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A Historic Context For The African American Military Experience, Steven Smith, James Zeidler Dec 2011

A Historic Context For The African American Military Experience, Steven Smith, James Zeidler

Steven D. Smith

The purpose of this report is to recognize and highlight the contributions of African Americans to the military history of the United States. This is accomplished by providing a historic context on the African American military experience for use by Department of Defense (DoD) cultural resource managers. Managers can use this historic context, to recognize significant sites, buildings, and objects on DoD property related to African American military history by nominating them for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. In this manner, civilian and military personnel currently serving in all major services will be made aware of the …


Research At Blackstocks Battlefield, Steven Smith Dec 2011

Research At Blackstocks Battlefield, Steven Smith

Steven D. Smith

No abstract provided.


The African American Soldier At Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1892-1946, Steven Smith Dec 2011

The African American Soldier At Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1892-1946, Steven Smith

Steven D. Smith

No abstract provided.


A History Of American Settlement At Camp Atterbury, Steven Smith Dec 2011

A History Of American Settlement At Camp Atterbury, Steven Smith

Steven D. Smith

No abstract provided.


The Archaeology Of The Camden Battlefield: History, Private Collections, And Field Investigations, Steven Smith, James Legg, Tamara Wilson Dec 2011

The Archaeology Of The Camden Battlefield: History, Private Collections, And Field Investigations, Steven Smith, James Legg, Tamara Wilson

Steven D. Smith

No abstract provided.


Understanding Camden: The Revolutionary War Battle Of Camden As Revealed Through Historical, Archaeological, And Private Collections Analysis, James Legg, Steven Smith, Tamara Wilson Dec 2011

Understanding Camden: The Revolutionary War Battle Of Camden As Revealed Through Historical, Archaeological, And Private Collections Analysis, James Legg, Steven Smith, Tamara Wilson

Steven D. Smith

No abstract provided.


The Antiquities Act: A Century Of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, And Nature Conservation, Edited By David Harmon, Francis P. Mcmanamon, And Dwight T. Pitcaithley, Steven Smith Dec 2011

The Antiquities Act: A Century Of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, And Nature Conservation, Edited By David Harmon, Francis P. Mcmanamon, And Dwight T. Pitcaithley, Steven Smith

Steven D. Smith

A review of The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation, edited by David Harmon, Francis P. McManamon, and Dwight T. Pitcaithley


Acquiring The Past For The Future: The South Carolina Heritage Trust Statewide Assessment Of Cultural Sites, Christopher Judge, Steven Smith Dec 2011

Acquiring The Past For The Future: The South Carolina Heritage Trust Statewide Assessment Of Cultural Sites, Christopher Judge, Steven Smith

Steven D. Smith

The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology received a grant from the South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History to conduct a statewide assessment of the cultural resources of the state. This report details the results of this one-year study to establish a representative sample of the archaeological and historical resources of the state of South Carolina, to be used by the South Carolina Heritage Trust as a planning tool for the possible acquisition of such sites as Heritage Preserves. A list of the 100 most "Critically Significant" sites and …


Bailey's Dam, Steven Smith, George Castille Dec 2011

Bailey's Dam, Steven Smith, George Castille

Steven D. Smith

Anthropological Study No. 8


Report Of Findings: The Search For Fort Balfour And Coosawhatchie Battlefield, Steven Smith Dec 2011

Report Of Findings: The Search For Fort Balfour And Coosawhatchie Battlefield, Steven Smith

Steven D. Smith

No abstract provided.


Archeological Investigations On Little Folly Island, Steven Smith Dec 2011

Archeological Investigations On Little Folly Island, Steven Smith

Steven D. Smith

No abstract provided.


A Good Home For A Poor Man: Fort Polk And Vernon Parish, 1800-1940, Steven Smith Dec 2011

A Good Home For A Poor Man: Fort Polk And Vernon Parish, 1800-1940, Steven Smith

Steven D. Smith

No abstract provided.


