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Anthropological Responses To Covid-19 In The Philippines, Gideon Lasco

Development Studies Faculty Publications

This article reflects on the roles anthropologists have played in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, and identifies the challenges – from the methodological to the political – they faced in fulfilling these roles. Drawing on the author's personal and professional experiences in the country, as well as on interviews with other anthropologists, this article identifies three major roles for anthropologists: conducting ethnographic research; bearing witness to the pandemic through first-person accounts; and engaging various publics. All these activities have contributed to a greater recognition of the role of the social sciences in health crises, even as anthropologists …

“I’Ve Never Met Another Person With This Identity”: The Experiences Of Abrosexual Individuals On Tiktok, Eleanor Doughton

Capstone Showcase

Abrosexuality can be defined by an individual experiences changes in their perception of their sexuality; for instance, an abrosexual person could find themselves to be exclusively attracted to women for a time, and then experiences no sexual attraction months later. Unlike sexual identities such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, abrosexuality has not been previously studied. Previous research shows that social media and online sites provide spaces for positive identity development and support for gender and sexual minority individuals. Since abrosexuality had not been previously studied, it is important to ask about the experiences of abrosexual individuals on social media. …

Does "Good" Mean White?: Understanding The Complexities Of Refugee Resettlement In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Molly Shaddix

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Bowling Green, Kentucky is a relatively small town comparable to its counterparts across the South. However, Bowling Green has a significant population of refugee inhabitants that have resettled in waves since the late 1970s. This paper describes the lived experience of refugees resettling by analyzing community action and troubles faced while working for independence in their new homes. Some factors explored are access to affordable housing, language barriers, and trouble in education. In addition, this paper contextualizes their lived experiences with other resettlement communities across the United States to understand how Bowling Green fits into patterns of societal xenophobia, racism, …

Wilderness And The Geotag: Exploring The Claim That "Geotagging Ruins Nature" In The Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Wa, Mara Gans

All Master's Theses

This research explores the claim that “geotagging ruins nature” by quantifying and qualifying patterns in geotag use and visitors’ experiences in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, in Washington, United States. Many have raised concerns that geotags increase recreational visitation to public lands, which subsequently contributes to negative resource impacts. Others, however, claim that geotagging has made the outdoors more accessible to less privileged communities and raise concerns that condemning geotags will perpetuate the exclusion of certain groups from outdoor recreation. This debate is studied within federally designated Wilderness, which is legally defined as “untrammeled by man,” a definition rooted in problematic …

The Fifth Vital Sign: An Anthropological Analysis Of Productive And Unproductive Pain, Kathleen Meerscheidt

Honors Theses

Throughout my time as a Division I rower, I have struggled to understand the ways that I understand my own normalization of pain within a broader cultural environment that portrays pain as a mostly negative aspect of life. This moral quandary inspired me to start researching the role of pain in different socio-cultural contexts. For my thesis, I conducted original research, in the form of participant observation and semi-structured interviews, to build on what I found through an extensive literature review. First, I looked at the ways in which pain is understood within Western biomedicine and, subsequently, “Western” culture. Within …

Introduction To Theme Issue Dignity, Conviviality, And Moral Contests Of Belonging, Maisa C. Taha

Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Introduction Au Numéro Thématique Dignité, Convivialité Et Contestations Morales D’Appartenance, Maisa C. Taha

Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Truth, Lies, And Audio Files A Conflict Across Reputational And Convivial Domains, Maisa C. Taha

Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Conviviality (convivencia), a rubric for peaceable coexistence across cultural and ethnoracial differences, has been promoted as a multifaceted educational priority in contemporary Spain, although the stakes of tolerance and civility mean quite different things for pupils of autochthonous and immigrant backgrounds. For some Moroccan youth attending school in the agricultural southeast, experiences with xenophobia and racialized exclusion have made them both fierce critics and defenders of convivial precepts. At one secondary school, questions about convivial protocols became especially pressing in the wake of accusations against several Moroccan girls for stealing sandwiches from a disabled peer. A confrontation between three of …

