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A Study of the "Natural Groups" Within a Woman's Correctional Institution

Harper, Ian Ann (University of Alabama Libraries, 1951)

This is a study of "natural groups" among the staff and the inmates at the Alabama State Prison for women. Its purpose is the investigation of the nature and function of the social and cultural behavior of the individuals ...
Organized Religion at a State University: A Sociological Analysis

Thomas, Michael Cager (University of Alabama Libraries, 1966)

This thesis is the report and interpretation of an exploratory case study designed to test a redefinition of the Church-Sect typology. In the broadest terms the problem of this study has to do with the general theoretical ...
Historic aboriginal occupation of the Guntersville Basin, Alabama

Fleming, Victor Keith (University of Alabama Libraries, 1976)

A series of dams was constructed on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama during the second quarter of the 20th century, and federally financed archaeological salvage projects were conducted in the areas to be ...
Cultural models, pregnancy, and stress: examining intracultural variation in Jalisco, Mexico

Jackson, Meredith Ann (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The purpose of this research was to use cultural domain analysis (n=73) to determine if one or more shared models of a good pregnancy exist in Jalisco, Mexico, and to use cultural consonance analysis (n=88) to statistically ...
Mental health treatment-seeking behaviors of African American women in the Southern United States

Satcher, Michelle (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The purpose of this project was to investigate relationships between religious orientation, stigma regarding mental disorders, and treatment-seeking for mental disorders among African American women in the Southeastern ...
A comparative health analysis of the historic African American cemetery population from 1LA151, Foster Cemetery, to three contemporaneous historic southeastern African American cemetery populations

Thompson, Brandon Samuel (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The focus of this thesis involves the examination of two hypotheses stemming from field and osteological work at Foster Cemetery (1LA151) located in Lawrence County in northwest Alabama. The majority of this thesis assesses ...
An exploration of the age of mound construction at Mazique (22AD502), a late prehistoric mound center in Adams County, Mississippi

LaDu, Daniel Anderson (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The Mazique site (22Ad502), in Adams County, Mississippi, is believed to have been occupied during both the Coles Creek (A.D. 700-1000) and Mississippi periods (A.D. 1000-1680). However, Ian W. Brown (2007) has suggested ...
Perimortem and postmortem fracture patterns in deer femora

Wright, Catherine Susan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

A question remains as to whether specific criteria can be used to differentiate perimortem and postmortem breakage patterns in deer femora. The purpose of this experiment was to discover if fracture characteristics, such ...
Investigation of Late Woodland cultural changes at the Bridgeport site (1JA574), Alabama

Adams, Andrea Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This thesis examines Late Woodland cultural changes in northeast Alabama at the Bridgeport site, 1JA574, specifically the switch from ceramic stylistic homogeneity and social consensus in the Middle Woodland (A.D. 100-400/500) ...
Perceptions of body image among low socioeconomic status African American mothers and their daughters in Mobile, Alabama

Thomas, Martina (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

The anthropology of body image in African American communities has presented ambiguous perceptions of body image satisfaction. Many discoveries claim that body image satisfaction exists widely in these communities, while ...
A re-examination of cremated remains from the archaeological record: an evaluation of the process and application of current methods

Owens, Amanda Kate (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Cremation is a burial practice that has been adopted by numerous cultures throughout time. In the past, the fragmented nature of cremated remains gives them the reputation of being difficult and time consuming to analyze. ...
Skeletal evidence of the treatment of the elderly in the Archaic and Mississippian periods in the southeastern United States

Smith, Merritt Redfield (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

One of the primary goals in the discipline of anthropology is to explain the changes that accompany major transitions in human life. One very important transition that has occurred worldwide was the transition from a ...
Problems and prospects for a cognitive science of religion: minimal counterintuitiveness, epistemic congruency, sex, and context in the epidemiology of cultural representations in South India

Mullins, Daniel Austin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR), which emerged twenty years ago and explores how naturally occurring features of human mind/brains interact with features of human environments to encourage beliefs and behaviors ...
Interaction, sedentism, and aggregation in woodland-stage central Alabama

Eubanks, Paul Norman (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

In this thesis, Woodland-stage interaction and sedentism in central Alabama are addressed as they relate to the Armory site, a Late Middle Woodland mound center and village located in Dallas County, Alabama. These topics ...
Cultural models of food and social networks among Mexican immigrants in the southeast United States

Szurek, Sarah (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

This project used biocultural medical anthropology, cognitive anthropology, and social network analysis to examine the interrelationships among cultural knowledge, eating behaviors, and diabetes risk among a sample of ...
Life goals and eating disorders among adolescent girls in Birmingham, Alabama

Smith, Carolyn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Possible reasons given for the relatively high prevalence of anorexia and bulimia in the West are conflicting. One viewpoint is that girls with these eating disorders want to attain a higher social status. Another argument ...
Pubertal plasticity: biological, social, and cultural factors driving timing of female reproductive maturation

Buzney, Catherine D. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Humans possess tremendous plasticity in pubertal timing, adjusting to variation in environmental quality including availability and reliability of material and social resources. Yet, it is not well understood how accumulated ...
The andean cultural model of susto: cultural consonance and historical trauma in the Andes

Brooks, Benjamin Blakely (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

The research presented in these pages on cultural consonance, historical trauma, and susto demonstrates important relationships between risk factors for susto. Susto is a cultural syndrome associated with fright that impacts ...
The experimental determination of the function of obsidian scrapers recovered from the formative period site of La Laguna, Tlaxcala, Mexico: a scanning electron microscope approach

Smith, Carl Anthony (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Small obsidian scrapers recovered at the archaeological site of La Laguna and other sites throughout Central Highland Mexico have been interpreted as tools used to process Mexican agave plants for the production of sap. ...
Good ol' boys: masculinity and stress in southern males

Long, Heather (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Culture is not a haze that hangs about people as they go about their lives, nor is it a biological imperative that drives a person's thoughts and behaviors. The shared knowledge of a group forms schematic outlines or ...

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