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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"material wealth"”.
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Protohistoric Signatures of Household Material Wealth: An Interhousehold Analysis of the Bridge River Site (EeRI4)
… Title: Protohistoric Signatures of Household Material Wealth: An Interhousehold Analysis of the Bridge River Site (EeRl4) Chairperson: Dr. Anna M. Prentiss This thesis is concerned with the archaeological research of the protohistoric component at the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), located in the …
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Protohistoric Signatures of Household Material Wealth: An Interhousehold Analysis of the Bridge River Site (EeRI4)
… Title: Protohistoric Signatures of Household Material Wealth: An Interhousehold Analysis of the Bridge River Site (EeRl4) Chairperson: Dr. Anna M. Prentiss This thesis is concerned with the archaeological research of the protohistoric component at the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), located in the …
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The continuity of status in Iron Age settlements through metallurgical craft specialisation and material wealth
Brochs are found mainly along the Atlantic seaboard of Scotland. This research focuses on the period from approximately 500BC to 850AD and aims to demonstrate that the status settlements seen in the broch period in Orkney and Shetland retain this status in the post-broch period. Broch settlements …
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Ceramic analysis and interpretation from Presidio San Saba (41MN1) Menard, Texas
… Society. These excavations have provided a wealth of details about the lives of the soldiers who lived at this far northern outpost of New Spain from 1757 to 1772. By describing and analyzing the ceramic artifacts recovered at this site, it is possible to understand the lifeways of the men …
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The development of continuous automatic biological monitoring systems for water quality control
… expansion. Although this has enhanced the material wealth and personal comfort of all the nations' peoples, it has also produced an undesirable consequence - ever increasing pollution of the aquatic environment. Viable systems for continuously monitoring water quality are, therefore, of …
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The Resurrection Of Everyman
… it addresses universal themes of friendship, material wealth, and reverence towards death. It is the story of the human being, the power of beliefs, and the fear of death. This thesis reflects a group of artists' desire to give an audience the gift of insight into their common selves.
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Chinese Peasants on the Wheels of Change: Rural Reform and Its Impact in a Tianjin Village
… no longer appropriate, now that the pursuit of material wealth was strongly encouraged by the state and conspicuous consumption was actively sought by most villagers.
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Did Money Matter? Interpreting the Effect of Displayed Wealth on Social Relations within an Enslaved Community
… standing, seen most often through the role of material wealth to create connections, and others focusing on how interactions can be meaningfully interpreted from the archaeological record. This thesis represents an attempt to bridge these two theoretical stances, by looking to see if, in fact, …
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Notes towards a place based approach for the development of Southern Mexico
… given the feedback or network effects that material wealth or income inequality may have between neighboring spatial units. In order to investigate if development is spatially structured between municipalities in Southern Mexico, I perform global and local spatial autocorrelation analysis …
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Feasting on Fido: Cultural Implications of Eating Dogs at Bridge River
… the Bridge River site investigation of emergent material wealth based status inequality of the hunter-gatherer-fisher economy, the 2008 and 2009 excavation of the village recovered the skeletal remains of domestic dogs within two distinct cache pit features in Housepit 24’s Activity Area 3. The …
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Feasting on Fido: Cultural Implications of Eating Dogs at Bridge River
… the Bridge River site investigation of emergent material wealth based status inequality of the hunter-gatherer-fisher economy, the 2008 and 2009 excavation of the village recovered the skeletal remains of domestic dogs within two distinct cache pit features in Housepit 24’s Activity Area 3. The …
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The imperative of experience and strategies for designing experiences at scale
… These dynamics have created an abundance of material wealth in developed economies, and people are often choosing to devote discretionary income to paying for fulfilling, unique experiences. In response, more companies are beginning to offer experiences to their customers as a way of …
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Household Organization in the Fur Trade Era: Socioeconomic and Spatial Organizations of Housepit 54
… of power, hierarchical complexity, and material-wealth that is reflected in residential units with individual features and disparate accumulations of prestige goods and high utility resources. Such floor plans have been ethnographically observed among the Thompson and Lower Lillooet. The …
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Household Organization in the Fur Trade Era: Socioeconomic and Spatial Organizations of Housepit 54
… of power, hierarchical complexity, and material-wealth that is reflected in residential units with individual features and disparate accumulations of prestige goods and high utility resources. Such floor plans have been ethnographically observed among the Thompson and Lower Lillooet. The …
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Controlling the Dragon: An ethno-historical analysis of social engagement among the Kamoro of South-West New Guinea (Indonesian Papua/Irian Jaya)
… are raised concerning the exchange of foreign material wealth and abilities, both classified in the Kamoro language as kata. Foreign withholding of kata emerges as a dominant theme in amoko-kwere and is interpreted as theft, ultimately establishing relationships of negative reciprocity between …
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Controlling the Dragon: An ethno-historical analysis of social engagement among the Kamoro of South-West New Guinea (Indonesian Papua/Irian Jaya)
… are raised concerning the exchange of foreign material wealth and abilities, both classified in the Kamoro language as kata. Foreign withholding of kata emerges as a dominant theme in amoko-kwere and is interpreted as theft, ultimately establishing relationships of negative reciprocity between …
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“Beaten on Both Sides”: A Reevaluation of the Anti-Calvinism of Andrewes, Neile, and Laud
… to restore reverence to worship, restore the material wealth of the church, and to fix the king as the final authority in religion in the kingdom. These and other similar priorities generally dwarfed predestination and the finer points of election in the minds of the most prominent …
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Dressing the Witch: Clothing, the Body, and Accusations of Witchcraft in Puritan New England
… is a thorough examination of early American material culture and the role in which early New Englanders interacted with newfound notions of materiality. This analysis examines two distinct points of contention at the crux of this cultural turn: the maintenance of and visual adherence to rigid …
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Walter Baker Chocolate Factory : an adaptive reuse exploration
… says: "America, at least in its attitude toward material wealth, may be undergoing a major psychological change. In the recent past, anything made the day before yesterday, whether it was a building, a car or a saucepan, was liable to be scrapped." Today, this trend is beginning to reverse, and …
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Aspiring to Prosperity: the Economic Theology of Urban Muslims in Contemporary Indonesia
… expectation that such performance will result in material wealth as its reward. It is promoted by the celebrity preacher, Yusuf Mansur, in various ways including popular book publication, televised Islamic sermons and movies. This study aims to answer the question of why and how economic theology …
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