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Liberal Education On The Great Plains American Experiments, Canadian Flirtations, 1930-1950, Kevin Brooks
Liberal Education On The Great Plains American Experiments, Canadian Flirtations, 1930-1950, Kevin Brooks
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1929 the University of Chicago plan for liberal or general education was first proposed by its young president, Robert Maynard Hutchins. Sociologist Daniel Bell, in his history of general education in America says, "The Chicago plan sought to draw together the disciplines in three fields-the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences-and Jo consider problems which, by their nature, could only be understood by applying concepts from different disciplines. "1 Hutchins' proposal became the most discussed plan for balancing university curriculum's that had become specialized and disjointed in the first thirty years of the century, although it …
Review Of The Ojibwa Of Western Canada, 1780-1870 By Laura Peers, Edward J. Hedican
Review Of The Ojibwa Of Western Canada, 1780-1870 By Laura Peers, Edward J. Hedican
Great Plains Quarterly
This innovative work is an ethno-historical study of the Ojibwa migration from the Great Lakes region to the Plains. Building on earlier studies by Harold Hickerson (The Chippewa and Their Neighbors) and Charles Bishop (The Northern Ojibwa and the Fur Trade), particularly in the use of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Peers reconstructs processes of historical change over a ninety year period. She is not content, however, simply to document the historical record, but instead takes on a much broader challenge, and herein lies the major value of her study.
The Ojibwa of western Canada are …
Popular Music In A Transnational World: The Construction Of Local Identities In Singapore, Lily Kong
Popular Music In A Transnational World: The Construction Of Local Identities In Singapore, Lily Kong
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
As an area of geographical inquiry, popular music has not been explored to any large extent. Where writings exist, they have been somewhat divorced from recent theoretical and methodological questions that have rejuvenated social and cultural geography. In this paper, I focus on one arena which geographers can develop in their analysis of popular music, namely, the exploration of local influences and global forces in the production of music. In so doing, I wish to explore how local resources intersect with global ones in a process of transculturation. Using the example of English songs by one particular songwriter and artiste …
The Construction Of National Identity Through The Production Of Ritual And Spectacle: An Analysis Of National Day Parades In Singapore, Lily Kong, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
The Construction Of National Identity Through The Production Of Ritual And Spectacle: An Analysis Of National Day Parades In Singapore, Lily Kong, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
In this paper, we adopt the view that 'nation' and 'national identity' are social constructions, created to serve ideological ends. We discuss this in the specific empirical context of Singapore's National Day parades. By drawing on officially produced souvenir programmes and magazines, newspaper reports, and interviews with participants and spectators, we analyse the parades between 1965 and 1994, showing how, as an annual ritual and landscape spectacle, the parades succeed to a large extent in creating a sense of awe, wonderment and admiration. Discussion focuses on four aspects of the celebrations: the site of the parades, their display and theatricality, …
Multidimentional Citizenship: Educational Policy For The Twenty-First Century, John J. Cogan, Patricia Kristine Kubow
Multidimentional Citizenship: Educational Policy For The Twenty-First Century, John J. Cogan, Patricia Kristine Kubow
International Service Learning & Community Engagement
As we approach the end of this turbulent century and prepare to meet the challenges of the next, the question of what constitutes education for citizenship in various nations appropriate to the demands and needs of a rapidly changing global community is critical in both national and international contexts. The planet and the human family are facing an unprecedented set of challenges, issues and problems including the globalization of the economy, a significant level of deterioration in the quality of the global environment, rapidly changing technologies and the uses of same, and ethical and social issues. How does one respond …
From The Cuban Ajiaco To The Cuban-American Hyphen : Changing Discourses Of National Identity On The Island And In The Diaspora, Jorge Duany
Cuban Studies Association Occasional Papers
No abstract provided.
