My thesis explores the factors that shape or reinforce international college students' perceptions of food. This research not only examines how cultural values affect individual nutrition and maintenance of eating behaviors, it also addresses the extent to which accessibility impacts eating behaviors. Notably, the research endeavor uses the concept of dietary habitus as an underlying directive mechanism for study. This study finds that most students experience a reduction in their fruit and vegetable intake. Another finding suggests that international students eat healthier and are more structured in comparison to domestic students if they hybridize their dietary habitus. Research findings also suggest that most participants perceive food on campus to be both equally healthy and unhealthy, with limited accessibility to national cuisines and affordable healthy foods.

In medico-legal investigations involving unidentified skeletal remains, forensic anthropologists commonly assist law enforcement and medical examiners in their analysis and identification. The traditional documentation techniques employed by the forensic anthropologist during their analysis include notes, photographs, measurements and radiographic images. However, relevant visual information of the skeleton can be lacking in morphological details in 2D images. By creating a 3D representation of individual bones using a laser-scanner, it would be possible to overcome this limitation. Now that laser scanners have become increasingly affordable, this technology should be incorporated in the documentation methodologies of forensic anthropology laboratories. Unfortunately, this equipment is rarely used in forensic anthropology casework. The goal of this project is to investigate the possible visualization applications that can be created from digitized surface models of bone for use in medico-legal investigations. This research will be achieved in two phases. First, examples of human bone as well as replicas of bone will be scanned using a NextEngineâ„¢ laser scanner. In conjunction with this will be the exploration and documentation of protocols for scanning different bone types and processing the scan data for creating a 3D model. The second phase will investigate how the resulting 3D model can be used in lieu of the actual remains to achieve improved documentation methodologies through the use of several commercial computer graphics programs. The results demonstrate that an array of visual applications can be easily created from a 3D file of bone, including virtual curation, measurement, illustration and the virtual reconstruction of fragmented bone. Based on the findings of this project, the implementation of laser scanning technology is recommended for forensic anthropology labs to enhance documentation, analysis and presentation of human bone.

There is a labyrinth of complex social connections between people and places that deserves careful anthropological reflection. People do not simply occupy places; they experience them, infusing them with life and social meaning. Basso (1996:53) argues that ethnography has reported little about the complex ways in which people are “alive to the world around them.” Anthropology is currently experiencing a resurging emphasis on place that seeks to account for its remarkably social features. Rather than primarily thinking about place when determining a location for fieldwork, emerging anthropological reflection shows the discipline is repositioning itself to explore the complex and often fantastic ways people experience, conceptualize, and confer meaning to their natural surroundings. In anthropology, the phrase “sense of place” captures these ideas. The phenomenological approach has emerged as the theoretical centerpiece for this effort, promising to open extraordinary new pathways for qualitative exploration. This thesis uses the life history methodology to explore how two female Palestinian immigrants to Central Florida experience and confer meaning to their ancestral homeland and place of birth. Data collected through a series of life history interviews highlight the texture of Palestinian senses of place, including the presence of what I describe as an eschatological sense of place.

PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / This work deals with the family and lineage structure of the Kafa tribe of Southwest Ethiopia. My intent in writing on this subject is twofold. First, in presenting the data I am offering to the social scientist a unique body of information. Various travellers in the 19th and 20th centuries have made general comments on the social organization of various peoples in the region, but very little has been written about the nature of the family and the structure of the lineage.1 I was fortunate in being able to conduct my research in such a manner as to be able to collect both qualitative and quantitative data. The quantitative data, mostly of a demographic nature, is extremely difficult to come by in Ethiopia because of the peoples' fear of the government census takers, the counting of heads having led to increased taxes in the past. My good fortune in getting this type of data will hopefully add to the credibility of my conclusions.

In this thesis, I examine the history and trends in Nigerian archaeology, through to the development of methods and theories in the study of urban space. The nascent period of the discipline aligns with the early 19th-century colonial administration. During this period, the attention of archaeologists was on art objects. It was followed by indigenous-directed research that sees universities spring up. I discussed how this new formation sought to decolonize archaeology by pointing out that the early studies were colonial-derived, hence ignoring the accomplishments of independent African cultures. The indigenous archaeology new school served to rectify these inherent problems by establishing models of cultural development and complexity that were definitively African based in focus and in a context of nationalist historiography. in a bid to give an African-based definition to the material cultures, urbanism became a widespread research focus. I highlight the different views of urbanism by different scholars and hypothesize that in addition to criteria like population density, settlement size, and agriculture, etc., earthworks are important variables in defining urban space in the Yoruba-Edo region of Nigeria.

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The question investigated in this study is the migrant labour system with special reference to Basotho workers. South Africa has some of the poorest labour relations in the world, and the migrant labour crisis is an important component of this problem. Questions outstanding include the approach that should be taken in restructuring the labour economy, and what workers voices may contribute to that process. Who in fact are these workers, from where do they come, where do they reside, and what do they wish from the new dispensation? Understanding what migrancy means to working men and women from Lesotho is the objective of this study. Little has been done to analyse the consequences of rapid changes in the structure of employment in the mining industry for migrants and their kith and kin. As the study points out, these changes in the system have implications for everyone, not only Lesotho migrants. Their effects are considered in the context of documented background on the historical evolution of the system. Constructions of labour migrancy have been tied up with notions of identity. Even magical practices play a role in formulating defensive self-identifications in relation to the uncertainties of the system. The study investigates the rules and provisions attached to the employment conditions of citizens and foreigners, revealing the ambiguity of the 'migrant ' label. Such ambiguity is significant not only for the social dilemma workers find themselves in, but also for the restructuring of South Africa's economy. Another perspective expressed in Basotho testimonies is the necessity of taking charge of one's own life. It is clear that change in the migrant labour system has not been shaped by the agency of management alone. Migrants identified problems, and worked out intuitively their potential solutions. Further, they identified and formulated mechanisms to implement their own versions of these solutions. Migrants realize that an exploitative system will perpetuate itself by assuming a different shape while its essence stays the same. Workers want to help in the process of restructuring the problematic aspects of industrial institutions. They can do this more effectively if they are empowered, not only by unionism but through a 'culture of awareness' or mutual consciousness. In sum, the study focuses on the contributions of workers toward restructuring the political economy of migrancy. It is through recognising this aspect that workers voices may ask to be heard. The migrant labour system has long been part of South Africa's economy, and it cannot be ignored in the present crisis. Before we can talk about effective ways of addressing the problems of the system, its workings must be understood. It is necessary to understand the dynamics within this system so as to provide stakeholders with the capacity to manage structural and legal interventions. The thesis uses the testimony of migrants from Lesotho to reveal the dynamics of the system, with its informal knowledge, attitudes, practices, and so on. Migrants tell stories that show not only how unjustly the system is treating them, but how they have survived and even made the most of its limited opportunities. The answers to our economic problems do not lie in xenophobia or blame shifting, but in the active participation of all towards bettering both productivity and working conditions.