This thesis discusses the social life of the Theater at Aphrodisias into Late Antiquity. With a focus on the epigraphic record of the city, this thesis examines the original construction of the theater complex, its patronage, and its intended use in order to better understand ho…
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When we talk about the legacy of war, we most often do not discuss how the experience of war affects the way non-combatants reconstruct their lives in its wake. Less frequently still do we examine how the experience of war affects the way such people reconstruct their social and…
As the nation's founders frequently acknowledged, the maintenance of a republican government in the United States depended on recruiting and perpetuating a class of political leaders capable of assuming the varied and substantial demands of public office. This dissertation trace…
Among the Baliem valley Dani of the central highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, infants play a prominent role in social relations. Infant mortality rates among the Dani are above two hundred and fifty deaths per thousand live births and birth rates are low. To these patterns of …
This thesis examines how media technologies are crucial to the experience of modernity for northern Nigerian Hausa. I examine the social life of media; the ways in which technologies enter particular social, religious and political fields and the uncertain, often unexpected resu…
After more than eighty years of research, the Indus Civilization (ca. 2600-1900 BC) remains largely enigmatic. The terracotta figurines are one of the largest and richest sources of information regarding Indus ideology and society. Unfortunately, the figurines have often been co…
Betel nut chewing is a social practice that articulates boundaries. The history of betel nut chewing in Southern China indexes the ways in which non-Han minorities were sinicized, demonstrating how betel nut chewing culture was appropriated by Han nobles, and variously incorpora…
The Republic of Turkey was established in 1923 out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Soon thereafter, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) and his ruling Cumhuriyet Halkci Partisi (Republican People's Party) launched a series of reforms which were designed to transform all aspects of life,…
Three primary research themes are addressed in this dissertation: archaeological stewardship and public outreach; the social life of the clay ball materials found at the 9,000 PB site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey; and the practices and daily life interactions which the people who lived…