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Description:: This dissertation examines the role of market makers in making markets for options and futures on Chicago's derivatives exchanges. Recent institutional and technological changes in the ways that financial products are traded have given rise to the possibility of markets without market makers, raising the question of how these developments...
Keyword:: Anthropology
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Gail Eby
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/31/2018
Date Modified:: 08/31/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-06
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Racial disparities in cardiovascular health constitute one of the most pressing current public health problems in the United States. This dissertation examines how individual's cultural experiences of stress become embodied and contribute to these racial health inequalities. Anthropologists have traditionally approached culture through narrative ethnographic methods that are difficult to...
Keyword:: Physical and Anthropology
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Elizabeth Sweet
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/08/2018
Date Modified:: 09/08/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: As in other parts of the global south, economic difficulties in rural areas of Bolivia have forced many of Bolivia's indigenous people to migrate to urban areas such as El Alto, where formal employment and access to services are limited. Women are particularly vulnerable as they must balance economic activities...
Keyword:: Anthropology
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Kathryn Hicks
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/14/2018
Date Modified:: 09/14/2018
Date Created:: 2008-08-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation explores how the environment shapes energy expenditure and cardio-metabolic disease risk by investigating multiple timescales of adaptation to cold stress among the Yakut, an indigenous circumpolar population. This study pursues three main objectives. First, the adaptive and health significance of brown adipose tissue (BAT) is explored by examining...
Keyword:: Anthropology
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Stephanie B Levy
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/09/2019
Date Modified:: 01/09/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: My research is a historical ethnography of depictions of the ethnic and cultural other in 19th century England. I was motivated to do this research by curiosity about how cultural and racial otherness and national belonging was constructed historically. Although my work does not directly relate to modern conceptions of...
Keyword:: Nations, Race, Anthropology, Culture, Ethnography, and Europe
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Zoe Miller
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/10/2020
Date Modified:: 07/23/2020
Date Created:: 2020-05-28
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding

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