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Browsing by Thesis (Discipline) "Anthropology"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)The thesis examines personal and suvivor expressions of identity through freed-people funerary monuments located in the Pompeian necropoleis. The goal is to show how the deceased were able to manipulate their funerary ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This thesis synthesizes documentary evidence with two major sets of geophysical data in a comparative study between a potential subsurface archaeological feature, tentatively identified as the possible remains of a colonial ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-29)This thesis examines how the relationship between archaeology and heritage impacts a historic site, using the Grand-Pré National Historic Site (GPNHS) as a case study. Particularly, looking into whether this relationship ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Coming out, or the public expression of a non-hegemonic sexuality, is an important process in the lives of many lesbians, gays, and bisexuals, among others. The last major anthropological study of coming out using the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This thesis is an ethnographic study of conflict and conflict resolution at a Halifax elementary school. It describes the skills and techniques that students are taught at the school to handle their conflicts and the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)The current study focused on the seven cervical vertebrae to establish an accurate sex estimation method for White European skeletal populations. The influences of stature and aging on the cervical vertebrae were also ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The impact of climate change is estimated to be particularly severe in Thailand. Therefore, there is an urgent need for population-specific methodologies for the identification of unknown human remains in Thailand. The ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)This thesis examines the role of food in the construction and performance of middle class identity for young women living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It will frame this subject within the larger context of urban food ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021-04-16)This thesis examines the eighteenth-century Missionary Thomas Wood, the first Anglican clergymen to translate religious texts in the Mi’kmaq language. The central argument of this Theses is that Wood influenced and shaped ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)An increased awareness of the social determinants of health and their interdisciplinary applications has led to a wealth of new research in the last two decades. Anthropologists are using these constantly evolving determinants ...
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The importance of language to minorities in urban areas : Acadian identity in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-29)This thesis explores how Acadians in Halifax Regional Municipality use French to index their identity, including the importance of language in doing so. Halifax, Nova Scotia is home to an English majority as well as ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Latin American populations are often grouped together as one ancestry. Therefore, this research investigated population specificity for sex estimation using the calcaneus of contemporary adult Chilean and Mexican populations. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-15)The Anthropocene, our current geological era, is defined by increased anthropogenic environmental alteration that is reducing great ape populations globally. As this occurs, there becomes an increased need to not only ...
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Metric pair-matching of calcanei in commingled human remains cases : a case study from South Africa (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)The current research uses the calcaneus to establish an accurate method of osteometric pair-matching in White, Black, and Coloured South Africans. Paired calcanei of 419 individuals (210 males, 209 females), 20 to 103 years ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)On Christmas Day, 1782, or so the story goes, Peter McNab purchased the largest island in Halifax Harbour, which carries his name to this day. Folk and literary tradition has portrayed Peter McNab, a native of Highland ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This thesis examines the property crimes of 18th-century Halifax, Nova Scotia from the years of 1749 to 1770. In this study an investigation of the judicial system of a British colony is produced, along an evaluation of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This thesis examines public engagement with three historical burying grounds in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Old Burying Ground, the Poor House burying ground, and St. Peter’s Cemetery. The research question was ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)This thesis explores the unique archaeological feature of Newgrange known as the roof-box, which was rediscovered after the excavations carried out at the site in the 1960s by Michael J. O’Kelly. This rediscovery led to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)The rock-art of Point Pleasant Park has been largely unacknowledged by academic research and popular narratives. This study seeks to remedy such oversight by exploring the function of this contemporary assemblage, based ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This thesis examines how and why the neurodiversity paradigm and movement influence autistic people’s identities as they participate in autism self-advocacy activity. The neurodiversity paradigm dictates that autism and ...
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