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PhD Dissertations (1990 to date)

MA Theses (1985 to date)

Major Research Papers (1985 to date)

 

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G. Adam,

"Living in Limbo with Hope: The Case of Sudanese Refugees in Cairo", 2012

E. Nouvet,

"Poverty & Pain: Materializing Forces of Distress in Contemporary Nicaragua", 2011

R. Snyder,

"Becoming Groundfishers in an Era of Depletion in the Northeastern United States", 2011

L. Eramian,

"Situating Ethnic Difference: Personhood, Power, and the 1994 Genocide in Butare, Rwanda", 2010

B. Freer,

"Future Remains: Industrial Heritage at the Hanford Plutonium Works", 2010

V. Khouw,

"Strategies off the Menu: Gastrospaces and Negotiating Expectations of Chinese Food", 2010

L. Cooke,

"North to Yukon: (Beyond) the Frontier in Canadian National-Cultural Imaginaries", 2009

L. Mannik,

"Photography, Memory and Refugee Identity: The Voyage of the S.S. Walnut, 1948", 2009

M. Ordonez,

"Affective Departures", 2009

M. Cummings,

"Looking Good: Women's Dress and the Gendered Cultural Politics of Modernity, Morality, and Embodiment in Vanuatu", 2009

R. Cadieux,

"The Cult of Virabhadra and The Guru King: Asceticism, Eroticism, and Violence in a Hindu

Monastary", 2008

A. Widmer,

"Genealogies of Biomedicine: Formations of Modernity and Social Change in Vanuatu", 2007

C. Sacchetti-Dufresne,

"Problematics of Identity: Being and Becoming Italian-Canadian", 2007

M. Mulholland,

"Mariachi in Excess: Performing Race, Gender, Sexuality and Regionalism in Jalisco, Mexico", 2007

R. Warner,

"Battles Over Borders: Hiphop and the Politics and Poetics of Race and Place in the New South Africa", 2007

K. Schmid,

"Losing Your Place Tourism and the Making of Enclaves in Luxor, Egypt", 2006

D. Thorsen-Cavers,

"Entanglements: Tradition, Modernity and Globalization in Cape Coast", 2006

A. Premat,

"Cuban Counterpoint of the Public and the Private: Reflections on the Making of Urban Agriculture Sites in Havana, Cuba", 2004

G. Torres,

"The Paper Trails of Counterinsurgency Violence: The Documented Design and Implementation of Political

Violence in Guatemala, 1976-1984", 2004

N. Pravaz,
"Performing Mulatice: Hybridity as Identity In Brazil", 2003

J. Murphy,
"Ethnography and Sustainable Development in the Calakmul Model Forest Campeche, Mexico", 2003

K. Gordon,
"Reluctant Entrepreneurs: Doing Business in the Marketplace Challapata, Oruro, Bolivia", 2003

K. McGarry,

"Performing Nationalisms: Spectacle and Identity in High Performance Canadian Figure Skating", 2003

S. Frohlick,
"A World of Mountaineering: Transnationality of Mt. Everest& Other High Himalayan Spaces", 2002

K. Neves-Graca,
“A Whale of a Thing: Transformations From Whale Hunting to Whale Watching in Lajes do Pico", 2002

M. J. Mitchell,
"Roads, Restlessness, and Relationships: An Urban Settlement in Post-Colonial Vanuatu", 2002

J. Luce,
"Queer Conceptions: Lesbian/Bi/Queer Women, Assisted Reproduction and the Politics of Kinship", 2002

S. Butler,
"Post-colonial Challenges: Reinventing Museums in Post-Aparheid Cape Town", 2002

A. N. Walsh,
"Contemporary Aboriginal art Texts: Intersections Of Visual Culture", 2001

G. Castillo,
"Looking for the Papers that God Forgot: An Ethnography of Environmental Change", 2000

H. Young-Leslie,
"Inventing Health: Tradition, Textiles and Maternal Obligation in the Kingdom of Tonga", 1999

A. Ning,
"Embodying the Myth of Healthiness: Conformity, Resistance and Complicity in Narratives of Addiction and Recovery", 1999