Deep Roots In Eroding Soil: Building Decolonial Resilience Amidst Climate Violence And Displacement In A Louisiana Bayou Indigenous Community, Lia Mcgrath Kahan

Senior Independent Study Theses

The Pointe-au-Chien Indigenous community of coastal Louisiana is fighting for survival as climate change and socio-political factors threaten to displace them from their ancestral home. This project takes an ethnographic and historical approach to exploring how colonization and climate change have influenced Pointe-au-Chien tribal members’ ability to stay on their ancestral land. Climate projections estimate that the bayou this community has lived alongside of for generations will soon be unrecognizable, leading to potential displacement and devastating cultural loss. Due to the increasing severity of climate change, it is crucial to look to the experiences of frontline Indigenous communities to support …

Morphometric Ancestral Analysis Of Infraorbital Foramen And Maxillo-Facial Landmarks Of Adult North American Skulls Using X-Ray And Computed Tomography Scans, Anna-Marie Lynn David

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Skeletal remains provide a variety of information about a species population and the sub populations within that species. The infraorbital foramen has previously been used to understand dietary niches, paleoecology, the nervous system, and the effect of the nervous system on other bone functions in the facial region in humans and other mammals. In medicine, the precise location of the infraorbital foramen has been studied to aid and guide maxillo-facial procedures and surgeries. In this research project, the null hypothesis states that the placement and location of the infraorbital foramen in relation to other facial landmarks were the same between …

Wattpad As An Online Medium For Contemporary Folklore, Alisha Tess Helton

Online Theses and Dissertations

This project focuses its discussion within the discipline of folklore by identifying Wattpad.com as a contemporary medium of online folkloric content. Wattpad provides its users with a text-based—and sometimes multimodal—means of communication via its interface that mimics traditional communication as we know it—a means founded in orality, literacy, and the archive. Wattpad users are creating new folktales that are nuanced with elements from Wattpad’s archive, which characterizes contemporary online folklore in a way that has not been fully explored. This project serves to identify the past and present discourses that inform such a discussion while also explaining the intricacies of …

Invited Perspective - Engaging Aspirations To Nurture Communities, Kentaro Toyama

Subsistence Marketplaces

For subsistence communities, the question is whether aspirations can be applied to motivate behavior that is, on the one hand consistent with people’s aspirations, but which might otherwise be difficult to elicit. Could poorer households be encouraged to save, to spend more on their children’s education, or to act against unhealthy social norms? A couple of examples suggest this is not only possible, but highly successful in contexts where other appeals fail.

Writing Others’ Stories: Autoethnographic Reflections On Historical Research, Representation, And Bakhtin, Jennifer L. Adams

Communication & Theatre Faculty Publications

I use autoethnographic reflection to explore the personal and professional ethical challenges that have emerged over twenty years working with a set of one hundred historic love letters found discarded in an attic. Concerns of representation, narration, and authorship of the Other(s) by historic researchers are explored. Bakhtin’s concept of answerability is then elucidated as a means of reflecting upon choices writers make in researching of the lived experience of everyday people from the past. Issues including authorial responsibility, heteroglossia, polyphony, and the chronotope are explored.

Identifying Skeletal Trauma Markers Associated With Intimate Partner Violence (Ipv), Haley K. Omeasoo

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Objectives: This is a validation study of Biddle (2019), where much of the same materials are used, with the addition of new data from other databases to include more Native American and minority samples. A comparison database will also be analyzed against this data, with known cases of live individuals assaulted and assessed by health officials, some in IPV situations. All data is analyzed to discover which fracture locations are most common in IPV situations and which ethnic, sex, and age groups are most affected. Most fractures analyzed are those of the maxillofacial area, concentrating on the Zygomaticomaxillary Complex (ZMC) …

A Comprehensive Forensic Case Report With The University Of Montana Forensic Anthropology Lab University Of Montana Forensic Case #167, Tyler J. Trettin

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This report consists of an inventory of the skeletal remains of case# 167, assessment of the minimum number of individuals (MNI), a biological profile if possible, and a literature review of the assessment and understanding of ballistic trauma. The skeletal remains are consistent with an MNI of one. The remains are likely from a male individual, and skeletal features are representative of a person of Caucasian ancestry. The individual is estimated to be between of 35-65 years old with an estimated stature of between 5’5” and 5’9”.

