Anthropologyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/98702024-03-29T14:14:33Z2024-03-29T14:14:33ZA paleopathological analysis of juveniles from Thebes: Childhood health in Byzantine GreeceStrickland, Evengeline Sephiahttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/202332024-01-16T03:31:03Z2024-01-15T00:00:00ZA paleopathological analysis of juveniles from Thebes: Childhood health in Byzantine Greece
Strickland, Evengeline Sephia
Limited publications address juvenile health in Byzantine Thebes, Greece. As vulnerable and abundant members of most populations, children are essential to understanding the health experiences of past populations. This thesis examines juvenile skeletal material recovered from a Byzantine period cemetery (5th-9th centuries CE) located on Ismenion Hill in Thebes, Greece. This site is located adjacent to the early Christian church of St. Luke the Evangelist. In antiquity, St. Luke was traditionally considered to be a physician. Previous analyses of the adult skeletal sample revealed a high prevalence of leprosy, cancer, and infection, leading researchers to hypothesize a relationship between the cemetery and the church of the physician saint. This thesis investigates this hypothesis with respect to the juveniles recovered at this site. Eleven graves were studied and a minimum of 59 juvenile individuals were identified. Perinates (n=15), infants (n=9), and young juveniles (n=25) make up the majority of the sample, followed by older juveniles (n=8) and adolescents (n=2). Overall, 16 (27%) juveniles present with dental and/or skeletal pathologies. Through the process of differential diagnosis, infection, metabolic conditions, and hematopoietic disorders were found to dominate the sample. To understand why children were brought to and buried at Ismenion Hill, cultural, social, and environmental factors shaping childhood health in late antiquity are addressed.
2024-01-15T00:00:00ZMaritime Trade of Classical Greece: Commodities Shipped in Transport AmphoraeBrandreth, Shannonhttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/202082024-01-05T03:30:58Z2024-01-04T00:00:00ZMaritime Trade of Classical Greece: Commodities Shipped in Transport Amphorae
Brandreth, Shannon
Trade practices have long been a concern of anthropological studies but has fallen out of focus in archaeological research. Much can be learned about trade from material remains, especially those from shipwrecks. For this study, material remains from four Classical Greek merchant shipwrecks will be examined to identify commodities contained within transport amphorae. This research will provide insight into commodities that are well-known for this historical context, such as wine and olive products, in addition to other commodities not often discussed or even known about. Furthermore, this will highlight the need for archaeological research to engage with anthropological practices of studying trade
2024-01-04T00:00:00ZFlora Tristan: Rethinking the Intersection of 19th Century French Women’s Travel Writing and History of AnthropologyRueb, Karen Jean McAndlesshttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/199092023-09-22T02:31:21Z2023-09-21T00:00:00ZFlora Tristan: Rethinking the Intersection of 19th Century French Women’s Travel Writing and History of Anthropology
Rueb, Karen Jean McAndless
Flora Tristan was a 19th century French socialist and feminist writer and activist. During her lifetime, Tristan published two works of travel writing, Pérégrinations d'une paria (Tristan 1838a; 1838b) and Promenades dans Londres (Tristan 1840), which were read and received in a variety of ways by a variety of reading publics. Existing scholarship on these texts, primarily in the field of literary studies, has tended to focus on Tristan’s gender, and on the ways in which this intersects with her writing and activism; by contrast, Tristan – like other women travel writers of her time – has been largely marginalized in broader discussions of travel writing and its history. Furthermore, Tristan and her texts appear to have been entirely absent from histories of anthropology. This thesis examines the relationship between travel writing, ethnography, anthropology, and their respective histories, seeking to reconsider Tristan’s travel writing in relation to these. I argue that Tristan’s travel writing resonates in important ways with ethnography, anthropology, and their interconnected histories, and that taking seriously her works as part of broader discussions on these topics has the potential to contribute additional possibilities, perspectives, and insights that might otherwise be erased, overlooked, or elided.
2023-09-21T00:00:00ZTransnational Dialogues and Community Making in the Syrian Digital SpaceSaoud, Christinahttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/198712023-09-19T02:31:02Z2023-09-18T00:00:00ZTransnational Dialogues and Community Making in the Syrian Digital Space
Saoud, Christina
This thesis examines the ways diasporic and transnational Arabs, and particularly Syrians, utilize and engage in the virtual space to voice their experiences and engage in transnational dialogues, while overall taking part in the (re)construction of their homelands. This brings forth the discussion of borders and how they are practiced in relation to identity, sociocultural performances, and kinship relations. Borders are not limited to their physical territories but are continually performed and embodied, one the one hand through the memories, kinships, and networks of diasporas and refugees, and on the other through their hardships of being limited to their nationalities. My data will show that diasporic Syrians and non-Syrian Arabs engage in dialogues pertaining to their racial, national, and historical identities, in addition to showing the creative expressions of Syrian artists in relation to their memories and displacement. Altogether, this thesis presents the ways diasporic Syrians and non-Syrian Arabs use the digital space to express their identities and experiences and in effect shape their homelands.
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