Imprint On The Land: Life Before Camp Hood, 1820-1942, By William S. Pugsley, Steven Smith Dec 2011

Imprint On The Land: Life Before Camp Hood, 1820-1942, By William S. Pugsley, Steven Smith

Steven D. Smith

This is a review of the title book, Imprint on the Land: Life Before Camp Hood, 1820-1942, by William S. Pugsley, as well as reviews of four supporting CRM reports in The Public Historian: Agriculture and Rural Development on Fort Hood Lands, 1849-1942: National Register Assessments of 710 Historic Archeological Properties, by Martha Doty Freeman, Amy E. Dase, and Marie E. Blake; Archaeological Investigations and Integrity Assessments of Historic Sites at Fort Hood, Texas by Marie E. Blake; Historical Research of 401 Sites at Fort Hood, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas by Russell B. Ward, Marie E. Blake, Amy E. …


Initial Archeological Investigations At Silver Bluff Plantation Aiken County, South Carolina, James Scurry, J. Joseph, Fritz Hamer Nov 2011

Initial Archeological Investigations At Silver Bluff Plantation Aiken County, South Carolina, James Scurry, J. Joseph, Fritz Hamer

Fritz Hamer

No abstract provided.


La Vida Online: The Parallel Public Sphere Of Facebook As Used By Colombian Immigrant Women In Atlanta, Michaelanne Dye Oct 2011

La Vida Online: The Parallel Public Sphere Of Facebook As Used By Colombian Immigrant Women In Atlanta, Michaelanne Dye

Michaelanne M Dye

This thesis examines how Colombian women within the city of Atlanta utilize Facebook as a parallel public sphere, a cultural phenomenon through which the silenced use mediums of popular culture to discuss private and public dilemmas (Dewey 2009). Through ethnographic research in Atlanta, I analyze how these young women use Facebook as they negotiate their identity through the multiple contexts of their everyday lives. Drawing from feminist critiques, I explore whether Facebook provides an alternative to the traditional public sphere, while also investigating how power structures influence freedom of expression online. Through an international network of friends, these women tackle …


Essay On "Coffee Futures", Zeynep Gürsel Sep 2011

Essay On "Coffee Futures", Zeynep Gürsel

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

No abstract provided.


Iniciação À Língua Yanomamł, Hapa Të Pë Rë Kuonowei: Mitologia Yanomamł, And Le Parler Yanomami Des Xamatauteri, Gale Goodwin Gomez Sep 2011

Iniciação À Língua Yanomamł, Hapa Të Pë Rë Kuonowei: Mitologia Yanomamł, And Le Parler Yanomami Des Xamatauteri, Gale Goodwin Gomez

Gale Goodwin Gomez

It is perhaps useful to call attention to the work of Henri Ramirez, one of the most active linguists in Amazonia, since his publications have remained somewhat obscure, especially for those living outside of South America. This rather unusual scholar essentially only publishes books (18 monographs to date, including practical works for the native population), not articles, and rarely attends conferences. His principal published works are being reviewed in UAL to make them more known to the linguistic community. He is currently a professor in Letters and Linguistics at the Federal University of Rond'nia in the town of Guajar-Mirim, on …


Language And Living Things, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Language And Living Things, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

Ethnobiology is often regarded as a quaint and excessively particularistic specialty, as its modern practitioners trace the complexities and subtleties of specific systems of folk classification and nomenclature. Their finegrained descriptions and elegant analyses are at once too “thick” and too “thin” for most nonspecialists, who, in any event, await syntheses of what has been learned from such inquiries, preferably in the form of comparative studies in the tradition of anthropology’s concern with generalizations that illuminate the wider human condition. Rising to this challenge, Cecil Brown has long pursued, in numerous papers and now in this book, crosscultural “uniformities” as …


The Huli Response To Illness / Book Review, Terence Hays Jun 2011

The Huli Response To Illness / Book Review, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

What diseases afRict the Huli people of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea? How are these conceptualized by them as illness experiences? How do their behavioral responses, including the utilization of both traditional and Western health services, flow from and affect these conceptualizations? And how are these processes grounded in the broader ecological, historical, social, and cultural contexts within which individual Huli make their decisions regarding illness?


Sorcery And Social Change In Melanesia / Book Review, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Sorcery And Social Change In Melanesia / Book Review, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

In some ways, this collection of papers is a typical symposium volume. Organizationally, it consists of a core ethnographic case studies (originally presented at the 1979 and 1980 annual meetings for the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania) bracketed with an introductory essay and concluding discussion by the editors, Marty Zelenietz and Shirley Lindenbaum, respectively. It is atypical, however, in that it largely succeeds in avoiding the most common shortcomings of such collections.


