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Anthropology

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Recent projects in anthropology include:

  • Threatened Identity: The Effects of the Oneida Nation Land Claims on White Identity in Central New York
  • Language and Desire: The Internet and American Religion
  • Holding On: An Examination of the Onondaga Struggle to Maintain their Culture Throughout the Imposition of Formal Education
  • Theory, Practice and the Space In-Between: The Federal-Tribal Relationship in Native American Housing Development
  • Pragmatic Panthers: The Dynamic Lives of Legal Categories
  • Emergent Identities: Changing Land Tenure Systems, the Iroqois People and the Struggle to Maintain a "Traditional" Life in the Face of European Colonization
  • Termination Mazeways and Indian Paths of Resistance: The Emergent Identity of the Western Shoshone
  • The Two Row Wampum and the Fourth Sister: An Analysis of Oneida Tradition within the Casino Debate
  • The Commodification of a Hamilton College Education within Contemporary Capitalist Society
  • An Ethnography of Hamilton College: Students' Expectations of the Alcohol Policy's Effect on Marijuana Consumption
  • Looking in from the Outside: International Students' Perceptions of Attending Hamilton College
  • A Home for Seven Months: A Study of the Factors that Influence How Hamilton College Students Set up their Dormitory Rooms
  • I Want to Be Part of Something: Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Irish Traditional Music and the Search for Identity
  • Representations of Upstate/Downstate by Central New Yorkers
  • Trying to Fit In: The Sudanese Identity Crisis
  • Women and AIDS: A Ugandan Perspective
  • Colonial Legacy: An Analysis of Anthropology's Role in the Australian Government's Aboriginal Policies Formation
  • From Maastricht to Mad Cow: The Northern Ireland Conflict and the Emerging European Community
  • The Elderly in America and the Rise of Social Institutions that "Solve the Problem" of the Aged
  • The Construction of Primitiveness: A Comparative Study of Its Imposition upon the Aboriginals and the Maori
  • Masculinity and Homophobia: Understanding Anti-Gay Discrimination
  • Cultural Values, Word Association, Tomatoes and Alternative Markets:Niche Marketing Strategies for the Vermont Farmer
  • The Social Construction of Genocide: A Case Study of Language and the Holocaust
  • Language and Ethnicity: Language Policy in Norway and Catalonia

Recent projects in archaeology include:

  • The Sun Never Sets on the Roman Empire: Use of Solar Energy in the Roman Baths of Italy
  • Sutton Hoo: A Mark of Power in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Chronological and Functional Relationships Between Great Basin Fluted Point Technology