"Hunter-Gatherer Mobility Stratagies: An Example from the Koster Site in the Lower Illinois Valley"

Davis Carlson

Vierra-Advisor

"Demography and Microevolution on Cayo Santiago"

Carole L. Ober

Olivier-Advisor

"Change and Ambiguity in Male-Female Relations in an Algerian City"

David Parsons

Koch-Advisor

"Sexual Stratification in Rural France: Variations on a Theme of Social Order"

Susan C. Rogers

Cohen-Advisor

 

1978

"Osteo-Arthritis in Non-Human Primates: A Locomotor Model of Joint Degeneration"

C. Jeanne DeRousseau

Bulkstra-Advisor

"Older Persons Living in Single Room Occupancy Hotels: A Study in Medical Anthropoolgy"

Kevin J. Eckert

Hsu-Advisor

"A Proxemic Analysis of Greetings"

Cynthia Peters Evans

Hall-Advisor

"The Content and Structure of Friendship: An Analysis of the Friendships of Urban Cameroonians"

Maureen Starke Fitzgerald

Cohen-Adivsor

"Is There 'Something Wrong' with Pedregales? An Ethnography of Cultural Double Bind"

Gladys Levis-Pilz

Hall-Advisor

"A Model of the Dimensions of Mortality and Its Application to Paleodemography"

Ann Palkovich

Bulkstra-Advisor

"Founal Exploitation and Energy Expenditure: Early Late Woodland Subsistence in the Lower Illinois Valley"

Bonnie Whatley Styles

Struever-Advisor

"Towards a Model of Urbanism in an African City: The Dual Focus Career of Formal Sector Workers in Nnakuru, Kenya"

Andy Wachtel

Cohen-Advisor

 

1977

"Sex, Work and Social Class in Cameroon"

Dolores Brimmer Koenig

Cohen-Advisor

"Nogales High School: Peergroup and Institution in a Mexican-American Border Town"

G. Mark Schoepfle

Werner-Advisor

"Metaphor and Morality in Nineteenth Century Kwakiutl Culture"

Stanley G. Walens

Werner-Advisor

"The Systematic Analysis of Feathers from the Koster Site, A Stratified Archaic Site"

Renata Wolynec

Brown-Advisor

 

1976

"Adult Play Behavior and Its Occurance Among Free-Ranging Phesus Monkeys"

Judith A. Breuggeman

Sade-Advisor

"Spatial Structures and Social Organization: Regional Manifestations of Mississippian Society"

Lynne Goldstein

Struever-Advisor

"Illness and Medical Care in a New Guinea Highlands Society"

Adell Johannes

Cohen-Advisor

"Patterns of Interference and the Control of Aggression in a Group of Free-Ranging Phesus Monkeys"

Jay R. Kaplan

Sade-Advisor

"Akaki Beseka: Urban Processes in an Ethiopian Industrial Town"

Hugh Mullenbach

Cohen-Advisor

"Incorporation and Changes in Ethnic Structure: The Chemehuevi Indians"

George Roth

Cohen-Advisor

"Constancy and Variation in Chinese Culture: An Analysis of Fourteen Mainland, Offshore, and Overseas Communities in Terms of the Hsu Attributes"

Hendrik Serrie

Hsu-Advisor

"Ethnic Identity and Community Action in El Barrio"

Gwen Stern

Bohannan-Advisor

"Gourma Ethnoanatomy: A Theory of Human Being"

Richard Swanson

Werner-Advisor

1975

"Patterns of Interactions in the Beha Valley: A Study of Social Organization in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea"

Joan K. Bragginton

Cohen-Advisor

"The Philosophy of the Akwapim Akan of Southern Ghana"

Helanie Minkus

Albert-Advisor

"The Archaeological Study of Social Change: Woodland Systems in West-Central Illinois"

Joseph Tainter

Brown-Advisor

 

1974

"Froebel: The Ethnography of an Urban School"

Ralph J. Bishop

Bohannan-Advisor

"Comparison of Communication Patterns Relating to Fertility Control in Four Health Care Systems in Interior Alaska"

Mini Harris Dixon

Werner-Advisor

"Navajo Semantics: The 'Classificatory' Verbs"

Edward Garrison

Werner-Advisor

"Time-Allocation and Urban Adjustment: A Maltese Case Study"

Stefan Goodwin

Albert-Advisor

"The Inter-Group Economy of the Nekematigi Eastern Highlands District, New Guinea"

Dana E. Keil

Bohannan-Advisor

"The Curillo de Cristiandad" An Anthropology Analysis of a Present-Day Religious Movement"

Marcene Loranger Marcoux

Fabian-Advisor

"Women in Accra: A Study in Options"

Deborah Pellow

Cohen-Advisor

"Biological Variability and the Hopewell Phenomenon: An Interregional Approach"

Kathleen Reichs

Bulkstra-Advisor

"Voices, Visions and Strange Ideas: Hallucinatins and Delusions in a Mexican Origin Population"

