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Charlesfort Discovered!, Chester B. Depratter, Stanley South, James B. Legg
Charlesfort Discovered!, Chester B. Depratter, Stanley South, James B. Legg
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
The Return Of The 1996 Allendale Paleoindian Expedition, Albert C. Goodyear
The Return Of The 1996 Allendale Paleoindian Expedition, Albert C. Goodyear
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Santa Elena Ceramics, James B. Legg, Chester B. Depratter, Stanley South
Santa Elena Ceramics, James B. Legg, Chester B. Depratter, Stanley South
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Meat And Potatoes: Recipes For A Range Of Egalitarianism In Three Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Amy Vlassia Margaris
Meat And Potatoes: Recipes For A Range Of Egalitarianism In Three Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Amy Vlassia Margaris
Honors Papers
Throughout most of human history our ancestors lived by hunting and gathering. Only within the last ten to fifteen thousand years have alternative forms of social organization developed, duly labeled by anthropologists and archaeologists: agricultural, pastoral, and complex state societies, lineal tribes, and a host of other terms which pass in and out of favor in our ongoing (and inescapably human) attempts to categorize our own kind.
Classification lies at the heart of science, and anthropology is certainly no exception. However, categorization of any degree (which requires generalization) runs the risk of obscuring important differences between cultural groups. The trick …
What Does One Do With White People Who Stay?, Terence E. Hays
What Does One Do With White People Who Stay?, Terence E. Hays
Faculty Publications
This article is a retrospective of Terence Hays and his early ethnographic experiences with the Ndumba and with those who had almost no contact with Europeans. Hays draws on other works by those who also played the "pioneer" role in their field work and discusses how the society has handled the impact from the first contact of the "true pioneers" who had arrived almost 20 years prior to Hays and the others. Many of the Highlanders already were drawing on their previous experiences with the Europeans to deal with them as a constant in their lives. Hays notes that even …
Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan: Tsuris In Latin America, The Bronx, And The Ussr, Marc Edelman
Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan: Tsuris In Latin America, The Bronx, And The Ussr, Marc Edelman
Publications and Research
This autobiographical essay reflects on experiences with antisemitism in New York City, Mexico, Costa Rica, and the Soviet Union. It analyzes this material in relation to ethnographers' emotional life and subjectivity and the larger historical and political contexts of fieldwork.