M. MacDonald,
"Expectations: The Cultural Construction of Nature in Midwifery Discourse in Ontario", 1999

T. Epp,
"People First: Voicing Disability, Embodied Identity and Social Policy in Ontario", 1999

L. Epp,
"Violating the Sacred? The Social Reform of Devadasis Among Dalits in Karnataka, India", 1997

P. Downe,
"Contagion and Violence: The Words of Women in Costa Rica", 1997

B.L. Milgram,
"Crossover, Continuity and Change: Women's Production and Marketing of Crafts in the Upland Philippines", 1997

G. Tian,
"Presenting New Selves in Canadian Context: The Adaptation Processes of Mainland Chinese Refugees in Metro Toronto", 1996

L. Ntutela,
"Knowing Thyself: An Afro centric Feminist Analysis of Bifurcated Consciousness among Eight Black Women, Nova Scotia, 1930-1994", 1996

V. Caputo,
"Musical Matters: Performativity, Gender and Culture in an Anthropology of Urban Canadian Childhoods",
1996

D. Yon,
"Unstable Terrain: Explorations in Identity, Race and Culture in a Toronto High School", 1996

K. M'Closkey,
"Myths, Markets and Metaphors: Navajo Weaving as Commodity and Communicative Form", 1996

V. Menon,
"Experiencing Health: An Exploration into the Health Culture of Keralaâs Forest-Dwelling Kanikkar", 1995

H. Bastaman,
"Development and Its Meaning in Upland Citanduy River Basin, West Java", 1995

J. McLellan,
"Many Petals of the Lotus: Redefinition's of Buddhist Identity in Toronto", 1993

L. Anderson,
"The Corset of Compromise: negotiating social and spatial boundaries in two artists' housing cooperatives in Toronto", 1993

M. Walker,
"Thai Elites and the Construction of Socio-Cultural Identity Through Food Consumption", 1992

M. Arratia,
"Cultural Action and Cultural Synthesis? Participatory Methodologies and the Aymara of Northern Chile", 1991

S. Gaetz,
"Community Action and Youth Provision in Cork, Ireland", 1990

 

 

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I. Puppe,

"Shivering in Brent, Ontario: Haunted Recreation in Algonquin Park", 2012

R. Ferguson,

"Crowdsourcing Heath Information: An Ethnograpic Exploration of Passive and Active Partisipation and Personae as Biosocial Identity on PatientsLikeMe.com", 2011

C. Nickerson,

"kConnections, Practices, and the Particular: A Multispecies Ethnography of the South Western Shore of

Nova Scotia", 2011

J. Caporusso,

"Tuning In: Sonic Atmoshere and Affective Labour in Recording Studio Life", 2011

S. Morgado ,

"The 'Working Class Culture' of a Group of Portuguese Canadian Women: 'The Girls' at Home, Leisure and Work", 2011

C. N. Thorne,

"An Experiment in Liberation Fuelled by Love: Hamilton Freeskool, Prefigurative Politics and Anthropological Practices", 2011

D. Coghlan,

"Unsettling Sensations: Trauma in the Lives and Works of Four Canadian Artists", 2010

L. Harding,

"Hiking Along the Great Divide: Exploring Socio-Natures in the Canadian Rockies", 2010

B. Prichard,

"Prescription Opiate Abuse in Rural Canada: An Anthropological Perspective", 2010

K. Angus,

"Dancing Caricatures: Race and Gender in Ballroom Dancing", 2010

S. McCollum,

"What is Poverty in this Place? Discourses of Poverty in a Belizean Village", 2009

M. Atkinson-Graham,

"The Body in and of Craniosacral Therapy: An Ethnographic Examination", 2009

J. Elder-Jubelin,

"Fac (ebook) ing a Crowd?: An Exploration of Audience, Context, Privacy and Self-Presentation on Facebook", 2009

S. Rice,

"A Window to the Water: An Examination of the Historical Themes of Ethiopian Colonialism for Oromo "Refugees" ", 2009

K. M. Arcus,

"The Tween Category: Tween Girls and Their Relationship with Material Culture", 2008

A. T. Mohamed,

"Exploring 'Development': Subjective Experiences of Tourism Development in Addu, Maldives", 2008

