Anthropology and Archaeology
Recent Deposits
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Sussing out ageing: Sharing lesbian & queer women's knowledge of ageing in Aotearoa New Zealand
This thesis is a qualitative study exploring how some lesbian and queer women (aged 45 to 88) conceptualise, and experience ageing, old age and the life course in Aotearoa New Zealand. Combining semi-structured interviews ... -
Healing the Anxious Self: An Ethnographic Exploration of Undergraduate Student Experiences of 'Having Anxiety'
Mental health is a topical issue in Aotearoa New Zealand, with national statistics showing that many New Zealanders will experience mental illness during their lifetime. Much of the public discourse relates to depression ... -
Negotiating the sacred space: A comparative study of the impact of the dynamics of culture and Christian theology on women in the South Sea Evangelical Church, and in the Anglican Church of Melanesia, Small Malaita, Solomon Islands
The discourses on women’s empowerment, leadership and development in the contemporary Pacific, and Melanesia suggest that local women in these regions are discriminated against and denied gender equality with men. The ... -
Personal ornaments in Thai pre-history: Nong Nor, Ban Lum Khao and Noen-U-Loke
Personal ornaments - jewellery and other items of decoration worn on the body – are common grave goods in prehistoric Thailand. Grave goods are important and accessible aspects of mortuary ritual and mortuary ritual has ... -
The protohistoric period of Wairarapa culture history
Upon a New Zealand-wide scale the intervening years between 1769 and 1840 were remarkable for the contact, confrontation, interaction and co-operation between Maoris and Europeans. This period of impact of an alien people ... -
Adaptation of Malaysian-Singaporean students at Otago university, 1967-8
[…] It appears that although the host society is desirous of Europeanising Malaysian-Singaporean students they are depending upon participation in the extra-curricular activities as a reliable agency and are not aware of ... -
Polynesian coastal hunters in the subantarctic zone : a case for the recognition of convergent cultural adaptation.
A programme of archaeological research was undertaken in the Chatham Islands, 860 km east of Banks Peninsula. This consisted of three phases of field work. These were; extensive site surveying, exploratory excavation and, ... -
Mechanising Fibre Production: The New Zealand Flax Mill Project
Flax has a long history of use in New Zealand. It was a crucial source of fibre in traditional Māori society, and later sparked the interest of shipborne Europeans, always on the lookout for fibre to make rope. Characteristics ... -
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 ...