Anthropology Theses and Dissertations

 

This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Anthropology, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Kabeshinàn: Situating the BiFw-6 Site in Broader Regional and Cultural Landscapes, Samantha Albanese

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"It’s not a science isolated in a bubble": Grave Encounters in Forensic Anthropology in Colombia and Peru, Franziska Albrecht

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The Politics of Syrian Photographic Representation: Intersections of Civilian Photography and Power Amidst Revolution, Rawand Amsdr

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Bamboo for People and Primates: An Ethnography of 'Convivial Connections' between Conservation, Development and Identity on the Ecuadorian Coast., Tamara L. Britton MA

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Experience on the Ropes: Embodiment, Narrative, and Boxing, Patrick Galler

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Chinese Development Projects in Jamaica: An Ethnography of Imperial Formations from the ‘Yaardi’ Perspective, Ashley Henry

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Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of infant feeding practices and stress in 18th-19th century Pointe-aux-Trembles, Québec, Sydney Holland

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Aging out of Children's Hospitals - Exploring the Transition Out of Pediatric Care for Youth with Rare Medical Conditions and their Social Support Networks, Dima Kassem

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Bioarchaeological Knowledge Mobilization and the Museum as Knowledge Broker, Teegan Muggridge

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Birds of the ancient Nile: Species identification in Egyptian animal mummies using multi-resolution computed tomography and deep learning image segmentation, Maris A. Schneider

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In Society's Shadow: Identifying Structural Violence in MUNA, a Burial Community from Late Intermediate Period (1100 - 1470 CE) Pachacamac, Peru., Ashley C. Ward

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Hands-On History: Applying a Strong Like Two People Approach to Archaeology Education, Kaylee Woldum

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Teachers’ Work: Communicating on Difficult Knowledge in Ontario Schools, Zsofia Agoston Villalba

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Variation in Habitual Activity and Body Composition: A Segmental Body Comparison of Runners and Swimmers, Madelyn Hertz

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The Babe, the Virgin, and the Crone: Female Pubertal Development in Medieval and Post-Medieval Arnhem, The Netherlands, Victoria Lavallee

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Head shapes and toothaches: A study of cranial modification and dental pathology at MUNA, a late pre-Hispanic cemetery from the Archaeological Sanctuary of Pachacamac (Lima, Perú)., T Naomi Nakahodo Moromizato

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From Micro to Macro: Examining Potential Microbiome Mediated Influences on Human Growth and Health Outcomes Through Breastfeeding and Antibiotic Exposures, Nicole K. Phillips

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Surveying the Industry: A Professional Profile of Cultural Resource Management in Canada, Sydney Rowinski

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Investigating neutral and climate-linked morphological variation in human femora: A geometric morphometrics approach, Isabelle Rutherford

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Stable Isotope Analysis of Breastfeeding and Weaning Practices in 19th Century Montreal, Jess Sadlowski

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Exploring the Woodland Period Within the Lake Wawanosh Region Through Two Archaeological Sites: AgHn-12 and AgHn-14, Matthew Severn

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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The impact of energetic trade-offs on the developmental trajectory and life history strategy of Homo sapiens: The modern human female phenotype, Laura Ann Hope Atkinson

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Legs and Hills, Aidan Attema

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Discourses of Tension in a Rainbow Nation: Transcultural Identity Formations among Hakka Mauritians, Federica Guccini

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Autoethnography of a Pregnant Doula: An Anthropological Investigation of Birth Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario and Quebec, Fattimah A. Hamam

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Inuvialuit Living Art: Co-Creating Local Community Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Research, Jason YF Lau

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Assumed identities and the construction of self among the West Indian diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Badarinarayan A. Maharaj

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An Investigation into the Curation of Archaeological Collections in Cultural Resource Management in Ontario, Canada, Vienna Raven Mann

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Localized Activism in the Bangladeshi Garments Industry: Mobilizing the Labour Movement from the Ground Up, Raisa Masud

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Transforming the Dead: The Taphonomy and Ritual Economy of Funerary Bundles on the Pre-Hispanic Central Coast of Peru (1000-1532 CE), Joanna Motley

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3D Morphometric Analysis of Late Paleoindigenous Projectile Points from the Mackenzie I Site, Northwestern Ontario, and surrounding regions, Dave Norris

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Colombian women’s experiences of the Canadian refugee and asylum adjudication process, Camila N. Parra Carrillo

