Drawing on four years of participant observation, interviews, and game recordings, this dissertation explores the collaborative experience of imagined worlds in tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. ...

The Rio Grande Valley has been in recent years the attention of media outlets, literature, and art. And while not all that is portrayed is accurate, the depictions of the Valley are created from stereotypes and its people ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to provide an initial examination into Mormon missionaries from an anthropological, and ethnographic, perspective. Through the use of autoethnography, I provide an emic understanding ...