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Two famines: The Sahel and Ireland
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Two perspectives on the etiology of pibloktoq
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1989)Mental illness may be viewed as a disorder common to the human condition and has long been the sUbject of investigation by various disciplines. Anthropology brings a cross-cultural perspective to this inquiry. Two ... -
Understanding the first Floridians
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2018)Significant debate continues on the sources and timing of the peopling of the Americas as new materials are discovered and evaluated. Census seems to be Asian origin for early immigrants into the New World, arriving in ... -
Unspoken assumptions: a cross-cultural examination of sexual ambiguity
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The use of the successive pile sort in an ethnographic study of a shelter for battered women
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991)Ethnographic data is often regarded solely as qualitative data. Very often, however, quantitative techniques can serve to illuminate patterns and themes in the ethnographic data which would be ordinarily missed. In this ... -
Vascano: the Greek evil eye
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1983)The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the reader with the Greek practice which is still much believed in by Greeks today: the concept of the 'evil eye' or 'Vascano'. By the end of this paper the reader should have an ... -
Visual archeology: Native American photographs as artifacts of the past
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2019)Woven throughout this paper is the thread of family photography, that concentrates on the importance of photographs to both researchers and descendant communities and considers why historical collections of photographs ... -
Weaning across primates: A hominid blueprint for weaning
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2016)To determine a possible "natural" weaning age for humans I will statistically examine four life-history parameters as discussed by Dettwyler 1995: 1) Birth weight to weaning weight ratio, 2) Percentage of adult weight, 3) ... -
Well, shoot: Firearm target practice as a recreational activity on a rural 19th century homestead
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2017)Excavation began on "Cabin Site #1" in St. Charles County, Missouri in the Summer of2011. This site lies above the Femme Osage Creek Valley and is located within a mile of the famous Daniel Boone Homestead where Daniel ... -
What made us human: analysis of Richard Wrangham‘s cooking hypothesis
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What's love got to do with it?
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2016)In many instances, humans are a bizarre species. Unlike all other primates, humans have the ability to use language, read minds, invent intricate technologies, and create cumulative cultural knowledge and beliefs that are ... -
Which sex is which?
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2017)Intersexuality is the condition of either having both male and female gonadal tissue in one individual or of having the gonads of one sex and external genitalia that is of the other sex or is ambiguous (Merriam-Webster ... -
The whites of their eyes: The evolution of the distinctive sclera in humans
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2008)Two major studies which are explored in this paper concern the comparative morphology of a wide range of primates, how these differences affect behavior, and what inferences one can make regarding the adaptive reasons ... -
Who were the Plains Indian berdaches?
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1979)The standard anthropological view of berdaches is that they were men who took up their society 1 s version of the woman!~ role by choice -- male homosexuals who adopted women's dress and women's work without any loss ... -
Why did the Aztecs convert to Catholicism, following the conquest of the Spaniards in 1521
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2007)Three major explanatory theories of Aztecs' conversion to Christianity are discussed. -
Window glass and the Gower house (15lv178): An application of Donald Ball's dating formula.
(Wichita State University. Dept. of Anthropology, 1999)For archaeologists, the value of window glass is related primarily to its potential to provide dates for a site. This makes window glass particularly valuable at Gower House because the earliest records of Gower House, ... -
Witchcraft and sorcery in a Greek peasant village
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Women in Anthropology
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1990)Participation of women in the development of Anthropology; topics and subhects of feminist Anthropology. -
Word borrowing and word play among Ngawbere (Panama).
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1987)The present paper is concerned with the phenomenon of word borrowing among Ngawbere (speakers of Ngawbere). More specifically, the paper emphasizes the phoneticization as well as the semanticization of loan words into ... -
Words, woofs, and whinnies: A study of human-animal language
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2011)Human-animal communication occurs in both verbal and nonverbal contexts to varying degrees, depending upon the breed of animal and the strength of the relationship between human and animal. This essay studies the way in ...