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Robert D. Craig Review Of Patrick O’Reilly, Tahiti Au Temps De La Reine Pomare, Robert D. Craig

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

An Archeological Survey Of Areas To Be Impacted By The Dredging Of Broadway Lake, Anderson County, South Carolina, Mark J. Brooks

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

An Archeological Survey Of The Right-Of-Way For South Carolina Electric And Gas Company's Proposed Wateree-Orangeburg 230 Kv Transmission Line, South Carolina, Marion F. Smith Jr.

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Environmental Changes On The Georgia Coast During The Prehistoric Period, Chester B. Depratter

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

A Folkloristic Approach To Storytelling Performances By A Contemporary Librarian, Victoria Middleswarth

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The subject of this study is Thelma Freeman, the children's librarian at the Bowling Green Public Library. Mrs. Freeman has worked for the library for fourteen years, beginning in 1964 as a bookmobile driver and later transferring into the library building as children's librarian. The story hour on which this study centers was instituted in 1967 when Mrs. Freeman became the Bowling Green Library's first children's librarian. Although she probably acquired her storytelling art through observation and adoption of her mother's storytelling technique and through experience with her children and grandchildren, Mrs. Freeman also took an undergraduate-level library science course …

Hsus Spotlights Circus Cruelty

Close Up Reports

Who can deny the sense of excitement the young and the young-at-heart feel when the circus comes to town? The sounds, smells, and attractions create a fantasy world where everything is fun.

But is it all good clean fun? Evidence in recent years suggests quite the contrary. The worst problems seem to be with the smaller circuses. In the past year, The HSUS has assisted several local societies investigating cruelty to animals in traveling circuses, rescued elephants and lions abandoned by a circus, and signed three complaints against one of the largest of today's small big tops.

According to Frantz …

Hsus Spotlights Circus Cruelty

Close Up Reports

Society has sideshow operator arrested in three states

An Archeological Reconnaissance Of The Proposed Pacolet River Reservoir: Spartanburg County South Carolina, Rachel Most

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

“They Made Us Dance In The Pig Trough!” Mrs. Blanche Story’S Oral Accounts Of Dating, Courtship, Marriage And Sexual Attitudes In Northcentral Nebraska, 1885-1910, Gayle Waggoner

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Oral recollections concerning dating, courtship, marriage and related attitudes were collected from a single informant, Mrs. Blanche Story of Butte, Nebraska. Through in-depth questioning during twelve tape-recorded interview sessions, value- and attitude-oriented accounts were secured for the years 1885 to 1910, the late frontier period in northcentral Nebraska. These detailed reminiscences focus on common life experiences related to interpersonal relationships and the institutions related to them, resulting in a personal or folk history. The single greatest problem in research was the lack of documentation for the attitudinal content of the texts. Corroboration of both specific information and broad patterns of …

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 4, Wku Folk Studies Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 5, Leo Schelbert, Sandra Luebking, Richard H. Hulan, Edith Von Zemenszky, David A. Rausch

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Swiss Mennonite Family Names: An Annotated Checklist
• The Dogtrot House and its Pennsylvania Associations
• A Letter from Pastor Johann Friedrich Ernst
• Civil War Medicine: A Patient's Account
• Soups, Stews, Broths, and Porridges: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 48

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, Folk Festival Supplement, Nancy A. Delong, Marie E. Deverter, John F. Dreibelbis, Robert F. Ulle, Laverne H. Stevens, Carl Ned Foltz, Robert R. Hoppes, Martha S. Best, Theodore W. Jentsch, Rita Grim, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Bonnets, Bonnets, Bonnets
• Theorem Painting on Velvet
• Spinning, Weaving and Lace Making
• Mennonites: A Peaceful People
• Special Police Force Directs Traffic
• Candle Dipping and Molding
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• The Old One-Room School
• The Art of Making Brooms
• Koom Rei, Huck Dich un Essa (Come In, Sit Down and Eat)
• Old Fashioned Apple Butter Making
• Fraktur: An Enduring Art Form
• Covered Bridges: Folk Festival Questionnaire

Literature Search For The Corps Of Engineers' Murrell's Inlet Navigation Project, Newell O. Wright, Alan B. Albright

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

An Archeological Survey Of The Right-Of-Way For South Carolina Electric And Gas Company's Proposed Edenwood 230 Kilovolt Tie Lines Project, Lexington County, South Carolina, Marion F. Smith Jr.

