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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 ...
Cultural models of food in cuban miami: Roots, Yucas, and Moros

Groves, Katy Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Roots, Yucas, and Moros are all foods that Cubans commonly eat, and these foods are also are imbued with symbolic meaning. Roots are one of the few vegetables present in the typical Cuban diet. And roots represent the ...
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 ...
Culture's role in immigrant health: how cultural consonance shapes diabetes and depression among Mexican women in Alabama

Andrews, Courtney (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Mexican immigrants tend to be in better health upon arrival to the United States than their U.S.-born counterparts, despite living through the conditions that forced them to migrate initially and enduring what is often a ...
Detecting preference in the archaeological record: a study of glass trade beads among the Natchez Indians

Wiegand, Leah Williams (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

A previously undocumented sample of over 13,800 glass trade beads from historic Natchez Indian sites in Adams County, Mississippi was classified and 52 separate varieties were identified. The data were then analyzed in ...
Disaster preparedness and response among religious organizations

Hesse, Danielle (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

The purpose of the project was to discover whether or not religious communities were prepared, with both supplies and a plan of action, for disasters and whether or not they provided relief efforts in the aftermath of a ...
Discrimination, cultural consonance, and cell-medated immunity among college students at the University of Alabama

Quinn, Edward (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

Racial-ethnic inequalities in health are a major public health concern in the United States. Biocultural anthropologists approach the question of health using culture theory and are informed by expertise in human biology. ...
Embeddedness, cultural consonance, and health in a dynamic migration network in Northern Peru

Stein, Max Jacob (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This dissertation investigates the effect of migrant embeddedness on cultural consonance and psychological health outcomes. Specifically, this project evaluates the extent that migrants’ relative attainment of shared ...
Evaluation of the methodology for addressing commingled human remains from the Lewis Jones Cave Ossuary (1Sc42) in St. Clair, Alabama

Panakhyo, Maria Naiyana (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

The commingling of human remains continues to be a problem encountered by bioarchaeologists and forensic anthropologists. Commingling is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, taphonomic processes and human activity have created ...
Evaluation of the Pensacola relative ceramic chronology by percentage stratigraphy seriation

Riehm, Grace Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

In parts of the Southeastern United States, including south Alabama, relative ceramic chronologies for prehistoric archaeological sequences are based on descriptive type-variety systems of classification that have remained ...
Examining change, persistence, and variation in the role of invertebrate fauna in mission-era Guale foodways on St. Catherines Island, GA

Colclasure, Cayla Briann (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

This thesis is an analysis of invertebrate fauna from Mission-era (ca. AD 1565-1680) shell middens on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, which contributes to archaeological inquiries into population aggregation, community ...
Examining Inter- and Intra-Site Practices Surrounding the Burial Goods and Skeletal Pathology of Children's Burials in the Pickwick Basin of Alabama

Gilliland, Lindsay Katherine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

In-depth analyses of childhood in the archaeological record, particularly in the Southeast, are lacking in contemporary scholarship. Recently, the archaeology of childhood has been building, providing a series of foundational ...
Examining rural and urban cultural models of nervios in Honduras through a biocultural lens

Stein, Max Jacob (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Biocultural medical anthropology connects health outcomes to the local ecology. Much research has examined how culture influences illness beliefs, cognitively held in cultural models which are schematic representations ...
Exploring land usage at Tannehill State Park: giving artifacts a context through watershed mapping

Dison, Braden A. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Archaeologists have identified dozens of sites across the landscape of Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, but few are thoroughly investigated, leaving a gap in current understanding of settlement patterns and land ...
Finding success and health through God: a study of cultural models and health among Brazilian Pentecostals

Dengah, Henri Jean Francois (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

This dissertation investigates the influence of religious cultural consonance on well-being. In particular, I ask if religious conceptions of ideal acolyte identity and behavior buffer daily stressors experienced by socially ...
Fire features and ritual: an ethnoarchaeological analysis in Fiji's Lau Group

Messersmith, Mallory K. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This thesis examines the earth oven, a common Fijian feature, from an ethnoarchaeological perspective. Earth ovens are ubiquitous in the archaeological record of the Pacific, yet little attempt has been made to determine ...
Flower boys and muscled men: comparing American and South Korean cultural models of the ideal male body using cultural domain analysis

Monocello, Lawrence Thomas (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

This study uses cultural domain analysis to understand the similarities and differences in ideal male body image between Americans and South Koreans. The prevalence of body image and eating disorders is rising all over the ...
Framing health deservingness of undocumented immigrants: perspectives from health workers at two Alabama clinics

Bianchi, Anna Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

This study seeks to answer the call of medical anthropologists to study the moral issue of health deservingness through social scientific analysis. Specifically, this research attempts to find ways in which notions of ...
From bitter seeds: a historical anthropological approach to Moundville's origins

Briggs, Rachel Virginia (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Archaeologists have long been aware of the synergistic relationship between maize (or corn) and the development of Mississippian societies (A.D. 1000) within the Southeastern United States. It seems that decades after maize ...
From the accused to the empowered: a cultural model of identity and witchcraft in New Orleans

Smith, Sarah Emily (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

Historically, being accused of witchcraft meant death (Baker, 2015; Demos, 2008; Ehrenreich & English, 2010). More recently, identifying as a witch means living with a stigmatized and often concealed identity (Reece, 2016; ...

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