Emile Schepers

Bohannan-Advisor

"Death is for All: Death and Death Related Beliefs of Rural Spanish-Americans"

Julie Skansie

Bohannan-Advisor

"Mother Daughter Dyadic Dominance in Black American Kinship"

Terrence Tatje

Hsu-Advisor

 

1973

"Early Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Special Reference to South Africa"

John R. Bower

Struever-Advisor

"Sunsum Edwuma: Spiritual Work: Forms of Symbolic Action and Communication in Ghanaian Healing Movement"

Paul Breidenback

Fabian-Advisor

"The Environmental Movement in Montreal: The Social Organization of Problem-Solving Associations"

Paula Felt

Cohen/albert-Advisors

"The Imagery of Madness in Village Barbados"

Lawrence Fisher

Bohannan-Advisor

"An Anthropological Analysis of Homicide in an Afro-Arab State: The Sudan"

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

Bohannan-Advisor

"SANSEI: An Ethnography of Experience"

Mark J. Gehrie

Bohannan-Advisor

"Psychological Intimacy Among the Jews of North Metropolitan Chicago and the Sephardic Jews of Istanbul, Turkey"

Mark Glazer

Hsu-Advisor

"Social Networks in Urban Sudan"

Richard A. Lobban Jr.

Cohen/Bohannan-Advisors

"Navajo Suicide: Cultural Etiology of Suicide Behavior and Varian Patterns of Cultural Knowledge About Suicide"

Marilyn Wood Morgan

Albert-Advisor

"'Real Pretending': An Ethnography of Play Communication"

Helen B. Schwartzman

Hall-Advisor

"The American Family and Mental Illiness: An Ethnography of Family Dysfunction"

John Schwartzman

Hall-Advisor

"An Experience in Chicago: New Roles for Psychiatric Anthropologists"

Elias Sevilla-Casas

Bohannan-Advisor

"The Bachama and Their Neighbors: Non-Kin Joking Relationships in Adamawa, Northeastern Nigeria"

Phillip Stevens Jr.

Bohannan-Advisor

 

1972

"Islamizatin Among the Upper Pokomo of Kenya"

Robert C. Bunger Jr.

Cohen-Advisor

"The Psychedelic Subculture in America"

William C. King

Bohannan-Advisor

"The Daily Life of a Traditional Navajo Household: An Ethnographic Study in Human Activites"

Martin D. Topper

Werner-Advisor

 

1971

"Domestic Authority and Female Autonomy in Matrilineal Societies"

Alice Biery Schegel

Cohen-Advisor

"The Bush Negro Tribes of Surinam, South AMerica: A Synthesis"

Dirk H. van der Elst

Hsu-Advisor

"The Institutionalized Severly Retarded: a Combined Exploratory and Systematic Observational Study"

Richard Wills

Bohannan-Advisor

 

1970

"The Agrarian Revolution i Central Kenya: A Study of Farm Innovation in Embu District"

John Moris

Bohannan-Advisor

"An Ethnography of Modernization: Pare Traditionality and the Impact of Recent Changes"

William M. O'Barr

Cohen-Advisor

 

1969

"Developmental Change in San Blas"

Regina Holloman

Werner-Advisor

"Estrus Behavior of Free-Ranging Phesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta): A Study of Continuity and Variability"

James D. Loy

Sade-advisor

"Achievement Motivation and Modernization in Bornu"

David H. Spain

Cohen-Advisor

 

1968

"The Culture of Retirement"

Jennie Keith

Bohannan-Advisor

"Socio-Cultural Approaches to Primitive Theories of Disease"

Judy MacDonald Smith

Langness-advisor

 

1967

"Traditional and Wage-Earning Labor Among Tribal Liberians"

Johnetta B. Cole

Bohannan-Advisor

 

1966

"Economic Development and the Decision-Making Process on Big Cypress Indian Reservation, Florida"

Merwyn S. Garbarino

Cohen-Advisor

"Some Techniques of Analysis for Non-Western Music"

Norma McLeod

Merriam-Advisor

"Seasonal Agricultural Labor Among the Navaho Indians: A Study in Socio-Economic Transition"

Victor C. Uchendu

Bohannan-Advisor

 

1965

"An Intellectual History of National Character Studies by British and American Anthropologists"

Robert C. Hunt

Hsu-Advisor

"An Anthropological Analysis of Nigerian Fiction"

Nancy Schmidt

Bohannan-Advisor

 

1964

"Early French Ethnography in Africa and the Development of Ethnology in France"

Donald R. Bender

Naroll-Advisor

"Economic Independence and Ijaw Women:A Comparative Study of Two Communities in the Niger Delta"

Nancy Boric Leis

Bohannan/Cohen-Advisors

 

1963

"Acculturation of the Munda: A Study in Differential Change and Caste Formation"

Nirenda Choudhury

Hsu-Advisor

"Ngbaka: Phonology and Verb Morphology"

