Dissertations and Theses 1968-2000 - by year

Department of Anthropology - University of Alaska Fairbanks

The folowing list is neither complete nor comprehensive. We are still in the process of gathering data, from these years and before.

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Year Name   Title
1968 Olson, Wallace M
MA
Minto, Alaska: cultural and historical influences on group identity
1970 Billman, Esther Lisle
MA
A study of the elements of the supernatural among the Tlingit of Sitka and Yakutat
1970 Jacobs, Neville Abbott
MA
The anthropologist and the public; some problems of public communication in anthropology
1971 Wallen, Lynn Ager
MA
The Eskimo storyknife complex of Southwestern Alaska
1971 Vitt, Ramon B.
MA
Hunting practices of the Upper Tanana Athapaskans
1972 Breiby, John C.
MA
A biographical study of acculturation on Nushagak Bay
1972 Derry, David Edward
MA
The archeology and anthropology of a recent Eskimo habitation at Prudhoe Bay
1972 Heiner, Virginia E.
MA
Aleutian Island sites
1972 Dixon, E. James
MA
The Gallagher Flint Station; an early man site on the North Slope, Arctic Alaska
1972 Bacon, Glenn
MA
Archeological survey and excavation near Murphy Lake in the Arctic Foothills, northern Alaska.
1972 Breiby, John C.
MA
A biographical study of acculturation on Nushagak Bay
1972 Pitts, Roger Steven
MA
The changing settlement patterns and housing types of the Upper Tanana Indians
1973 Dykema, Gisela M
MA
Between yesterday and tomorrow: Allendorf, Germany
1974 Utermohle, Charles J.
MA
Analysis of Eskimo dental attrition by progression of dentine exposure
1974 Holmes, Charles Edgar
MA
The archaeology of Bonanza Creek Valley, north-central Alaska
1974 Stevens, Edward T
MA
Alaskan petroglyphs and pictographs
1975 Andrews, Elizabeth F
MA
Salcha : an Athapaskan band of the Tanana River and its culture
1977 Arndt, Katherine L.
MA
The structure of cache pits at Gul 077, a late prehistoric archaeological site near Gulkana, Alaska
1977 Fetter, Sharon
MA
The analysis and description of an archaeological site (K-9) near Cathedral Mountain, Alaska and the site's relationship to the Kayuk Complex
1978 West, Charles Eugene
MA
Archeology of the Birches Site, Lake Minchumina, Alaska
1978 Smith, George S.
MA
Mammalian zooarchaeology, Alaska : a manual for identifying and analyzing mammal bones from archaeological sites in Alaska
1981 Braund, Stephen R.
MA
The skin boats of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
1982 Regan, Susan Lee
MA
Interpretation through oral history in the Susitna River Basin
1982 Pete, Mary R
MA
Place names of Taprarmiut
1995 Rahm, Jacqueline Marie
MA
Indigenous psychologies of Nepal and the use of traditional healing systems
1999 McIntosh, Stacie J
MA
Nausiaq = : plant? : ethnobotanical classification in Shismaref, Alaska
1999 Tozzi, Louis M
MA
Semester in the Arctic : in search of organizational identity
1999 Cook, James W
PhD
The quintessential frontier religion : the restoration movement in Alaska
1999 Kingston, Deanna M
PhD
Returning : twentieth century performances of the King Island Wolf Dance
1999 Austin, Kenneth Frank
MA
The changing vista of the northern Northwest Coast Indian Deer Ritual
1999 Brakel, Judith
MA
A maritime sense of place : Southeast Alaska fishermen and mainstream nature ideologies
1999 Linn, Angela MA Not Just a Pretty Face: Dolls and Human Figurines in Alaska Native Cultures
1999 Snyder, Megan D
PhD
Author as ethnographer : the merging of genres in Raymond Carver's and Thomas Pynchon's texts
2000 Worley, Shelly Lisa
MA
Organizational culture and meanings in tension : an analysis of the Alaska Volcano Observatory
2000

Raymond-Yakoubian, Brenden

MA
Lived ethnicity : identity, consciousness, and discursive practice in Grayling, Alaska
2002 Tom Flanigan MA Use-wear analysis of experimental stone tools, and a sample of lithics from component I of the Walker Road site
2002 Jennifer Newton MA About Time: Chronological Variation as seen in Burial Features at Ipiutak, Point Hope
2002 Martin Gutoski MA Yaachox' Bluff: An Examination of a Rock Art Site in Interior Alaska and Local Oral History
2002 Aaron Robertson MA

The Tingmiukpuk Site (KIR-273) A Prehistoric Site along the Killik River, Alaska

2002 Jeanette Matovich MA

Health in Predynastic Egypt: Assessing the Overall Health of a Working Class Population, Based on Skeletal Indicators, at Hierakonpolis