Otago University Research Archive

Anthropology and Archaeology

Otago University Research Archive

Anthropology and Archaeology

 

Recent Deposits

  • Intoh, Michiko (Thesis, Master of Arts, 1982)
    Most pottery studies in the Pacific to date have been concerned with typological characteristics, particularly decorative features. Although this work has been very successful at revealing historical relationships between ...
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    Vogel, Yolanda Jacqueline (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2010)
    This thesis examines methodological issues in the analysis of fishbone assemblages from the Pacific. A review of the literature on Pacific fishing raises questions about methodology in Pacific fishbone analysis. Recent ...
  • Fleming, Michael A (Thesis, Master of Arts, 1986)
    In many archaeological sites bones of the Scaridae family have been found to be the most common fish represented. This is a marked contrast to the impression given in modern ethnographic accounts of fishing in the Pacific ...
  • Edwards, William G (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2008)
    How does innovation in material culture occur? In this thesis, I critically examine the role of the individual in this process and contrast it against a wider background of political, economic and technological change. The ...
  • Cullen, Lynda (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)
    When a woman gains a foothold as a hero, as a warrior or tough woman in popular culture, the gender order is threatened. For the warrior woman's identity to be legitimated she must perform a coherent subjectivity that ...

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