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Children Tell Landscape-Lore Among Perceptions Of Place: Relating Ecocultural Digital Stories In A Conscientizing/Decolonizing Exploration, Meredith Jean Bird Miller

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

We know that when children feel a sense-of-relation within local natural environments, they are more prone to feel concern for them, while nurturing well-being and resilience in themselves and in lands/waters they inhabit. Positive environmental behaviors often follow into adulthood. Our human capacities for creating sustainable solutions in response to growing repercussions of global warming and climate change may grow if more children feel a sense of belonging in the wild natural world. As educators, if we listen to and learn from students’ voices about how they engage in nature, we can create pedagogical experiences directly relevant to their lives. …

Nannies And Public Space: Reproductive Labor In Richmond, Va, Hannah D. Woehrle

Theses and Dissertations

In the realm of urban planning, the gendered and spatial dynamics of childcare as a field of labor have been historically overlooked. This thesis addresses this gap by examining the geographies shaped by nannies in Richmond, VA, and their implications for urban planning in the context of the evolving neoliberal "new" economy. Existing research focuses on the geographies of children and burgeoning sectors of gig work in the neoliberal city. This study positions itself at the intersection of these areas, focusing on nannies as long standing gig workers within the childcare network, uniquely positioned to be affected by economic transitions. …

Embodying Arts Festivals As Infrastructural Transformation Of Places, Bernadette Quinn

Books/Book chapters

Arts festivals are important forms of cultural production and consumption (Négrier 2015). Irrespective of genre (e.g., visual arts, music or film) and whether single or multidisciplinary, their primary endeavour is to engage people in the making, showcasing and performance of art. Yet arts festivals do not necessarily receive recognition or attention based on their cultural attributes alone. Festivals and events have become “central to entrepreneurial cities’ efforts to generate commerce, regenerate place and stand out on the highly competitive global stage” (Quinn et al. 2020, 1875). Along with arts and cultural activities more generally, recent decades have seen cities use …

Playing From The Edge: Music Festivals And Broadcasting Practices In The West Cork Region Of Ireland, Enya Moore Dr., Bernadette Quinn, Brian Vaughan Dr

Presentations

A study of arts festivals' experiences of adopting digital practices in the period 2020-2022. The context is rural and the qualitative data were gathered in West Cork in the south west of Ireland.

Understanding Visitor Recreation Experiences On Montana's Public Lands, Kara Grau, Megan Schultz, Glenna Brown, Melissa Weddell

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

The grandeur of Montana’s public lands attracts visitors from all over the world who want to experience the beautiful parks, wilderness, wildlife, and waters. Montana is ranked 10th in the nation in federal land ownership, with about 30% or 27 million acres, followed by state agencies that manage a little over 5 million acres. Moreover, Montana is the gateway to the iconic Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks.

Epigenetics And Social Inequalities In Asthma And Allergy, Elizabeth S. Clausing, Cassidy J. Tomlinson, Amy L. Non

School of Global Integrative Studies: Faculty Publications

Respiratory illnesses, such as asthma and allergy disorders, are disproportionately more common among minority racial/ethnic groups and those of low socioeconomic status. In the United States, asthma prevalence and severity are highest among Puerto Ricans (19.2%), American Indians/Alaska Natives (13%), and Black Americans (12.7%) and higher in families living below the poverty threshold than among those living above it (11% vs 8%–9%).¹ Many studies of asthma/allergy inequalities assume that genetic differences underlie racial/ethnic differences in these disorders, pointing to genetic ancestry differences between races, but most genetic variants fail to explain racial/ethnic differences and are usually studied only in …

A Network Perspective On Multi-Scale Water Governance In The Lake Champlain Basin, Vermont, Patrick Bitterman, Christopher Koliba, Anna Singer

School of Global Integrative Studies: Faculty Publications

The prevalence and persistence of harmful cyanobacterial blooms demonstrate the importance of governance systems that effectively engage with many actors to address nonpoint pollution from a variety of sources across multiple spatial domains. Although the importance of social-ecological alignment on effective governance is increasingly clear, governance systems often evolve incrementally and in a manner that fails to adequately align resources and governance networks with biophysical structures, processes, and legacies. Through a survey of water governance actors in the Lake Champlain Basin, we map the structure of the water governance network and identify the key information brokers, flows of resources, and …

