Fertility rates showed a marked decline in Western Europe from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth century. The causes of this decline have been studied extensively, but no complete explanation to the observed patterns during this 'First Demographie T…
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When hearing parents in the United States receive the diagnosis of prelingual deafness for a child, they enter a historically disputatious social field that few, if any, have the slightest notion of previously. What counts as the “proper” intervention to offer parents mirrors lo…
This dissertation establishes the structure and internal dynamics of agrarian families in ancient Israel to the extent that this information is revealed in biblical legal corpora. It begins by reviewing the histories of research concerning Israelite kinship and biblical law. In …
A basic problem for scholars in Egyptology concerns ancient Egyptian social organization. Some Egyptologists state that ancient Egyptian society was organized along matrilineal lines, while others argue that the ancient Egyptian society was organized along patrilineal fines. The…
This thesis is a sociological historiography which is concerned with human networks and how these evolved and adapted to social change and dislocation in the eighteenth century. The experiences of several Campbell kinship groups who comprised a stratum of minor landed elites in …
This thesis is concerned with two discrete but related themes that are of considerable socio-legal significance: South Asian divorce and disputes involving South Asian children. Both themes are explored empirically by means of a qualitative research study conducted in an urban a…
This thesis deals with the role of sponsorship and patronage in the process of migration and in the formation of Biraderi based relationships and various sociological questions posed in the local context within which ethnicity is a defining element. For example, it demonstrates …
This thesis explores young people's experiences of, and orientations towards, being and becoming. Using focus groups and interviews with participants aged between 11 and 15, the research investigates how young people form a sense of who they are and who they can become in terms …
This ethnography draws upon fieldwork experiences in South Manchester, England. The central theme is an exploration of the everyday relatedness of mothering practices, class, space and belonging. I examine mothering as practiced in both the politics of state intervention and thr…
This study investigates the genetic diversity and ethnohistory of four Central Anatolian settlements from a local perspective to better understand the complex population history of Anatolia. The objectives of this project are to (1) document the biological and cultural diversity…
The thesis tries to provide an answer to the puzzle of the existing rule of the Grameen Bank, namely the banning of kin members to be in the same group. By design, borrowers in the group-based microcredit program who are jointly liable for the repayment should possess incentives…
The business and family networks that linked pre-colonial eastern and central Africa to the Swahili coast, the Indian Ocean islands of Zanzibar, and southeastern Arabia are vital to understanding the social and economic history of the region in the nineteenth century. Omani Arab…
This dissertation focuses on Quakers' efforts to convert Indians to Christianity and Native peoples' reactions to their endeavors. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Lenape welcomed members of the Religious Society of Friends to their homeland. Both peoples' religious beliefs s…
This dissertation is an ethnography of a childbirth injury called obstetric fistula - an internal injury to the mother's bladder that occurs during prolonged, obstructed labor. Fistula renders birthing women incontinent of urine, and it is rare that they emerge from labor with a…
The dissertation examines the development of assisted reproduction in American medicine and culture between the first reported use of artificial insemination in the late eighteenth century and the birth of the modern cryobanking industry at the end of the twentieth century. It f…
In the popular Nigerian imagination, as well as in anthropological literature, the Igbo people are renowned for their receptivity to change. In contemporary Nigeria, Igbo people aspire to strikingly modern lives—they want education for their children, development for their commu…
This thesis examines responses to displacement and suffering among a small Muslim population presently resident in post-Soviet Russia. The Meskhetian Turks were deported from Georgia in 1944, and resettled in Central Asia. In 1989, violent attacks led to further migration of mos…
This dissertation is an ethnography of social personhood among southwestern Korowai speakers of Irian Jaya/West Papua, Indonesia. I argue that Korowai reflexively affirm a “dyad-centric” model of subjectivity and social life, according to which persons are foundationally constit…