Y-Chromosome Dna Extraction From Post-Cranial Skeletal Elements, Mykala D. Ward

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The use of DNA in forensic science has become an integral tool for victim and perpetrator identifications, missing person’s cases, paternity testing, etc. A major use of DNA is in the identification of unknown deceased individuals. With a reported number of individuals well over 8,000 in the United States, improved methods to accurately collect and analyze DNA from modern human bone are needed.

This project took the preliminary steps to improve DNA sampling and extraction methods by analyzing the Y-chromosome DNA yield from the two bone types. While both types are composed of the same materials, cortical bone is the …

You Can’T Build A Canoe Online: Activism And Identity In Indigenous Taiwan, Adam King Hinden

Senior Independent Study Theses

The Republic of China is the current government occupying the island of Taiwan –– a multiethnic land that has been populated by diverse groups for thousands of years. Today, these groups continue to face a range of adversities on behalf of the colonial government. Further, the island’s internet is dominated by Western social media platforms that exclude native modes of communication. Through ethnographic surveys and interviews, this study explores how indigenous Taiwanese activists understand their own identities, strategies of activism, and relationships to social media platforms to interrogate dominant postcolonial frameworks. It comes to two separate yet linked conclusions regarding …

“ขอเป็นเด็กเลวในประวัติศาสตร์ไทย”: การร่วมเวลาและการรื้อถอนเขตแดนเวลาในการเคลื่อนไหวทางการเมืองของนักเรียนมัธยมผ่านแคมเปญของเครือข่ายกลุ่ม “นักเรียนเลว”, กันต์ นาเมืองรักษ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้ได้ทำการศึกษาความเปลี่ยนแปลงในการรับรู้ประวัติศาสตร์ของสังคมไทยจากปฏิสัมพันธ์ทางสังคมเชิงเวลาที่กลุ่มนักเรียนเลวได้สร้างขึ้นในสังคมไทยผ่านแคมเปญและกิจกรรมทางการเมืองต่างๆ โดยงานวิจัยชิ้นนี้ได้ใช้มโนทัศน์ “การร่วมเวลา” และ “เขตแดนเวลา” ที่เกิดจากการบรรจบกันของปฏิสัมพันธ์ทางสังคมภายใต้พลวัตของ "ความเป็นสังคม” แบบสมัยใหม่ที่แยก “ความเป็นประวัติศาสตร์” และ “ความเป็นประวัติการณ์” ออกจากกัน และใช้ชาติพันธุ์วรรณนาเชิงสถาบันที่ใช้จุดยืนทางสังคมของผู้ถูกศึกษาอย่างกลุ่มนักเรียนเลวและแนวร่วมเป็นวิธีวิทยาหลักในการสืบเสาะกระบวนการทางสังคมและเล่าผ่านการเขียนวิทยานิพนธ์ชิ้นนี้ จากการศึกษาปฏิสัมพันธ์ทางสังคมในระดับต่างๆ ของกลุ่มเครือข่ายนักเรียนเลวและแนวร่วม ผู้วิจัยได้ทำการเล่าออกมาเป็น 3 บท โดยการใช้การข้องเกี่ยวทางสังคมเชิงเวลา 3 แบบเป็นแกนในการเล่า ได้แก่ ความทรงจำของการเป็นนักเรียน การต่อสู้สิทธิเสรีภาพเหนือเรือนร่างของนักเรียน และสถานะของนักเรียนในฐานะเยาวชนในการเมืองระดับชาติ อันสะท้อนถึงการร่วมอดีต ปัจจุบัน และอนาคตในการต่อสู้ทางการเมืองร่วมสมัย ซึ่งกลุ่มนักเรียนเลวได้ใช้กลวิธีและทรัพยากรต่างๆ ในการเคลื่อนไหวได้อย่างโดดเด่น จนทลาย "พรมแดนเวลา" ของการเติบโตทางความคิดเกี่ยวกับความเป็นผู้เยาว์แบบอนุรักษ์จารีตนิยมในวัฒนธรรมไทยได้สำเร็จ ซึ่งมีนัยยะสำคัญต่อแนวคิดเรื่องความก้าวหน้าทางสังคม แต่ก็ทำให้เห็นถึงการแบ่งขั้วทางเวลาที่เข้มข้นขึ้นในสังคมไทยไปด้วย ส่งผลให้ความเป็นผู้เยาว์กลายเป็นวาระทางการเมืองในสังคมไทยไปโดยสมบูรณ์