Comparison Of Water Column Properties Derived From An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle And Satellite Based Sources In Lake Michigan, David Bennion

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are an emerging technology increasingly being employed in geoscience and ecosystem research in the Great Lakes, capitalizing on their ability to sample large areas fitted with a variety of sensors. Previous to AUV use, chlorophyll measurements were either collected at discrete locations accessed by boats or derived from satellite remote sensing data. An advantage of AUVs is the ability to detect the presence of subsurface formations such as a deep chlorophyll layer or directly measure features such as the extent of the photic zone, which provides the opportunity to compare these in situ measured features to …

Monitoring Bull Kelp (Nereocystis Leutkeana) Remotely At High Resolutions, Hannah E. Joss

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Bull kelp (Nereocystis leutkeana) is a foundational seaweed in nearshore, marine systems, traditionally supporting economically important fisheries, extracting nutrients in its vicinity, and sequestering carbon and transporting it great distances to subsidize shallow and deep-sea environments. Bull kelp is also a culturally important species for some indigenous peoples along the northeastern Pacific coastline and provides a harvestable product with growing demand. Global trends in kelp distribution show patterns of decline, and the immense loss of northern California bull kelp forests in response to climatic changes have highlighted the need for alternative sources of kelp, both for the product …

Hawker Culture And Its Infrastructure: Experiences And Contestations In Everyday Life, Lily Kong, Aidan Wong

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Hawker foods characterize urban Asia, with similarities and differences across cities that forge both cultural commonalities and distinctions. From the itinerant to the fixed location, from the temporary sites to the purpose-built, hawker foods are served in informal settings, with varying degrees of tradition and innovation, hygiene and squalidness, local authenticity and globalized influence. In the side-streets of Beijing where local delicacies such as scorpion are served, to the abundant food cart vendors on Bangkok streets, to the warung (small, typically family-owned eateries) in Surabaya, and the carefully planned and designed hawker centres in Singapore, hawker culture is a distinctive …

Impacts Of Land Cover Change On Urban Heat Island (Uhi) In Denver From 1985 To 2020, Sadia Islam Ritu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Rapid urbanization due to land use and land cover change has become one of the major problems in the fastest-growing cities during the past few decades. Land surface temperature has changed dramatically due to urban expansion, and it is a major driver of urban eco-environmental change. Increasing temperature leads to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) problem in rapidly growing cities like Denver, contributing to global warming at multiple scales. UHI study is significant to monitor and mitigate the urban heat islandrelated problem in the study area Denver. Satellite remote sensing analysis ready data (ARD) with 30 m resolution based on …

Method Of Validating Satellite Surface Reflectance Product Using Empirical Line Method, Meghraj Kc

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Atmospherically corrected surface reflectance (SR) products are used for reliable monitoring of land surfaces and are the standard products of Landsat sensors. Due to increased demand for SR products, a need exists to verify that the L2C2 (Level-2 Collection-2) SR products are precise and accurate. The Level-2 Collection 2 (L2C2) SR Product is processed satellite imagery data that corrects for atmospheric effects such as absorption and scattering, providing a more accurate representation of Earth's surface. The validation of SR products using ground truth measurement is essential. This study aims to develop and evaluate a validation methodology for satellite SR products. …

