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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"biocultural"”.
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Biocultural considerations of sex, gender, and embodiment
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Ecotourism: Conserving biocultural diversity and contributing to sustainable development
… looks at how ecotourists can become aware of biocultural diversity (the intersection of biological and cultural diversity) and help contribute to sustainable development, which considers the needs of both present and future generations. The thesis will address the ecotourism industry and how …
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Biocultural strength: Understanding sex, gender, and performance in Olympic weightlifting
… knowledges. Adopting Frost’s theory of “biocultural creatures,” this study contributes to the sociocultural study of sport, gender, sex, and bodily difference by exploring the intertwining of biological, environmental, and sociocultural influences in women’s strength. Positioned within …
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African American Mortality: A Biocultural Study of Missouri Cemetery Records
Recent reports reveal that a centuries-long trend in mortality has reversed, with post-1980 rural populations now being vulnerable to higher death rates than urban areas (Cossman et al. 2010). Scholars have also documented a post-1980 “return migration” of urban African Americans returning to rural …
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Stewarding the earth : rethinking property and the emergence of biocultural rights.
The thesis analyses the emergence of biocultural rights as a sub‐set of third generation, group rights in environmental law. It submits that these rights, which advocate a people's duty of stewardship over Nature, have arisen as a response to the world's ecological crisis. Indeed, the growing …
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Identity in the Dark Age. A Biocultural Analysis of Early Medieval Scotland
This thesis explores identity in early mediaeval Scotland (ca 800-1300AD) using biological and burial deposition data. During this period Scotland was developing as a unified kingdom. The Norse, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons battled for political power. The Saxon and Irish Churches were pressuring for …
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Abordaje sociocultural de la obesidad infantil-adolescente: examinando la efectividad de un nuevo enfoque biocultural.
… es ponderar la potencialidad de un nuevo enfoque biocultural con el que tratamos de superar los constreñimientos teóricos actuales y resaltar los aspectos socioculturales implicados. Para conseguirlo, el eje epistemológico del trabajo se estructura en base a los planteamientos teóricos de los …
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Dental pathology and macrowear: a biocultural analysis of southern African holocene hunter-gatherers and hunter-herders
Dental macrowear quantity, direction, and oral pathology were assessed against demographic factors in southern African Holocene hunter-gatherers and -herders (sAHGH). This is the first study to investigate inter-related implications of diet, health, and behaviour across time and space using only …
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"Nice ink, man": a biocultural, mixed methods approach to tattooing as costly honest signaling among southern women
In this thesis I examine the influence of a cultural model of tattooing on psychological and biological stress in a sample of Southern tattooed women. The handicap principle of sexual selection states that a high risk ornament is utilized by a mate to show high-quality health. The handicap …
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FROM CELL TO SYMBOL: A BIOCULTURAL STUDY OF ANEMIA AND SUBJECTIVITY AMONG THE POQOMCHI' MAYA IN GUATEMALA
… reduce the impact of anemia and to medical and biocultural anthropology by demonstrating how illness is accommodated.
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Exploring a Biocultural Model of Resiliency in the lower Illinois River Valley from Middle to Late Woodland Periods
… of this study was to describe and explore a biocultural model of resilience, and to test how Resilience Theory could be applied to small-scale prehistoric populations. In order to accomplish these goals, the adult Middle and Late Woodland skeletons from the Elizabeth site in west central …
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Socio-ecological risk factors, explanatory models and treatment-seeking behaviours associated with Mseleni joint disease: a biocultural mixed methods study
… This work demonstrates the value of the biocultural approach in identifying spatial, ecological, social and cultural processes that shape population patterns of health and disease.
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Growing Up in Tell el-Amarna: An Examination of Growth and Non-specific Stress Indicators in New Kingdom Children.
… indicators of physiological stress within a biocultural framework. The long bone standardization method outlined by Goode et al. (1993) was used to compare the South Tombs cemetery’s cross-sectional growth data to subadult samples from other cemeteries during which major social, political, …
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Conditions of the Oral Cavity in Early Bronze Age Anatolia: Reconstruction of Dietary Behavior, Biological Impact, and Social Structure
… trends in reconstructing the EBA have followed biocultural approaches in bioarchaeology studies. Moreover, even fewer investigations seek to answer questions with evidence from the oral cavity. This dissertation intends to examine social organization from the EBA site of Karataş-Semayük …
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Affective Insurgencies: Circular Narratives of Conflict in Contemporary South Asian Novels
… providing us an opportunity to propose a biocultural model of depression from the perspective of an insurgent’s mother. I will connect this notion that the protagonist provides readers a biocultural model as the story unfolds to the nonlinear narrative structure. Likewise, chapter three …
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Transgender identification: gender and sex estimation in forensic casework
… assigned sex estimation methods that lack a biocultural approach and divergent perspectives on the role of gender. Using an anonymous survey of forensic anthropologists (n=130), the present research explores the processes of biological profile deployment in forensic casework, along with …
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Bioarchaeological Analysis of Oak View Landing (40Dr1): An Archaic Population in the Kentucky Lake Reservior
<p>The biocultural examination of the Archaic population recovered at Oak View Landing (40DR1) investigates the lifeways and adaptations of prehistoric people as they reflect sociopolitical and subsistence strategies.</p> <p>A comprehensive bioarchaeological analysis was conducted on the adult …
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"Just Take It Off the Plate": a Syndemic Model of Low Breastfeeding Rates and Maternal Stress in South Alabama
… well-being. Results reveal a clustering of two biocultural conditions that have the potential to negatively impact infant health outcomes in South Alabama: low rates of breastfeeding and maternal stress. In the discussion, we introduce a syndemic model of low breastfeeding rates and maternal …
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