S. Thomas,

"Les Pieds La Avec Les Tetes Ailleurs: Mapping Diasporic Weavings of Blackness and Belonging in a Parisian

Hair Salon", 2008

M. Hammond ,

"Twenty Two Lenses for a Single Diagnosis: An Ethnography of ADHD", 2008

A. Cole,

"Thresholds of Hospitality in Dutch-Surinamese Relations, 1667-2000", 2008

B. Dewitt ,

"I Swam Across All That, An Ethnography of Cambodian Women's Strength", 2008

G. Adagbon,

"Multilevel Marketing: The Paradox of Autonomy", 2007

S. Dagtas,

"Married to the Military: Family, Nationalism and Women's Political Agency in Turkey", 2007

K. O'Connor,

"Nationalism and State Violence as a 'Moral' Practice: Sex Work and Urban Regeneration in Machala, Ecuador", 2007

J. Bisch ,

"Memory in Ruins: Images of History in a Rural Western Canadian Town ", 2007

N. Abu-Hatoum,

"On the Borderzone: Toronto's Diasporic Queer Muslims" , 2007

M. Shapiro,

"Activism at the Grassroutes: Working for Change with Migrant Agricultural Labourers in Canada" , 2007

A. Beliaev,

"Aethetics of Temporality: Reflections on Sexuality and Aging In Toronto", 2006

B. Friedlander,

"Successful Aging: An Analysis of People and Places Dedicated to Learning Programs for Seniors", 2006

J. Yard,

"Rehearsing Politics: Explorations of North American 'Theatre of the Oppressed' Praxis as Embodied Pedagogy", 2006

C. Ayhan,

"In the Name of Modernity, For the Sake of the Nation: Madness, Psychiatry and Politics from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (1500s-1950s)", 2005

M. Lawrence,

"Being the Global Truths We Speak: Articulating Flobal Identities Through Anti-Globalization", 2005

S. McNaughton,

"Sacralization of Space: The Play of Gender and Kinship in South Indian Temple Ritual", 2005

A. Taylor,

"Negotiating Harm Reduction: Risk, Bodies and Youth Substance Users", 2005

A. Chaudhuri,

"Culture, Identity, and the Space of Sound: South Asian Urban Electronic Music in Toronto", 2005

S. Eskandani,

"Diasporic Weaving's of Identity: Orientalist (Re) Articulations of Persianness Amongst Persian Carpet Merchants", 2004

D. Bryant,

"Developing Backwards: Heritage, Hierarchy and Tourism Development at a Barbadian Tourist Site", 2004

R. Valentim,

"Portuguese Food in Toronto: Exploring the Relationship Between Food Practices and Ethnic Identification", 2003

J. Schoemaker,

"Both Sides of the Beach: Public Nudity and Discourses of Sexuality on the Nude Beach", 2003

D. Kramer,

"In the House but Not at Home: House-Girls in Vanuatu", 2003

R. Johari,

"Of Sanctions and Sanctuary-Making: The Cultural Politics of Nature in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India 1850-2000", 2003

N. Ejaz,

"Legal Interventions: Race, Space and Legal Aid in the New South Africa", 2003

S. Cohen,

"Hiding Contestations: An Evaluation of Community Based Wildlife Management in Botswan", 2002

I. Dadds,

"A Place Called Port Hope: Identitiy and Activism in a Southeastern Ontario Town", 2002

C. Montgomery,
"Learning Common-Sense: A Study of Class Consciousness Among a Male Network of Friends", 2002

J. Coombs,
"Franz Boas and George Hunt: Uncovering the Relationship between Anthropologist and his Collector", 2002

I.Molina-Alfaro,

"Viva Zapata! Envisioning Social Change in Chiapas, Mexico", 2001

S. Dunn,

"Keeping the Pain: Health, Belonging and Resilience Among Guatemalian Immigrant Men", 2001

F. Scherer,

"A Culture of Erasure: Orientalism and Chineseness in Cuba 1847-1997", 2000

M. Nahman,

"Embodied Stories, Pragmatic Lives: Intersex Body Narratives on the Net", 2000

G. Jafri,

"Constructing Identities and Religious Meanings: Ithna-Ashari Shi's Women Raised in the "West"", 2000

