On a sunny morning in May 2002, a group of volunteers gathered around a gravesite located at Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston, Ontario, which belonged to the celebrated United Empire Loyalist Michael Grass. The volunteers were members of the Michael Grass Stone Committee, a group …
In many rural regions of Amazonia, hunting, and game meat are important sources of food and cash income but hunters who hold substantial local ecological knowledge (LEK) are often criticized for depleting wildlife. In this thesis, I examine the potential of LEK household surveys…
Archaeological study of Indigenous pasts has been characterized by a focus on objects over people. This study attempts to humanize the past by illuminating human agency in the human-dog relationship through a case study of dog health and diet during the Late Ceramic period (ca. …
This thesis explores “the new imperialism of exploitation as development” (Spivak 1999) in the post-independent Philippines. In examining the Philippines' positioning in specific circuits of global capital, economic development is considered as industry, cultural practice, desir…
Nigeria has greatly evolved as an intercultural society given her history of colonization, the influence of foreign religion (Christianity and Islam, primarily) and the impact of globalization. Africa had her socio-cultural practices and art idioms before these foreign influence…