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Representing Rebels: The Semiotics Of Neo-Confederate Heritage In Transnational Digital Spaces, Maximilian Conrad
Representing Rebels: The Semiotics Of Neo-Confederate Heritage In Transnational Digital Spaces, Maximilian Conrad
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
This study examines the discursive profiles of two websites — the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Fraternity of American Descendants — in order to understand the transnational dimensions of neo-Confederate digital spaces. The Fraternity of American Descendants is a nonprofit organization that since 1954 has been based in the town of Santa Bárbara d’Oeste in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The organization works to maintain the historic patrimony of immigration associated with Confederados, American Southerners who fled the United States after the defeat of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. In the United States, the Sons of …
Casting Your Own Spell: The Role Of Individualism In Wiccan Beliefs, Matt Mcdermott
Casting Your Own Spell: The Role Of Individualism In Wiccan Beliefs, Matt Mcdermott
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
What is the role of individualism within the neopagan religious movement of Wicca? To answer this question, this research study was carried out in western North Carolina using participant observation and interviews with ten practitioners in 2021. This paper argues that Wiccan adherents cultivate an individualist agency that manifests through an openness to beliefs and practices. One of Wicca’s key characteristics is a lack of commitment to dogma. This allows Wiccans to bring aspects of their own identities and personalities into their practices. This individualist agency is shaped by solitary and collectivist forms of Wicca, which place value on liberating, …
Introduction, Kiley E. Molinari
Introduction, Kiley E. Molinari
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
The Competing Narratives Of Tellico: The Tva, Multivocality, And Contested Place-Making In The Little Tennessee River Valley, Cheyenne Bennett
The Competing Narratives Of Tellico: The Tva, Multivocality, And Contested Place-Making In The Little Tennessee River Valley, Cheyenne Bennett
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
In 1979, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) closed the gates on the Tellico Dam and transformed the last thirty-three free flowing miles of the Little Tennessee River into the Tellico Reservoir. The dam led to the physical, spiritual, and affective displacement of various groups of people who all shared a collective attachment to the land and the river. These individuals witnessed the landscape transform from an agrarian space to an area that is now populated and managed by middle-class and upper-middle-class lakefront communities. This paper attempts to understand the post-Tellico Dam landscape by examining how the different groups of displaced …
Front Matter, Journal Editors
Front Matter, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Includes Table of Contents, About the Contributors
About The Contributors, Journal Editors
About The Contributors, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Traditional Knowledge And Health: Lessons From The Eastern Band Of Cherokee Indians, Lisa J. Lefler
Traditional Knowledge And Health: Lessons From The Eastern Band Of Cherokee Indians, Lisa J. Lefler
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Reclaiming The Narrative: Creating And Sustaining Culturally Appropriate University Programs For American Indian Students, Trey Adcock
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Using Kirkness and Barnhardt’s (2001) Four R’s approach, the paper will demonstrate both successes and challenges in the development and implementation of sustainable programs for recruitment and retention of American Indian students at a Primarily White Institution of higher education. Historically, the University of North Carolina Asheville (UNC Asheville website, n.d.) has had very few continuous and concerted efforts to recruit, retain, and build relationships with the surrounding American Indian community. This can be seen most clearly in the current institutional data, which shows that the American Indian student population makes up only 0.005 percent of the total student community. …
Cherokee Concepts About Health And Healing, James Sarbaugh
Cherokee Concepts About Health And Healing, James Sarbaugh
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Health and well-being are maintained in traditional Cherokee communities by carefully balancing the social, and sacred, relationships between all spiritually significant beings, human or otherwise. An imbalance in these relationships results in ill health that affects the entire community. Balance is maintained or restored through ritual practice in which both women and men may play critical roles as trained specialists who rely on medicines, physical therapies, and ritual language and non-verbal means to communicate sacred knowledge. Practitioners must also constantly monitor, evaluate, and make use of new knowledge gained from the surrounding environment, employing methods that are intrinsically conservative, yet …
