Browsing by Subject "Cultural anthropology"
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A Politics of the Unspeakable: The Differend of Israel
(2012)Israel's establishment in 1948 in former British-Mandate Palestine as a Jewish country and as a liberal democracy is commonly understood as a form of response to the Holocaust of WWII. Zionist narratives frame Israel's ... -
Brewing Development: Multinational Alcohol Companies, the Neo-Concessionary State, and the Politics of Industrialization in Ethiopia
(2019)This dissertation examines the politics of industry and industrialization in Ethiopia. I analyze how multinational alcohol companies and the Ethiopian state are brewing development, meaning spurring the creation of industrial ... -
Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile
(2017)Iraqi academics have had a pivotal role in shaping and building Iraqi society, identity, and national structures, since the country’s independence from British colonial rule. Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, ... -
“Conquest without Rule: Baloch Portfolio Mercenaries in the Indian Ocean.”
(2008)The central question this dissertation engages with is why modern states in the Persian Gulf rely heavily on informal networks of untrained and inexperienced recruits from the region of Balochistan, presently spread across ... -
Cultural Concepts of Negative Emotion: A Mixed-Methods Study Among Nepali Adolescents
(2017)Background: Emotions are shaped through the internalization of culturally relevant values. Contextualized systems of meaning influence an individual’s experience of emotion, the consequences of a given response, and their ... -
Culture in the Age of Biopolitics: Migrant Communities and Corporate Social Responsibility in China
(2013)This dissertation examines the conjuncture of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and migrant social life in the urban space of Beijing as a problematic of what Foucault called biopower, where distinct logics of market ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
Devil in the Water, Lights on the Mountain: Climate Change in Andean Peru
(2018)This dissertation examines everyday life and storytelling in Peru's Huaylas Valley: a transnational mining hub beneath melting Andean glaciers. During one year of ethnographic fieldwork, I listened to citydwellers and villagers ... -
Dignity and Dionysus: Doing Wildness on the West Coast of Scotland
(2018)This is a dissertation about attachment and survival in a cult tourist destination on the West Coast of Scotland: a tiny village on the edge of a vast landscape, a scenic area valued for its exceptional remoteness and wildness. ... -
Endless Question: Youth Becomings and the Anti-Crisis of Kids in Global Japan
(2014)Young people in Japan contend with shifting understandings of family and friends, insecure jobs, and changing frames around global and national identities. The category of youth itself is unsettled amid a long period of ... -
Haunted Borderland : The Politics on the Border War against China in post-Cold War Vietnam
(2014)This dissertation deals with the history and memory of the Border War with China in contemporary Vietnam. Due to its particularity as a war between two neighboring socialist countries in Cold War Asia, the Border War has ... -
Homes of Capital: Merchants and Mobility across Indian Ocean Gujarat
(2015)My dissertation project is an ethnographic history of "homes of capital," merchant homes located in port-cities of Gujarat in various states of splendor and decrepitude, which continue to mark a long history of Indian Ocean ... -
Listening at the Edges: Aural Experience and Affect in a New York Jazz Scene
(2014)In jazz circles, someone with "big ears" is an expert listener, one who hears the complexity and nuance of jazz music. Listening, then, figures prominently in the imaginations of jazz musicians and aficionados. While jazz ... -
Memory on Fire: Re-membering the Lithuanian Body (Politic)
(2013)ABSTRACT On the first day of November, ordinary commerce in Lithuania comes to a halt. Stores and offices are shuttered, while roads and cemeteries in cities and small villages come alive with the movement of families ... -
Metrics & Democratization: Law, Technology & Democratic Expertise in Postwar El Salvador
(2014)The dissertation is an ethnographic study of the role of monitoring standards on democratic governance reform in El Salvador since the 1992 end of a 12-year civil war. The study looks at the development and implementation ... -
Mobile Ethnicity: The Formation of the Korean Chinese Transnational Migrant Class
(2013)This dissertation, Mobile Ethnicity, examines the formation of a transnational ethnic working class and the dynamics of remittance development in the context of Korean Chinese labor migration between China and Korea. I conducted ... -
Navajo Voices: Country Music and the Politics of Language and Belonging
(2012)This dissertation investigates identity, citizenship, and belonging on the Navajo (Diné) Nation in Arizona and New Mexico through an ethnographic study of Navajo country western bands and the politics of Navajo language ... -
Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in Nineteenth-Century America
(2017)“Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in Nineteenth-Century America” examines how daily practices of food production and distribution shaped the development of New Orleans’ public culture in the long nineteenth ... -
Order Beyond Borders: The Azerbaijani Triangle Across Iran, Turkey, and Russia
(2017)Turkey’s neo-Ottomanism, Iran’s Shi’a Crescent, and Russia’s neo-Eurasianism: together, they evince increasing transregionalism across West Asia. As states and societies interact beyond national borders, their interactions ... -
Politics of Tranquility: Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China
(2015)This dissertation ethnographically examines the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in Yachen, a mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment in eastern Tibet that emerged in the 1980s and is now a leading center of Tibetan Buddhist ...
