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Researching A Chinle Church Bell: Problems Of An Unrecoverable Past, Charlotte J. Frisbie Jul 2012

Researching A Chinle Church Bell: Problems Of An Unrecoverable Past, Charlotte J. Frisbie

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Jul 2012

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Health Parameters Across The Lifespan Among The Ache Of Paraguay, John D. Wagner Jul 2012

Health Parameters Across The Lifespan Among The Ache Of Paraguay, John D. Wagner

Anthropology ETDs

This work provides an integrative approach for assessing population health among a group of indigenous South American forager-farmers, the northern Aché of eastern Paraguay. The Aché were full-time hunting and gathering nomads up until the time of first peaceful contact in the early 1970s when they experienced a devastating virgin-soil population epidemic that killed approximately 40% of the population, where all age and sex groups were affected more or less equally with the exception of a higher survival rate among reproductive-aged women. The Aché are now settled on several reservations and have fully recovered their population numbers. The Aché have …


New Paleoclimate Reconstruction Techniques In Archaeology: Applications In Greece, New Mexico, And Portugal, Brandon Lee Drake Jul 2012

New Paleoclimate Reconstruction Techniques In Archaeology: Applications In Greece, New Mexico, And Portugal, Brandon Lee Drake

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation develops new techniques of analysis that make existing archaeological data more useful for understanding past climate change. These techniques are introduced through three key case studies in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, the Lower Alentejo of Portugal, and the Eastern Mediterranean. A 12,000 year record of pollen collected from packrat middens across Chaco Canyon were analyzed using a new normalization procedure to produce a Holocene record of piñon and ponderosa pine abundance. The normalization procedure, species occurrence, enabled statistical analysis of the data. Simple linear models indicated that piñon and ponderosa pollen were strongly correlated with …


Feeding Ecology And Life History Strategies Of White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys, Elizabeth C. Eadie Jul 2012

Feeding Ecology And Life History Strategies Of White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys, Elizabeth C. Eadie

Anthropology ETDs

Dietary niches have widespread effects on individuals life histories, behaviors, and morphologies. Capuchin monkeys inhabit a complex dietary niche that often entails hunting of relatively large vertebrate prey, tool-use, and extraction of embedded resources that other closely related and sympatric species do not exploit. In this dissertation I examine, a) how juvenile capuchins overcome the challenges of reliance on a difficult-to-acquire diet, b) at what age juveniles achieve maximum foraging return rates for difficult-to-acquire foods, and c) what nutritional benefits capuchins obtain from exploitation of these foods. In the process of addressing these questions I test two prominent hypotheses regarding …


Subversion Through Inversion: Kent Monkman's "The Triumph Of Mischief", Monique Thérèse Belitz Jul 2012

Subversion Through Inversion: Kent Monkman's "The Triumph Of Mischief", Monique Thérèse Belitz

Art & Art History ETDs

Monkmans acrylic painting The Triumph of Mischief is the central subject of this investigation which includes its relationship to other paintings and objects in the installation The Triumph of Mischief. By applying Mieke Bal's narratology theory, the principles of carnivals as proposed by Mikhail Bahktin, the four dichotomies underlying Western movies, Monkman's appropriation of older art work, his use of various binary opposites and his inclusion of iconographic details from various art history epochs are explained. Investigating the painting from a postcolonial and postmodern theoretical angle demonstrates that several iconic images from Western art history are decolonized by mocking and …


2011 Annual Report, Joseph A. Cook Jun 2012

2011 Annual Report, Joseph A. Cook

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.


Gpsa Student Council Meeting, 5/5/2012, Graduate And Professional Student Association May 2012

Gpsa Student Council Meeting, 5/5/2012, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Meeting Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.


Adobe Medicus 2012 3 May-June, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center May 2012

Adobe Medicus 2012 3 May-June, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

adobe medicus

No abstract provided.


