Ph.D. Degrees awarded in Anthropology
at the University of Hawai'i 1990 to 1999

Name

Year

Chair

Area

Thomas, Frank

1999

Griffin

Ecological

Optimal Foraging and Conservation: The Anthropology of Mollusk Gathering Strategies in the Gilbert Islands Group, Kiribati
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Latinis, David Kyle

1999

Griffin

Ecological

Subsistence System Diversification in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: Where Does Maluku Fit?
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Kjellgren, Eric P.

1999

Griffin

Cultural

Painting Country for Cities: East Kimberly Aboriginal Art in Two Worlds
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Fowler, Cynthia

1999

Etkin

Ecological

The Creolization of Natives and Exotics: The Changing Symbolic and Functional Character of Culture and Agriculture in Kodi, West Sumba (Indonesia)
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Nakamura, Jadelyn J. Moniz

1999

Graves

Archaeology

The Archaeology of Human Foraging and Bird Resources on the Island of Hawaii: The Evolutionary Ecology of Avian Predation, Resource Intensification, Extirpation and Extinction
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Zhang, Yanhua

1999

Blake

Cultural

Attuning Body-Person with Chinese Medicine: An Ethnography of Emotion-Related Disorders in a Clinic of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Adams, David

1998

Sponsel

Ecology

The boundary makers: The search for wilderness in Minnesota's hundred years' war
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Cai, Weirong

1998

Blake

Medical

The social cultural construction of illness in a Chinese hospital
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Cheng, Hsiang-mei

1998

Griffin

Cultural

Changing gender relations among the Tagbanua on Palawan, Philippines
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Gurung, Barun

1998

Dewey

Cultural

A study of mountains, development and knowledge processes: The Mewahang Rai of East Nepal
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Kirkendall, Melissa

1998

Hunt

Archaeology

Demographic change on Matuku Island, Fiji in response to infections diseases introduced at European contact
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Lee, Jung Hye

1998

Etkin

Medical

A quest for health in Korea: Food and Body in illness narratives of modernization
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Schrift, Melissa

1998

Blake

Cultural

Biography of a Mao badge
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Sloat, Ann

1998

Dewey

Medical

The medical response to battered women: Victimhood, medicalization and gender
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Gunn, Mary

1997

Graves

Archaeology

The development of social networks: Subsistence production and exchange between the sixth and sixteenth centuries a.d. In the Tanjay region, Negros Oriental, the Philippines
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Aswani, Shankar

1997

Finney

Ecology

Customary sea tenure and artisanal fishing in the Roviana and Vonavona lagoons, Solomon Islands: the volutionary ecology of marine resource utilization
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Lye, Tuck-Po

1997

Griffin

Cultural

Knowledge, forest and hunter-gatherer movement: the batek of pahang, Malaysia
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Puri, Rajindra

1997

Sponsel

Ecology

Hunting knowledge of the Penan Benalui of East Kalimantan, Indonesia
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Daniggelis, Ephrosine

1997

Dewey

Ecology

The 'Jangal's' hidden wealth: a survival strategy by foraging farmers in the upper Arun Valley, eastern Nepal
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Sumukti, Sumastuti

1997

Dewey

Cultural

The Javanese cosmic mountain: Gunungan/Kayon
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Douglas, Michele

1996

Pietrusewsky

Physical

Paleopathology in human skeletal remains from the pre-metal, bronze and iron ages, northern Thailand
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Moblo, Pennie

1996

Finney

Cultural

Defamation by disease: Leprosy, myth and ideology in nineteenth century Hawai'i

Stark, Kenneth

1996

Griffin

Ecology

Alternative rainforest economies of Maluku, Indonesia: A reply to the "wild yam hypothesis" from the archaeological record

Hinshiranan, Narumon

1996

Dewey

Cultural

The analysis of Moken opportunistic foragers' intragroup and intergroup relations

Kelsky, Karen

1996

Lebra, T.