Negotiating Intersubjectivity As Methodology: Ethnographic Fieldwork And The Co-Production Of Knowledge, Brandon D. Lundy, Mark Patterson, Alex O'Neill
Negotiating Intersubjectivity As Methodology: Ethnographic Fieldwork And The Co-Production Of Knowledge, Brandon D. Lundy, Mark Patterson, Alex O'Neill
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
How is ethnographic knowledge fashioned and impressions managed during power-laden, discursive interview events? This chapter examines ethnographic encounters with foreign investors, development workers, and government officials in Guinea-Bissau as a way to explore intersubjectivity as a site of meaning making. These encounters take place in negotiated spaces where the dynamics of the encounter are fluid and contextually sensitive. Through an analysis of the co- production of knowledge, social researchers can begin to examine intersubjectivity within the ethnographic interview as both a shared resource and a potential liability for ethnographic interlocutors. This chapter highlights some of the methodological implications of negotiating …
Tradition: Intermittent And Persistent, With Particular References To The Cherokees, Raymond D. Fogelson
Tradition: Intermittent And Persistent, With Particular References To The Cherokees, Raymond D. Fogelson
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Recreating Trickster: Negotiating Cultural Continuity Through Discourse, Hartwell S. Francis
Recreating Trickster: Negotiating Cultural Continuity Through Discourse, Hartwell S. Francis
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors
Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Introduction, Lisa J. Lefler
Introduction, Lisa J. Lefler
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
About The Contributors, Journal Editors
About The Contributors, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Becoming An Ally: How Communities Can Empower And Embrace Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Hillary Adams, Eugenia Damron
Becoming An Ally: How Communities Can Empower And Embrace Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Hillary Adams, Eugenia Damron
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Global Health At The Local Level: Innovative Approaches For Preventing Hiv/Aids Among Adolescent Girls In Botswana With Evidence From An Evaluation Study On Perceptions Of Cross Generational Sex And Edutainment Strategies, Rebecca L. Upton
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Flipping The Microscope: Peer Education, Race, And Fieldwork In A South African Travel Course, Scott London, Kristen Klaaren
Flipping The Microscope: Peer Education, Race, And Fieldwork In A South African Travel Course, Scott London, Kristen Klaaren
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Doing Ethnography To Connect, Exchange, And Impact, Brian A. Hoey
Doing Ethnography To Connect, Exchange, And Impact, Brian A. Hoey
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Connecting, Exchanging, And Having Impact, Brian A. Hoey, Hannah G. Smith
Connecting, Exchanging, And Having Impact, Brian A. Hoey, Hannah G. Smith
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Celebrating The Local, Melinda Bollar Wagner
Celebrating The Local, Melinda Bollar Wagner
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors
Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
The Influences Of Vodou On Medical Pluralism And Treatment-Seeking Behavior Among Haitian Immigrants In The United States: Suggestions For Cultural Competency Programs, Sarah Hoover
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
About The Contributors, Journal Editors
About The Contributors, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Water And Cherokee Healing, Lisa J. Lefler
Water And Cherokee Healing, Lisa J. Lefler
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Idioms Of Distress Among White Women Patients At The Southwestern Lunatic Asylum, Marion, Virginia, 1887-1891, Anthony P. Cavender
Idioms Of Distress Among White Women Patients At The Southwestern Lunatic Asylum, Marion, Virginia, 1887-1891, Anthony P. Cavender
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Is There A Prescription Drug "Epidemic" In Appalachian Kentucky?: Media Representations And Implications For Women Who Misuse Prescription Drugs, Lesly-Marie Bauer
Is There A Prescription Drug "Epidemic" In Appalachian Kentucky?: Media Representations And Implications For Women Who Misuse Prescription Drugs, Lesly-Marie Bauer
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
The Cultural Context Of Depression In Appalachia: Evangelical Christianity And The Experience Of Emotional Distress And Healing, Susan E. Keefe, Lisa Curtin
The Cultural Context Of Depression In Appalachia: Evangelical Christianity And The Experience Of Emotional Distress And Healing, Susan E. Keefe, Lisa Curtin
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Creating Healthy Community In The Postindustrial City, Brian A. Hoey
Creating Healthy Community In The Postindustrial City, Brian A. Hoey
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
"The Revolution Will Be Community Grown": Food Justice In The Urban Agriculture Movement Of Detroit, James C. Tolleson
"The Revolution Will Be Community Grown": Food Justice In The Urban Agriculture Movement Of Detroit, James C. Tolleson
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.