Trade and exchange exerted a powerful force in the historic and protohistoric past of Island Southeast Asian communities. Exchange and interaction are also hypothesized to have played an important role in the spread of new technologies and lifestyles throughout the region during…
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The study examines processes of community formation. Specifically, it focuses on how people in small-scale, relatively isolated communities manage to negotiate the differences and conflicts between them in the absence of local authority structures and institutions for dispute re…
In the beginning of the twenty-first century, educational and commercial institutions have driven the demand for cheap and efficient data storage. The storage medium known as magnetic recording media has remained the mainstay for most computer systems due to its large storage ca…
Located in the center of the Mediterranean, with access to both northern and southern shores of the sea as well as routes between east and west, Sicily appears to be an obvious candidate for the position of hub within medieval Mediterranean shipping and travel patterns. As a hub…
The books of 1 and 2 Kings explicitly focus on the ideological motivations of the DtrH, but within this narrative, the text leaves intrinsic clues on the economic structures within ancient Israel. This study uses the anthropological paradigm of Karl Polanyi as a lens to analyze …
My dissertation is based on eighteen months of research conducted in Jimma, Ethiopia, a city of 120,000. Jimma is typical of urban Ethiopia in that unemployment rates for youth are close to fifty percent. The dissertation examines the manner in which unemployed and working youth…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of cultural and economic change in Auhelawa, a rural, indigenous society of southern Normanby Island (Milne Bay Province), Papua New Guinea. After a century of Australian colonial administration and postcolonial economic and social chan…
This dissertation uses the theory of power relationships to analyze the impact of Christianity on Tagal society, by identifying those resources that contain social value, the control of those resources and the social exchanges of those resources. I show that two key power relati…
The aim of this dissertation is to put textile and fiber analysis into the mainstream of archaeological materials analysis. This study illustrates the broad array of findings which can be derived from precise identification of fibers from well-provenienced archaeological textile…
This thesis analyzes the historical, legal, and cultural dimensions and processes of land exchange between the Pawtucket-Pennacook and English colonists of Massachusetts Bay Company/Colony, in the seventeenth century. A close reading of colonial archives, reveals political and s…
This dissertation starts with a hugely popular healer Nerka, a Bosnian "Queen of Health," (Kraljica Zdravlja), who heals with her hands without touching and without a price; it ends with a chapter visiting her excessively generous and tactless practice to raise a question more p…
The Shurat, most frequently called the KhawArij in the historical sources as well as in modern scholarship, are referred to as the first sect in Islam. This study shows that people from various Shurat, subgroups throughout the early Islamic period (37-132 A.H./657-750 A.D.) iden…
The correlation by archeologists between increasing craft specialization and increasing sociopolitical complexity typically presumes a relationship between elites or centralized institutions in urbanizing regions and administrative or economic controls of craft production. To ex…