การวิเคราะห์การเปลี่ยนแปลงการใช้ประโยชน์ที่ดินที่มีผลต่อลักษณะของน้ำท่าในลุ่มน้ำระยอง, ปทิตตา กฤตย์จิรกร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อวิเคราะห์การเปลี่ยนแปลงการใช้ประโยชน์ที่ดินที่มีผลต่อปริมาณน้ำท่าในลุ่มน้ำระยอง วิธีการวิจัยเริ่มจากจำลองการเกิดน้ำท่าด้วยแบบจำลอง Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) โดยสอบเทียบค่าพารามิเตอร์และทดสอบประสิทธิภาพแบบจำลองด้วยปริมาณน้ำท่าตรวจวัดรายวันใน พ.ศ. 2558-2563 จากนั้นวิเคราะห์รูปแบบการเปลี่ยนแปลงการใช้ประโยชน์ที่ดินในลุ่มน้ำระยองระหว่าง พ.ศ. 2553-2559 เพื่อคาดการณ์การใช้ประโยชน์ที่ดินใน พ.ศ. 2570 2575 และ 2580 ด้วยแบบจำลอง CA-Markov ผลการศึกษาพบว่าแบบจำลองสามารถคาดการณ์กราฟน้ำท่าได้ในระดับพอใช้ในลุ่มน้ำดอกกราย ลุ่มน้ำหนองปลาไหล และลุ่มน้ำคลองใหญ่ ในขณะที่ลุ่มน้ำทับมาคาดการณ์ปริมาณน้ำท่าในช่วงอัตราการไหลสูงได้ต่ำกว่าความเป็นจริง ส่วนลุ่มน้ำบ้านค่ายไม่สามารถจำลองปริมาณน้ำท่าได้อย่างถูกต้อง สำหรับการเปลี่ยนแปลงการใช้ประโยชน์ที่ดินของลุ่มน้ำระยอง พบว่าพื้นที่สิ่งปลูกสร้างมีแนวโน้มเพิ่มขึ้นทุกปีและการใช้ประโยชน์ที่ดินภาคเกษตรกรรมบางประเภท มีแนวโน้มลดลง จึงกำหนดสถานการณ์การจำลองการใช้ประโยชน์ที่ดินในอนาคตได้ 2 แบบ ที่มีพื้นที่อุตสาหกรรมเพิ่มขึ้นและเกษตรกรรมลดลงในอัตราที่ต่างกัน โดยใน พ.ศ. 2570 2575 2580 พบว่าลุ่มน้ำระยองมีปริมาณน้ำท่าเพิ่มขึ้นร้อยละ 23.18 24.95 25.94 จาก พ.ศ. 2563 ในสถานการณ์ที่อุตสาหกรรมเพิ่มขึ้นเฉลี่ยต่อปีร้อยละ 0.5 และพื้นที่เกษตรกรรมลดลงเฉลี่ยต่อปีร้อยละ 0.5 การใช้ประโยชน์ที่ดินประเภท พืชไร่ ยางพารา อุตสาหกรรม และพื้นที่ชุมชน สามารถอธิบายการเปลี่ยนแปลงปริมาณน้ำท่าของลุ่มน้ำระยองได้มากที่สุดทั้ง 2 สถานการณ์ (R2 ระหว่าง 0.85-0.99) เมื่อพิจารณาลุ่มน้ำย่อย พบว่าลุ่มน้ำทับมามีปริมาณน้ำท่าเพิ่มขึ้นมากที่สุดจาก พ.ศ. 2563 ร้อยละ 50.40 เนื่องจากมีพื้นที่อุตสาหกรรมและชุมชนเพิ่มขึ้นและพื้นที่เกษตรกรรมลดลงมากกว่าลุ่มน้ำย่อยอื่น

อิทธิพลของปรากฏการณ์เอนโซต่อการเกิดพายุฤดูร้อนในภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือตอนบนของประเทศไทย, นาวิน เสริมสุข

