This thesis examines the early works of Soviet conceptual performance art group Collective Actions, founded in 1976, and focuses on the way the group employed the concept of “emptiness” as a motif throughout its practice. Notions of nothingness, emptiness, and dematerialization …
“Başlangıçtan Emevî Dönemine Kadar Benî Süleym Kabilesi” adlı çalışmamızda Benî Süleym kabilesinin belirlenen dönem içinde öncelikle kabilenin soyu, alt kolları, kabilenin yönetimi ve yaşadığı coğrafya üzerine durulmuştur. Ayrıca kabilenin sosyal ve dinî hayatı hakkında bilgi ve…
Esta investigação discute a temática do Vinho do Porto, um produto que, para além de ser influente nos aspetos económico e histórico, retrata a identidade cultural portuguesa. O seu êxito comercial impulsiona o surgimento de novas marcas e o consequente aumento da competitividad…
Established in 1516 on an abandoned manufacturing site, the Ghetto of Venice was an experiment in containment as a means of maintaining coexistence between the early modern Republic’s Christian and Jewish populations. The walls that surrounded the Venetian Ghetto served both Chr…
This dissertation examines the rise of jornaleros and jornaleras in the Pacific Northwest at a community center in Seattle, Washington called Casa Latina and critiques the contemporary interpretations of the jornalero/a experience, both regionally and nationally. The objective o…
Contemporary Hawai’i is a renowned tourist destination for millions of visitors a year. Prior to the arrival of Europeans in 1778, missionary intervention in 1820, and American occupation in 1893, the islands had its own monarchy and unique cultural traditions. Since the interfe…
The dichotomous paradigm constituted by the realist tradition of Chinese cinema has become the epic and inertial discourse for understanding Chinese modernity. However, I argue that some new filmmakers after the sixth generation of directors have used the narrative and aesthetic…
Winyan okodakiciye and Indigenous women led collectives and organizations play a vital role in our communities and movements. This dissertation examines the ways winyan okodakiciye work to address the community impacts of settler colonialism, colonial patriarchy, violence and hi…
This document includes two parts. The first part is theoretical and focuses on the urgent need to engage young people in history museums and be inclusive of their perspectives on our cultural landscape. The theory discusses which categories of visitors comprise the youth visitor…
This dissertation evaluates the experience of Latina migrant mothers living in New Haven, Connecticut amid the COVID-19 pandemic. I ask: How do Latin American migrant women accommodate traumatic histories and motherhood amid a global public health and economic crisis? This ethno…
Although the introduction of emerging technologies has enhanced the position and value of culture within societies, it has also started a conversation on the need to preserve and protect the same- particularly during times of rapid change and development. The need to remember th…
The cinema intermission (or samosa break, in Bombay vernacular) has long been phased out in many parts of the world, but remains a pervasive ritual for audiences in India. This dissertation focuses on a transnational history of the intermission and its role as a multi-sided plat…
Bu çalışma antropoloji bilimi ile sanat eğitiminin arasındaki ilişkiyi ve antropoloji alanında sağlanabilecek bilgilerin sanat eğitiminde ne gibi artıları olabileceğini mercek altına almaya çalışmıştır. Bu doğrultuda da öncelikle kavramsal çerçeve ele alınmıştır. Kavramsal çerçe…
3 boyutlu modelleme ve yazıcıların sağlık alanında kullanımı gün geçtikçe artmaya ve geliştirilmeye devam etmektedir. 3 boyutlu modellemenin kullanım alanlarından biri de osteolojik materyal ve veriler üzerindedir. Anatomi, antropoloji, adli bilimler ve arkeoloji bilimleri açısı…
In ethnomusicological literature, from all indigenous Finno-Ugric peoples of Europe, Sámi’s musical traditions and indigenous politics have arguably been studied the most since the seventeenth century (Ramnarine 2009: 188). In contrast, the Finno- Ugric peoples of Russia are usu…
Indigenous communities across the United States were coerced and tricked into signing treaties that ceded significant portions of their ancestral lands. This land holds cultural value to the tribal members, however academics and archaeologists who do not often shared these value…
With the widespread use of the idea of resilience across disciplines, it has become a buzzword in today’s world and the meaning has constantly been expanded and updated. Based on the theoretical framework of resilience, this dissertation adopts multiple methodologies in three es…
Millions of people globally are dependent on customary and commercial use of wildlife. Many Australian Aboriginal communities aspire towards developing natural resource-based enterprises. However, a unique combination of historical, legislative and institutional factors makes th…
Pensacola archaeological culture and Pensacola ceramics have been understudied in the Pensacola Bay region of northwest Florida. This research serves as a stepping stone to applying a relatively new absolute dating technique known as Blue Light Optically Stimulated Luminescence …