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"Yeah, But Can It Kill You?" Understanding Endometriosis In The Atlanta Area, Amanda Day
"Yeah, But Can It Kill You?" Understanding Endometriosis In The Atlanta Area, Amanda Day
Anthropology Theses
This paper contributes to a growing body of literature on women with endometriosis, a gynecological condition in which tissue similar to the endometrium, or lining of the uterus which is shed during menses, grows elsewhere in the body. Despite a growing understanding of the disease in medical literature, it is still not well known by the general population or fully understood by the medical community. The paper incorporates a biomedical understanding with Emma Whelan’s idea of these women as an epistemological community, autoethnography, and narratives of sufferers in order to understand how women discuss, experience, and form communities around it. …
Negotiations For Spooky Spaces During The Halloween Season: Trunk-Or-Treats In The Bible Belt South, Michael D. Sharbaugh
Negotiations For Spooky Spaces During The Halloween Season: Trunk-Or-Treats In The Bible Belt South, Michael D. Sharbaugh
Anthropology Theses
The Halloween ritual, trick-or-treat, has compelled suburban residents in Atlanta, Georgia to parade throughout the shared public spaces of their communities’ streets for nearly a century. In recent years, however, privatized children’s rituals beyond the realm of the neighborhood seemingly compete for trick-or-treat’s participants: trunk-or-treats in church parking lots now rise in popularity. I parse the impetuses behind the construction of these innovative ritual spaces using in-depth interviews and participant observations alongside the Christian churches who host them and the parents and guardians who participate in them. Cursorily appearing solely as privatized defangings of otherwise venomous and pagan-aligned public rites, …
Òyötùnjí Village: Making Africans In America, Antionette B. Brown-Waithe
Òyötùnjí Village: Making Africans In America, Antionette B. Brown-Waithe
Anthropology Theses
Òyötùnjí: The Making of Africans in America examines the impact of self-identification with African culture and the impact it has on African identity within social and Black Nationalist movements. More so than the Civil Rights movement, the Black Nationalist movement has influenced the ways in which African Americans self identified as a group and as individuals. Comprised primarily of African nationalists, Òyötùnjí Village was considered the vanguard in re- introducing the African ideology into Santeria, and giving birth to what is now considered the Ifa/Yoruba tradition. As the intentional community of Òyötùnjí grew, the Ifa tradition spread as well because …
The Promise Of Gayness: Queers And Kin In South Korea, Timothy Gitzen
The Promise Of Gayness: Queers And Kin In South Korea, Timothy Gitzen
Anthropology Theses
This thesis examines whether the interrelationship of family and gay identity in South Korea is best understood as one of conflict, pitting a traditional, national, and filial constraint against a presumed global, progressive, and individualistic freedom, or whether it requires (or perhaps, in the narratives themselves, already provides) a different, more recursive understanding. This thesis explores the recursivity between gay identity and filial piety among college students in contemporary Korea while also providing a critique of a global gay paradigm that others may argue infiltrates Korean gay discourse. The aim of this ethnography is not just to collect the stories …
Political Theatre In Public Spaces: Manifesting Identity In Venice, Italy, Ivey R. Tapp
Political Theatre In Public Spaces: Manifesting Identity In Venice, Italy, Ivey R. Tapp
Anthropology Theses
The combination of poorly managed mass tourism, rapidly increasing international migration, and a declining economy facilitated a permanent exodus of natives out of the Venetian lagoon. This thesis examines how the community activism group and social network Venessia.com attempts to reclaim a place-based and place-manifested Venetian identity (venezianità) through theatrical public protests. While members are sensitive to an ethic of intercultural awareness, the discourse accompanying their concerns reveals nostalgia for the power and grandeur of Venice’s past that is threatened by a perceived invasion by suspicious outsiders. The theoretical framework I employ to illuminate Venessia.com's efforts includes the socio-cultural and …
"Where There Is No Love, Put Love": Homeless Addiction Recovery Perspectives And Ways To Enhance Healing, Mark W. Flanagan
"Where There Is No Love, Put Love": Homeless Addiction Recovery Perspectives And Ways To Enhance Healing, Mark W. Flanagan
Anthropology Theses
This study explores how middle-aged homeless persons in Atlanta, GA, who have harmful, self-identified addictive behaviors come to make positive material and psychological changes, while constrained by urban poverty and structural violence. This study is divided into two parts. In part one, I examine the interaction between individual, social, and material factors that promote recovery from addiction in a poor, urban context. I argue that recovery occurs through a process, initiated by a decision and realized through practice. Recovery is enhanced by a stable community and consistent material access. In part two, I examine how pain associated with homelessness can …
Mortuary Variability In The Final Palatial Period On Crete: Investigating Regionality, Status, And “Mycenaean” Identity, Heather K. Kerr
Mortuary Variability In The Final Palatial Period On Crete: Investigating Regionality, Status, And “Mycenaean” Identity, Heather K. Kerr
Anthropology Theses
The Late Bronze Age on the island of Crete saw a period of strong administrative and religious control by the palace at Knossos, which also controlled a vast trade network with the rest of the eastern Mediterranean. After the collapse of the palace of Knossos, the Final Palatial period (1490 - 1320 BCE), was a time of sociopolitical transition and change, witnessing an explosion in number and variety of mortuary practices used, even within the same cemetery. In this thesis I analyze Final Palatial burial practices in a more systematic method than has been previously attempted, in order to gain …
Analysis Of Secular Change And A Novel Method Of Stature Estimation Utilizing Modern Skeletal Collections, Tony A. Fitzpatrick
Analysis Of Secular Change And A Novel Method Of Stature Estimation Utilizing Modern Skeletal Collections, Tony A. Fitzpatrick
Anthropology Theses
Reconstructing stature is at the core of providing information on unidentified human remains. This research shows that there are significant differences between modern populations and those used to create the most common stature estimation formulae. New formulae for the femur and fibula in males and females were created to provide accurate estimates for modern forensic cases. Additionally, a novel measurement of the femur is shown to be moderately correlated with stature and stature estimation formulae for this measurement are included.
