Theses Completed in Social & Cultural Anthropology
PhD Theses
Proctor, Andrea. The Prospects of Culture: Resource Management and the Production of Difference in Nunatsiavut, Labrador.
2009 Allison, Jill. Affirmations, Contestations and Contradictions: Experiences of Infertility in Ireland.
2009 Davis, Reade. Compromising Situations: Participation and Politics in the Sustainable Development of Canada's Oceans.
2007 Rice, James G. The charity complex : an ethnography of a material aid agency in ReykjavÃk, Iceland.
MA Theses
2012 Cooney, David. The Post-Moratorium Condition: Contemporary Interactions between Tourism and the Surplus Population of Labour in a Rural Newfoundland Town.
2011 Breslin, Samantha. Living with music: an ethnography of sessions in St. John's, Newfoundland.
2010 Gan, Gregory. "To our hopeless affair" : a visual anthropology study about women of the Russian Intelligentsia in the post-Soviet era.
2010 Kuefler, Brent William Andrew. Continuity and change: Moose Cree relationships with geese.
2007 Connors Jackman, Michael David Patric. Get out of the garden : AIDS, art, politics, and the queerness of identity.
2007 Noel, Erin. In other words : an exploration of French Newfoundland language identity in Cape St. George.
2005 Kelly, Melodie. Women, home care and social change in a rural Newfoundland community.
2005 Griffis, Jaime. "Piecing womanhoods" : a nexus of gendered and middle-class practices by women who quilt in St. John's, Newfoundland.
2004 de Gelder, Mettje. After Apartheid: 'Contradictory Consciousness' Among White South African Immigrants to Canada.
2004 Dykstra, Robert J.C. Communitas and cohesion on a men's recreational slowpitch softball team in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
2004 Burke, Rhonda. Land, resources and discourses of development in Central Labrador.
2004 Grant, Dianne S. Nain's silenced majority: an anthropological examination of schooling in northern Labrador.
2002 James G. Rice. 'Community' and Contradictions: The Role of a Community Centre in a St. John's Housing Project.
2002 Eisener, Amanda. Feeding Babies, Making Mothers: Infant Feeding Practices in St. John's.
2002 Rollmann, Hans. Body Piercing and the Exploration of Spirituality, Sexuality & Fashion.
2001 White, Amanda. From sacrifico to egosimo: generation '75 in urban Galicia and the Spanish fertility rate.
2001 Durdle, Jodi. Women, health and social change in a rural Newfoundland community.
2001 Drown, Hannah. Sacred Spaces: Alternative Religion and Healing in Glastonbury, England.
2000 Davis, Reade. Gambling on the future : video lottery terminals and social change in rural Newfoundland.
1999 Kindl, Rita. Change and continuity : three generations of women's work in North West River, Labrador.
1998 Orchard, Treena. Teenagers of the tundra: the teenage experience among the Naskapi of Kawawachikamach, Quebec.
1998 Elliott, Denielle. Everything You Ever Dreamed Of: Romance, Gender and Travel in Mexico.
1994 Schuurman, Hedda Sies. Culture, Politics and School Control in Sheshatshit.
1994 Williams, Brian G. An Ethnohistorical Study of Fisher-Merchant Relationships in Burin, Newfoundland.
1993 Skanes, Fred. Exploring New Avenues: Anthropological History, Political Economy and Peasantries.
1991 Murphy, Kathleen Anne. Maternal Politics: Women's Strategies in a Rural Development Association.
1989 Jean-Klein, Iris E.F. Zionist Perceptions of Nazareth, Jewish Perceptions of Jew and Arab in Upper Nazareth.
1988 Holland-MacDonald, Wendy Ruth. Strangers/Outsiders/Insiders: Examining the Impact of Degrees of Community Membership on the Roles Available to Rural Bureaucrats.
