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Scholarworks, The Umass Amherst Digital Repository: Showcasing New Ways Of Sharing Our Scholarly Work, Marilyn S. Billings
Scholarworks, The Umass Amherst Digital Repository: Showcasing New Ways Of Sharing Our Scholarly Work, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Presentation about ScholarWorks digital repository, scholarly communication, ETDs and graduate student work. Given at the Graduate School's program for the Graduate Program Directors, Sept 23, 2008.
Research Showcase Projects Within Scholarworks @ Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Research Showcase Projects Within Scholarworks @ Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This presentation highlights various types of research projects that are contained in the digital repository ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst, a Digital Commons site.
Filling The Void: Publishing Within The Digital Repository., Marilyn S. Billings
Filling The Void: Publishing Within The Digital Repository., Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This presentation showcases original digital publishing of journals, books, and other scholarly materials using the Digital Commons software.
Changing Scholarly Communications And The Role Of An Institutional Repository In The Digital Landscape, Marilyn S. Billings
Changing Scholarly Communications And The Role Of An Institutional Repository In The Digital Landscape, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Presentation to University of Maine community (faculty, administration, librarians, and administration) about scholarly communication topics (author rights, copyright) and institutional repositories, using ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst as example of an IR.
Faculty Senate Research Library Council: Scholarly Communication Activities At The University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ma, Marilyn S. Billings
Faculty Senate Research Library Council: Scholarly Communication Activities At The University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ma, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Presentation to University of Maine Faculty Senate Library Advisory Committee members about the work done by the UMass Amherst Faculty Senate Research Library Council in support of scholarly communication, digital repositories, and open-access publishing
Selected Digital Repository Projects At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Selected Digital Repository Projects At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
In this presentation, I describe the Digital Commons service at UMass Amherst and show a wide variety of ways we have developed our instance, ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
Altered States Of Embodiment: Spirit Possession In Ethnographic And Feature Films, Kevin Taylor Anderson
Altered States Of Embodiment: Spirit Possession In Ethnographic And Feature Films, Kevin Taylor Anderson
Adjunct Faculty Author Gallery
Possession and other forms of altered states of embodiment are represented in both feature and ethnographic films, yet result in divergent illustrations. Ethnographic films dealing with possession (a la Rouch, Deren, Adair, Asch) suggest that it is a therapeutic phenomenon, often framed as a means of resistance to dominant socio-political forces. Yet, in feature films the possessed body is rendered as a passive recipient of diabolical forces. In the former case, possession signals empowerment, in the latter disempowerment. In addition to its portrayal as a form of resistance, religious supplicants in such ethnographic films as Rouch’s Les Maitre Fous and …