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Silver, Ships And Soil: Gift-Giving In Medieval Icelandic Sagas, Emma Eubank Apr 2022

Silver, Ships And Soil: Gift-Giving In Medieval Icelandic Sagas, Emma Eubank

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Through applying anthropological theory to gift exchange in medieval Icelandic sagas, we can uncover a wealth of information about the construction and reinforcement of gender, power, and value. This study incorporates Mauss, Sahlins, and Graeber alongside other theorists to analyze how the narrators of Egil's Saga, The Saga of Grettir the Strong, and Gisli Sursson's Saga perceived a past Iceland.


Afro-Barbadian Foodways: Analysis Of The Use Of Ceramics By Freed Afro-Barbadian Estate Workers, Camille Lois Chambers Jan 2015

Afro-Barbadian Foodways: Analysis Of The Use Of Ceramics By Freed Afro-Barbadian Estate Workers, Camille Lois Chambers

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Dress Of The Right Length To Die In": Mortuary And Memorial Practices Amongst Depression-Era Tenant Farmers Of The Piedmont South, Zoey Alderman-Tuttle Jan 2012

"A Dress Of The Right Length To Die In": Mortuary And Memorial Practices Amongst Depression-Era Tenant Farmers Of The Piedmont South, Zoey Alderman-Tuttle

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Reflections Of Social Change: Burial Patterns In Colonial Fairfax County, Virginia, Kimberly Joyce Wells Jan 1997

Reflections Of Social Change: Burial Patterns In Colonial Fairfax County, Virginia, Kimberly Joyce Wells

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Lead Poisoning From The Colonial Period To The Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks Jan 1996

Lead Poisoning From The Colonial Period To The Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Oz In The Valley Of Ashes: Visions Of Tomorrow At The New York World's Fairs Of 1939 And 1964, Emily Mieras Jan 1993

Oz In The Valley Of Ashes: Visions Of Tomorrow At The New York World's Fairs Of 1939 And 1964, Emily Mieras

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Be Ye Friend Or Foe?: An Analysis Of Two Eighteenth Century North Carolina Sites, Anna Lois Gray Jan 1989

Be Ye Friend Or Foe?: An Analysis Of Two Eighteenth Century North Carolina Sites, Anna Lois Gray

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Tanner And Boundary Maintenance: Determining Ethnic Identity, William James Sheppard Jan 1989

The Tanner And Boundary Maintenance: Determining Ethnic Identity, William James Sheppard

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


St Eustatius: Acculturation In A Dutch Caribbean Colony, Patricia Lynn Kandle Jan 1985

St Eustatius: Acculturation In A Dutch Caribbean Colony, Patricia Lynn Kandle

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.