1988 Lewis, Robert Munro. Brigus and the Labrador Fishery: An Anthropological and Historical Study.
1986 Brown, Cheryl Anne. The Newfoundland Pilgrimage to Ste. Anne De Beaupre: Suffering and Celebration a World Apart.
1986 Plaice, Evelyn Mary. A Native Game: Settler Perceptions of Indian/Settler Relations in Central Labrador.
1985 O'Hallaren, Julie. Strangers In Our Midst: Tourism as a Development Strategy in Newfoundland.
1985 Walsh, Vincent. The Underside of Boarding House Life.
1985 Armitage, Peter. Domestic Production among the Innut of La Romaine: Persistence or Transformation?
1983 Anger, Dorothy C. Putting it Back Together: Micmac Political Identity in Newfoundland.
1983 Wright, Guy David. Swiling: An Ethnographic Portrait of the Newfoundland Seal Hunt.
1983 Dillon, Leo L. Black Diamond Bay: A Rural Community in Newfoundland.
1982 Jones, Margaret L. The Healing Process and Conceptions of Alcoholism in a Drug Dependency Treatment Centre.
1982 Drodge, Janice Ann. A Heritage Portrayed: Nationalist Theatre in Newfoundland, 1972-1982.
1982 Southard, Frank E. Salt Cod and God: An Ethnography of Socio-economic Conditions affecting Status in a Southern Labrador Community.
1981 Brice-Bennett, Carol. Two Opinions: Inuit and Moravian Missionaries in Labrador, 1804-1860.
1981 Cole, Sally. Bored in the Arctic: The Modern Experience of Inuit Youth.
1980 Scheffel, David. The Demographic Consequences of European Contact with Labrador Inuit, 1800-1919.
1980 Cohen, Zelda Ruth. Playing for Privilege: An Ethnography of Play in a Summer Camp.
1979 Macdonald, David A. Process and Change in the Newfoundland Fishery: The Trawlermens Strike of 1974-5.
1979 Davis, Marget Frances Gunness. Harbour Deep: A Spatial Analysis.
1978 Steckley, John Lawson. The Soul Concepts of the Huron.
1978 Szala, Karen V. Clean Women and Quiet Men: Courtship and Marriage in a Newfoundland Fishing Village.
1977 Zulaika, Joseba. Fishing as a Cultural System.
1975 Coffin, Robert John. The Effect of Dominance Rank and Sex on Preschool Children's Proxemic Behavior.
1975 Keough, Brian M. Huckster Shop to Superette: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Development of the Outport Shop on the Southern Avalon Peninsula.
1975 Arefeen, Helaluddin Khan Shamsul. The Hindu Caste Model and the Muslim System of Stratification in Bangladesh.
1974 Parks, Robert M. Territoriality in the Grand Manan Lobster Fishery: A Game Theory Analysis of the Selection and use of Fishing Locations.
MA Major Research Papers
2012 Porta, Mariana P. Intensive Mothering: of Current Trend in North America Motherhood. 2012
2012 Lemkow, Aaron. CAPPing the Critics: Corporate Environmentalism and the Alberta Oil Sands.
2011 Al Russel, Sayeed. The Muslim veiling debate: An Anthropological Perspective.
2009 Harris, Katie. Governance, Migration, and Labour: A Historical Analysis of Development in Post-Confederation Newfoundland.
2008 Lalor, Josh D. Exploring the Implications of "Policy" Through the
Memorandum of Understanding Between Newfoundland and Labrador and Ireland.
2008 Hache, Tracy. Crisis in the outports: Toward a theoretical understanding of Newfoundland migration.
2007 White, Andrea. A patient rereading of the Italian psychiatric reform : Franco Basaglia and the therapeutic community at Gorizia.
2006 Sage, Vanessa. Seeking Albion : crop circles and sacred landsca, pes.
2004 Ludueña, Gustavo. The Promotion of Religious Traditions for Tourism in Spain.
2003 Chiaramonte, Luigi. Working To Be Like Everybody Else: Identity Formation Through the Work Culture of Supportive Employment for Disabled Adults.
2002 Farrell, Leah B. The facade of cinematic Ireland : an exploration of the change in the representation of Ireland in selected cinematic films from 1934-1996.
2002 Allison, Jill. Revealing the Hidden: Complexities and Potentialities in Inuit Shamanic Healing
2002 Halder, Rumel. Political Economy of a Disaster: Arsenic in Bangladesh.