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Dental Health in the Aqllakuna from Farfán (Peru): A New Perspective on an Inca Female Institution (ca. 1470-1532 A.D.) Using Micro-CT and Histological Analysis, Émy Roberge

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Of Mice and Mummies: Experimental Mummification and Radiological Examination of Neoplastic Disease and Cancer in Mummified Remains from Ancient Egypt and Peru, Jennifer L. Willoughby

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Social Stratification & Mummification in Ancient Egypt: The Inevitability of Variability in the Post-New Kingdom Mummification Program, Andrew Arsenault

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Evaluating Cranial Nonmetric Traits in Mummies from Pachacamac, Peru: The Utility of Semi-Automated Image Segmentation in Paleoradiology, Cameron J. Beason

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Indigenous Language Revitalization Efforts in Canada during COVID-19: Facilitating and Maintaining Connections using Digital Technologies, Laura Gallant

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Ancient Egyptian Subadult Mummies: Unwrapping Childhood in the Ancient Past, Jillian A. Graves

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Visualizing Anishinaabe Ceramics: A Collaborative Approach to Digital Archaeology, Hillary V. Kiazyk

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Quebec’s Uninhabitable Community: Identity and Community among Anglo-Quebecer Out-Migrants, Evan A. Mardell

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From Stateless People to Citizens: The Reformulation of Territory and Identity in India-Bangladesh Border Enclaves, Md Rashedul Alam

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Ridge Pine 3: A Late Archaic site in the southern Lake Huron Basin, Jessica Russell

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Life in Between: Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Carabamba Valley, Northern Peru, Amedeo Sghinolfi

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Cellar Dwellers: Historic Feature Sampling Strategies in Ontario Commercial Archaeology, Corbin Berger

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Taking Ethics Seriously: Navigating the Ethics Approval Process at a Canadian University, Marie-Pier Cantin

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Ethnoprimatology and Nature-Based Tourism: An Exploration of Macaque Ecology and Behaviour at the Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Center in Sabah, Malaysia, Lauren J. Gilhooly

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Seeing the Invisible: An Integrated Remote Sensing Approach to Mapping Buried Architecture at Las Colmenas, Virú Valley, Peru, Kayla C. Golay Lausanne

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Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Communicative Frequencies and Multimodality in Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta), Hilary Hager

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Indigenous Coaches and the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships, Dallas Gerald Hauck

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Blackness, Gender and the State: Afro Women's Organizations in Contemporary Ecuador, Beatriz A. Juarez-Rodriguez

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Fanning the Flames of Disaster: The Role Colonialism Plays in the Impact of Wildfire on Indigenous People in Northern Alberta, Alana K. Kehoe

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Growing Relations: An ethnographic study on rice, vanilla, and yams in Madagascar, Tyler MacIntosh

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Epigenetics a Decolonizing Science, Wade Paul

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Inside Perspectives on Ceramic Manufacturing: Visualizing Ancient Potting Practices through Micro-CT Scanning, Amy St. John

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Newcomer Integration Programs and London, Ontario’s Diversity Agenda: Views from within and without, Jutta Zeller-Beier

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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'I Honoured Him Until the End': Storytelling of Indigenous Female Caregivers and Care Providers Focused on Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias (ADOD), Danielle E. Alcock

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Life as "Half and Half": A Grandfather and Granddaughter's Sharing of Story, Kalley Armstrong

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Exploring the occupational history of the Middle Ontario Iroquoian Dorchester Village site, Johnathan Freeman

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Digital Technology and Communications in Today's Cuba, Diana Gavric

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Digital Representation of Inuvialuit Traditional Knowledge: A case study in community engagement using Google Earth, Jeffrey Grieve

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Getting Better All The Time: Re-evaluating Macroscopic Dental Age Estimation Standards In Egypt, Casey Kirkpatrick

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Communities Based on “Sweaty Infestations of Joy”: A look at the Temporary Moral Communities Formed through International Volunteering Trips., Sarah A. Knowles

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South Bend and Ridge Pine 2: Fraternal Twins, Gabryell Kurtzrock Belyea

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Childhood Stress at Rinconada Alta (AD 1470-1532): An Examination of Linear Hypoplastic Enamel Defects on the Central Coast of Peru, Jessica Lacerte

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International Englishes, Dialects and Glocalized Englishes: Translanguaging in South Korea, Cameron Bruce Lawrence

