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Manual Transmission: The Do-It-Yourself Theory Of Occupy Wall Street And Spain’S 15m, Justin Ak Helepololei

Justin AK Helepololei

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Notes On A Common Insurrection: Violence And Transversal Solidarity In Occupied Barcelona, Justin Ak Helepololei

Justin AK Helepololei

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Health, Science, Tradition And The Maya, Kimberly Mendoza

Engaged Learning Projects Journal

This report presented to the Engaged Learning program concerns Kimberly Mendoza, a senior student at Southern Methodist University (SMU), who conducted research in Guatemala during the summer of 2012. The basis of her research asked, "what is illness and how is it treated?". Interviewed individuals include: curanderos, comadronas, guias espirituales, sacerdote mayas medicine men, midwives, spiritual guides and mayan priests. Four distinct regions such as the North Petén, Southern coastal areas, mountainous highlands and tropical lowlands were locations evaluated. Individuals were interviewed and various medicinal remedies were documented, as well as, traditional healing methods and beliefs. This report herein details ...

The Heritage Of Life And Death In Historical Family Cemeteries Of Niagara, Ontario, Catherine Paterson

Open Access Dissertations and Theses

This study explores the history of Niagara settlement and settlers through the changing patterns of burial and commemoration visible in historical family cemeteries established following Euro-American settlement in the 1790s. Data collected from a combination of site survey and archival research demonstrate three clear phases of: 1) early cemetery creation and use 2) the transition to burial in public cemeteries throughout the late 1800s; and 3) the closure of family cemeteries by the early 1900s followed by periods of neglect and renewal characterized by inactive cemeteries being repurposed by descendants as sites of heritage display.

There is incredible variation in ...

I Cannot Tell Your Lie: Alternate And Dominant Narratives Of Slavery At Mount Vernon, Virginia, Chelsea Elise Hansen

Honors Projects

This project explores divergent narratives of slavery at the Mount Vernon plantation in Virginia. Employees construct the dominant history from “hard” evidence. However, descendants of people enslaved at Mount Vernon tell alternate oral narratives that complicate the dominant story. First, I recount seven descendant ancestry narratives. Next, I analyze the West Ford debate, when Ford descendants and staff contested an enslaved Ford ancestor’s paternity. Lastly, I deconstruct the politics over building a monument in the slave burial ground. The common thread is that Mount Vernon embodies a struggle between an institution and descendants over how to remember a fragmented ...

Pedagogía De Hablantes De Herencia: Implicaciones Para El Entrenamiento De Instructores Al Nivel Universitario, Lina M. Reznicek-Parrado

Theses, Dissertations, Student Research: Modern Languages and Literatures

This study researches the differences in pedagogical needs between learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language (FL learners) and learners of Spanish as a Heritage Language (HL learners) at the university level. By using the UNL Modern Languages and Literatures Department as an illustrative case and based on an analysis of the Heritage Language student profile in the context of the United States, this study seeks to explore arguments in favor of providing training for university-level instructors of Spanish that responds to the specific pedagogical needs of Heritage Language Learners.

The relevancy of this study is not only based on ...

News - Georgia State University - Gsu Library Receives $210,000 Neh Grant, Christian J. Steinmetz

Georgia Library Quarterly

Georgia State University Library recently received a $210,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “Planning Atlanta: A New City in the Making, 1930s – 1990s”, submitted by librarian Joe Hurley (Principal Investigator) and history professor Kate Wilson (co-PI).

"Taking The Work Seriously" In A Humanitarian Crisis: The Communicability Of Experience In Arizona Desert Aid Work, Rachel Stonecipher

Engaged Learning Projects Journal

Anthropology has often overlooked activist groups as cultural players, even though activist practices deeply concern “what is at stake” within local moral worlds (Kleinman 1997). Across the globe, the moral frame of “humanitarianism” sustains non­governmental organizations in their efforts to mitigate politically rooted suffering (Fassin and Pandolfi 2010). Meanwhile, as a local experience, humanitarian action reifies social difference. The exchange of aid between persons of higher and lower social status makes social difference visible even while downplaying individuals' singularity in the name of responding to the most affected people possible. Anthropological approaches to humanitarianism have yet to ask: How ...

An Examination Of Chipped Stone From Two Middle Holocene Archaeological Sites In The East Central Great Plains, Christine A. Nycz

Anthropology Department Theses and Dissertations

This study examines aspects of movement and mobility of hunter-gatherer groups in the east central Great Plains during the Middle Holocene, between 8500 cal and 5000 cal B.P. Few published reports detail archaeological assemblages or address features of prehistoric mobility in this subregion of the Great Plains. Current research on the Great Plains emphasizes bison procurement and low regional bison mobility. This thesis presents interpretations of hunter-gatherer mobility based on examination of chipped stone assemblages from two Middle Holocene archaeological deposits (the Hill and Simonsen sites) in western Iowa. The resulting analysis demonstrates restricted hunter-gatherer mobility within this subregion ...

