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Injera in the Kapitalocene: Understanding Women’s Perceptions of Change in Mekelle, Ethiopia

Creator:

Arefaine, Micknai

Abstract:

Women’s lives in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Mekele, Ethiopia are very organized, systematic, and sophisticated. The women in this study model, express, and reflect the values of community, trust, care, stability, and futurity through their perceptions and sentiments regarding social and political change. I document how these values...

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Masters Thesis
Conceiving A Colony: A Multi-Level Biocultural Analysis of the Maternal Stress-Preterm Birth Nexus in Puerto Rico

Creator:

Horan, Holly L.

Abstract:

This dissertation aims to elicit how a neo-colonial context shapes maternal and infant heath (MIH) outcomes by describing how they are socially, politically, historically, and culturally produced. Using a multi-level critical biocultural, medical anthropological research approach, the purpose of this research was to investigate maternal stress in the United States...

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Dissertation
Educational Migration in Indonesia : An Ethnography of Eastern Indonesian Students in Malang, Java

Creator:

Foertsch, Christopher R.

Abstract:

This research explores the experience of the growing number of students from Eastern Indonesia who attend universities on Java. It asks key questions about the challenges these often maligned students face as ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities exposed to the dominant culture of their republic during their years of education....

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Masters Thesis

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Dedicated to the memory of my parents, Rick and Sally Foertsch. 1 Chapter 1: Introduction