จิตอาสาใต้โลกแห่งความเสี่ยงทางสิ่งแวดล้อม: การคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับและการสื่อสารของนักดำน้ำอาสาสมัครในประเทศไทย, จุฑามณี สมบูรณ์สุทธิ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเรื่อง "จิตอาสาใต้โลกแห่งความเสี่ยงทางสิ่งแวดล้อม: การคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับและการสื่อสารของนักดำน้ำอาสาสมัครในประเทศไทย" มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) ศึกษาการคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับของนักดำน้ำอาสาสมัครที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการเปลี่ยนแปลงของสื่อ 2) ศึกษาสาเหตุ ปฏิบัติการการคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับและการตอบโต้ของนักดำน้ำต่อสถานการณ์สังคมเสี่ยงวิกฤตทะเลไทย และ 3) ศึกษาสังคมเสี่ยงของการท่องเที่ยวที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อนักดำน้ำและการคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับ ปรับตัว วิธีการวิจัยใช้การสัมภาษณ์ระดับลึกควบคู่กับการเข้าไปมีส่วนร่วมทำงานเป็นนักดำน้ำอาชีพ นักดำน้ำอาสาสมัครและเข้าฝึกเพื่อเป็นนักดำน้ำเพื่อการอนุรักษ์ในค่ายทหาร พื้นที่หลักในการศึกษา ประกอบด้วย เกาะเต่า จังหวัดสุราษฎร์ธานีและเกาะพระ จังหวัดชลบุรี กลุ่มตัวอย่างประกอบด้วย นักดำน้ำอาชีพ นักดำน้ำอาสาสมัคร ผู้มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสียและหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้อง รวมจำนวน 53 คน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า การนำเสนอข่าวสังคมความเสี่ยงของสื่อส่งผลให้เกิดการคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับและนำไปสู่การเปลี่ยนแปลงรูปแบบการดำน้ำให้เป็นนักดำน้ำอาสาสมัครในบริบทต่างๆ นอกจากนี้ ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลให้นักดำน้ำเกิดการคิดย้อนสะท้อนกลับและผันตัวเป็นอาสาสมัครใต้ทะเล ประกอบด้วย ประสบการณ์ตรงจากการลงไปสัมผัสโลกใต้ทะเล ความขัดแย้งทางทะเลและการเข้าร่วมอบรมด้านการอนุรักษ์ นักดำน้ำใช้วิธีจัดการปัญหาสังคมเสี่ยงและโต้ตอบผ่านสื่อด้วยการทำหน้าที่เป็นนักสื่อสารพลเมืองใต้ทะเล โดยใช้กล้องถ่ายรูปใต้น้ำควบคู่กับเครือข่ายสังคมออนไลน์ วิธีปรับตัวของนักดำน้ำภายใต้สังคมเสี่ยงแบบทุนนิยม คือการพัฒนาทักษะความรู้ สร้างจุดเด่น สร้างความเชี่ยวชาญเฉพาะด้านและนำความรู้มาใช้ในงานอาสาสมัครเพื่อเคลื่อนไหวสังคม

