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Wearing A Dead Man's Jacket: State Symbols In Troubled Places, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Wearing A Dead Man's Jacket: State Symbols In Troubled Places, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
A village rumor concerning the attempted theft of a uniform from the corpse of a Sri Lankan army soldier supplies the subject matter for this paper. In May 1993, soon after the assassination of President Ranasinghe Premadasa, a spectacular local funeral for a Low Country Sinhalese soldier killed in the civil war near Trincomalee provided a space for the display of state symbols, the voicing of patriotic rhetoric, and the exhibition of the precision and discipline of the national army. Military pageantry legitimated the use of force by the government, while the funeral ritual as a whole produced a catharsis …
Early Holocene Occupation At The West Lost River Site, Klamath County, Oregon, Douglas C. Wilson, John L. Fagan, Dorothy E. Freidel, Susan M. Colby
Early Holocene Occupation At The West Lost River Site, Klamath County, Oregon, Douglas C. Wilson, John L. Fagan, Dorothy E. Freidel, Susan M. Colby
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Excavations at the West Lost River Site (35KL972) provide new insights on early Holocene occupation of southwestern Oregon. The article focuses on the artifacts and specimens recovered from the site.
Clinging To Life: Varecia Variegata Rubra And The Masoala Coastal Forests, Natalie Vasey
Clinging To Life: Varecia Variegata Rubra And The Masoala Coastal Forests, Natalie Vasey
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article describes the authors field study from October 1993 to February 1995 in Madagascar, surveying coastal and riverine forests, villages, and watersheds, studying the ecology and behavior of Varecia varuegata rubra, the red ruffed lemur, and Lemur fulvus albifrons, the white fronted lemur.