Cultural

Self as other, other selves: Gender, identity and narratives of women's internationalism in Japan
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Kihleng, Kimberlee

1996

Linnekin

Cultrual

Women in exchange: negotiated relations, practice, and the constitution of female power in porcesses of cultural reproduction and change in Pohnpei, Micronesia
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Garland, Anne

1996

Graves

Archaeology

Material culture change after euroAmerican contact in Honolulu, Hawai`i, circa 1800-1850: A selectionist model for diet and tablewares
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Zvosec, Deborah

1996

Etkin

Medical

Perceptions and experiences of tuberculosis in rural eastern Nepal: A biobehavioral perspective
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Wickler, Stephen

1995

Graves

Archaeology

Twenty nine thousand years on Buka: Long-term cultural change in the northern Solomon Islands

Fjelstad, Karen

1995

Dewey

Cultural

Tu Phu Cong Dong: Vietnamese women and spirit possession in the San Francisco Bay area

Cook, Carolyn

1995

Dewey

Ecology

The Amung way: The subsistence strategies, the knowledge and the dilemma of the Tsinga Valley people in Irian Jaya, Indonesia

Pewnim, Maneewan

1995

Dewey

Cultural

Sanuk: A study of Thai "leisure" activities in transition

Yano, Christine

1995

Lebra, T.

Cultural

Shaping tears of a nation: An ethnography of emotion in Japanese popular song

Ishida, Dianne

1995

Dewey

Cultural

Learning preferences among ethnically diverse nursing students exposed to a variety of collaborative learning approaches including problem-based learning

Rohde, Richard

1995

Linnekin

Cultural

Identity, self, and disorder among Vietnam veterans: PTSD and the emergence of an electronic community

Hefner, Carl

1994

Dewey

Cultural

Ludruk folk theatre of east Java: Toward a theory of symbolic action

Rensel, Janet

1994

Finney

Cultural

For love or money? Interhousehold exchange and the economy of Rotuma

Cooper, Nancy

1994

Dewey

Cultural

The sirens of Java: Gender ideologies, mythologies and practice in central Java

Ladefoged, Thegn

1993

Graves

Archaeology

Evolutionary process in an oceanic chiefdom intergroup aggression and political integration in traditional Rotuman society

Brown, Vanessa

1993

Hanna

Medical

The association of concordance between physician and patient medical concepts and patient satisfaction, compliance and medical outcomes

Bethel, Diana

1993

Lebra, T.

Cultural

From abandonment to community: Life in a Japanese institution for the elderly

Roberson, James

1993

Lebra, T.

Cultural

The other Japanese worker: work and culture in a small Japanese company

Akin, David

1993

Bilmes

Cultural

Negotiating culture in east Kwaio, Malaita, Solomon Islands

Caballero, Evelyn

1992

Dewey

Cultural

Gold from the gods: traditional small-scale miners from Benguet Province, Philippines

Dunham (Soetoro), Ann

1992

Dewey

Cultural

Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds

Tam, Siumi

1992

Blake

Cultural

Work and idiology in China's special economic zone: An empirical study of structuration theory

Beggerly, Patricia

1990

Griffin

Ecology

Kahana valley, Hawai'i, a geomorphic artifact: A study of the interrelationships among geomorphic structures, natural processes, and ancient Hawaii technology, land use, and settlement patterns

Maskarinec, Gregory

1990

Bilmes

Cultural

The ruling of the night: an enthnographic exegesis of shamanic oral texts from western Nepal

Awang, Hashim Bin

1990

Lieban

Cultural

Family-based popular health culture in a Malay village in Kelantan, peninsular Malaysia

Stover, Mary

1990

Finney

Cultural

The individualization of land in America Samoa

Davis, Bertell

1990

Griffin

Ecology

Human settlement in pristine insular environments: A Hawaiian case study from Barbers Point, southwestern O'ahu

Faulstich, Paul

1990

Dewey

Ecology

Landscape perception and visual metaphor in Warlpiri world view

Chhetri, Ram

1990

Griffin

Cultural

Adaptation of Tibetan refugees in Pokhara, Nepal: A study on persistence and change