J. Faigleman,

"Constraining Abandon: Ideologies of Community and Internal Hierarchies in the Rave Scenes of Toronto and Montreal", 2000

B. Trono,

"Dos Vuelts en el Aire: Sex and Gender Diversity in Juchitan, Oaxaca", 1999

A. Schwittay,

"Between San Andre's and Buenos Aires: Memory, Practice and Articulation of an Indigenous Land Struggle in Northwestern Argentina", 1999

A. Miklavcic,

"The Mauritians in Canada: Between Globalization and Nation-State Building", 1999

J. Lebert,

"Negotiating Angolan-ness in Diaspora", 1999

E. Hall,

"Ethogenesis and Identity: Toronto's Changing Francophone Community", 1999

J. Esmonde,

"Neoliberalism, Youth Poverty and Washing Windshields: An Ethnographic Study of Squeegeeing in Toronto", 1999

M. Abramiuk,

"Reliability Modeling Development at Ek Xux", 1999

S. Satsuka,
"Re-creation through Landscape: Subject Production in Canadian Cottage Country", 1998

S. Ruff,
"After the Crisis: An Exploration of Humanitarian Workers' and Somali Refugee Women's Narratives of Health", 1998

A. Guevara,
"Playing in the Margins, An Ethnography in Two Acts: A "Presentation" of A Performance of Social Action Theatre In Montreal", 1998

A. Danyluk,
"Living Feminism and Orthodoxy: Orthodox Jewish Feminists", 1998

A. Premat,

"Feeding the Self and Cultivating Identities in Havana, Cuba", 1998

L. Phillip,

"The Caribana Festival: Continuity, Change, Crisis and an Alternative Music", 1998

S. Brotherton,

"Contagious Bodies: Multiple Narratives From a Jamaican HIV/AIDS Hospice", 1998

J. Manson-Hing,
"In Vitro Fertilization: The Manufacturing of a Biological Identity", 1996

L. Hamilton,
"Identity and Intergenerational Conflict among Cambodian Youth in Toronto", 1996

L. Jaunzems,
"An Esoteric-Exoteric Examination of Identity Labels Regarding Black Canadians", 1996

C. Cayer,
"Coming Full Circle: Religion and Identity Among Second Generation Muslim Women of Indo-Pakistani Origin in Toronto", 1996

J. Luce,
"Visible Bodies: Revealing the Paradox of Pregnancy", 1996

J. Macchiusi,
"Fearing the Unknown: British Hygienic and Sanitary Policy in the Colonial New Hebrides 1900-1940", 1996

R. Dudgeon,
"The Pattern which Connects: Ecology, Anthropology, & Postmodernity", 1996

J. King,
"Power and Identity: Inalienable Possessions in an Anthropology of Ancient Maya Caches", 1995

M. Stainton,
"Return Our Land: Counterhegemonic Presbyterian Aboriginality in Taiwan", 1995

P. Kontos,
"Constructing Old Age in a Place Called Home", 1995

R. Whitaker,

"Staying Faithful: Challenges to Newfoundland Convents", 1994

A. McIntosh,

"Constructing the Identity of the (female) Combat Arms Officer", 1994

I. Brown,

"Eckankar: A Postmoderm Spiritual Path of Therapeutic Consumption", 1994

J. Haxell,
"The Commitment to Small Scale Agriculture in the Parry Sound Area", 1993

S. Butler,
"Contested Representations: Revisiting “Into the Heart of Africa"", 1993

A. Ning,
"Regulating Health Professions and Chinese Medicine in Ontario", 1993

M. Foley,
"Beggars Can't Be Choosers: An Ethnography of a Food Bank", 1992

G. Castillo,
"Amethyst: Contested Meanings Within a Commune Setting", 1992

T. Aihoshi,
"The Best Place To Be: Keeping Cowboy Through Narratives of Place, Experience, and Identity", 1992

C. Menzies,
"People Not Money Build Co-operatives: The Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association", 1991

M. McKnight,

"Context and The Construction of Fetal Characterizations "I'm Constructing this Image"", 1991

