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Results Of The 1999 Allendale Paleoindian Expedition, Albert C. Goodyear Dec 1999

Results Of The 1999 Allendale Paleoindian Expedition, Albert C. Goodyear

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


The Perils Of Industrial Pig Farming, Richard A. Lobban Oct 1999

The Perils Of Industrial Pig Farming, Richard A. Lobban

Faculty Publications

North Carolina is one the nation's several major meat-producing states. Why should we be much concerned about the lives of animals that were being raised for slaughter in the massive food industry? In fact, there is very much more at stake.


Ending Slavery In Sudan, Richard A. Lobban Jun 1999

Ending Slavery In Sudan, Richard A. Lobban

Faculty Publications

As amazing and anachronistic as it mat seem, slavery has been revived in the Sudan.


Report To The Metropolitan Museum Of Art: Department Of The Arts Of Africa, Oceania And The Americas, Terence E. Hays Jun 1999

Report To The Metropolitan Museum Of Art: Department Of The Arts Of Africa, Oceania And The Americas, Terence E. Hays

Faculty Publications

In this report I will begin by presenting (Part I) the background to the project, since the work performed during the fellowship period was a continuing part of a larger endeavor, begun in 1993. This sketch will be followed by (Part II), a characterization of my activities and their results at the Museum, and (Part III), a discussion of work remaining to be accomplished and plans for the future. Thirteen appendices (Part IV) will provide detailed information of various kinds that might be useful in whatever applications Museum staff choose to pursue resulting from this work.


Comment, D. Rochleau, Claudia Radel Jan 1999

Comment, D. Rochleau, Claudia Radel

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

Brosius raises a series of questions that emanate from recent encounters between critical anthropology and environmental discourses and movements. Drawing upon insights from feminist theory, we propose to expand and enrich these questions as they relate to intersections of identity and environmental movements, policy, and positionality. Brosius’s analysis of research on environmental social movements, discourse, and images repeatedly touches on the complex processes of identity and representation. Perhaps most striking is his implicit dichotomization of essential and strategic identities. Our comments first focus on the issue of environmental essentialisms, their deployment by various actors, and their potential unmasking by researchers. …


A Good Home For A Poor Man: Fort Polk And Vernon Parish, 1800-1940, Steven D. Smith Jan 1999

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

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Francis Harper Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Jan 1999

Francis Harper Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Finding Aids

This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Cornell-trained naturalist Dr. Francis Harper. Materials span 1904-1972 and include field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, and audiovisual materials documenting the plant and animal life as well as human ecology of the Okefenokee Swamp area of South Georgia. The photographs within Series 1 show the flora, fauna, and people of the Okefenokee swamp. The photographs were taken by the Harpers while on their trips to the swamp. Photographs are all in black and white and range in size. The Field Journals chronicle his travels in the okefenokee, Canada, and New England. Materials …


Kuku--"God Of The Motuites": European Tobacco In Colonial New Guinea, Terence Hays Dec 1998

Kuku--"God Of The Motuites": European Tobacco In Colonial New Guinea, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

No abstract provided.