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Los "Popol Wuj" Y Sus Epistemologías: Las Diferencias, El Conocimiento Y Los Ciclos Del Infinito, Carlos M. López Jan 1999

Los "Popol Wuj" Y Sus Epistemologías: Las Diferencias, El Conocimiento Y Los Ciclos Del Infinito, Carlos M. López

Modern Languages Faculty Research

In this book the author studies one of the documents contained in the Ayer MS 1515, commonly known as the Popol Wuj (or Vuh). This text constitutes a fragmentary but not necessarily coherent corpus of writings, however, it still is a very important piece of the cultural and epistemological discourse of some of the pre-colonial Mesoamerican civilizations. Another important characteristic of this text is the superposition of multiple re-phonetizations and translations to which the text has been subjected. This transforms it into a text written under conditions of coloniality that encompasses several layers of meanings intersected by Western concepts. …

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0675: Margaret Reasor Scrapbook, 1937-1951, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1999

0675: Margaret Reasor Scrapbook, 1937-1951, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of a scrapbook of clippings and programs for music, theatre, religious, current events, and social groups in Charleston, West Virginia collected by Margaret Reasor. Also included are obituaries of family members.

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0681: Virginia Talbott Quay Papers, 1918-1984, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1999

0681: Virginia Talbott Quay Papers, 1918-1984, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of several formats and topics of materials related to the activities of Virginia Talbott Quay, including a scrapbook of newspaper clippings dating between 1930 and 1950 about social and cultural events as well as the activities of lineage societies, including the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Other materials relate to her work with several lineage societies, including the U.S. Daughters of 1812 and Daughters of American Colonists. Also included in the collection are World War II materials such as a paper soldier cap, a pledge to sell bonds, and newspaper clippings. Other portions of the collection include …

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0682: Daughters Of The American Revolution John Young Chapter, 1748-1989, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1999

0682: Daughters Of The American Revolution John Young Chapter, 1748-1989, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of transcriptions and photocopies of family records from bibles of the Blake, Bondurant, Brown, Chambers, Conaway, James, Jarrett, Kerney-Morris, Matthews, Morris, Mullens and Scott families, primarily based in Virginia and West Virginia. The volume includes an index to the records.

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0683: Reba Ann Light Goodno Scrapbook, 1898-1993, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1999

0683: Reba Ann Light Goodno Scrapbook, 1898-1993, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of a scrapbook containing photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera related to the Azalea Garden Club of Huntington and Goodno’s travels as a nationally-recognized flower show judge. Also included in the scrapbook are clippings and snapshots of husband John Alden Goodno, as well as other family photographs. The cover of the scrapbook states, “Reba Garden Awards * Activities, Narcissus Show, Blue Ribbons: JAG – Reba family 1937, Paul/Lucille 1988 club, Wedding invites 1929, Herald dance picture at Barry Seaview Party, Reba family reunion, 1934”. Some of the photographs in the scrapbook are labelled.

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0684: Virginia Brown Laidley Manuscript, 1937, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1999

0684: Virginia Brown Laidley Manuscript, 1937, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection contains an original typewritten manuscript of “Scales,” by Virginia Brown Laidley, covering a history of the Scales, Laidley, and Brown families of Cabell and Kanawha Counties, Virginia, later West Virginia.

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Oral History Interview: Jeff E. Thomas, Jeff E. Thomas Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Jeff E. Thomas, Jeff E. Thomas

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Jeff E. Thomas discusses: his personal history; his family (some of whom worked in coal mines, which he discusses in great detail); his education (including at West Virginia Tech); segregation; church and religion; labor unions and strikes; his childhood and childhood activities; vacations (including camping trips); his dad forming a non-union mining coal company; wanting to be a funeral director and his job in the B.C. Hooper Funeral Home and other funeral homes; his Appalachian identity as well as Appalachian culture and Appalachian stereotypes; and other topics.

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Oral History Interview: Beatrice M. Adkins, Beatrice M. Adkins Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Beatrice M. Adkins, Beatrice M. Adkins

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Beatrice Adkins was a lifelong resident of Kanawha County (WV). She spent most of her childhood living in a coal town (Big Chimney), where her father and brother worked as loggers for the company. When her father died, she left school at age 14 and joined the older of the 12 children in the family to work. She was the only member of the family to attend school. Most of her work experience is with two meat packing companies, P.E. Holtz and Armor, neither of which remained …

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Oral History Interview: Jean Dolan Vaeley, Jean Dolan Vaeley Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Jean Dolan Vaeley, Jean Dolan Vaeley