M. Arratia,

"Cultural Action and Cultural Synthesis? Participatory Methodologies and the Aymara of Northern Chile", 1991

D. Yon,
"Migration, Schooling and the Politics of Identity, A Case Study of Caribbean Students in a Toronto High School", 1991

D. Broom,

"Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada with a Focus on the Inuit of Nunavut", 1991

R. Thurgood,

"Sometimes I Wonder if I Spent Too Much: Expressing Value at Country Auctions in Eastern Prince County, P.E.I.", 1991

C. Gomez,
"Sacrifice and Cultural Violence in the Central Andes", 1991

A. Sabloff,
"Re-Ordering the Natural World: Human-Animal Relations in a Canadian Urban Setting", 1991

M. Perusse,
"The Dispute Over Housing for Consumers of Mental Health Services in a Toronto Neighbourhood", 1991

P. Cobanoglu-Padley,
"A Study of Greek Migrant Families in Hamburg, West Germany: A Multivariate Approach To Cultural Adaptation and Conjugal Relationships", 1990

M. McKnight,
"Context and the Construction of Fetal Characterizations: I am constructing this image", 1990

R. Morris,
"New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography, and the Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures", 1989

C. Dignam,
"Candida Albicans in Anthropological Perspective", 1988

S. Parr,
"Rights Fighters: An Exploratory Study of Human Rights Worker Voluntary Associations in Ontario", 1988

J. McLellan,
"The Ethno-Religious Identity of Tibetans in Lindsay, Ontario", 1987

C. Matthews,
"A Comparative Analysis of the Form and Content of Dispute and Customary Dispute Settlement Agencies in Three South-central African Societies", 1987

L. Eppheise,
"The Underside of Knowledge Construction: Sexual/Textual Politics of Female Anthropologists. Life Stories as Negotiated Dialogue", 1987

D. Friend,
"Social Life of Elderly Ojibwa", 1986

D. Parry,
"Assertions of Power: An Examination of Marginal Negotiations Between Police Officers and Citizens", 1986

S. Gaetz,
"Youth Expression in the Eighties: A Network Analysis of the Punks of Toronto", 1985

P. Desjardin,
"Domestic Labour: An Anthropological Perspective", 1985

 

 

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A. Schuldt,

"Powerful Currents: The Making of the Electric Grid and the People in Ontario", 2012

D. Banoub,

"Fogo Island Arriving: An Anti-Essentialist Reading of the Production of Place", 2011

E. Simmonds,

"Anticipatory Governance: Security and Mobility", 2011

R. Johnston,

"Tears for the Tiger: Emotional Knowledge, Contested Authority, and Intimate Experience in the Construction of Endangered Species", 2011

J. Coelho,

"Politics of Framing: Roma Identities within the EU", 2011

L. Fischer,

"Next Year in Sarajevo: Nostalgia and the kSymbolic Representations of Bosnia's Besieged Capital", 2010

S. Grandinetti,

"Transcending Totalizing Models of Capitalism, Art and Consumer Culture: The Affective Politics of Visual Advertising", 2009

F. Jackson,

"Examining Mental Healthcare Services Model Potentialities for Blacks in Canada", 2009

S. Ariefdien,

"Do the Knowledge: On the Intersection of Hip-Hop, Pedagogy and Activism", 2009

K. Smith ,

"Site and Sound: Identity as Performance in (The) Jamacian Dance Hall", 2008

S. Hussian,

"Encountering Development Discourse: Opium Production and Trade in Afghanistan", 2008

A. Bussmann,

"Unfinished Disposal: The Recreation of "Things" and "Images" in the Mexico City Waste Disposl Process", 2008

N. Wright,

"Material Markers and The Manifestation of 'Me': Objects that Skource the Self on the Journey of Inner Transformation", 2007

L. Sas,

"Virtual Encounters: Exploring the "Self" and "Other" Through Television-Tourism", 2007

J. Trinier,

"Interrogating the Intersection: Productive Difference and Nature as Agent in the Cree-Environment, Alliance of the Great Whale Campaign (1989 - 1994) ", 2007

N. Winston,

"Race, Representation and the Maternal Body: Infant Feeding Decisions of Black Women in North America", 2007