Tribes, States, And Landscapes: The Ecological Impacts Of Changing Land Use During The Islamic Period In Southern Portugal, F. Scott Worman May 2012

Tribes, States, And Landscapes: The Ecological Impacts Of Changing Land Use During The Islamic Period In Southern Portugal, F. Scott Worman

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation concerns human-environment interactions in southeastern Portugal during the centuries following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire. In contrast to the feudal systems that developed across Western Europe outside Iberia, the Islamic polities that controlled the study area from 711 to 1248 C.E. allowed agrarian producers a great deal of political and economic independence. As a result, rural areas were more densely populated and the residents were wealthier than in earlier or later periods or contemporary feudal Christian kingdoms. The archaeological, geological, and historical investigations reported in this volume illuminate the timing, nature, and causes of past ecological …


Planting Seeds Is A Metaphor: Being Agrarian, Agricultural Activism, And Emergent Identity In New Mexico, Elise Trott May 2012

Planting Seeds Is A Metaphor: Being Agrarian, Agricultural Activism, And Emergent Identity In New Mexico, Elise Trott

Anthropology ETDs

In recent years, small-scale agriculture and acequia (traditional ditch irrigation) practices have become a significant locus for the goals and agendas of multiple stakeholders in New Mexico, attracting political, scholarly, and popular interest from a wide variety of groups and individuals. For this reason, local acequieros (acequia irrigators) and farmers are constantly engaged in processes of boundary-making, identity formation, and negotiation over the limits, claims, and goals of their involvement in agricultural activism, as well as the involvement of others. This thesis addresses the content, meaning, and implications of the strategic identity formation and boundary-making practices of one organization at …


Florentine Palaces, Costly Signaling, And Lineage Survival, Michael K. Church May 2012

Florentine Palaces, Costly Signaling, And Lineage Survival, Michael K. Church

Anthropology ETDs

My dissertation evaluated whether the palaces built in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance are a form of costly signaling. Costly signaling theory was developed to explain why organisms have attributes and behaviors that appear to defy basic Darwinian logic by having costs that are not offset by obvious benefits. The theory proposes that such attributes and behaviors persist because they are reliable signals of information about the signalers. Signal audiences use the information content of signals to rank signalers and to modify their interactions with signalers in ways that benefit signalers. These interactions can involve mate choice, predation avoidance, status …


Predictive Geospatial Modeling For Archaeological Research And Conservation: Case Studies From The Galisteo Basin, Vermont And Chaco Canyon, Wetherbee Bryan Dorshow May 2012

Predictive Geospatial Modeling For Archaeological Research And Conservation: Case Studies From The Galisteo Basin, Vermont And Chaco Canyon, Wetherbee Bryan Dorshow

Anthropology ETDs

Geospatial modeling of ancient landscapes for predictive scientific research and hypothesis testing is an important emerging approach in contemporary archaeology. This doctoral dissertation is comprised of three published North American case studies that clearly demonstrate the value of predictive geospatial modeling to address explicit goals of contemporary archaeological research, conservation and cultural resource management. The case studies consist of a GIS-based prioritization analysis of natural and cultural resources conservation value in the Galisteo Basin of north-central New Mexico, an archaeological sensitivity analysis (site-discovery potential) for the state of Vermont, and a predictive model of agricultural potential during the Bonito Phase …


Zapatista Materiality Disseminated: A Co-Construction Reconsidered, Ilse Biel May 2012

Zapatista Materiality Disseminated: A Co-Construction Reconsidered, Ilse Biel

Anthropology ETDs

In this study, I explore two central examples of Zapatista material culture, the Zapatista mask and the souvenir muñecas zapatistas [Zapatista dolls], as they become plot lines in the co-constructed encuentro that shapes the Zapatista concept internationally leading to a false image of Zapatista homogeneity. Taking on their own dynamic substance that frequently is dislodged from the context of the people they appear to represent they become indicative of the discourse about the Zapatistas, one that does not necessarily originate in the activities of the Zapatistas. I suggest that, within the broader encuentro process between Zapatistas and non-Zapatistas, the Zapatistas …


Applications Of Voronoi Partitions In Particle Therapy, Daniel Riofrio May 2012

Applications Of Voronoi Partitions In Particle Therapy, Daniel Riofrio

Computer Science ETDs

Treating cancer using charged particles heavier than electrons is becoming more and more popular in modern cancer management due to its increased dose to the targeted tumors and improved sparing of surrounding normal tissues and critical structures. Many challenging and interesting mathematical optimization problems arise in the planning of charged particle radiation therapy. In this thesis, we study three important optimization problems in particle therapy, which includes dose optimization, energy modulation change reduction, and LET (linear energy transfer) painting. Generally speaking the goal of treatment planning is to use computer based algorithms and software to find a therapeutic plan that …


Gpsa Student Council Meeting, 4/28/2012, Graduate And Professional Student Association Apr 2012

Gpsa Student Council Meeting, 4/28/2012, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Meeting Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.