Sino-North American International Joint Ventures And Performance A Case Of Different Expectations, Julius H. Johnson Jr., Shuming Zhao
Sino-North American International Joint Ventures And Performance A Case Of Different Expectations, Julius H. Johnson Jr., Shuming Zhao
UMSL Global
This study examines North American firms that have international joint venture (IJV) relationships in China and Chinese firms who have IJV relationships in North America. Data was gathered from the North American partner (n=50) and from the Chinese partner (n=57) to test several hypotheses regarding the reliability and comparability of various general satisfaction measures and specific indicators of IJV performance. The findings of this comparative study provide confirmatory evidence for the importance of several indicators of UV performance for the partners of IJV s from a developed and developing country perspective and the criteria that SinoNorth American managers use to …
Merengue: Dominican Music And Identity, Paul Austerlitz
Merengue: Dominican Music And Identity, Paul Austerlitz
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
Merengue—the quintessential Dominican dance music—has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz unravels the African and Iberian roots of merengue and traces its growth under dictator Rafael Trujillo and its renewed popularity as an international music.
Using extensive interviews as well as written commentaries, Austerlitz examines the historical and contemporary contexts in which merengue is performed and danced, its symbolic significance, its social functions, and its musical and choreographic structures. He tells the tale of merengue's political functions, and of its class …
The Struggle For Knowledge: The Case Of Emergent Oromo Studies, Asafa Jalata
The Struggle For Knowledge: The Case Of Emergent Oromo Studies, Asafa Jalata
Asafa Jalata
Taking the Oromo as historical actors, the emergent Oromo studies identify some deficiencies of "Ethiopian studies" that primarily focus on the Amhara and Tigray ethnic groups and their rulers, and ignore the history of the Oromo people. Many Ethiopian and Ethiopianist scholars do not recognize the positive cultural achievements of this people.' With their colonization and incorporation into Ethiopia, the Oromo could not develop independent institutions that would allow them to produce and disseminate their historical knowledge freely. Currently, they are fighting for national self-determination: to regain their political freedom and rebuild independent institutions.
The Struggle For Knowledge: The Case Of Emergent Oromo Studies, Asafa Jalata
The Struggle For Knowledge: The Case Of Emergent Oromo Studies, Asafa Jalata
Sociology Publications and Other Works
Taking the Oromo as historical actors, the emergent Oromo studies identify some deficiencies of "Ethiopian studies" that primarily focus on the Amhara and Tigray ethnic groups and their rulers, and ignore the history of the Oromo people. Many Ethiopian and Ethiopianist scholars do not recognize the positive cultural achievements of this people.' With their colonization and incorporation into Ethiopia, the Oromo could not develop independent institutions that would allow them to produce and disseminate their historical knowledge freely. Currently, they are fighting for national self-determination: to regain their political freedom and rebuild independent institutions.
Cattle, Co-Wives, Children, And Calabashes: Material Context For Symbol Use Among The Il Chamus Of West-Central Kenya, Alan J. Osborn
Cattle, Co-Wives, Children, And Calabashes: Material Context For Symbol Use Among The Il Chamus Of West-Central Kenya, Alan J. Osborn
Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications
This paper examines systemic contexts for symbol use among the Maa-speaking Il Chamus in the Lake Baringo region of west-central Kenya. The systemic context for symbols and material culture consists of the environmental constraints and behavioral responses that characterize pastoralist life in East Africa. The author's interest in this problem developed in response to Ian Hodder’s work among the Il Chamus, Pokot, and Tugen in the Baringo District. Unlike Hodder, however, the author argues that symbols and their use in East Africa can be more productively explained from a materialist perspective. Specifically, it is proposed that symbols affixed to certain …
International Networking: Education, Training And Change, Nerida F. Ellerton (Ed.)
International Networking: Education, Training And Change, Nerida F. Ellerton (Ed.)
Research outputs pre 2011
The decision to inaugurate the International Networking Conference to focus on education, training and change was a direct result of the Higher Education/UNESCO Conference which was held in Cyprus in 1992. I was given the opportunity of delivering a paper on some of the problems associated with managing an internationally respected performing arts institution in the most remote capital city in the world-Perth, Western Australia.
