This study investigates the practices that radical Asian American social workers undertake in response to the dilemmas that arise between their political beliefs and the social work profession. Based on interviews with ten activist social workers selected through snowball and cr…
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In many different cultures throughout history, humans have chosen to live and work cooperatively, arranging themselves into domestic corporate groups. However, these domestic corporate groups are not identical in their nature or operation. For instance, the ways in which communi…
Mentawai leaf monkeys (Presbytis potenziani) are endemic to the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. There is little documentation of their social behavior or ecology. Prior to this project, Mentawai leaf monkeys had never been habituated nor been the subject of any study exceeding 200 …
Macaque (Macaca spp.) societies represent complex adaptive systems marked by multifaceted, heterogeneous social interactions among groups members. Such dynamics allow for considerable variation to emerge with regard to social structure both within as well as across the species o…
In this dissertation I examine the history and musical culture related to the Kawuugulu royal drums of the Baganda people. I argue that the royal drums and their use articulate principles of social organization through symbolic performances of history, which performers reenact i…
In the study of ethnicity on public goods provision, the concept of ethnicity has largely been under specified, resulting in ambiguity in what specific attributes of ethnicity can prove to be deleterious to public goods provision. This dissertation focuses on how two specific as…
In the anthropological study of Bali, the underlying analytical framework has been characterized by a stereotypical, and sometimes misleading division of Balinese culture into discrete categories of Old-Balinese or "Bali Aga" and Hindu-Javanese types of social organization. This…
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…
Recent systematic surveys and excavations of sites across the northern Negev have radically transformed the view of the Chalcolithic period and presented a more diversified picture. The sites of Grar and Shiqmim are especially important for the information they provide on settle…
The Balinese subak is an Irrigation Community (IC), a corporate group that manages an irrigation system by instituting a local charter of authority and electing its own leaders. Subak, renowned in social anthropology and irrigation studies as ICs that combine ritual and resource…
The globalization surge, together with an economic push in Bangladesh for international revenue earning, resulted in the emergence of an export-oriented assembling-manufacturing garment sector based on women's “cheap” labour. Livelihoods of these women labourers from poverty-str…
The intention of this thesis is to discuss various aspects of both Ottoman and Habsburg warfare during the last decade of the sixteenth century. Various arguments have been explored regarding the so-called Military revolution and the role military technology played in early mode…