Pearl K. England

Laycock-Advisor

"Redistributive Acculturation and Ritual Reintegration in Fang Culture"

James W. Fernandez

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1962

"Continuity and Integration in Gola Society"

Warren L. d'Azevedo

Herskovits-Advisor

"The Cultural Aspects of Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa"

John H. Hamer

Herskovits-Advisor

"Technology Change and Mossi Acculturation"

Peter Hammond

Herskovits-Advisor

"Enculturation and Cultural Change in an Ijaw Community"

Philip E. Leis

Herskovits-Advisor

"The Political System of the Ba-lla: An Analysis of Change and Stability in the Patterns of Authority"

Arthur Tuden

Herskovits-Advisor

"Approaches to the Study of Legal Systems in Non-Literate Societies"

Joshua Zake

Bohannan-Advisor

 

1960

"Suku Religion: A Study in Internally Induced Reinterpretation"

Igor Kopytoff

Hsu-Advisor

"Some Aspects of the Religious Music of the United States Negro: An Ethnomusicological Study with Special Emphasis on Gospel Tradition"

George Ricks

Merriam-Advisor

"The Role of Cultural Accident in the Dynamics of Culture"

James H. Vaughan

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1959

"Higglers of Jamaica"

Margaret Fisher Katzin

Herskovits-Advisor

1958

"Marriage Relationships in the Double Descent System of the Aflikpo Ibo of Southeastern Nigeria"

Phoebe Vestal Ottenberg

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1957

"Patterns in the Stories of the Dakota Indians and the Negros of Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana"

Robert Plant Armstrong

Bascom-Advisor

"The Restudy of Manu'an Culture: A Problem in Methodology"

Lowell D. Holmes

Bascom-Advisor

"Anang Acculturation: a Study of Shifting Cultural Focus"

John C. Messenger

Herskovits-Advisor

"The System of Authority of the Afikpo Ibo of Southeastern Nigeria"

Simon Ottenberg

Herskovits-Advisor

"An Anthropological Study of Essential Hypertension in Three Societies"

Norman A. Scotch

Herskovits-Advisor

"Stability and Change in Ngombe Culture"

Alvin W. Wolfe

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1956

"Tradition and Individual Creativity in Bahamian Folktales"

Daniel J. Crowley

Bascom-Advisor

"The Acculturation of the Bhumij of Manbhum: A Study in Ethnic Integration and Social Class Formation"

Suragit Sinha

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1955

"The Black Carib of Honduras: A Study in Acculturation"

Roy Coelho

Herskovits-Advisor

"An Ethnohistoric Study of Continuity and Change in Gwanbe Culture"

Charles Edward Fuller

Herskovits-Advisor

"Saints and Spirits: A Study of Differential Acculturation in Colombian Negro Communities"

Thomas J. Price

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1954

"The Demographic Aspects of African Polygyny"

Vernon R. Dorjahn

Bascom/Herskovits-Advisors

 

1953

"Plural Marriage Among the Wolof in the Gambia: With a Consideration of Problems of Marital Adjustment and Patterned Ways of Resolving Tension"

David W. Ames

Basom-Advisor

"Religion of Jamaican Negroes: A Study of Afro-Jamaican Acculturation"

Joseph G. Moore

Bascom/Waterman-Advisors

"The Pakot (Suk) of Kenya with Special Reference to the Role of Livestock in Their Economy"

Harold K. Schneider

Bascom-Advisor

"Papiamentu Morphology"

Ismael Silva-Fuenzalida

Hause/Herskovits-Advisors

 

1952

"The Role of the Paternal Line in Fanti Matrilineal Society"

James B. Christensen

Herskovits-Advisor

"Some Aesthetic Aspects of Yoruba and Benin Cultures"

Justine M. J. Cordwell

Herskovits-Advisor

"The Winnebago Indians, A Study in Cultural Change"

Nancy Oestreich Lurie

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1951

"Syncretism and Ambivalence in Haiti: An Ethnohistoric Study"

Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1950

"A Comparative Study of Patterns of Consumption and Systems of Social Stratification"

Mubeccel Belik

Herskovits/Waterman-Advisors

"The Problem of Aggression in a South Sea Culture"

Melford E. Spiro

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1949

"A Personality Study of Ojibwa Children"

Blanche Greene Watrous

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1948

"The Santal: A Study in Culture-Change"

Nabendu Datta-Majuflder

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1945

"The Negro in Northern Brazil: A Study in Acculturation"

Octavio da Costa Eduardo

Herskovits-Advisor

"Patterns of Kinship Strucure in West Africa"

Hugh H. Smythe

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1943

"African Paterns in Trinidad Negro Music"

Richard A. Waterman

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1940

"The Religion of a Sudanese Culture as Influenced by Islam: a Study in Non-European Acculturation"

Joseph H. Greenberg

Herskovits-Advisor

 

1939

"Socret Societies, Religious Cult-Groups and Kinship Units Among the West African Yoruba: A Study in Social Organization"

William Richard Beacom

Herskovits-Advisor

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