A Landscape Of Conflict: An Archaeological Investigation Of The New Hope Church Battlefield, Jason N. Brooks
A Landscape Of Conflict: An Archaeological Investigation Of The New Hope Church Battlefield, Jason N. Brooks
Anthropology Theses
The Battle of New Hope Church was fought on May 25-26, 1864 as part of the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. This research utilizes historical records along with archaeological fieldwork in order to better understand the battlefield landscape. In particular, I seek to answer whether soldiers behaved in, perceived of, and constructed the battlefield landscape based on a set of cultural norms imposed on them by the strict structure of the military. This research offers insight into the construction of the battlefield landscape at New Hope Church, how it is connected to related battlefield landscapes, and how it …
Stable Isotope Analysis Of Human Remains From The Early Contact Period Site Of La Capilla Del Niño Serranito At La Capilla De Santa María Magdalena De Eten, Leslie E. Brown
Anthropology Theses
Oxygen and carbon stable isotope analyses of bone and tooth enamel carbonate were conducted on a subset of the burial population (n = 17) of the La Capilla de El Niño Serranito of the La Capilla Santa María Magdalena de Eten site in the Lambayeque Valley of Peru. The individuals sampled display oxygen stable isotope (δ18Odw(V-SMOW) ) values consistent with higher altitude δ 18Odw(V-SMOW) levels. Carbon stable isotope (δ13C(VPDB)) values for the individuals sampled are consistent with C4 and potentially marine-based food sources. The results of the stable isotope …
Passing Through Dink – A Closer Look At How Couples In The United States Make The Decision To Have Children, Allyson H. Korb
Passing Through Dink – A Closer Look At How Couples In The United States Make The Decision To Have Children, Allyson H. Korb
Anthropology Theses
This thesis explores how Dual Income No Kids (DINK) couples within the United States approach family planning. The study is based on ethnographic work I carried out over the course of 2011, including a nationwide survey and in-depth interviews I conducted in Atlanta, Georgia, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Denver Colorado. Specifically, I was interested in investigating why these couples were “delaying” having children based on the national average. While current literature points to changes in education, healthcare, and societal values as being the catalyst for the DINK movement, I wanted to understand Americans’ childbearing decisions on a more personal level. …
Refining Dietary Estimates At Machu Picchu Using Combined Dental Macro/Microwear And Isotopic Analyses, Sarah Victoria Livengood
Refining Dietary Estimates At Machu Picchu Using Combined Dental Macro/Microwear And Isotopic Analyses, Sarah Victoria Livengood
Anthropology Theses
Reconstructing diet in Andean populations is complicated by ecological complexity and by large-scale population movements and trade networks during the period of imperial rule. It is therefore more difficult to reconstruct dietary patterns within these contexts. Previous multi-isotopic analysis of the skeletal population from the Inca site of Machu Picchu indicates marked variation in dietary composition both early and late in life. However, these data are limited in their specificity due to overlap in isotopic signals from different resource types. I compare existing isotopic data to enamel macro- and microwear data to more accurately profile diet composition in a Machu …
What's To Know?: Navigating Knowledge Gaps Of Hansen's Disease In The U.S., Kristen E. Kuhns
What's To Know?: Navigating Knowledge Gaps Of Hansen's Disease In The U.S., Kristen E. Kuhns
Anthropology Theses
This thesis uses a critical medical anthropology approach to explore healthcare professionals’ perspectives of Hansen’s disease (HD) patients’ treatment-seeking experiences in the United States. During semi-structured interviews my eight informants discussed challenges patients face when seeking treatment. The number one challenge discussed was that of knowledge gaps among healthcare professionals which influence misconceptions of HD being highly contagious and dangerous. Such misconceptions negatively influence patients’ treatment from start to finish. My informants discussed their understandings of, and roles in minimizing challenges for their patients.
Negotiating Beauty Ideals: Perceptions Of Beauty Among Black Female University Students, Fiana O. Swain
Negotiating Beauty Ideals: Perceptions Of Beauty Among Black Female University Students, Fiana O. Swain
Anthropology Theses
This thesis explores the college lives of Black women who attend or recently attended majority white colleges and universities in the United States. Emphasis is placed on how Black women’s college experience is influenced by the way they define beauty, as well as how they perceive their White peers to define beauty. Through the collection of ten in-depth interviews, I examine how Black women’s perceptions of beauty compare with those of mainstream United States standards and those of the dominant culture of their schools. I explored how the Black women I interviewed responded when confronted with these mainstream beauty standards …