Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1914. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-282) and index. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1985. / Includes abstract. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1981. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 344-352).

Thesis--University of California, Los Angeles. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 401-449) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1914. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-282) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1915. / Cover title. Vita. "Based on a collection of Philippine folk-tales recently published by the Field museum of natural history." Anthro. series, vol. XIV, no. 1. Chicago, 1915.

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Gender, ethnicity, landscape, nation — none exist as real places or categories but as the effect of various practices that bring bodies and spaces into being. This dissertation attempts to rethink concepts of gender and ethnicity away from traditional ideas of places and cultures. To do so, it embeds them within social practice as performatives emerging from the colonial encounter. The text reports on ethnographic field research among Igorot communities originating on the Philippine Cordillera Central. By applying Burawoy's extended case method to local narratives of identity, history and migration, the argument extends theorizations of locality and gendered subaltern agency. The analysis locates the imaginative work that produces local places, subject positions and subjectivities within a palimpsest of transnational discourses, outmigration and local innovations. Locality and subjectivity are shown to be embedded in and produced by both local experiences and global identifications of difference originating within colonial histories. In narrating and dis-placing colonial stories of places and people, the power of these discourses on gender and ethnicity to constitute subjects with coherent names is challenged. By tracing the-persistence of the colonial past in the apparently de-colonized present, this text suggests that the concepts of performance and naming can help to make greater theoretical and empirical sense of the (post)colonial world. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate

Crustal and upper mantle structures in the West Philippine Basin, along 17-18°N, have been determined using explosions as sources and ocean bottom seismometers to measure refracted compressional waves. Seismic refraction profiles out to nearly 500 km were completed. Shallow structure was measured using small shots, 1-240 lbs., and the deeper structure was probed with large explosions, 0.9-1.8 tons. A velocity-depth inversion using short range data shows the upper crust to have strong velocity gradients which gradually decrease with depth. The lower crust is characterized by a nearly constant velocity gradient of 0.24 sec⁻¹. Standard delay-time functions and a modified function accounting for lateral velocity gradients were also used in travel time inversion. Results from the two methods are comparable and yield ~1.5 km transitional zone thicknesses in the basin. Although they vary slightly in magnitude between methods, West Philippine Basin oceanic layer thicknesses are abnormally thin, by about 2 km, when compared to average crust. Total crustal thicknesses are shown to be thinner in the eastern part of the basin, approaching only 3 km. Crustal thinning toward the east is consistent with the Palau-Kyushu Ridge being a remnant transform fault connecting Philippine and Kula-Pacific ridges in the past. Predicted water depths in the basin are about 300 meters shallower than observed depths when compensated to average mantle depths found for the Western North Pacific. The depth anomaly cannot be fully reconciled by thin crust, and requires a deeper-seated anomaly to be present in the West Philippine Basin. Temperature and pressure modeling using experimental measurements from proposed mantle constituents indicate high seismic gradients in the upper mantle and may suggest that a multi-component or graded mantle exists beneath the marginal sea. / Graduation date: 1983

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-173) / Microfiche. / xvi, 173 leaves, bound ill., maps 29 cm