Environmental Restoration In Amazon, Ecuador, Katherine Elizabeth Jones

Engaged Learning Projects Journal

In summer 2012, I worked for six weeks on an environmental conservation project in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador through UBELONG, an international volunteer organization. I was blessed with the opportunity to take what I had been reading in environmental economics textbooks and apply it to an experience far outside of my comfort zone. The site I worked on was a 6,200-acre reserve called Jatun Sacha, which was set aside by the Ecuadorian government in 1985. During these six weeks, I was able to immerse myself in an entirely new culture while helping further the efforts of Jatun Sacha ...

Ravelings (Fa 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 752. Clippings of "Ravelings" column from "Harland (Kentucky) Daily Enterprise" and "Corbin (Kentucky) Daily Tribune" with collected mountain superstitions, customs, and folkways.

Snapped Into Focus: Addressing The Challenges Faced By Undocumented Mexican Immigrants In The United States, Nora Peterson '14, Rebecca Gearhart, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

Utilizing collaborative research methods and visual media, this poster provides an insider's perspective of the experience of someone who has lived as an undocumented immigrant in the United States. Examined through the lens of Jennifer Carrillo, who immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 10, this research focuses on the difficult process of immigration and the consequences for those who are unable to become legal residents. This poster also explores the moral responsibility felt by immigrants who have successfully navigated the immigration system to actively try to improve the status of undocumented immigrants in ...

Addressing The Elephant In The Room: Understanding The Daily Life Of Undocumented High School Youth, Sylvia Rusin '13, Meghan Burke, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

The 1.5 generation are the undocumented students who were born abroad and were brought to the United States by their parents at an early age. Many of these children came here during the population boom in the 1990’s and are now teenagers or in their mid 20’s. As they are finishing high school, nearly all of them are confused about their post-secondary options because of their undocumented status. The IL Dream Act, passed in 2011, qualifies undocumented youth to pay in-state tuition when attending public universities in Illinois and provides counselors who are aware of the college ...

Jaqueline Eng, Margaret Von Steinen

International Faculty Researchers

Evidence of what might be an ancient funerary defleshing ritual found in human-made caves in the Upper Mustang region of Nepal has been discovered by WMU bio-archaeologist Dr. Jacqueline Eng as a member of a research team that is funded in part by the National Geographic Society.

Jaqueline Eng's website

Science Fiction And The Myth Of Trajectory Evolution, Jocelyn D. Pickreign

The Macalester Review

Stephen Jay Gould first proposed the idea of “iconographies of progress.” Today, one of the most prominent forms of progress iconography is the science fiction story. Science fiction as a genre frequently portrays evolution as a linear trajectory of increasing complexity, and in doing so, furthers a worldview that is not unlike the pre-Darwin understanding of human beings as both the center and the pinnacle of the natural world.

A Turkish Spring Even If Different From The Arab Spring, Ahmed E. Souaiaia

Ahmed E SOUAIAIA

The wide-spreading protest movement in Turkey is bringing up the irresistible analogy: Taksim Square is for Turkey what Tahrir Square is for Egypt. Considering that Tahrir Square events were the extension of the protest movement that started it all from Tunisia, it follows that the turmoil in Turkey is similar to the so-called Arab Spring. But most observers and media analysts are dismissing Taksim Square movement arguing that Turkey’s uprising is not similar to the Arab Spring because Erdoğan and his party are democratically elected and that Erdoğan has governed over a period of unprecedented economic prosperity.

Cultivating Change: Women's Involvement In A Brazilian Seaweed Collective, Wren Brennan

Honors Projects

Increased tourism, depleted wild fish populations, and land reassignment have caused socio-environmental changes in a Brazilian artisanal fishing community. This paper examines the implementation of a seaweed cultivation project and the causes behind dwindling local support and management of the project. I argue that the success of the seaweed project hinges on women’s increasing involvement as participants and leaders. The project has improved the availability and value of communal resources and lessened habitually gendered labor divisions; as a result, women have begun to elevate their social status and shift the community’s main livelihood from fishing to sustainable aquaculture ...

Anthropology Research Project: Through The Portal To The World Exciting Research, Melanie Johnson

Undergraduate Research Conference

The idea of creating a webpage as a resource for anthropology developed over several years as anthropology professors saw their students struggling to do research. The need for another resource was clear. As an anthropology student, I went through the same classes and struggled in the same areas as other students.

The Railroad's Effect On Racial And Gendered Consumption Practice In Nacogdoches County, East Texas: A Case Study Of Melrose, Tx, Evadney Cooper

Undergraduate Research Conference

This project is an in depth look on the disproportionate lifestyles of black and white households during Nineteenth Century East Texas, from women's shopping records

Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School, 2003 - 2013, Stephen W. Silliman

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

The Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School began in 2003 as a cooperative effort between Anthropology Professor Stephen Silliman and the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, a Native American community in southeastern Connecticut. It uses a six-credit summer archaeological field course to achieve four objectives set within a model of community-engaged scholarship.