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Yiddish Returns: Language, Intergenerational Gifts, and Jewish Devotion.
(2015)
This dissertation explores the political economy of Yiddish culture work in the contemporary U.S. Specifically, it tracks the creation and transformation of Yiddish spaces as language devotees negotiate their relationship ...
The Ecology and Behavior of New Chimpanzee Mothers at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda.
(2016)
Female mammals invest heavily in reproduction. Females require food to reproduce and thus mothers compete for food. In group-living species, females who form strong intrasexual social bonds reproduce more than females who ...
Quality, Comfort, and Ease: Remapping the Affordances of Russian Language in Tbilisi, Georgia.
(2014)
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tbilisi, Georgia from 2011-2012, this dissertation describes how Russian language functions as a code embedded in sociotechnical interfaces. The dissertation discusses Tbilisian social ...
Why cognitive anthropology needs to understand social interaction and its mediation
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Cambridge University Press, 2015-05)
Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia
(Duke University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-02)
Taking culture seriously: Making the Social survey Ethnographic
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Power and Persuasion: Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico. STANLEY BRANDES
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 1990-08)
Tamang Conversions: Culture, Politics, and the Christian Conversion Narrative in Nepal
(Center for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, 2008-01)
In 1990 the Buddhist people of Timling, on Nepal's northern borderland, converted en masse to evangelical Christianity and later to Roman Catholicism. While the process implies a profound cultural rupture, this essay takes ...