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Boat Launch, Pete Mcfarland

Maine Song and Story Sampler

Maine has a long and broad tradition of boat building, and in many coastal towns boat launches were a social event.

Hoagland, Melissa Marie (Fa 180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 180. Paper written by Melissa Marie Hoagland entitled "The Folklore of the Christmas Season" for a WKU folk studies class. Articles from the Courier Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, referenced.

Amaro, Maria E. (Fa 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 171. "The Use of Food in Family Circus", a paper written by Maria E. Amaro for a WKU folk studies class. "Family Circus" comic strip from the "Park City Daily News", Bowling Green, Kentucky is referenced.

Allen, David Bruce (Fa 170), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 170. "April Fool's Day Within Print Media", a paper written by David Bruce Allen for a WKU folk studies class. Comic strips and articles from the "Park City Daily News", Bowling Green, Kentucky referenced.

Covington, Jeri Davina Fields (Fa 177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 177. "American Folklore: Government is Corrupt", a paper written by Jeri Davina Fields Covington for a WKU folk studies class. Periodical articles referenced.

Brown, Angela E. (Fa 173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 173. "Child Abuse", a paper written by Angela E. Brown for a WKU folk studies class. Articles from the "Courier-Journal", Louisville, Kentucky, referenced.

Davis, Rochelle (Fa 179), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 179. "Folklore in Derby Festivals and Traditions", a paper written by Rochelle Davis for a WKU folk studies class. Articles from the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, referenced.

Powers, Whitney Gaye (Fa 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 183. Paper entitled "Folklore in Wedding Etiquette", written by Powers for a WKU folk studies class.

Skaggs, William C. (Fa 186), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 186. Paper written by Skaggs for a WKU folk studies class entitled "Smoking is Directly Related to Coolness." Periodical advertisements are referenced.

Asbell, Adrienne (Fa 172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 172. "The Preservation of Things Held Sacred: Cemeteries in the Mass Media", a paper written by Adrienne Asbell for a WKU folk studies class. Articles from various newspapers and periodicals referenced.

Siemon, Maile Dawn (Fa 185), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 185. "Gang Symbols in the Courier-Journal", a paper written by Siemon for a WKU folk studies class.

Tidwell, Tiffany (Fa 187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 187. Paper written by Tidwell for a WKU folk studies class entitled "Derby Traditions." Articles from the Courier-Journal are referenced.

Brown, Bethany D. (Fa 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 174. "The Folklore in Cosmetic Advertising", a paper written by Bethany D. Brown for a WKU folk studies class. "Redbook" magazine is referenced.

Davis, Amanda Jean (Fa 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 178. "Folklore: The Color Concept", a paper written by Amanda Jean Davis for a WKU folk studies class. Newspaper articles referenced.

Arqueología De Un Paisaje Agrícola En La Provincia Yacuma, Departamento Del Beni, Bolivia, John H. Walker

ProSIGAB Documents

No abstract provided.

Salt, Vol. 13, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Number 50. Four Dollars. “Yelana and Mohammed go to school with children from 25 countries learning a new language in Maine.”

Contents

• 2 Nineteen Pine Street Around the corner from Salt waited a compelling story about a school. We tell it in this issue, challenging negative press about Reiche.
• 4 Myrtle Myrtle Lowell left home at age 13 to go to work. That was more than 70 years ago. She’s never had time for needlework. “Course not! God almighty! Only the Southern ladies could do that. Not us old crows.” …

Dental Microwear Analysis Of Averbuch: A Dietary Reconstruction Of A Mississippian Culture, Melissa G. Muendel

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation reconstructs subsistence patterns of the inhabitants of Averbuch, a prehistoric late Mississippian culture, using SEM (scanning electron microscopy) to quantitatively assess the dental microwear of the permanent adult second mandibular molar of a selected skeletal sample from the Averbuch archaeological site. A comparison among the patterns of the Averbuch and those reported from other prehistoric sites in the United States is presented. The study uses the mesiolingual cusp (metaconid) tip facet (Kay and Hiiemae, 1974) of the mandibular permanent second molar to measure dental microwear features. Every cusp in the human mouth has an occlusal relationship to the …

Maximum Likelihood And Bayesian Estimation Of Skeletal Age-At-Death From The Human Pubic Symphysis, B. S. L. Hurst

Doctoral Dissertations

A number of methodological problems have recently plagued studies of adult skeletal age-at-death estimation. Over the last two decades, researchers have extended considerable effort to place age estimation studies on a firmer statistical ground. However, many of the current methods can still be criticized because they make unjustifiable assumptions or use inappropriate statistical models. Much of the controversy surrounding age-at-death estimation has focused specifically on the question of applying age standards from a reference collection of known-age individuals to a target group of unknown age.

