This dissertation is a regional study of power and authority in a West African state, Kankan-Baté, from its founding in the seventeenth century through the French colonial conquest and occupation of 1891 to 1920. Located on the banks of the Milo River in the present-day country …
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This dissertation examines the character and consequences of the encounter between Soviet colonial authorities and southern Central Asian society during the period 1927–1941, one expressed fundamentally through the language of gender relations and family life. I focus on Uzbekis…
In this research, I investigate the ways that women maneuver for power in the household and the village setting and I examine empirically the relationship between women's power and use of contraception. I began this study because I found the measures of women's autonomy being us…
This study examines issues surrounding the colonial transition in the Malay world by focusing on the history of Johor between 1784 and 1818. It attempts to locate this transition and the different Dutch imperial projects in the region in the context of earlier and parallel forei…
Evaluating the foreign policies of presidents while they are in office or shortly after their tenure ends can sometimes lead to conclusions that prove to be unsound in the future. The case of Harry Truman exemplifies this. When he left office in 1952 his approval rating was in t…
This dissertation is an examination of Queen Melisende's piety, power, and patronage in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem of the twelfth century. The principal sources used to assess her reign are William of Tyre's A History of the Deeds Done Beyond the Sea and the royal charters i…
In recent years, indigenous rights activists have impelled the Mexican government to claim a 'multicultural' approach toward indigenous populations in lieu of its longstanding assimilation approach. Situated within this context, this dissertation investigates formulations of ind…
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2000 and 2002, this work examines the importance of reproduction and motherhood for understanding Igbo women's power in southeastern Nigeria. It argues that women's roles in both biological and social reproduction form the b…
Drawing from Chinese official government statements, academic discourse, and policy behavior, this dissertation examines China's rise from the Chinese point of view. The first essay examines the key debates within the Chinese policy community that drive China's current foreign p…
It is a widely held assumption that Europeans in the 11th and 12th century viewed Muslims as an embodiment of 'the Other.' Even on the periphery of Europe, in newly established territories such as the Crusader States and Spain, Christian identity was constructed in opposition to…
Questions concerning the basis of power and processes which lead to social stratification have occupied anthropological research for decades, resulting in a number of competing schools of thought. This research examines two of these; factional competition and managerial models f…
This study critically examines technological nationalism in Indonesia. It focuses on the Indonesian Aircraft Industry (IPTN), which was economically, politically, and ideologically nurtured by the New Order regime (1966–1998). Four major questions are raised in this study: How h…
Based on this study, the most important variable that drives the foreign policy behavior between the United States and Saudi Arabia toward cooperation is military power which could be understood when considering the hegemony of the United States in the region and the Saudis need…
This dissertation examines the survival and recasting of the Iraqi state between 1988 and 2003. Through four case studies, it suggests that the chaos following the 2003 invasion and the survival of the state between 1988 and 2003 can be understood through a reconsideration of st…
This research provides a case study for Eric Wolf's research directive to better comprehend the interplay of cultural (webs of meaning) and material (webs of power) forms of social life. More specifically, this research demonstrates how theological discourse and practice (as a c…
The period from 1870 to 1941--spanning the period of the late Qajar dynasty and the first Pahlavi Shah--represents the period of transformation for the Iranian state from a pre-modern monarchical state grounded in traditional Persianate and Islamicate patterns and norms to a mod…
This is an inquiry into cultural constructions of "Islamic violence" in dominant Northern discourses. Mainstream Canadian journalism's participation in these discourses is analyzed within the context of its cultural and structural integration into global media networks. Media ma…
This study examines the interplay between the rise of a market principle in the economy and Islamic sources of nationhood in the specific case of Turkey between 1839 and 1990. The rise of Muslim politics in the context of contemporary globalization poses a theoretical challenge …
This study is based on field research conducted on an irrigation organization (Akdeniz Sulama Birligi ) and two settlements (Davultepe and Tece ), located in Icel Province in the Southern Anatolia Region of Turkey; this region is one of the most integrated into national and inte…