Ndumba Folk Biology And General Principles Of Ethnobotanical Classification And Nomenclature, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Ndumba Folk Biology And General Principles Of Ethnobotanical Classification And Nomenclature, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

Brent Berlin's proposed "general principles of classification and nomenclature" are examined as they apply to folk biology in Ndumba, a Papua New Guinea hzghlands society. Focusing on Ndumba folk zoology, supplemented with a previous analysis of their folk botany, Berlin's analytical schema for ethnobiological classification is supported, but principles of nomenclature in ethnobiology appear to be in need of reconsideration.


"The New Guinea Highlands" Region, Culture Area, Or Fuzzy Set?, Terence Hays Jun 2011

"The New Guinea Highlands" Region, Culture Area, Or Fuzzy Set?, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

The criteria for delineating "the New Guinea Highlands," a fundamental category in Melanesian anthropology, are variable, vague, and inconsistently applied, with the result that there is little clarity or agreement with regard to its characteristics and its membership. So far as the literature is concerned, "the New Guinea Highlands" is a fuzzy set. The common resort to notions of "cores," "margins," or "fringes" is an attempt to preserve an essentialist approach but inevitably leads to the same confusion. The continued use of "the Highlands" as an analytic or theoretical construct carries the costs of misleadingly implied homogeneity, with marginalization of …


Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

Since the 1960s, ethnobiology has gone beyond the documentation of plants and animals deemed “useful” in specific societies’ economies, or those that are “good to think” in their cosmological systems, to a nomothetic investigation of folk conceptualizations of the natural world as organizations of cultural knowledge. “General principles” and “universals” in the classification and naming of living things have been proposed that now play a major role in our growing understanding of human cognition.


Failure Of Treatment / Book Review, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Failure Of Treatment / Book Review, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

This is an extraordinary book, and one that I believe is unique in the literature of medical anthropology. Inspired by Victor Turner's "social drama, the extended case method" (p. 3), Gilbert Lewis presents "the ethnography of an illness" (p. 1), a detailed—sometimes day-by-day—account of a protracted illness suffered by Dauwaras, a Gnau-speaking man of the upper Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.


The Sweet Potato And Oceania, Terence Hays Jun 2011

The Sweet Potato And Oceania, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

Debates about the introduction and diffusion of Ipomoea batatas in the Pacific have gone on for a century although largely without the benefit of a thorough botanical understanding of the plant. That is now provided in Yen’s monograph, which synthesizes the results and implications of his own two decades of research with the now massive literature on the subject.


Language And Cultural Description, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Language And Cultural Description, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

Beginning in the late 1950s, Charles Frake was among those (including Harold Conklin and Ward Goodenough) who founded the blend of cognitive psychology, descriptive linguistics, and cultural anthropology which came to be known as “the New Ethnography” or “cognitive anthropology.”


Exchanging The Past, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Exchanging The Past, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

In 1980-1982, Bruce Knauft and Eileen Cantrell conducted fieldwork among the Gebusi people of the remote Nomad region of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Then, "indigenous customs seemed robust as well as profound" (p.13), including one of the highest homocide rates in the world, rooted sorcery accusations derived from spirit medium seances.


Tzeltal Folk Zoology, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Tzeltal Folk Zoology, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

In some respects, this volume might be viewed as a companion piece to Berlin et al.’s Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification. It deals with the same people of highland Chiapas, Mexico, and an earlier version was Hunn’s doctoral thesis, supervised by Berlin. Nevertheless, it can also clearly stand on its own as a significant contribution to ethnology, with additional relevance to biosystematists, ecologists, linguists, and psychologists.


Auyana, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Auyana, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

Sterling Robbins was one of four ethnographers who conducted fieldwork in the early 1960s as part of James B. Watson’s New Guinea Micro-evolution Project. As such he was unavoidably caught in the turmoil over how to deal with the “loose structure” of New Guinea highland societies.


Classifications In Their Social Context / Book Review, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Classifications In Their Social Context / Book Review, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

Since Durkheim and Mauss, the study of folk classification has developed along two main lines: the predominantly British and French "soocial constructionist" tradition, and the largely American "ethnoscience" approach, to use Roy Ellen's designations (p. 4). Ellen is referring to the continuing contrast in the anthropological literature between analyses of folk classification systems which view them as primarily reflecting structural, sociological, cosmological, or symbolic concerns, and those which concentrate on the more mundane orderings of nature which employ perceptual (usually morphological) criteria.