A. Wilson,

"Beyond Recognition: Touring the Ruins of Expo 67", 2006

R. Weston,

"Dressing Down The Holy: Roberto Cavali's "Holy Bikinis" and the Cultural Appropriation of Hinduism", 2006

R. James,

"A Last-ditch Stand: The 1971 Riot at Kingston Penitentiary", 2006

B. Sarmadi,

"Modernity, Multiplicity & Ambiguity: An Exercise in Beginnings", 2006

B. Punjabi,

"The State and Re-Territorilization in Mumbai, India", 2006

A. Weckesser-Muthalali,

"The Anti-Politics of Eco-tourism and Sustianable Development: A Case Study of Kerala's Thenmala Eco-tourism Park", 2006

M. Lifshen,

"Borderlines: Social Construction, HIV/AIDS and Medical Epistemology", 2005

A. Latimer,

"Theories of Self and Resistance in the Post-Fordist and Cooperative Work Setting", 2004

L. Adhami-Dorrani,

"9/11 A Post-Modern Analysis of a New Hate Discourse: The Demonization of "Other"", 2004

J. McDonald,

"Women Missing, Objects Found", 2004

D. Aloi,

"Anthropological Critique of Child Solders" , 2004

I. Polonijo,

"In Whose Words? Narrative Analysis of International Volunteer Stories from an Anthropological Perspective", 2004

M. Sorensen,

"The Paper Trails of Counterinsurgency Violence: The Documented Design and Implementation of Political Violence in Guatemala 1976-1984", 2004

S. Byers,
"Anthropology of Policy, Canadian Multiculturaliz, and Cultural Equity: Policy Intersections From An anthroplogical Perspective", 2001

M. Lafleur,

"Visions of the World: Imagery, Trauma and Uneasy Spectatorship", 2001

A. Goldenberg,

"Urban Aboriginal Health & Governance: Rethinking the Paradigms, Policies and Politics of Community", 2001

M. Bjornson,
"Recontextualizing 'The Citizen' in Dutch Parliamentary Practice: 1892-1999", 2000

K. Zacharia,
"Border Theory Articulating the Experience of Translating and Negotiating Difference. A Dialogue Between Anthropology and Literature", 1999

K. Dubin,
"Masculinity in Barbados and the West Indies: A Critical Examination of competing Discourses and Ideologies", 1999

C.A. Maxwell,
"Dilemmas and Complexities: Ethics, Anthropological Advocacy and indigenous Rights in Canada and Australia", 1998

N. Buck,
"An Account of Corsica: A History of Representation of that Island", 1998

H. Goodman,
"Cutting Edge: The Body, Technology and the Visible Human Project", 1998

M. Vandenbeld,
"Resistance and Empowerment Process of Identity Construction in African Derived Religions of the Americas as Illustrated in Afro-Brazilian Candomble and Jamaican Rastafara", 1998

S. Cowie,
"The Evolution and Naturalization of Reason in the Work of Henri Bergson", 1997

A. Hojabri,
"Representing Iranian Women: Rethinking "Islamic Feminism"", 1997

N. Pravaz,
"Contested Meanings of the notion of Risk: The Problem of Aids Prevention", 1995

I. Cosh,
"Inside the Fetish: Michael Taussig's Project of Critical Re enchantment", 1995

M. J. Mitchell,
"Subsistence, Surplus and Seaweek Women's Fishing in Kiribati", 1993

J. E. Murphy,
"Rainforest Crunch: Anthropology, Environmentalism, Forestry & Maya in Central Quintana Roo, Mexico", 1993

D. Sarhadi,
"Globalization, Ethnicity and Identity: Contextualizing Canadian South Asian Youths", 1993

A. Pond,

"Women and the Skilled Trades in Canada: Approaching Current Issues from an Historical and Theoretical Prespective", 1992

M. Madamba,

"A Critique of Philippine Agrarian Studies: An Anthropological Prespective", 1992

D. Kisly,

"Commodity Native? The Politics of Hill-Tribe Tourism in Northern Thailand", 1991

M. Bissegger,

"Selected Anthropological and Feminist Perspectives on Motherhood, Research/Review Paper", 1989.