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People, primates, and peace: a case study in Barbary macaque ethnoprimatology and interdisciplinary conservation in the Rif Mountains of Morocco

Alexander, Sherrie Denise (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

The endangered Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) of North Africa, the only macaque outside of Asia and north of the Sahara, has experienced a continual decline in numbers over the course of several decades. Understanding ...
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 ...
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 ...
Plant Use in the Platform-Chamber Complex: a Paleoethnobotanical Study of Structure 1 at Alto Pukara, Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia, 400-800 BCE

Ranum, Caleb Marc (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

Located on the Taraco Peninsula on the shores of Lake Titicaca in the Bolivian Altiplano, Alto Pukara was a Middle Formative site inhabited between 400 and 800 BCE by the Chiripa peoples. Alto Pukara is the smallest site ...
Pottery, people, and place: examining the emergence of political authority in Late Ceramic Age Cuba

Persons, Ashley Brooke (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

In the dissertation research presented here, I seek to characterize the emergence of middle-range societies in the Caribbean through the analysis of settlement patterns and regional development in the Banes region of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Raised ground, razed structure: ceramic chronology, occupation and chiefly authority on Mound P at Moundville

Porth, Erik Steven (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Mound P is the largest mound on the western plaza periphery at Moundville in west-central Alabama. Excavations on the western mound flank revealed at least two mound construction episodes and a large amount of modern ...
Reconsidering institutional collapse and social transformation at Moundville during the Fifteenth century

Porth, Erik Steven (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

The collapse of ancient complex societies is a topic that denotes a rapid disruption to traditional ways of life. This research reconsiders models for social collapse from the Mississippian center of Moundville, located ...
Reflections of life in death: an investigation of archaeo-biographies at the Perry Site (1lu25)

Stewart, Ashley Nicole (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

This study seeks to examine life and identity at the Perry site (1LU25) through osteological and archaeological analysis. The Perry site, located in northwestern Alabama, is a multi-component site dating to the Archaic and ...
Risk Environment Framework: A Patient Centered Approach to a Cultural Model of Recovery

Shin, Sarah Soomin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

Outcome measures for medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder emphasis key components of reducing non-prescription opioid use, decreasing risk for overdose mortality, and assisting patients in recovery by ...
Ritual and power: examining the economy of Moundville's residential population

Thompson, Claire Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Household craft production and consumption play a key role in modeling the degree of economic control at Moundville. If production was household or corporately centered, then both utilitarian and non-utilitarian artifact ...
Salt production in the southeastern Caddo homeland

Eubanks, Paul Norman (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Drake’s Salt Works Site Complex, located in the southeastern Caddo Indian Homeland, was a major hub of the salt trade. Elsewhere, in eastern Texas and southern ...
Selected successors: an investigation of sex-differentiated parental care and child health outcomes in northwest Tanzania

Dorsey, Achsah Foster (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Profound cross-cultural differences have been observed in the relative health status of male and female children. In many cases, females grow better than males under resource-poor conditions compared to reference standards. ...
Sensory knowledge and embodied cultural capital among coffee connoissuers in west and central Alabama

Dodson, Michael (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (1984) by Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential book on consumption practices in anthropology. The purpose of the book is to describe the concept of ...
Sex roles in prehistoric Alabama: a bioarchaeological investigation of the Bluff Creek (1lu59) site using paleopathological and trauma analysis

Harrison, Allyson (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

In the 1930’s and 1940’s the Tennessee Valley Authority conducted excavations of thousands of prehistoric human remains in the Middle Tennessee River Valley of Alabama. This research focuses on the prehistoric site of Bluff ...
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 ...
Social capital, food security, and resource utilization in a low income population

Morrow, Sarah Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

In recent years, studies of differential access to resources such as food have been investigated through social capital measures. Social capital measures have used class based etic perspectives in order to determine why ...
Social contexts of production and use of pottery engraved in the Hemphill style at Moundville

Phillips, Erin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Recently there has been considerable debate about the social and political organization of Moundville (AD 1020-1650), a Mississippian ceremonial center with 32 earthen mounds, located in west central Alabama. This complex ...
Social houses at Carson Mounds, 22-co-518 as evidenced by dental morphological analysis

James, Jenna (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Social house theory offers an interpretative framework in which to understand the complex social organization of Mississippian era societies. This research focuses on the social organization demonstrated by the secondary ...

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