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Title: "No Man Kills His Horse:" Saving Animals in the Global South
Creator: ElSafoury, Hana Yasser (Hana Yasser ElSafoury) (Author), (Anu (Aradhana) Sharma) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2019-04-15
Description: This is a multispecies ethnography on non-governmental projects started by Europeans to save animals in the Global South. Based on research in Egypt and Namibia, it complicates unchallenged notions of cruelty, animal rights, humanitarian care, and development. It takes an intersectional approach to explore the place of the animal in colonial history and in contemporary care projects to argue for the embeddedness of animals in our political and social worlds. “Animals” are not the same everywhere: innocent and saveable. It interrogates the impulse to intervene and help animals in the Global South and argues for more attentive, localized ethical codes and care practices that take into account the context of both animals and humans., 2019, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/2228, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: "That Bigger-Than-Me Kinda Thing": Interdependence and Affective Wellness in the Berkeley Student Cooperative
Creator: Roberts Golding, Yona Tali (Yona Tali Roberts Golding) (Author), (Daniella Gandolfo) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2014-04-15
Description: 2014, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1287, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: A Long Walk Home: Transition and Belonging in an Expatriate Community
Creator: Deck, Michael Mallat (Michael Mallat Deck) (Author), (Daniella Gandolfo) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2014-04-15
Description: 2014, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1271, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: A Synthesized Approach to the Study of the Evolution of Speech in Homo sapiens
Creator: Holowka, Nicholas (Nicholas Holowka) (Author), (Douglas Charles) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2007-05-01
Description: This essay explores the evolution of speech in humans by synthesizing the approaches taken from many different disciplines. It begins with a survey of the neural and anatomical structures responsible for speech Homo sapiens. This is followed by comparative studies of the vocal communication and linguistic behavior of a number of nonhuman species, including birds and other primates. The essay then focuses on the evolution of speech in early human ancestors as evident in both the fossil and archaeological records. It also surveys the studies upon the evolution of the FOXP2 gene, which has been implicated in human speech abilities. The essay concludes with a synthesized analysis of these different approaches., 2007, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/15, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Achieving 'Gender Parity' at Wesleyan University: Admitting Women, Maintaining Patriarchy, 1969-1989
Creator: Grassian, Daniel Trentin (Daniel Trentin Grassian) (Author), (Margot Weiss) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2009-04-15
Description: 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., 2009, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/347, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: An Ambiguous Matter: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Waste and Waste Management Systems in the United States
Creator: Cooper, DeNeile Jeanette (DeNeile Jeanette Cooper) (Author), (Elizabeth Traube) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2015-04-15
Description: This essay aims to examine the social notions of waste in juxtaposition to the historical trajectory of waste and waste management in the United States as an attempt to reconcile the functional, factual and social realities and limitations of our current waste systems. While it may seem that waste management is a system guided by environmental science research and various engineering technologies integrated into our systems of municipal solid waste and recycling, it also relies heavily on social notions constructed by ideals and principles deeply embedded in our cultural structure. The way in which we as individuals of this social structure interact with waste management allows us to feel confident in our narrow practical, functional and factual perceptions of trash without having to address the ickiness of waste and the full system of waste management itself. This essay engages with the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas to show how our social consciousness and cultural taboos regarding items of waste have guided and in some ways limited the citizen’s understanding of waste management. By grounding our notions of waste in social and historical contexts from colonial times to the recycling movement this essay constructs a holistic analysis of the United States citizen’s (dis)connection to the reality of their waste today., 2015, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1430, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Authenticity and Artifice: Burlesque Dancing in New Orleans
Creator: Gauthier, Isabelle Anaya (Isabelle Anaya Gauthier) (Author), (Margot Weiss) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2014-04-15
Description: 2014, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1324, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Being is Becoming: An Ethnography of Unitarian Universalist Conversion
Creator: Bogdanow, Alyssa Michelle (Alyssa Michelle Bogdanow) (Author), (Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Elizabeth Traube) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2011-04-15
Description: 2011, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/709, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Bless Our Southern Roots: A Transgenerational Approach to Southern Agriculture
Creator: Steinberg, Eva Rose (Eva Rose Steinberg) (Author), (Gina Athena Ulysse, Douglas Charles) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2017-04-15
Description: “There is no culture without agriculture:” In this thesis I explore modes of cultural preservation among Southeastern United States agriculture. Taking into consideration the implications of the social, racial, political, and economic factors of the South, I examine how heritage is maintained for conventional, land-owning farmers as opposed to farmers on the margins. Throughout this project, I draw connections between the generations of farmers and the plant life cycle, culminating with the disruption of both the lives and livelihoods of marginalized farmers through the mechanization of agriculture and of seeds and plants through hybridization and patenting. In this vein, seedsaving, as practiced by the margins, works as to resist the industrialization of agriculture and to form countermemories to a version of the past that prioritizes white, land-owning narratives. I argue that it is vital to acknowledge how the past informs current Southern agrarian society in order to retain communities and practices that nurture farmers, communities, plants, and the land., 2017, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1803, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Boricuas en the Silver City?: (De)Constructing Diasporic Puerto Rican Identity in Meriden, Connecticut
Creator: Rivera, Luz Marian (Luz Marian Rivera) (Author), (Daniella Gandolfo) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2013-05-23
Description: 2013, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1120, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: British Football Culture and Nationalist Dramaturgy: Understanding Spectator Sports as Mass Ornaments
Creator: Hart, Julia Anne (Julia Anne Hart) (Author), (Daniella Gandolfo) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2014-04-15