Upon my return to Perth I broached the notion of conducting an international conference in Western Australia which would highlight issues and problems relative to higher education programs in Australia, Asia and the Indian Ocean …
Popular Music And A Sense Of Place In Singapore, Lily Kong
Popular Music And A Sense Of Place In Singapore, Lily Kong
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
This paper illustrates how popular music written, produced, and performed by Singaporeans provides a means through which the culture and society of Singapore may be understood. Music with English language text conveys a sense of place and reflects a distinctively Singaporean spirit and identity. The paper examines four themes: the portrayal of Singapore's multiracial population which reflects a unique cultural synthesis; the Singaporeans' concept of urbanity, manifested as the simultaneous attraction and repulsion towards the city and the desire for nature and the rustic; the distinctive social engineering in Singapore; and the way in which global issues are imported into …
Making "Music At The Margins"? A Social And Cultural Analysis Of Xinyao In Singapore, Lily Kong
Making "Music At The Margins"? A Social And Cultural Analysis Of Xinyao In Singapore, Lily Kong
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Formalist critics and aestheticians have argued that music does not possess any kind of "extra-musical" significance, that there is no meaning beyond the form and structural relations of the notes. For them, music exemplifies the laws of mathematical harmony and proportion rather than the social and political contexts within which it is produced, reproduced and consumed. This view has been challenged by a number of social theorists: Max Weber, Theodor Adorno and Edward Said have all argued for an understanding of music within its social, cultural, economic and political contexts. Such analysis of popular music is now unquestioned. Indeed, it …
Review Of Redefining The American Dream: The Novels Of Willa Cather By Sally Peltier Harvey, Evelyn I. Funda
Review Of Redefining The American Dream: The Novels Of Willa Cather By Sally Peltier Harvey, Evelyn I. Funda
Great Plains Quarterly
Harvey's book will be of interest not only to Cather scholars, but to an audience more widely concerned with literature as an expression of culture. By citing some of Cather's contemporaries (Andrew Carnegie's exegesis of the "Gospel of Wealth" and William James's identification of success as the country's "bitch-goddess," for instance) as well as her literary peers (Howells, Dreiser, Fitzgerald, and Steinbeck among them), then complementing this with more recent cultural studies of the early twentieth century (such as Jackson Lears's examination of intellectual transformation and Warren Sussman's study of the changing perceptions of the individual), Harvey gives us a …
Reporting Asia Series: Satellite Television And State Power In Southeast Asia: New Issues In Discourse And Control, William Atkins
Reporting Asia Series: Satellite Television And State Power In Southeast Asia: New Issues In Discourse And Control, William Atkins
Research outputs pre 2011
In May 1992 soldiers from the Thai army turned their guns on middle class and student demonstrators who were on the streets of Bangkok pressing for the resignation of the military-backed prime minister - General Suchinda Kraprayoon. A BBC camera crew was there. Among the burning cars and barricades, the crew filmed an anonymous young Thai man. The close-up image of his face filled the camera operator's viewfinder. He shouted in clear English: "We want the rest of the world to see and hear what the military dictators do to our people, the Thai people, the innocent people. We want …
Music And Cultural Politics: Ideology And Resistance In Singapore, Lily Kong
Music And Cultural Politics: Ideology And Resistance In Singapore, Lily Kong
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
This paper focuses on popular music written and produced by Singaporeans to illustrate the nature of social relationships based on ideological hegemony and resistance. Analysis is based on two groups of music: 'national' songs supported by the government in the 'Sing Singapore' programme; and songs brought together in Not the Singapore song book. Interviews with local lyricists and analysis of video productions provide supplementary information. Music is used by the ruling elite to perpetuate certain ideologies aimed at political socialization and to inculcate a civil religion that directs favour and fervour towards the nation. Music is also a form of …
Spring Newsletter 1994, University Of Missouri-St. Louis
Spring Newsletter 1994, University Of Missouri-St. Louis
UMSL Global
No abstract provided.
Factors Affecting Unconditional Acceptance Of The Institution Of The Church In Poland, Halina Grzymala-Moszczynska
Factors Affecting Unconditional Acceptance Of The Institution Of The Church In Poland, Halina Grzymala-Moszczynska
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
No abstract provided.
One Hundred Years Of Servitude : The Colombian Labor Movement 1848-1948, Curtis Curry
One Hundred Years Of Servitude : The Colombian Labor Movement 1848-1948, Curtis Curry
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The current study seeks not only to place into focus the general patterns of social and economic organization prevalent in Colombia in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth (such political and economic organization has been ably illustrated by several authors), but also strives to elucidate the systems of thought or 'ideologies' to which such socio-economic and political structures gave rise. It is concerned with the thought-systems that influenced the development of the Colombian labor movement, those of actors external to organized labor and indigenous systems of thought of labor activists themselves.
