Anthropology

From Volunteer Tourism Toward a (Cosmo)Politics of Solidarity

Meghan Elizabeth McGuire — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:58:11 PDT

Hard to Tell, Hard to Say: Cultural Narratives and the Evocation of Disorder

Lindsay Anne Abrams — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:55:41 PDT

Loud Noise from Impact: An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of the New York City Slam Poetry Community

Nicholas Hexter Petrie — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:37:31 PDT

Strangers on a Train: Stories of Contemporary American Train Travel

Kapish Singla — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:33:29 PDT

"Helping Them Help Themselves": Where Development Meets Tourism in Bali

Tsuyoshi Onda — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:26:05 PDT

The Politics of Devotional Labor: Women in the Panchayat Raj

Hope Louise Alley — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:22:44 PDT

Being is Becoming: An Ethnography of Unitarian Universalist Conversion

Alyssa Michelle Bogdanow — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:21:53 PDT

Adopting Histories, Theories and Other Stories

Miles Mitani Tokunow — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:36:06 PDT

Re-Routing: An Ethnography of Tourism and Modernities in Nepal

Rachel Abra Miller-Howard — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:35:06 PDT

The Politics and Poetics of Belonging: An auto-ethnographic exploration of personal identity and family

Nina Elena Berg — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:34:37 PDT

La Casita: Home, Streets and Empowerment

Hortencia Carlota Rodriguez — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:34:14 PDT

The Rite to Womanhood: An Interdisciplinary Study of Female Circumcision Among the Gikuyu of Kenya

Ashley Sahel Castro — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:34:11 PDT

Travel as Homemaking: The Building of Mobile Intentional Communities

Sarah McKenna Brown — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:33:49 PDT

Growing Out: Adolescent Masculinities in a New Jersey Suburb

Jacob Nussbaum — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:32:35 PDT

Using text, photography, and memory, this ethnography explores constructions of masculinity among young, straight, white, middle-class men from the suburb of Montclair, New Jersey. Major themes throughout include the construction of "alternative" masculinities; rebellion; the reproduction of social privilege; the use of "irony;" fantasy identifications with the working-class; and the construction of an imagined feminine other. Chapter 1 explores these themes through the lens of September 11th. Chapter 2 looks at the construction of rebellious masculinity as refracted in the practice of skateboarding and the music of Bruce Springsteen. Chapter 3 looks at the "Meat Feast" ritual and the uses of "irony" in expressing identity.

Mothers of Inmates: "Always Being There" in an Era of Mass Incarceration

Kaitlin Nicole Kall — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:36:58 PDT

Pleasure and Danger on the Gringo Trail: An Ethnography of Bolivian Party Hostels

Lilly Fink Shapiro — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:36:33 PDT

Achieving 'Gender Parity' at Wesleyan University: Admitting Women, Maintaining Patriarchy, 1969-1989

Daniel Trentin Grassian — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:34:48 PDT

In this work I show how an emphasis on the profitability of statistical "diversity" stifled productive discussion and activism about women and feminism at Wesleyan between 1969 and 1989. Feminist and women's organizing became the primary location for student reactions to patriarchal practices and anti-women actions. The Women's Studies Program began as a faculty response to Wesleyan's patriarchal structures, inviting students to join the initiative within a few years. However, the Program lacked adequate resources and was given an insurmountable task. As a result, a school originally constructed to create an elite class of white men managed to make minimal structural and social changes during the 1970s and 1980s.

How to Get to Long Lane School: An Ethnography of a Place

Beth Davies — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:33:13 PDT

In this thesis, I explore the multiple ways in which a single site, Long Lane School, a former reformatory and juvenile detention center, has been perceived over time. I examine this space from the perspective of Wesleyan students, including myself, from the perspective of Wesleyan's Physical Plant employees, from the perspective of neighbors who have lived opposite the place for years, and from the perspective of former employees and residents of the institution.

A Search for Home: Diasporic Constructions, Encounters, and Imaginaries

Amber Nichole Jones — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:33:00 PDT

In this thesis, I draw upon interactions with African Americans living in Ghana as a means to explore some of the many factors that contribute to the acceptance of an African Diasporan identity in popular conceptions of Blackness in the United States. I seek to understand some of the complexities within Black American identites in regard to the formation of diasporan consciousnesses and the development of Pan-Africanist thought. I also explore conceptions of "home" in relation to African Diasporan identity construction and its associations with notions of "return" to a homeland or place of origin.

The Separation of Shit and State: Water Sovereignty and the New Commons in Cuernavaca, Mexico

Jessica French Smith — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:31:42 PDT

An exploration of the use of appropriate technology in water management. A critical view of the development era. The creation of a new commons.