Description: 2014, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1307, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Danzando hacia la Guelaguetza: Reciprocity, Participation and Performance in Oaxaca
Creator: Marshall, Claire Eleanor de Laszlo (Claire Eleanor de Laszlo Marshall) (Author), (Gina Athena Ulysse, Daniella Gandolfo) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2017-04-15
Description: An exploration into three iteration of guelaguetza in Oaxaca Mexico: 1. a practice of mutual exchange practiced in Zapotec communities. Here engaging anthropological literature on gift giving, mutual aid and exilic communities 2. the Government funded indigenous dance festival Guelaguetza, in conversation here with theories of museumizing, nationalist image making and indigenismo 3. The Political Protest dance festival Guelaguetza Popular y Magisterial organized by the Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca, where here do a close reading of the performances of dancers and other people attending the festival, thinking in particular about participation, autonomy and reciprocity, 2017, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1797, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Designing and Inhabiting Star: An Ethnography of Integrated Affordable Housing in Contemporary Los Angeles
Creator: Rowe, Henry Verducci (Henry Verducci Rowe) (Author), (Daniella Gandolfo) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2018-04-15
Description: This thesis examines integrated affordable housing in contemporary Los Angeles through the architecture of the Star Apartments. By looking at how housers, architects, and tenants relate to Star?s form, this thesis explores 1) The forces of urban production that influence both affordable housing and homelessness, and 2) the dynamics of personhood and perception that operate within these spaces., 2018, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/2030, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Eating at the Edges: Consumers, Killjoys, and Alternative Food
Creator: Fineman, Alexis Natalene (Alexis Natalene Fineman) (Author), (Anu (Aradhana) Sharma) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2016-04-15
Description: There is no such thing as ethical consumerism under capitalism, or so the saying goes. And yet, ethical consumerism, intertwined with issues of health and status distinction, is the de facto ethico-political undertaking of the mainstream sustainability and alternative food movements. This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of alternative food discourses in Marin County’s foodscapes. From the authenticating power of buzzwords such as “organic” and “local,” to a network of vegan activists trying to reframe sustainability, I examine how and when people engage with and disengage from issues the political and ethical issues on the table., 2016, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1695, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Explaining Away Inequality: The Normalization of Segregation and Maintenance of White Privilege in New York City Public High Schools
Creator: Meara-Bainbridge, Maria Corinne (Maria Corinne Meara-Bainbridge) (Author), (J. Kēhaulani Kauanui) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2013-05-23
Description: 2013, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1116, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: From Volunteer Tourism Toward a (Cosmo)Politics of Solidarity
Creator: McGuire, Meghan Elizabeth (Meghan Elizabeth McGuire) (Author), (Anu (Aradhana) Sharma) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2012-04-15
Description: 2012, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/877, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Grave Concerns: Agency Theory and Post-Burial Manipulation of the Corpse
Creator: Rothberg, Marina Francis (Marina Francis Rothberg) (Author), (Kate Birney) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2016-04-15
Description: This thesis aims to contribute to an agentive and comparative framework for future archaeologists to study burials in which the corpse appears to have been disturbed after initial deposition. The first case study is based on archaeological sites Winnall II from Anglo-Saxon England and Bogøvej from Viking Denmark, both of which demonstrate apotropaic burials; burials that involve post-depositional rites intended to thwart the malevolent power of the corpse. The second case study is from Tikal, a Maya site from Guatemala, and involves an aristocratic corpse being exhumed and used in a reburial ritual designed to enforce a political alliance. The third case study examines instances of grave robbing in ancient Egypt. Grounded in textual and archeological evidence, I will look at two elite New Kingdom tombs that have been ransacked and looted. In examining what the dominant structures are that determine burial treatment, the normative conception of the fate of the dead and/or of the corpse, and whether the instance of manipulation of the corpse reinforces or subverts these structures, one can determine whether or not the corpse was indeed “violated”., 2016, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1599, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: How to Get to Long Lane School: An Ethnography of a Place
Creator: Davies, Beth (Beth Davies) (Author), (Daniella Gandolfo) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2009-04-15
Description: 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., 2009, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/321, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Is Bigger Better? Postcolonial Memory and the Politics of Expansion at the Humboldt-Forum
Creator: Apostolidis, Anna Kathleen (Anna Kathleen Apostolidis) (Author), (Joseph Weiss) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2019-04-15
Description: This thesis is an ethnography of the Humboldt-Forum, a new museum scheduled to open in Berlin in the summer of 2019. I examine the museum’s interactions with various controversial histories, particularly the history of German colonialism, which is embedded materially in the ethnological collections that will be on display in the museum. The material history of the collections interacts in ambivalent ways with the history of the museum’s architecture, which is a controversial partial reconstruction of the Berlin Palace, the former seat of the Prussian Monarchy. Using data collected from interviews with museum professionals, news articles about the museum, and extensive secondary research, I examine the institutional discourse of the Humboldt-Forum—how its proponents rhetorically make sense out of the museum’s contradictory orientations toward history. I argue that the discourse of the Humboldt-Forum’s proponents is expansive, or additive, in relation to history; the museum’s response to the problems of history is to continually add on more ideas and perspectives rather than interrogate the core of these problems. This discourse is useful, I assert, for German liberals in a time of increasing immigration and increasing right-wing backlash against immigrants. However, ultimately it does a disservice to the victims of Germany’s historical wrongdoings, allowing the museum to avoid confrontation with the ongoing material imbalances of colonialism that are embedded in its collections and discouraging the repatriation of objects that were stolen during the colonial era., 2019, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/2236, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Is that Really What You Are Writing About: Finding Legitimacy and Authenticity in Modern Skateboard Culture
Creator: Sarkowsky, Alex (Alex Sarkowsky) (Author), (Daniella Gandolfo) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2014-04-15
Description: 2014, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1171, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

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