The hypothesis is that class and party-based …
Having Babies Or Not: Household Composition And Fertility In Rural Iowa And Nebraska, 1900,1910, Deborah Fink, Alicia Carriquiry
Having Babies Or Not: Household Composition And Fertility In Rural Iowa And Nebraska, 1900,1910, Deborah Fink, Alicia Carriquiry
Great Plains Quarterly
How did life change for people from the eastern prairie or forest regions when they crossed the Missouri River to settle in the Plains of Nebraska? The land presented its own social, economic, and environmental problems for the settlers. While some historians have emphasized the resourcefulness with which settlers adapted to maintain the life ways of the rural regions to the east, others have pointed to the cultural and social shifts effected by the plains environment. Considerable social divergence occurred within the plains population, even within the dominant northern European American ethnicity. This study addresses the lives of rural women …
Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt
Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt
Great Plains Quarterly
This rich collection of essays is intellectually substantial, culturally significant, and much overdue. One of the least appreciated phenomena of American culture is its remarkable history of self-fashioning. The American continent was settled by European immigrants for a variety of reasons over some four centuries, and each wave of settlers contributed to the burgeoning mythology of the New World its own set of self-fulfilling prophecies. "America" was--and to a significant extent still is--a largely European construct, a cultural matrix whose outlines emerged and evolved often re-actively as individuals and groups found their expectations challenged by the stark realities of the …
Great Plains Research: Editorial Matter, Volume 1, Number 2
Great Plains Research: Editorial Matter, Volume 1, Number 2
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Includes:
Cover
Publisher Information (The Center for Great Plains Studies)
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
News and Notes
Annual Index
Calls for Papers (2)
Advertisements (2)
Instructions to Authors
Cross-Cultural Values, Social Work Students And Personality, Uma A. Segal
Cross-Cultural Values, Social Work Students And Personality, Uma A. Segal
UMSL Global
No abstract provided.
The Heart Of The Prairie: Culture Areas In The Central And Northern Great Plains, James R. Shortridge
The Heart Of The Prairie: Culture Areas In The Central And Northern Great Plains, James R. Shortridge
Great Plains Quarterly
Although the words Great Plains imply a physical region, they have been increasingly used to describe a distinctive set of cultural traits and values. The tone was set in 1931 when Walter Prescott Webb argued that attitudes and land uses brought to the Plains from humid lands would fail. Aridity, he said, was the central fact of existence in this place; it demanded a new approach to life. 1
Reservation Policy And The Economic Position Of Wichita Women, Carolyn Garrett Pool
Reservation Policy And The Economic Position Of Wichita Women, Carolyn Garrett Pool
Great Plains Quarterly
Early anthropological studies addressed the economic position of women as one component of women's "status"-a construct used to examine a variety of gender-based social distinctions. These distinctions were conceptualized as the opposing domains of "domestic" and "public." The association of women with the domestic domain was viewed as the critical factor in understanding asymmetrical relations of power and authority. Since status has generally been defined in terms of participation in the public, economic, and political sectors dominated by men, anthropologists have proposed alternatives to the strict association of power with public roles. They used the term "influence" to mean the …
Fall Newsletter 1987, University Of Missouri-St. Louis
Fall Newsletter 1987, University Of Missouri-St. Louis
UMSL Global
No abstract provided.
Spring Newsletter 1986, University Of Missouri-St. Louis
Spring Newsletter 1986, University Of Missouri-St. Louis
UMSL Global
No abstract provided.
Fall Newsletter 1986, University Of Missouri-St. Louis
Fall Newsletter 1986, University Of Missouri-St. Louis
UMSL Global
No abstract provided.
Pictures And Prose Romantic Sensibility And The Great Plains In Catlin, Kane, And Miller, Ann Davis, Robert Thacker
Pictures And Prose Romantic Sensibility And The Great Plains In Catlin, Kane, And Miller, Ann Davis, Robert Thacker
Great Plains Quarterly
The romantic movement in America, like that in Europe, was characterized by fondness for the exotic and observation of nature. So the Great Plains and the peoples who lived there were favored topics of artists and writers from the mid-1820s through the 1850s. However, at its height the American romantic movement was challenged by a subtle but persistent search for realism. The distinctions between romanticism and realism in belles lettres were not always recognized, since early visual depictions of the plains were seen primarily as ethnographic material, records of an unknown land and the exotic beings who lived there. The …