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. In her life, Jean Dolan Vaeley has been a secretary and a bank president, the Administrative Aide to the State Highway Commissioner, and president of Ashland Coal. She discusses: her personal history; very detailed information about her family; farming and farm life; neighbors; renting a house from a black family; the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company; buying a house; a short discussion of the Jackson County Junior Fair; her education and her views on education; dairy farming; her employment history (including at Charleston National Bank, the Kaiser Aluminum Plant, …

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Oral History Interview: Numa Dale Milles, Numa Dale Milles Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Numa Dale Milles, Numa Dale Milles

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. The name of the interviewer is not given, but might be John Mills. This interview was conducted on December 30, 1999 with Numa Dale Mills in his home in Hinton, West Virginia. Mr. Mills, age 79, is a lifelong resident of WV with some brief periods spent in other states while coal mining work was done. Mr. Mills speaks of some life adventures, trials in the mines, and the ethnography of the coal fields.

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Oral History Interview: C. Keith Coffman, C. Keith Coffman Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: C. Keith Coffman, C. Keith Coffman

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. In this interview, C. Keith Coffman describes numerous anecdotes about his family, his experiences growing up on a farm, and his service in World War II and the Air Force.

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Oral History Interview: Brad Witt, Brad Witt Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Brad Witt, Brad Witt

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This is the story of a forty-three year old gay white male living in Charleston, West Virginia. Main topics discussed deal with experimental sex with other males beginning in early adolescence. A description of the disco era of the seventies in southern West Virginia, his experiences living in other cities such as Cleveland and Boston. The narration follows the chronology of his life from elementary school through present. Transcripts are available in the Special Collections Department of the James E. Morrow Library.

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Oral History Interview: Louise Anderson, Louise Anderson Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Louise Anderson, Louise Anderson

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Mrs. Louise Anderson taught at Washington High School, Cedar Grove High School, and East Bank. One of the main topics of this interview is her family, which she discusses in detail throughout the interview; this includes her immediate family, grandparents and relatives, her children, and her husband (his death is discussed as well). Another topic is her education, both grade school and college, and teachers she admired. Some of the schools she attended were Washington High School (an African-American school …

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Oral History Interview: E. Jane Dillard, E. Jane Dillard Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: E. Jane Dillard, E. Jane Dillard

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. E. Jane Dillard gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview. She discusses her relatives, children and grandchildren, but two family members are the main focus of discussion: her father and her husband. Her father was a coal miner and lived with a white family for a while; she tells us about her relationship with him, as well as his failing health and his death. Her husband is the other main family member discussed, and she tells us …

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Oral History Interview: Ottrus Chatman, Ottrus Chatman Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Ottrus Chatman, Ottrus Chatman

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Mrs. Ottrus Chatman began teaching as a substitute teacher at Simmons High School at Montgomery, WV. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including her marriages and husbands and one husband's death, her relationship with her mother, the Burke-Wheeler Family Reunion (Burke was her maiden name and the reunion took place in Washington, D.C.), and information about her relationship with one of her husbands (including their history and how they met). She tells us about childhood …

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Oral History Interview: Eunice Burrell Fleming, Eunice Burrell Fleming Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Eunice Burrell Fleming, Eunice Burrell Fleming

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Eunice Burrell Fleming graduated high school at age 15 and began teaching when she was 19 at Du Bois High School in Mount Hope (WV). She discusses her family throughout the interview, including her relatives, her husband and her marriage, her children, and the mixed ethnicity of her family. Her childhood is another topic; she tells of family life during that time as well as life and race relations in Mount Hope, childhood social events, Christmas, and a fire that …

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Oral History Interview: Willie Hise, Willie Hise Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Willie Hise, Willie Hise

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Willie Hise began teaching in Aracoma High School in West Virginia during the 1940s. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including her father (who was a miner and a deacon of a Baptist church), her children (including a son who participated in ROTC), family life during childhood, as well as her husband and her marriage. She also tells us about activities (social and personal) during her childhood. Her education is also discussed in detail, and …

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Oral History Interview: B'Alma Epps Jones, B'Alma Epps Jones Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: B'Alma Epps Jones, B'Alma Epps Jones

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. B'Alma Epps Jones began teaching in Washington High School in London, West Virginia in the 1930s. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview (including her father who had many jobs, such as a candy -maker), Christmas in her family, her husband and her married life, social activities she and her husband participated in, the deaths of her mother and husband, and a white relative in her family. She also tells us detailed information about her education, …

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Oral History Interview: Anna Mccright, Anna Mccright Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Anna Mccright, Anna Mccright

