Ethnographic Research (Investigation Type)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smiti Sam Nathan.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project will investigate the socio-economic foundations of oasis communities during the Early Bronze Age (EBA, ca. 3100BCE - 2000BCE) in southeastern Arabia. These relatively small-scale communities demonstrate strategic organizational and subsistence choices in extreme environments and climates that led to the establishment of widespread oasis agriculture communities across the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Eliza Williamson.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project set out to understand how the paradigm of 'humanized birth' is implemented in Salvador, Brazil, through Rede Cegonha, a government program to improve maternal and infant healthcare in Brazil's public health system. Over the course of twelve-months of multi-sited ethnographic research, the project followed Rede Cegonha from the federal Ministry of Health to the local health...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ferris Kade.

Because of various external and internal factors and pressures, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians have seen significant changes and diminishment of their intangible cultural heritage throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries due to such factors as the establishment of the reservation system, the effects of Indian boarding schools, federal relocation policy, and other reasons. The Turtle Mountain Tribal Historic Preservation Office, undertook an effort to survey intangible...

DOCUMENT Full-Text M Scott Thompson.

This research explores how people’s relationships with the spirits of the dead are embedded in political histories. It addresses the ways in which certain spirits were integral “inhabitants” of two social environments with disparate political traditions. Using the prehistoric mortuary record, I investigate the spirits and their involvement in socio-political affairs in the Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest. Foremost, I construct a framework to characterize particular social...

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This research explores how people’s relationships with the spirits of the dead are embedded in political histories. It addresses the ways in which certain spirits were integral “inhabitants” of two social environments with disparate political traditions. Using the prehistoric mortuary record, this study investigate the spirits and their involvement in socio-political affairs in the Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest. Foremost, this research constructs a framework to characterize...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Zhiying Ma.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. "Intimate Institutions: Psychiatry, Family, and the Rise of Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China" examines families' involvement in the care and management of persons diagnosed with serious mental illnesses in China, especially during the recent mental health legal reform. Over the last three decades, most psychiatric inpatients in China have been hospitalized against their will, by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

This document provides an overview, introduction, and listing of the various reports and related documents regarding the Kennewick Man remains.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rita Olsudong. Calvin T. Emesiochel. Charlene Mersai.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Annika Schmeding.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The ethnographic dissertation research explores the communication and negotiation among Sufis and ulema, and their role in the public sphere and peacebuilding in present-day Afghanistan through the lens of the newly formed Sufi-Islamic council in Herat. The council brings together different Sufi associations (tariqas), local ulema as well as Sufi adherents to respond to the changing religious...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Andrew Bush.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. According to predominant norms among Muslims in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, sharia ("Islamic law") empowers a husband to divorce his wife by spoken repudiation. When husbands regret their repudiation, they often visit jurists at local Fatwa Councils seeking advice to restore their marriage. Having squandered the authority granted them by sharia, husbands try to restore that authority through...

DATASET Saul L. Hedquist.

Appendix D of Hedquist's dissertation, A Colorful Past: Turquoise and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region, A.D. 1275–1400.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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PROJECT Uploaded by: Mary Whelan

James Schoenwetter (Ph.D. Southern Illinois 1967) was a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University. His research interests included prehistoric cultural ecology, applications of pollen analysis in archaeology and research methodology. Before his retirement in 2000 he directed the ASU Anthropology Department’s palynology lab. Pollen research by Schoenwetter and his students involved a variety of sites in Mesoamerica, North America and Europe. He directed archaeological and botanical...

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This project contains diverse works of Jesse Walter Fewkes over time on the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument including tables, maps, images and reports.

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Project metadata for resources within the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson cultural heritage resources collection. This project is used to fill metadata for all resources part of the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson collection.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chester S. Chard.

The purpose of this study is an attempt to analyze aboriginal Kamchadal culture in order to ascertain, insofar as possible, its origins, relationships, and role in the culture history of the North Pacific. It does not purport to be a complete ethnography, although it should serve as an introductory one. It was felt that instead of merely lining up raw materials for others to work on, it would be of more immediate value and use to culture historians to analyze them, selecting the significant...

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The Kern River Pipeline will carry natural gas from the overthrust belt in southwestern Wyoming to a point of interconnection with the proposed Mojave Pipeline near Daggett, California. From there the combined Mojave/Kern River pipeline will convey the gas to the southern San Joaquin Valley near Bakersfield, California. For purposes of regulatory compliance, including review under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the Kern River project terminates at the point of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Maren P. Hopkins. Barry Price Steinbrecher. Chip Colwell. Saul L. Hedquist. Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma. Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa.

THE HOPI TRIBE and Anthropological Research, LLC, collaborated on an ethnographic study of the Navajo Generating Station and proposed Kayenta Mine Complex (NGS-KMC), and associated facilities. The study area is within the traditional homeland of the Hopi people, and a portion of it is within the Hopi Indian Reservation. Numerous Hopi clans have migration histories that situate them historically and spiritually within the study area, and ongoing cultural beliefs and practices continue to connect...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Byron Cummings.

Written by Byron Cummings, at the time of its publication the Director Emeritus of the Arizona State Museum, this book describes the excavations and other investigations of Kinishba that Cummings organized and led during the 1930s. This report, which Cummings wrote for general readers, was published "under the auspices of the Hohokam Museums Association and the University of Arizona. The book describes the site's architectural and archaeological features and artifacts, as well as the ancient...

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Project metadata for resources within the Kirtland Air Force Base cultural heritage resources collection.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis A. Calabrese.

The Knife River Indian Villages are located in North Dakota near the confluence of the Knife and Missouri Rivers, just north of the contemporary town of Stanton, North Dakota. A number of relatively undisturbed archeological sites occur along this stretch of river, an area which historically was the homeland of both the Hidatsa and Mandan Indians. The Knife River Indian Villages are the northernmost cluster of sites. They are the final major village complex representing the pinnacle of Hidatsa...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meriwether Wilson. Lawrence S. Hamilton.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marilyn A. Masson. Carlos Peraza Lope.

Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center. Masson and Peraza Lope's detailed overview provides evidence of a vibrant...

PROJECT Ben Nelson. Arizona State Universtity. Andrea Torvinen.

For over 15 years, Mexican and American archaeologists and students have dug ancient ruins, walked the high desert landscape, and worked in laboratories to understand the rise and fall of La Quemada, Zacatecas. We want to know why societies become complex, developing social hierarchies with specialized economic, political, and religious roles for their members. Why do civilizations expand? Northern Mexico's ancient past is an ideal context for studying these questions. During the period A.D....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Caven Clark.

Archaeological Consulting Services conducted a late prehistoric cultural affiliation study for Grand Portage National Monument. The project included developing a background on the issues involved in linking the late prehistoric (A.D. 700 to 1600) record of often vague or poorly defined archeological cultures with a historic record in which conjectured band, tribal, and/or linguistic identities are known. The purpose of this project was to provide the basis for determining cultural affiliation in...