From The Edge Of A Rib: Pro-Ana Edgeworking Narratives, Casey Dobbins

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

People who deliberately practice eating disordered behaviors as a lifestyle form digital communities known as pro-ana. Pro-ana identity is constructed through the medicalized frameworks of anorexia nervosa that attempt to maximize weight loss and also manage other eating disorder behaviors such as binging and purging. This thesis examines pro-ana materials requested and produced on websites, Whisper, and Reddit, assembling these discursive and image exchanges into discourses that identify and describe eating disorder pathology and recovery. My ethnographic collection consists of screenshots of written materials and images from websites, Whisper posts, Reddit threads, and a Discord. This thesis examines discursive strategies …

Cargoes In Motion: Materiality And Connectivity Across The Indian Ocean, Burkhard Schnepel, Julia Verne

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world.

Scholars have long appreciated the centrality of trade and commerce in understanding the connectivity and mobility that underpin human experience in the Indian Ocean region. But studies of merchant and commercial activities have paid little attention to the role that cargoes have played in connecting the disparate parts of this vast oceanic world. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, geographers, and historians, Cargoes in Motion tells the story of how material objects have informed and continue to shape …

Counter Archives: Unfolding Hidden Stories, Berlin Loa

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

We select what we value as history creating collective memory that can obfuscate or devalue other threads in the story intentionally or unintentionally. Through collections of material culture, curated and described by archivists, we receive information that constructs our collective memory of self. These cultural artifacts reflect and reconstruct the past. Material artifacts in the archives depend largely on the story that is told about their provenance to provide meaning. This paper takes photographic collections in archives as examples of material culture to demonstrate how archival presentation affects the stories of collections items, and examines modalities and subverted stories in …

Voicing Derbarl Yerrigan As A Feminist Anti-Colonial Methodology, Vanessa Wintoneak, Mindy Blaise

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The paper voices Derbarl Yerrigan, a significant river in Western Australia, through three imperfect, non-innocent, and necessary river-child stories. These stories highlight the emergence of a feminist anti-colonial methodology that is attentive to settler response-abilities to Derbarl Yerrigan through situated, relational, active, and generative research methods. Voicing Derbarl Yerrigan influences the methodological practices used as part of an ongoing river-child walking inquiry that is concerned with generating climate change pedagogies in response to the global climate crises and calls for new ways of thinking and producing knowledge. In particular, the authors found that voicing as a methodology includes listening and …

Black Feminist Citational Praxis And Disciplinary Belonging, Bianca C. Williams

Publications and Research

What does a Black feminist citational practice look and feel like? This contribution to the #CiteBlackWomen colloquy focuses on two arguments: First, that Black feminist citational praxis is one of the major interventions Black women scholars contribute to the academy; and second, that anthropology’s neglect and erasure of Black feminist anthropologists relates to disciplinary (un)belonging. I explore how citation and “disciplinary belonging” influence hiring practices, doctoral training, intellectual genealogies, and what is valued as anthropological knowledge.

Unlocking The Rusty Padlock: The Role Of The Scientific Tradition Of Pesantren Karanggedang On The Literacy Development In The Surrounding Village Community, Amri Mahbub Alfathon, Achmad Riyadi Alberto, Aldila Putri Hakmi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The scientific and literary construction of pesantren or Islamic boarding schools, especially traditional ones, is highly popular to the community and involves the surrounding villagers. The communication established between village community and pesantren in continuing the scientific tradition ultimately creates new socio-cultural-economic activities. Pondok Pesantren Al-Muwahidin, located in Karanggedang, Salebu Village, Majenang District, Cilacap Regency, Central Java, is one of the pesantren that has a role in developing community literacy as mentioned. This research aims to observe and explain the role of the scientific tradition of Pesantren Karanggedang on literacy development of the local village community. A case study approach …

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Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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