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Cultivating Knowledge: Agrarian Science and Ecological Engagements in Southern Ontario Agriculture, Kelly Linton

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The Life Histories of Aztec Sacrifices: A Stable Isotope Study (C, N, and O) of Offerings from Tlatelolco and the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, Diana K. Moreiras Reynaga

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The Anishinaabeg of Chief's Point, Bimadoshka Pucan

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Weathering Storms and Flooded Waters: Anthropological Perspectives of Policy and Risk in Toronto, Ontario, Jennifer Spinney

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Perceptions of Primates and Protected Areas: Ethnoprimatological Implications for Conservation in the Pacoche Refuge, Tamara L. Britton

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Intelligible Variability: Narratives of Male Sex Work in London Ontario Canada, Nathan Dawthorne

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Indigenous Political Organization in Huamachuco, Peru, in the Early Seventeenth Century., Carolina Delgado Domínguez

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Pushing the Limits: Testing, Magnetometry and Ontario Lithic Scatters, John E. Dunlop

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Reconstructing The Social Landscape Of Cerro Arena, Peru, Felipe Gonzalez-Macqueen

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Soccer, Space, and Community Integration: Being and Becoming Canadian in London, Ontario Through the World's Game, Marcelo Eduardo Herrera

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'We are the Big Six:’ Maasai Perceptions and Organization of Cultural Tourism in Kenya, Kara D. Kelliher

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Unsettling the Homeland: Fragments of Home and Homeland among Iraqi Exiles in Amman, Jordan, Abdulla Majeed

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Guided by Smoke: A Comparative Analysis of Early Late Woodland Smoking Pipes from the Arkona Cluster, Shane McCartney

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On Convivencia, Bridges and Boundaries: Belonging and exclusion in the narratives of Spain’s Arab-Islamic past, K. Elaine McIlwraith

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Petrographic Analysis of Inuit Ceramics, John F. Moody

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Storied Realities: A Case Study of Homelessness, Housing Policy, and Gender in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Alexandra E. Nelson

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The Semi-Subterranean Sweat Lodges of the Redeemer Site, Amanda Parks

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A House of Healing: The Importance of Friendship Centres to Urban Aboriginal Populations, Emily Pitts

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"Too Hard to Pronounce"- Examining Immigration Ideologies in the Treatment of Newcomer Youths' Names, Nadja Schlote

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Mothers Who Blog: An Exploration of Advice, Personal Stories and Motherhood Online, Rachael Simser

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Social Identities in Chimu Times: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Burials from Chayhuac Walled Complex in Chan Chan site, Peru, Katya Valladares

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From Buried Treasure and Risky Adventure to Sobering Matters of Concern: the Ring of Fire Discourse in Ontario Mining Events, Brianne L. Vescio

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"Being Chinese" in Madagascar, Mingyuan Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Tourism and state violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, Hana S. Ahmed

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Virtual Archaeology, Virtual Longhouses and "Envisioning the Unseen" Within the Archaeological Record, William M. Carter

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Language as Function or Fashion? Multilingual Identity Formation Through Korean Language Learning, Hannah C. Cho

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”Not Just Based On Land”: A Study On The Ethnic Tibetan Community in Toronto, Diyin Deng

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Hunting for (dis)connections in Northern Ontario: "nature," wild meat, and community in Hearst, Daphné Gagnon

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If Pits Could Talk: An Analysis of Features from the Figura Site (AgHk-52), Kelly Gostick

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The Richness of Food: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Huaca Santa Clara and Huaca Gallinazo, North Coast of Peru, Arwen M. Johns

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E-kawôtiniket 1876: Reclaiming Nêhiyaw Governance in the Territory of Maskwacîs through Wâhkôtowin (Kinship), Paulina R. Johnson

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Shifting State Plans and the Politics of Street Food Vending in Cuba, Lina Johnston

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Entangled Resurgence: Investigating 'Reconciliation' and the Politics of Language Revitalization in the Oneida Nation of the Thames, Hannah E. McGregor

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Trees for the Primates: A Community-Based Assessment of Crowned Lemur (Eulemur coronatus) Habitat Preferences and Conservation in Northern Madagascar, Fernando Mario Mercado Malabet

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Rethinking Holocene Ecological Relationships Among Caribou, Muskoxen, and Human Hunters on Banks Island, NWT, Canada: A Stable Isotope Approach, Jordon S. Munizzi