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Consuming Care: Household Medicine Use in Washington, DC, 1840-1920

Description:: From daily hygiene habits, such as brushing teeth, to the ingestion of pharmaceuticals, many forms of healthcare are commonly practiced in daily life, at home. How have household healthcare practices changed over time in urban America? Taking Washington, DC as my case study, I examine patterns of household pharmaceuticals access...
Keyword:: Washington DC, Queer theory, Households, Pharmaceutical, Material Culture, and GIS
Subject:: American history and Archaeology
Creator:: Lupu, Jennifer Anne
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_987018 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16611

Navigating Power: An Archaeological Examination of Movement on Lowcountry Waterways

Description:: This dissertation reconstructs North and South Carolina Lowcountry plantation waterfronts as a means of better understanding mobility, inequality, and human-environment interactions in the antebellum Lowcountry. Using a theoretical framework of hydrosociality, the author undertook archaeological and archival research to investigate the question: how did the built environment of navigable waterways...
Keyword:: Maritime Studies, Anthropology, and Archaeology
Subject:: Archaeology
Creator:: Schwalbe, Emily Anne
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_986235 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16584

Urban Commoners, Inequality, and the Longevity of an Ancient Maya City, Aventura, Belize

Description:: This dissertation assesses the relationship between inequality and the longevity of urban communities. It does so through an examination of low-status households, a population segment I term Urban Commoners, at the ancient Maya city of Aventura, Belize. Aventura was a socioeconomically diverse urban center that grew to its peak in...
Keyword:: Urbanism, Household Studies, Commoner Studies, Maya Archaeology, and Inequality
Subject:: Archaeology
Creator:: Nissen, Zachary Alan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16230 and etdadmin_upload_927713

Living with Ruins: Community Regeneration after Political Collapse at the Ancient Maya City of Ake, Yucatan, Mexico

Description:: This dissertation is about people living with the ruins of an old city. It demonstrates that ruined cities can provide sources of cultural identity and community life, conditions that contribute to social revitalization in times of crisis. The case study for this dissertation examines the ancient Maya city of Ake,...
Keyword:: Community regeneration, Ancient Maya, Settlement regeneration, Ruins, Political collapse, and Yucatan
Subject:: Latin American history and Archaeology
Creator:: Rosado Ramirez, Roberto
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15822 and etdadmin_upload_856308

Ontologies, Ecologies, and Inequalities: Human-Environment Relationships at the Ancient Maya City of Aventura, Belize

Description:: This dissertation is about the environment, inequality, and ways of being in the world. Water is necessary for biophysical existence, but also holds symbolic and ideological power. In ancient Maya ontologies, water was a powerful social force in the landscape, necessary for both bodily functions and cosmological connections. In some...
Keyword:: water, households, phytolith analysis, ancient Maya, landscape, and paleoethnobotany
Subject:: Environmental studies and Archaeology
Creator:: Grauer, Kacey Chandler
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_818786 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15567

Royal Nomadism and the Valois Castle

Description:: This dissertation argues that royal nomadism, the custom whereby medieval rulers moved between many castles in a predetermined cycle, fundamentally affected the floorplan, use, and adornment of courtly built environments. This argument is a new departure for the study of castles. Scholars of medieval castles acknowledge that rulers passed through...
Keyword:: royal court, castles, itinerancy, portability, and mobility
Subject:: Architecture, Archaeology, and Medieval history
Creator:: Miller, Scott David
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_756900 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15199

Sustainability and the Domestication of Inequality: Archaeology of Long-Term Human-Environment Interactions in Hegranes, North Iceland

Description:: This dissertation investigates long-term biographies of seventeen small medieval settlements in the region of Hegranes, Skagafjörður, North Iceland, placing their creation, development, and reuse in the context of coupled social and environmental change. The individuals and households who lived at the Hegranes sites were at the nexus of both kinds...
Keyword:: Environment, North Atlantic, Sustainability, Archaeology, Medieval Europe, and Iceland
Subject:: Archaeology
Creator:: Catlin, Kathryn A
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14744 and etdadmin_upload_675578

Becoming Equestrian: People and Horses in Bronze Age Hungary

Description:: People and horses have a deep, co-constructed, and co-evolutionary history. This dissertation evaluates sociopolitical change of the Hungarian Bronze Age (2800 – 800 BC) in the context of long-term shifts in human-horse relationships. In the Bronze Age, horses are assumed to mount the development of complex polities ruled by elite,...
Keyword:: Horses, Hungary, Human-Animal Relationships, Archaeology, and Bronze Age
Subject:: Physical anthropology, Ancient history, and Archaeology
Creator:: Kanne, Katherine Stevens
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14475 and etdadmin_upload_627420

Island Taskscapes: Heritage, Ritual, and Sustainability on Inishark and Inishbofin, Ireland

Description:: This dissertation examines how the maintenance and adaptation of heritage monuments and ritual traditions have contributed to the sustainability of communities on the islands of Inishark and Inishbofin along the west coast of Ireland. My analysis combines archaeological investigation of a pilgrimage tradition on Inishark, from its origins in the...
Keyword:: Ireland, Pilgrimage, Sustainability, Archaeology, Early Medieval, and Heritage
Subject:: Religion, Sustainability, and Archaeology
Creator:: Lash, Ryan P
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_655026 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14564

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Consuming Care: Household Medicine Use in Washington, DC, 1840-1920

Navigating Power: An Archaeological Examination of Movement on Lowcountry Waterways

Urban Commoners, Inequality, and the Longevity of an Ancient Maya City, Aventura, Belize

Living with Ruins: Community Regeneration after Political Collapse at the Ancient Maya City of Ake, Yucatan, Mexico

Ontologies, Ecologies, and Inequalities: Human-Environment Relationships at the Ancient Maya City of Aventura, Belize

Royal Nomadism and the Valois Castle

Sustainability and the Domestication of Inequality: Archaeology of Long-Term Human-Environment Interactions in Hegranes, North Iceland

Becoming Equestrian: People and Horses in Bronze Age Hungary

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