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Aboriginal Exploitation Of Marine Food Resources, Alan J. Osborn

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

Anthropological interest in human exploitation of resources has increased considerably during the last decade. Archaeological and ethnological literature concerning man's utilization of the world's oceans is relatively abundant and there are now several on-going anthropological research programs, e.g., Aleutian Islands, Pacific Northwest Coast, California, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and Southern Africa which focus primarily on maritime adaptations. The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to suggest that anthropological assumptions regarding marine food resources and their use are inadequate; (2) to examine marine ecosystems with respect to structure and dynamics, primary productivity, ecological efficiencies, distributional and quantitative …

Nutritional Security And The Strategy Of Purchasing: The Coastal Miskito Indians, Eastern Nicaragua, Dorothy Jean Cattle

Anthropology ETDs

Field research was conducted in an isolated Miskito Indian village on the east coast of Nicaragua.

The research presented here is based on the general proposition that a productive way of monitoring and understanding the impact and interrelationships of economics and subsistence is through examining the nutritional process. Economic change involving the sole of a traditional subsistence resource for cash is a particular example of a brooder phenomenon which occurs in many developing areas. Consideration of the larger problem may be phrased: the nutritionaI process may be negatively related to economic change. This negative relationship between nutrition and economics involves …

Traditional Elements In The Selected Columns Of Allan M. Trout, J. Vaughn Webb

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The first and last three months of Allan M. Trout's newspaper column "Greetings" were analyzed to show Trout's use of traditional material in that feature. An overview of previous scholarship concerning folklore in literature revealed a lack of study of the modern newspaper as a transmitter of folk items. The type of feature which Trout wrote was shown to have developed from pre-Civil War journalism. Trout's conception of folklore as a rural, kinetic process was presented through quotations from his books and columns, and "Greetings" was defined as a part of that process rather than as a static literary work. …

Struggle To Save Dolphins Continuing

Close Up Reports

New House Bill OKs Dolphin Deaths; HSUS Continuing Battle in Senate

The Price Of Folk: The Progression Of Two Decoy Makers’ Work From Folk To Non-Folk, Benjamin Vincent

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Applying the standards for delineating folkcraft developed by Japanese scholar Soetsu Yanagi to the work of two Maryland decoy makers, Lem and Steve Ward, revealed that the Wards’ work followed a progression from folk to non-folk. A Hearst newspaper chain article on the two carvers plus winning first place at the New York Decoy Show brought publicity far beyond that usually encountered by the average folk craftsman. These events also exposed the two brothers to a range of wealthy collectors. When the Wards began to experiment with ornately carved birds, they had a waiting, and financially capable market. The extremely …

Fandom Is A Way Of Life: A Folkloristic Ethnography Of Science Fiction Fandom, David Axler

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A science fiction (“sf”) fan is an individual whose interest in this literary genre has extended past reading into involvement in such things as local science fiction clubs, fan magazines (“fanzines”), and sf conventions (“cons”). Science fiction fandom is the loosely-structured, geographically-dispersed organization of these fans. Drawing on both written sources and field interviews with eight informants, the history, composition and structure of sf fandom is examined from a folkloristic viewpoint. The forms of folklore which serve to bind the individual fan to the larger social entity of fandom are detailed.

Despite its literary orientation, fandom is primarily a social …

Report Of Reconnaissance: Summer-Graniteville-230kv Transmission Line (Sce&G) : Station 1164+90 "Mounds", Paul E. Brockington Jr.

