Browsing UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Anthropology"
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1-800 worlds : embodiment and experience in the Indian call center economy
(2010-08)This dissertation is concerned with the everyday lives of transnational Indian call center workers when situated within the global politics of voice-based outsourcing. The call center economy gained impetus in early ... -
A knowable space and time : intervening in the hierarchies of history via chronotopic language
(2019-02-08)Archaeology of the Black and African Diaspora contributes greatly to the heritigization of Black life in the Americas. Following this line of thought, I analyze the discursive constructions of historical Black social life ... -
A Mongolian horsepacking adventure through my paranoid poetics of digital ontology
(2019-05)This is not quite an essay. It is more of a scientific experiment conducted with words. It titrates the paranoid poetics of critique with the narrative practices of social media to precipitate a postcritical theory of ... -
A political ecology approach to investigate the environmental impacts of cattle management in Puerto Rico, 16th to 19th centuries
(2018-05-04)The nature and scale of environmental impacts due to the introduction of livestock into New World contexts has been the subject of much debate within disciplines concerned with changes of land use and land cover. The ... -
A-AVOIR Resistance : a cross cultural study of sexual citizenship in North America and France
(2012-05)What forms of resistance are gay men in France and North America enacting against heteronormativity and homophobia? And why are they enacting these particular forms of resistance? To answer these questions, this thesis ... -
Advancing the archaeology of architecture : a GIS-based approach to the organization of built space in the castros of Northwest Iberia
(2019-08-30)This thesis is framed as a contribution to the study of spatial organization at the scale of the individual settlement, specifically in the context of the castros of Northwest Iberia. I argue that new approaches to the ... -
Affecting change : death, violence and protest in Manipur, Northeastern India
(2015-05)This dissertation explores some of the ways in which precarity takes form in a reeling present. Many social and political analysts have described the contemporary socio-economic and political situation in the Northeastern ... -
Afro-Cuban movement(s) : performing autonomy in "updating" Havana
(2016-05)This dissertation is an ethnography of how Afro-Cubans are enacting coordinated movement toward more desirable futures as they face increased marginalization due to Cuba’s current political economic reforms. Yoruba Andabo ... -
After Umm Kulthūm : pop music, postcolonial modernity, and gendered national subjectivity in Cairo
(2010-05)I argue that the ways in which members of the youth generation in Cairo, Egypt consume Arabic-language popular music, and the aesthetic criteria by which they evaluate the worth of various songs and singers, constitute a ... -
The afterschool battle : reproducing a racial binary in an urban school
(2014-05)This dissertation project is a critical anthropological analysis of the impact of colorism on the educational attainment and academic trajectory of African-American school students in Washington, DC by examining teacher ... -
Akoben : performance, politics and foundational narratives of Blackness
(2015-12)This work investigates Black performances and the performance of Blackness as expression of narratives centered in the fact of existing in this world while a Black being. The themes investigated in this study are ontology, ... -
An analysis of primate gait on multiple and inconsistent substrates in natural environments, using Saimiri sciureus as a model
(2018-08-06)Primate quadrupedal gait has primarily been studied in the laboratory setting on artificial poles of different diameters (simulating arboreal locomotion) and on flat surfaces (simulating terrestrial locomotion). However, ... -
Analysis of factors influencing Castro Culture settlement locations : a fairly puzzling arrangement
(2021-12-01)The Castro Culture of Northwest Iberia is an Iron Age archaeological culture, of which hillforts, known locally as castros, are the only known type of settlement. In this dissertation, I use a variety of geospatial analytic ... -
Analyzing ancient Maya settlement spaces : integrating existing data and geophysical survey to understand creation of space in ancient Maya spatial patterns
(2022-04-07)Creation of space is complex and multilayered. When societies or groups make or construct space it can represent or reflect a variable host of characteristics of a given culture or people including but not limited to ... -
Ancient DNA evidence of population replacement following the Aztec conquest of Xaltocan, Mexico
(2011-12)The Aztec empire emerged in AD 1428 as a result of the triple alliance among the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan. Although it is well documented that the Aztecs conquered numerous polities in the Basin ... -
Apparitions of difference: essays on the vocation of reflexive anthropology
(2007)When the author sets out to use anthropology to understand his physical blindness, he discovers a dialectical tension between empirical observation versus heuristics that is held in common by both ethnography and disability. ... -
Applications of behavioral economics : understanding the effects of Roman conquest on Late Iron Age castro culture ceramic production
(2020-08)Through a comparative analysis of ceramic materials from three archaeological sites, Cividade de Bagunte, Citânia de Briteiros, and Bracara Augusta, this dissertation research explores the effects of Romanization on the ... -
Archaeological investigations at the A-4 courtyard group, Dos Hombres, Belize
(2019-05-09)In the summers of 2017 and 2018, archaeological excavations were undertaken at the A-4 courtyard group, an ancient Maya household, part of the site core of the city of Dos Hombres. Due to the household’s proximity to a ...
