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Pvn-Lot-123-Aa-008b, Julie Miller

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Changing Views Of The Changing Maya: Evolution And Devolution In An Ancient Society, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Swedish Colonial Sites In New Jersey: Needle In A Haystack/Spoon In A Dune, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Contents Of Funerary Vessels As Clues To Mortuary Customs: Identifying The Os Exceptum, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Santee Canal, William R. Judd

Publications

This report is the result of a seven-hour survey of the three remaining locks of the Santee Canal, the canal being considered the oldest true canal in America. The purpose of the survey is to document as much information as possible for the construction of displays.

Die Rolle Der Hexe In Den MäRchen Der BrüDer Grimm Und Ludwig Bechsteins, Karin Ulrike Herrmann

Dissertations and Theses

Fairy Tales have been an important part of peoples' cultural heritage since time immemorial. From a very early age on, children hear stories about witches, giants, dwarf's, and magicians which make up their first entry into the literary world. Only recently have scholars begun to research just how much influence these stories have on children and how they might have a different impact on girls than on boys. This thesis will investigate the world of fairy tales in relation to their historical context and their differing relevance for male and female readers. I will examine the fairy tales of the …

The Measurement Of Sex Role Identification: An Examination Of The Internal Consistency Of The Bem Sex Role Inventory And Its Relevance To Sex Role Therapy, Roger J. Eich

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study's primary focus is an empirical analysis of the Bem Sex-role Inventory (BSRI). This sex-role inventory has been heralded by many in the social sciences and has received wide acceptance. It has not, however, been without its critics. Specifically, Bem's scale has been criticized for failing to adequately protect against response tendency, for the inclusion of some of the masculine, feminine, and social desirability traits, and for claiming to measure the specific, orthogonal dimensions of masculinity and femininity. Other methodological shortcomings have been noted by various researchers, but the three listed above appear to be the most prominent. Background …

Technological Change And Child Behavior Among The !Kung, Patricia Draper, Elizabeth Cashdan

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

How does change in one part of a social system affect other parts? This is the central question that must be answered in order to understand the process through which culture changes. This paper is about a small piece of the problem. It investigates how changes in subsistence economy affect child behavior and the relations between parents and children among !Kung Bushmen of Western Botswana. We will show that the adoption of a sedentary life style and a new technology of food production is associated with changes in the social interactions between parents and children and between children and their …

Using Anasazi Redwares To Reconstruct Prehistoric Trade Networks, James R. Allison

Faculty Publications

Anasazi redware ceramics were widely traded from relatively small areas which specialized in their production. They form one stylistic sequence, but exhibit technological variation due to differences in resource availability. This variation allows most redwares to be traced to specific manufacturing areas, a crucial step in the reconstruction of trade networks and alliances. However, because few archaeologists have worked with the redware production areas, the current typology is misleading and the redwares are often mistyped. As a result, patterns of distribution and the behaviors that created them are obscured.

Cold Type: Computerized Typesetting And Occupational Subcultures In The New York City Newspaper Industry, Eve Fay Hochwald

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Using a framework drawn from recent social science discussions of the labor process and from the anthropological literature on culture as the generative basis through which people adapt to or transform their social circumstances, this dissertation analyses the changes occurring in the occupational subcultures and political organization of printers, journalists, and computer service workers in the New York City newspaper industry since the introduction of computerized typesetting in the mid-1970s. One consequence has been a restructured labor force, entailing a shift of skilled, traditionally male, manual craft jobs to, on the one hand, clerical "women's work," and, on the other, …

Music In The Funeral Traditions Of The Akpafu, V. Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

"Nna lo senu kuwe, fie oresire somoloo?" ("Who laid a mat for him, so that he slept so deeply?") With this rhetorical question, the Akpafu of Southeastern Ghana initiate a period of public mourning occasioned by the death of one of their number.1 The philosophic significance of death in Akpafu culture is twofold. First, it marks the completion of the earthly cycle of existence, birth-circumcision-puberty-marriage-death. Second, it opens the door to a higher, spiritual realm in which the deceased, as an ancestor, takes his place alongside the lesser gods and the Supreme Being in the higher reaches of the hierarchy …

Themes And Characteristics Of The Women’S Music Idiom, Patricia C. Hipple

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

No abstract provided.

Factors Associated With The Relationship Between Juvenile Delinquency And Adult Criminality: A Sample Of State Training School Residents In Iowa, Kristin Renae Baughman

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

It is unclear what the relationship is between juvenile delinquency and adult criminality. Many people assume that an individual who commits several crimes as a juvenile will also commit crimes as an adult, yet most juvenile offenders do not become adult offenders. It is also unclear what role institutionalization of juvenile delinquents plays in arresting or intensifying criminal careers. Some reappear in the adult correctional system while others become lawful citizens. The current study looks at one set of the most serious juvenile delinquents, those placed in a state training school in Iowa. In order to determine the relationship between …

Mccarthy, Kimberly A. (Fa 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 116. "Around the kitchen table." Discusses how card games such as Rummy can be considered urban folkloric events.

