Browsing by Author "Beth A. Conklin"
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Revilla-Minaya, Caissa (2019-01-15)Department: AnthropologyTheories of environmental decision-making are based on “modern” conceptualizations of the world that are normalized and legitimized by scientific constructions of a reality that is assumed to be objective. Without recognizing ...
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Newell, James Richard (2007-10-03)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is an historical and critical study of sound as spiritual power in Qawwali, the Islamic devotional music of the Chishtiyya Sufi order of South Asia. My intention is to show that music and religion are, ...
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Patton, Caitlin Rose (2014-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesThis paper creates a contextualized narrative of the history of Amazonian development projects. This project will examine understandings and representations of nature and the Amazon, and how these representations, and their ...
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Hernández Garavito, Carla Cecilia (2019-06-17)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation investigates local community experiences of Inka imperialism between the 15th and 16th centuries t in the central highlands of Peru. It builds on studies of Inka imperialism in the province, with a focus ...
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Talley , Monte Dawn (2019-07-25)Department: AnthropologyOver the last decade açaí (Euterpe oleracea Mart.), a palm fruit traditionally eaten as a staple food in the Brazilian Amazon has become a popular health food for global consumers. Marketed as an exotic tropical berry ...
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Lehr, Amanda M. (2018-08-01)Department: EnglishRaw Metaphors concerns itself with the uses and functions of cannibalism as a literary figure in the work of four major early modern poets, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, and John Milton. While cannibalism ...