Faculty Senate Summarized Minutes, 4/24/2012, Unm Faculty Senate Apr 2012

Faculty Senate Summarized Minutes, 4/24/2012, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 1920 - 2013

No abstract provided.


Gpsa Student Council Meeting, 4/18/2012, Graduate And Professional Student Association Apr 2012

Gpsa Student Council Meeting, 4/18/2012, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Meeting Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.


Pedro Pimentel Rã­Os Given 6,060-Year Sentence For Participation In Dos Erres Massacre, Louisa Reynolds Apr 2012

Pedro Pimentel Rã­Os Given 6,060-Year Sentence For Participation In Dos Erres Massacre, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


High And Dry In New Mexico: Tuberculosis And The Politics Of Health, Nancy Owen Lewis Apr 2012

High And Dry In New Mexico: Tuberculosis And The Politics Of Health, Nancy Owen Lewis

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


The Relational Worlds Of A Child With A Significant Disability, Clare K. Stott Feb 2012

The Relational Worlds Of A Child With A Significant Disability, Clare K. Stott

Special Education ETDs

This dissertation explores the relational worlds of a single child with a significant disability. Previous research on relationships for individuals with significant disabilities has heavily relied on the perceptions of and information from others, rather than the individual with a disability him or herself. This research is an ethnographic exploration of a single child with a disability, Julia, and the dynamic ecosystem of her relational worlds. The affect and behaviors of this child were explored in the school setting. The findings revealed that friendships' were present for Julia, and that they resulted in expressions of enjoyment and happiness. These friendships, …


Ignacio Manuel Altamirano's Journey From 'Indio Puro' To Cultural Mestizo: Indigenous Identity, Mestizaje, And Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Angelica Sanchez-Clark Feb 2012

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano's Journey From 'Indio Puro' To Cultural Mestizo: Indigenous Identity, Mestizaje, And Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Angelica Sanchez-Clark

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Like many Mexican Liberal intellectuals, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (b. Tixtla, Guerrero, 1834; d. San Remo, Italy, 1893) played a central role in defining the role that the mestizo—and, by force of circumstance, the Indian—would play in the formation of national identity after Mexicos independence from Spain. This dissertation examines Altamirano's literary and political works, as well as his personal correspondence, and his experiences as a soldier, educator, and politician, in order to understand how Altamirano, represented as an 'indio puro' who underwent the transformation to mestizo, exemplifies the link between Mexico's colonial past and its struggle to define its national …


Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity In The Territorial Southwest, Berenika Byszewski Jan 2012

Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity In The Territorial Southwest, Berenika Byszewski

American Studies ETDs

The 1849 Navajo Expedition was the first official US military mapping of Navajoland after the Mexican Cession, and has been recognized by historians as the first sustained window into the region and its people. Lieutenant James H. Simpson of the US Topographical Corps of Engineers was ordered to accompany the punitive expedition to document the route. Captivated by the stone ruins of Chaco Canyon, Simpson made a side excursion to record and map the structures, and contributed to the way Chaco is interpreted and imagined to this day. In this paper, I follow Lieutenant Simpson's survey party, tracing their "discovery" …


Gpsa Student Council Meeting, 1/28/2012, Graduate And Professional Student Association Jan 2012

Gpsa Student Council Meeting, 1/28/2012, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Meeting Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.


Faculty Senate Directory, 2012-2013, Unm Faculty Senate Jan 2012

Faculty Senate Directory, 2012-2013, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

No abstract provided.


Annual Report: College Of University Libraries & Learning Sciences Fy 2011-2012, Martha Bedard Jan 2012

Annual Report: College Of University Libraries & Learning Sciences Fy 2011-2012, Martha Bedard

Assessment and Statistics

No abstract provided.


Gpsa Directory, 2012-2013, Graduate And Professional Student Association Jan 2012

Gpsa Directory, 2012-2013, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Documents

No abstract provided.


Hslic Annual Report Fy2011-12, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center Jan 2012

Hslic Annual Report Fy2011-12, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

HSLIC Annual Reports

No abstract provided.


Contract And Grants Awards Monthly Reports, 2006-2012, Office Of The Vice President For Research Jan 2012

Contract And Grants Awards Monthly Reports, 2006-2012, Office Of The Vice President For Research

Office of the Vice President for Research

Monthly listings of awards received at Main Campus and Branches and other reports such as expenditures and F&A.


Gpsa Student Council Meeting, 12/3/2011, Graduate And Professional Student Association Dec 2011

Gpsa Student Council Meeting, 12/3/2011, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Meeting Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.