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Anna McCright began teaching in 1942 at a one-room school and later become principal of a school in Monongah, West Virginia. She gives us detailed information about her family and her childhood throughout the interview, including information on her sister Catherine's children, discrimination she faced as a child at integrated schools, an anecdote about another student who gave her trouble at a segregated school, and a brief section on Christmas during her childhood. She also tells us detailed information about …

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Oral History Interview: Doris J. Payne, Doris J. Payne Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Doris J. Payne, Doris J. Payne

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Doris J. Payne started teaching at Cannelton Elementary School in the 1950s. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including members of her family who were slaves, white and Native American relatives, education in her family, her brother serving in the Navy, family life, as well as the death of her mother. She also discusses her childhood. Education is another large topic, and she tells us about a one-room school she attended (Cannelton Elementary School) and …

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Oral History Interview: Nancie Smith Robinson, Nancie Smith Robinson Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Nancie Smith Robinson, Nancie Smith Robinson

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson taught at a number of public schools, including one in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. She gives us very detailed information about her family, including their jobs and education, family reunions, white relatives, Christmas, parenting, her children participating in the Civil Rights Movement, and her family life. Her education is discussed in detailed as well; she attended Douglass High School and Bluefield State College, and recalls her teachers and her social life. Her teaching career is an important …

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Oral History Interview: Fannie Ashe Thomas, Fannie Ashe Thomas Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Fannie Ashe Thomas, Fannie Ashe Thomas

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas was born in Mount Hope, West Virginia. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including her father, who was a coal miner and who bought a bus to transport kids to school, her son Gavin, her marriages, family life, the home her father built, the ways her family influenced her, and her brother Tom's death. She also provides detailed information about her childhood and her education, recalling: social events; race relations during …

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The Fight Master, Fall/Winter 1999, Vol. 22 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors Jan 1999

The Fight Master, Fall/Winter 1999, Vol. 22 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.

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General Undergraduate Catalog, 1999-2001, Marshall University Jan 1999

General Undergraduate Catalog, 1999-2001, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 1990-1999

Marshall University General Undergraduate Catalog for the 1999-2001 academic years.

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Oral History Interview: Mary Ellen Scrivner, Mary Ellen Scrivner Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Mary Ellen Scrivner, Mary Ellen Scrivner

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Mary Ellen Scrivner discusses: her personal history and childhood; detailed information about her family; her education; childhood punishments; farm life and farming; clothes and shoes; church; a brief mention of an alcohol still; some memories of Huntington (WV); World War II and the GI Bill; medicine; the Huntington flood of 1937; memories of playing board games; stories about her family and about relationship courting (and an eloping); as well as other topics.

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Oral History Interview: Thelma White Mcdaniel, Thelma White Mcdaniel Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Thelma White Mcdaniel, Thelma White Mcdaniel

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Thelma White McDaniel began teaching in Chesapeake (Ohio) at a one-room school. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including family members who were slaves, her family's employment history, her family's view on the importance of education, Christmas during her childhood, her husband and her marriage, the house she grew up in, her daughter, her relationships with family members, as well as information about her mother and siblings. There is also a section on tobacco farming. …

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Oral History Interview: Patricia S. Rose, Patricia S. Rose Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Patricia S. Rose, Patricia S. Rose

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Patricia Rose was a retired physical education teacher, born in 1938. She grew up in coal mine camps in Wharton, W. Va. in Boone County during the 1940s and 1950s. Her father was a non- union mine foreman. There were 10 children in her family, and she gives a lot of information about everyday life in the camps, and also goes back to discuss life in her grandparents' time and their hardships. Schools of the time are described in detailed, and a lot of emphasis is put …

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Oral History Interview: Mrs. Ethel Porter And Mrs. Joan Porter-Green, Joan Porter-Green Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Mrs. Ethel Porter And Mrs. Joan Porter-Green, Joan Porter-Green

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Joan Porter-Green and Ethel Green discuss their childhood in Charleston, WV, including their experiences in education (primary, secondary, and college) and their experiences in dealing with racism.

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Commencement, 1999, Marshall University Jan 1999

Commencement, 1999, Marshall University

Marshall University Commencement

Program for the One Hundred Sixty-Second Commencement of Marshall University.

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0685: United Daughters Of The Confederacy. W. Va. Division Records, 1898-2004, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1999

0685: United Daughters Of The Confederacy. W. Va. Division Records, 1898-2004, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Includes minutes, rosters of Confederate veterans, programs of meetings and proceedings of state conferences of women’s organization established to promote historical, benevolent, educational, patriotic and memorial objectives and honor the men and women of the confederacy.

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