Interview With Joe Daugherty (Fa 34), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Joe Daugherty conducted by Dawn Elaine Allen-Carlson on 3 December 1987. From folk studies student project concerning the collections of Joe Daugherty.

Lead Seals From Fort Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City, Michigan, Diane L. Adams

Masters Theses

Archaeologists have routinely identified small lead seals found on sixteenth- to eighteenth-century sites in North America as "bale seals." An analysis of the lead seals from Fort Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City, Michigan, (1715-1781) was conducted to determine whether the seals are actually cloth seals from individual textiles.

Four lines of evidence were examined in order to clarify the function(s) of lead seals: documentary sources, quantitative analysis of archaeological data from Fort Michilimackinac, comparative data from site reports, and cloth imprint analysis.

Available evidence supports an interpretation that most lead seals are cloth marks. Lead seals served as indicators of quality, ownership, …

Modernization In West Africa: How Women's Lives Have Been Marginalized, Patricia S. Peterman

Masters Theses

Social scientists have documented the effects of colonialism and independence in West Africa, but have focused on male roles in economic institutions. Recent research reveals not only the importance of women as agricultural producers but also the marginalization of women in contemporary national society. Development projects have not eased economic hardship, rather emphasis on industrialization has led to agricultural underdevelopment, borne more heavily by women and children than by men.

This paper looks at the micro-level issues of the division of labor, the structure of the household, the status of women, and issues concerning fertility and reproduction. In doing so, …

Interview With Frank Miller And Frank Allen Mnner (Fa 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Frank Miller and Frank Allen Minner conducted by Eleonore Beck Mitchell on 23 November 1987. From folk studies student project concerning the history of the ROTC, the ROTC program at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, recruitment, and differences in training between ROTC and military academies.

Interview With Jean Pence (Fa 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Jean Pence conducted by Lisa Mason-Jones on 23 November 1987. From folk studies student oral history project concerning Pence's role as a midwife at the Medical Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Interview With Robert J. Wurster (Fa 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Robert J. Wurster conducted by Callie Lou Dalton on 18 November 1987. From folk studies student project concerning his involvement with the International Student Program at Western Kentucky University and issues of acculturation, equity in the classroom, expression of identity, and the program’s strengths and weaknesses.

Interview With Zilpha Amanda Hume (Fa 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Zilpha Amanda Hume conducted by Teresa L. Hollingsworth on 17 November 1987. From folk studies student oral history project concerning experiences with trance channeling.

Interview With Marilyn Cline (Fa 37), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Marilyn Cline conducted by Sara Jane McNulty on 16 November 1987. From folk studies student oral history project concerning experiences with trance channeling.

Interview With Overt Ray Rich (Fa 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Overt Ray Rich conducted by Greg Jenkins on 13 November 1987. From student folk studies project concerning Overt Rich's work with prison ministries.

Interview With Arthur And Anne Cataldo (Fa 37), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Arthur and Anne Cataldo conducted by Sara Jane McNulty on 9 October 1987. From folk studies student oral history project concerning experiences with trance channeling.

The Uses Of Maya Structures: A Study Of Architecture And Artifact Distribution At Sepulturas, Copan, Honduras, Julia A. Hendon

Anthropology Faculty Publications

This dissertation presents a compositional analysis of the architecture and a distributional analysis of the associated artifacts resulting from excavation of some ninety buildings dating from the Late to Terminal Classic Period at the Maya site of Copan, Honduras. The study of all artifacts recovered from primary contexts, both in situ and redeposited, focuses first on a determination of their function, second on an analysis of their distribution within the site, and third on their associations with one another in order to identify the kinds of activities carried out at various locations. A second line of evidence used is the …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 37, No. 1, Edward W. Chester, Nancy K. Gaugler, Ralph Connor, William T. Parsons, Roger W. Fromm, Hans F. Sennholz, Guy Graybill

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Franklin in Fact and Fiction: The Double Perspective of Leland Baldwin
• Jost Hite: From the Neckar to the Shenandoah
• The Migration and Settlement of Pennsylvania Germans in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina and Their Effects on the Landscape
• Bethesda Evangelical Church in Farmers Mills: Fact and Folklore
• The Tourist Bureau Shuns Me!

Interview With Lewis Cutliff Regarding Mammoth Cave (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral interview done with Lewis Cutliff in 1987 related to Mammoth Cave National Park. He discusses the legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps camps at Mammoth Cave.

Interview With Dawson "Doss" Davis And Vida Davis (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Dawson “Doss” Davis and Vida Davis conducted by Kelly A. Lally on 2 September 1987. From folk studies student project about the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and concerning experiences of twenty former CCC enrollees from the four camps at Mammoth Cave and five other related people.

Max Quanchi's Review Of Leonard Mason's Kiribati: A Changing Atoll Culture, Max Quanchi

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Contract Labor Under A Protector: The Gilbertese Laborers And Hiram Bingham, Jr., In Hawaii, 1878-1903, Sandra Rennie

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.