Journal of Undergraduate Research

Brandon Bales and Dr. Janis Nuckolls, Linguistics Department and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Anthropology Department Abstract Displaced people present a problem for ethnographic research in that they generally lack stable socio-cultural contexts on which researchers rely for making empirical observations. This study shows how people produce memory-texts as a way of recontextualizing themselves in new or […]

Jesse S. Morgan and Dr. John P. Hawkins, Anthropology, I was awarded an ORCA grant in order to carry out ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic (DR.). ORCA’s support made it possible for me to spend four months in Santiago, the second largest city, during winter semester. I had originally intended that my fieldwork would […]

Rachelle Holloway and Dr. David Crandall The results of receiving this grant was research conducted in Victoria, Australia concerning the marriage systems of Australian Aboriginals. The research was originally intended to be conducted in areas predominantly populated by less Westernized Aboriginals, but there were problems in obtaining this ideal. Firstly, anthropologists in general are somewhat […]

Eric W. Linton Introduction In the summer of 2009 indigenous groups in the Peruvian Amazon headed a major grassroots movement against the national government in an effort to protect their lands and lifestyles. The protests brought due international attention to issues of human rights and land ownership that had previously been a local matter. Several […]

Lauren Hagee Methods All of the research conducted took place at different secondary schools in the Mukono District of Uganda. All of the secondary schools in this district were stratified based on the following criteria: 1) urban or rural, 2) government or private, and 3) large or small. Then, one school was randomly selected from […]

Aaron Fergusson and Dr. Joel C. Janetski, Anthropology During BYU’s 1995 field school many artifacts were brought back to BYU for analysis, including the important data set of toolstone artifacts and debris. At Fish Lake the sites excavated date from the Archaic (F7 area), Fremont (Mickeys Place), and Late Prehistoric (F14 area) time periods, each […]

Steven Shem Rode and Dr. John P. Hawkins, Anthropology Ethnomedical literature rarely addresses the problem of how illness is recognized and understood among Nahualenos in southwest Guatemala. In that area of the world, mother/infant mortality rates remain high, and local perceptions of illness continue to bewilder western biomedical caregivers. This study investigates data collected from […]

James T. Anderson and Dr. Joel C. Janetskik, Anthropology Mortality profiles (ages at death) constructed from the faunal analysis of archaeological sites offer unique insights into specific cultural predatory patterns and lifeways of the sites former inhabitants. The products of prey age selection or mortality profiles allow archaeologists to understand strategies of hunting, land use, […]

Brett Peterson and Dr. John Hawkins, Anthropology In South Africa, despite positive changes in school structure and potential educational attainment, revolutionary changes to South African society interact with the current state of South African education to produce a negative educational effect. The following information is based upon a three month field-study experience in South Africa. […]