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Lntercultural Adjustment In An Academic Enrichment Program, Mary Frances Samuel Ricks

Dissertations and Theses

This paper is a description and examination of an Academic Enrichment Program for students from a Bureau of Indian Affairs Day School in Stebbins, Alaska. Sixty Eskimo students travelled to Beaverton, Oregon in the winter of 1975, accompanied by their teachers and by village representatives. They were enrolled in Beaverton schools for a six-week period, and participated in a program designed to acquaint them with aspects of American culture previously known to them only through their textbooks.

The major emphasis here is on description of the interface between two cultural systems. While there is an attempt to identify the problems …

Commercial Networks In The Navajo-Hopi-Zuni Region, Klara Bonsack Kelley

Anthropology ETDs

This study attempts to explain a particular type of geographical distribution of central places (places with commercial functions). This distribution,, the dendritic system, appears in "underdeveloped" regions of the world and has six features as follows: (1) convergence of commercial networks on one regional urban hub; (2) a large number of rural centers per urban center; (3) a tendency for firms in each rural center to trade with those in only one urban center; (4) the failure of smaller centers to locate in the interstices of the trade areas of the larger centers; (5) a rural-urban contrast in class and …

The Acquisition Of Locatives In Estonian, Helgi Kasak Osterreich

Anthropology ETDs

The study and explanation of language acquisition has been approached from four major theoretical viewpoints. 1) The syntactic: what a child is mainly learning is grammatical structures, and the syntactic complexity of the language he is learning determines the sequence of acquisition; 2) The semantic: the child is really learning the meaning structures of language, and the semantic complexity of the adult language determines the sequence of acquisition; 3) The cognitive: as the child gains knowledge about the world around him, he tries to express it through language; the child's cognitive structures and therefore the major determinants of what he …

A Folkloric Perspective On Traditional Auctioneering, Daniel Steed Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

To date, the auction as a type of folklore performance has not been adequately researched. In order to place auctions in perspective as folklore, chapter one of this thesis reviews the history of auctions in the United States. Chapter one further presents the idea of the auctioneer as a folk occupational specialist. The second chapter is concerned with the skills of an active Kentucky auctioneer, who offers, during a series of interviews, insights concerning his performance skills. The third, and final, chapter attempts to construct a theoretical base for researching auctions as folklore performance. The criteria by which any given …

Vacancy Chains And Intra-Urban Migration, Donald C. Rundquist

Department of Geography: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

American society is a very mobile one, with approximately twenty percent of the populace changing its place of residence every year. It has been estimated that over two-thirds of all moves take place within the city. Geographic studies of intra-urban migration generally treat the relocations as either 1) movement from one areal unit to another, such as inter-census tract flows, or as 2) individual-level, unrelated moves between respective origins and destinations. In reality, however, each change of residence is one part of a much longer sequence of changes.

This thesis examines intra-city moves within the framework of their real-world linkage …

An Archeological Survey And Evaluation Of The Hodges To Ware Shoals Route (U.S. 25) In Greenwood County, South Carolina, Ronald Wogaman

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of The Archeological Resources In The Clinton Bypass Route, Clinton, South Carolina, Ronald W. Wogaman

Research Manuscript Series

No abstract provided.

First Language Acquisition: Textile Design Terminology In Cakchiquel (Mayan), Rita Margaret Wilhite

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

While all of these levels of categorization are important to the study of language acquisition, the purpose of this study is to explore the acquisition and development of word meaning. For this purp6se the categorization of environmental stimuli into named categories is of greatest interest. Recognizing the need for studies of non-hierarchically structured domains to shed light on the processes involved in the development of word meaning where order is not clearly indicated, this study examines data on the acquisition of weaving design terminology in two Cakchiquel speaking villages in Guatemala.

Chapter III describes the language, subjects, and setting of …

Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, Nos. 12-13, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.