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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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