Anthropology and Archaeology
Recent Deposits
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An analysis of local authority implementation of legislative provisions for the management and protection of archaeological sites
Local authorities are identified as playing a significant role in historic heritage management at the local level. The aim of this thesis was to determine whether local authorities are in a position to be given greater ... -
When two worlds meet : an examination of the intersection between scientific views of genetic testing and the realm of popular culture
This thesis explores the variety of ways in which scientific views of genetic testing are portrayed in the realm of popular culture. As a case study, I have used the identification of the gene for hereditary stomach cancer ... -
Stone tool production at Cat's Eye Point, Kā̄kanui, North Otago, New Zealand
This thesis exammes a lithic assemblage from Cat's Eye Point (142/4), Kakanui, North Otago, New Zealand. This Archaic site was excavated during 1996 and 1997 and the lithic assemblage was collected from 4 lm2 excavated ... -
Things of Roviana : material culture, personhood and agency in nineteenth century Solomon Islands
The following research examines how material culture was used to negotiate social relationships through exchange, in nineteenth century Roviana lagoon, Solomon Islands. Recent debates in Melanesian anthropology have focused ... -
The taphonomy of big-game hunting in prehistoric New Zealand
This thesis examines patterns of bone remains from big-game hunting in New Zealand archaeological sites, and the origins of these patterns from a taphonomic viewpoint. Taphonomy, as a subdiscipline within archaeology, ... -
Research into the efficacy of the New Zealand Archaeological Association Site Recording Scheme and the integration of archaeologists' knowledge into planning processes - with reference to the Kaikoura District and the typological debate
This research project has examined three aspects of archaeological resource management in New Zealand. The New Zealand Archaeological Association Site Recording Scheme is the national database for archaeological site ... -
The prehistoric exploitation and knowledge of geological resources in Southern Wairarapa.
(…) This thesis explores the use of the local and eternal geological environments by small groups of people living on the east coast of Palliser Bay, in southern Wairarapa. The rock types recovered from the archaeological ... -
So mote it be! : an anthropological investigation of contemporary feminist witchcraft
The aim of this thesis was to produce an ethnography of contemporary feminist witches and the practice of their 'craft' in New Zealand, particularly the Otago and Canterbury regions. Data was collected over a sixteen month ... -
'Reddish eddying waters' : a study of work, gender and class consciousness in a working class town
The work and workers in the industrial town of Mataura, Eastern Southland, New Zealand provide the focus for this ethnographic study. Drawing on extensive fieldwork involving both participant observation and quantitative ... -
Te Waka! Life histories of two contemporary Polynesian voyaging canoes
This thesis concerns the life-histories of the two contemporary Polynesian voyaging canoes from Aotearoa New Zealand. It documents the background, construction and voyages of Hawaiki Nui (1979- 1986) built by Matahi ... -
The physical analysis of Pacific pottery
Most pottery studies in the Pacific to date have been concerned with typol9gical characteristics, particularly decorative features. Although this work has been very successful at revealing historical relationships between ... -
Form-plus-fabric : northeast Thailand ceramic technology from the Bronze to Iron Ages
This study traced changes in the form and fabric of ceramics vessels from the Bronze to Iron Age at Ban Non Wat, Khorat Plateau, Northeast Thailand. A complementary ethnoarchaeological component assessed modern ceramic ... -
Negotiating health: perspectives from Pacific women in Dunedin
This thesis explores the relationship between Pacific women, their critiques concerning identity and health and how they manifest these concepts among themselves and their wider Pacific and New Zealand communities. This ... -
A High-Resolution Chronology of Human Arrival and Environmental Impact in Northland, New Zealand
Our understanding of when Polynesian colonists first arrived in New Zealand, how the landscape was altered, and the pace of anthropogenic modification has been primarily sourced from archaeological evidence and environmental ... -
Colour as a symbol in New Zealand prehistory
This thesis explores a new method for looking at the symbolic importance of prehistoric material culture by investigating a non functional attribute. The attribute selected is the colour red and· its relevance to the study ... -
The seams of subjectivity and structure : women's experiences of garment work in Aotearoa New Zealand and Fiji
This thesis explores women garment factory workers' contemporary experiences of the processes of industrial restructuring in two contrastive locations. Industrial restructuring has been accompanied by a tide of neo-liberal ... -
Faithful living : Muslim women in New Zealand and the articulation of Islam
This research explores the narratives articulated by a cross-section of Muslim women in New Zealand. The women interviewed often felt defined and overlooked by dominant discourses that tend to stereotype and essentialise ... -
Archaeology and behaviour : prehistoric subsistence behaviour at Black Rocks Peninsula, Palliser Bay.
[…] This thesis is an attempt, on a small scale, therefore, to examine certain facets of behaviour of people who exploited the food resources and deposited the middens of Black Rocks Peninsula, Palliser Bay, to see whether ... -
Buller and Heaphy : a social interpretation of two archaic West Coast settlements
This thesis investigates the material culture assemblage and spatial patterning of two Archaic sites on the West Coast of the South Island - Buller River Mouth (K29/8) and Heaphy River Mouth (L26/1). Two key themes are ...