The current study, involving a large sample (n=739) of adult male pubic symphysis data, demonstrates …

Hunley Update, Christopher F. Amer

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of The Skeletal Remains From The Knobloch Site, 20ae633, Allegan County, Michigan, Alexandra D. Bybee

Masters Theses

The skeletal remains of at least thirty individuals were recovered from the Knobloch site, 20AE633, Allegan County, Michigan. The site is from the Late Woodland period, a time which saw a variety of strategies for food procurement, including hunting, gathering, fishing, and agriculture. It is not known to what extent these strategies were practiced. The results of trace element analysis of skeletal samples from the Knobloch site assemblage indicate a diet reliant on hunting and gathering.

Legacy - December 1997, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Newsletter - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Stanley Austin South Recognized by the University of South Carolina with a Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree.....p. 1
Director’s Notes.....p. 2
Allendale Expedition.....p. 4
Stallings Culture.....p. 6
A Remarkable Find.....p. 9
Amerindians in Tobago.....p. 10
Chair Notes.....p. 13
Pumpkin Site Update.....p. 13
Rock Shelters in South Carolina.....p. 14
Petroglyphs/Rock Art.....p. 16
Petroglyph Survey Update.....p. 17
SCIAA Researchers Funded.....p. 18
Turkish Odyssey.....p. 19
Canoes in the Lowcountry.....p. 20
Hunley Update.....p. 22
Volunteer Opportunities.....p. 23
Port Royal Sound Survey.....p. 24
Mepkin Abbey Shipwreck.....p. 26
SC Archaeology Week 1997.....p. 28

Flotsam And Jetsam - December 1997, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Sport Diver Newsletters

Contents:

Canoes in the Lowcountry..... p.20
Hunley Update..... p.22
Volunteer Opportunities..... p.23
Port Royal Sound Survey..... p.24
Mepkin Abbey Shipwreck..... p.26

Sciaa's Underwater Archaeology Division Completes First Phase Of The Port Royal Sound Survey, James D. Spirek, Christopher F. Amer

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The South Carolina Petroglyph Survey, Tommy Charles

Faculty & Staff Publications

Accompanying this article is a sidebar, also by Tommy Charles, 'The Petroglyph Survey Update'.

The Mepkin Abbey Wreck: A Sport Diver's Experience, Drew Ruddy

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Cultural Patterning In The Use Of Herbal Medicines (Jamu) And Health Seeking Behavior In A Javanese City, Brook Williams Weisman-Ross

Masters Theses

This thesis examines the social patterning in the use of traditional Javanese plant medicines, collectively called jamu, within the primarily ethnic Javanese city of Yogyakarta, in central Java, Indonesia. Using both qualitative and quantitative ethnographic research methods, forty-eight common and uncommon types of jamu are discussed, and five predictions are evaluated: 1. Jamu sold daily by door to door vendors (jamu gendong) will most often be preventatives, rather than curatives; 2. Jamu sold by sedentary vendors will more often be used for specific illnesses (curatives) than those sold by door to door vendors (jamu gendong); …

Book Review: Ethnomathematics--Challenging Eurocentrism Inmathematics Education, Edited Byarthur B. Powell And Marilyn Frankenstein, Karen Dee Michalowicz

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Conrad Maynadier Arensberg (1910-1997), Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

Conrad Maynadier Atensberg died on February 10, 1997. Connie, as he was known to his legions of students, colleagues and friends, was 86. Connie's work was key to the development of anthropology as a natural science in a hierarchy with the other natural sciences, each with its own specific unit of observation-that of anthropology being human interaction.

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 58, No. 2, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• Editor’s Note (Shirley Blancke)
• Indian Lands at Sampson's Pond, South Carver, Massachusetts, From the Earliest Grants to the Last Transfer of Native American Ownership (1640-1915) (John A. Shaw)
• Prehistoric Archaeology of the Great Swamp Basin, South Kingston, Rhode Island (David R. George and Brian D. Jones)
• Thermal Alteration of Argillite Artifacts: an Experimental Study (Peter Pagoulatos)
• Radiocarbon Ages: How to Report (Elizabeth A. Little)
• Archaeology and the First People of Middleborough and Neighboring Towns: A Bibliography (Kathleen Shaw Anderson)
• In Memoriam: Terence G. Byrne (Kathryn Fairbanks)
• In Memoriam: John Alfred Mansfield (Paul Gardescu and Tonya Baroody Largy)

Ethnic Tourism And The Renegotiation Of Tradition In Tana Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia), Kathleen M. Adams

Anthropology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article examines some of the political and symbolic issues inherent in the touristic renegotiation of Torajan ritual and history, chronicling the strategies whereby Torajans attempt to refashion outsider imagery to enhance their own personal standing and position in the Indonesian ethnic hierarchy. The author suggests that the Toraja case challenges the popular assumption that tourism promotion brings a complete loss of agency to indigenous peoples: Torajans not only engage in ingenious political strategies to enhance their group's image, but vigorously contest perceived threats to their identity and power. The author argues that such processes of self-conscious cultural reformulation do …