Ethnographic Research (Investigation Type)

This is research that focuses on the systematic description and analysis of cultural systems or lifeways. These studies of contemporary people and cultures rely heavily on participant observation as well as interviews, oral histories, and review of relevant documents. Ethnoarchaeological studies are a subset of this kind of research that investigate correlations between traditional contemporary cultures and patterns in the archaeological record.

376-400 (451 Records)

The Samoan Reader (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hiram Caton.

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.


Samoan Village: Then and Now Second Edition (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lowell D. Holmes. Ellen Rhoads Holmes.

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.


The Samoans (1937)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Mead.

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.


Sand Creek Massacre Project (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

In May 1999, the Sand Creek Massacre Project Team completed its successful search for the site of the Sand Creek Massacre. On the banks of Sand Creek in Kiowa County, Colorado, an archeological team that included tribal members, National Park Service staff and volunteers, and local landowners, found evidence of the Indian village that was attacked by the U.S. Army on November 29, 1864. On that day, approximately 700 soldiers led by Colonel John Chivington had struck at dawn, following an all-...


Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts
PROJECT Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

In this ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific the late anthropologist William H. Davenport presents a distinctive genre of figure sculpture produced for and used in traditional religious rituals and ceremonies. The body of the book discusses the history of Santa Cruz Island society since the first Europeans came to the area in 1595, the cultural meanings of its most conspicuous features, and descriptions of the...


Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts (2005)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Davenport.

In this ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific the late anthropologist William H. Davenport presents a distinctive genre of figure sculpture produced for and used in traditional religious rituals and ceremonies. The body of the book discusses the history of Santa Cruz Island society since the first Europeans came to the area in 1595, the cultural meanings of its most conspicuous features, and descriptions of the...


Sapelo Island
PROJECT Uploaded by: Rachel Black

Sapelo Island Project


Sapelo Island: Mortuary Research at Behavior Cemetary (9MC498) (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp.

In May of 2010 the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) carried out archaeological research at Behavior Cemetery on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Under the direction of Dr. Nicholas Honerkamp and assisted by Dr. Ray Crook (Professor Emeritus, University of West Georgia), students enrolled in the UTC Archaeological Field Methods course participated in a program of archaeological survey and reconnaissance at the c. five-acre Cemetery. Based on a request from Gullah-Geechee residents of the Hog...


Sapelo Island: Recovery & Analysis Human Skeletal Remains & Artical on Skeletal Analysis (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text [NFM] Various.

Reports and Correspondence


Scanned Asset Key, Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage 1984 (2012)
DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

This dataset contains a list of the assets scanned from the Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage 1984 collection stored at the Applied Archaeology Laboratories of Ball State University, Indiana.


Security and State Transformation: An Anthropology of Kenya's War on Terror, 1998-2016 (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Zoltan Gluck.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My project is a study of Kenya's 'war on terror,' examining how security practices and counterterrorism are affecting urban space and state power. In recent years Kenya has experienced a number of terrorist attacks that have profoundly impacted the country, placing security at the center of national politics and transforming the very institutions of state security. Through historic and...


Settlement Dynamics on a Transitional Landscape: Investigations of Cultural Resources for the State Route 77 - Snowflake Passing Lanes Project, Navajo County, Arizona (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Settlement Dynamics on a Transitional Landscape: Investigations of Cultural Resources for the State Route 77 - Snowflake Passing Lanes Project, Navajo County, Arizona describes the results of investigations of seven prehistoric and historic sites along State Route 77 north of Snowflake, in Navajo County, Arizona. Between August 2009 and June 2012, fieldwork was conducted in three phases in advance of the construction of passing lanes and culvert extensions. Seven sites, with artifacts or...


Settlement of the Prairie Margin: Archeology of the Richland Creek Reservoir, Navarro and Freestone Counties, Texas 1980-1981, a Research Synopsis (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James E. Bruseth. Others.

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.


Sexual Meaning (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sherry B. Ortner. H. Whitehead.

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Sexuality and Gender in Samoa: Conceptions and Missed Conceptions (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bradd Shore.

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.


Shell Artifact Photographs, Field School at Sites 12G9 and 12G10 1975-1976 (2012)
IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photographs of shell artifacts collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed site 12G10 along the Mississinewa Reservoir in Grant and Wabash Counties, Indiana.


Silver King to Hayden Transmission Line Study, Socio-Cultural Baseline Report (1976)
DOCUMENT Full-Text R.C. Fuller Associates.

This socio-cultural report is focused on the people who live and work in the area likely to be affected by the proposed transmission line. This area is generally those sections of eastern Pinal and western Gila counties which are primarily involved with the copper mining industry. Figure 1, the Socio-cultural study area map, shows this area. The area shown in Figure 1 includes populated areas not included in the specifically designated project study area as shown in Figure 2. This difference...


Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman (1964)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. B. Hassrick.

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Situating Syrian-ness in France: Asylum and Diaspora in Paris (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2019)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Maddox.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. To answer the question of how exiled Syrians forge their own lifeworlds in Paris, France, this study employs ethnographic methods to explore the unique conception of Syrian-ness that emerges from biographies shaped by the legacy of French colonialism, Syrian nationalism, and the ongoing violence in Syria. While categories such as "refugee," "asylum seeker," and "French citizen of Syrian...


Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dean E. Arnold.

How and why do ceramics and their production change through time? Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community is a unique ethno-archaeological study that attempts to answer these questions by tracing social change among potters and changes in the production and distribution of their pottery in a single Mexican community between 1965 and 1997. Dean E. Arnold made ten visits to Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico, witnessing the changes in transportation...


The Social Life of Employment Contracts (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2020)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ilana Gershon.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Even as unemployment rates fall, contract and freelance work is on the rise, and job tenures are short - the current median tenure is 4.2 years. The changes in work follow a historical shift in how Americans understand the employment contract. Under contemporary capitalism, people increasingly see themselves in business terms: they are the "CEO of me." In this perspective, hiring resembles a...


Social Organization (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan Howard. John Kirk Patrick.

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Socialization and Character Developement (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jane Ritchie. James Ritchie.

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The Society of Historians, Division of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Social Services (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only DeVern Reed Smith.

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Some Problems of Succession Among Arno Marshallese (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael A. Rynkiewich.

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