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้ศึกษาและวิเคราะห์ลักษณะและรูปแบบทางพื้นที่ของปริมาณฝนจากพายุฤดูร้อนตามสภาวะของปรากฏการณ์เอนโซ ในภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือตอนบนของประเทศไทยด้วยแบบจำลอง Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) วิธีการวิจัยเริ่มจากประมวลผลแบบจำลอง WRF ด้วยชุดพารามิเตอร์ทางคิวมูลัส 4 ชุด ได้แก่ Kain-Fritsh (KF) Bett-Miller-Janjic (BMJ) Grell-Devenyi (GD) และ Grell-3D (G3) ในเดือนมีนาคมถึงพฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2560-2564 จากนั้นตรวจสอบความถูกต้องด้วยข้อมูลเรดาร์ตรวจอากาศสกลนครที่ปรับแก้ความเอนเอียงเชิงพื้นที่ (Spatially Variable Bias Correction) ด้วยข้อมูลจากสถานีตรวจวัดอากาศภาคพื้นดิน 5 แห่ง ผลการศึกษาพบว่าชุดพารามิเตอร์ BMJ มีประสิทธิภาพเหมาะสมที่สุดในการจำลองปริมาณฝนจากพายุฤดูร้อน โดยมีความคลาดเคลื่อน (RMSE) ของปริมาณฝนรายชั่วโมงและความเร็วลมจากข้อมูลเรดาร์ เท่ากับ 4.98 มิลลิเมตร และ 4.78 นอต ตามลำดับ เมื่อวิเคราะห์ลักษณะและรูปแบบของฝนจากแบบจำลอง WRF ในเดือนมีนาคมและเมษายน พ.ศ. 2553-2564 พบว่าส่วนใหญ่เป็นกลุ่มฝนขนาดเล็กถึงปานกลาง (พื้นที่เฉลี่ย 409.52 ตารางกิโลเมตร) โดยมีกลุ่มของพื้นที่ฝนตกหนัก (มากกว่า 35 มิลลิเมตร/วัน) โดยเฉลี่ย 1-3 กลุ่มต่อวัน ช่วงปลายเดือนเมษายนปริมาณฝนมีความผันแปรสูงกว่าต้นเดือนพฤษภาคมซึ่งแสดงถึงการเกิดสภาพอากาศรุนแรงในบางปี ส่วนเดือนพฤษภาคมกลุ่มของพื้นที่ฝนตกหนักมีจำนวนมากขึ้น มีขนาดพื้นที่ใหญ่ขึ้นและต่อเนื่องกันบนพื้นที่จากอิทธิพลของลมมรสุมฤดูร้อนและร่องความกดอากาศต่ำเขตศูนย์สูตร สำหรับความสัมพันธ์กับค่า Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) พบว่า สภาวะเอลนีโญที่เริ่มต้นขึ้นในฤดูร้อนหรือก่อนฤดูร้อน 3 เดือน ทำให้ปริมาณฝนรายวันและพื้นที่ฝนหนักรายวันในเดือนมีนาคมและเมษายนลดลง (r ระหว่าง -0.44 ถึง -0.86 และ -0.24 ถึง -0.93 ตามลำดับ) ส่วนสภาวะลานีญาเฉพาะที่เริ่มต้นขึ้นในฤดูร้อนเท่านั้นส่งผลให้ปริมาณฝนรายวันในช่วงครึ่งเดือนหลังของมีนาคมและเมษายนเพิ่มขึ้น (r = -0.86 และ -0.58 ตามลำดับ) สำหรับพื้นที่ฝนหนักเพิ่มขึ้นเฉพาะครึ่งเดือนหลังของเมษายนเท่านั้น (r = -0.59) ดังนั้นจึงสรุปได้ว่าสภาวะเอนโซส่งผลต่อปริมาณฝนในช่วงเดือนมีนาคมและเมษายนชัดเจนกว่าเดือนพฤษภาคม

Displacement, Place Attachment, And Other Characteristics Of Anglers On The Yellowstone River, Zachary L. Jones

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Yellowstone River has seen increasing recreational use as Montana has grown and out of state visitation has increased, leading to some locals voicing concerns of crowding. River recreation, as with many outdoor recreational activities, has participants that may be considered to be sensitive to crowded conditions and place a high value on solitude. Considering these perceptions, there is reason to believe that these participants may change their river use patterns if or when the perceived level of crowding exceeds their tolerance thresholds. Further, monitoring efforts conducted at river access sites often do not fully capture users that are already displaced …

An Interdisciplinary Approach To Understanding Ecosystem Processes And Human Perceptions Of Montana’S Mountain Lakes, Carly Innis

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Mountain lake ecosystems are critical in their roles in global biogeochemical cycling and providing vital ecosystem services, including freshwater resources, ecological habitats, and recreational opportunities. Ecological processes in mountain lakes, especially those occurring in the littoral, or near-shore zones, are linked to society and can be negatively influenced by human behavior, consequently threatening ecosystem services a lake provides. To investigate this problem, this study interrogates two inter-related issues. First, I assessed ecosystem metabolic services of biological activity that demonstrate a lake’s role in carbon cycling through sampling and monitoring a series of mountain lakes. During the summer of 2022, we …

Pathways To Sustainability: Industry, Development, Business, Agriculture, Economy, And Politics, Andreas Hernandez, Pablo Arias-Benavides, Dayana C.M. Machada, Ousmane Pame, Alice Main, Per Moller

Geography and Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

In this chapter we examine six compelling on-the-ground experiences, which are demonstrating pathways to sustainability, resilience and regeneration. Each case opens a pathway to sustainability in a key sphere of human activity: industry, development, business, agriculture, economy and politics. These experiences are creating new social imaginaries embodied in the practical forms of new politics and economics aimed at profound democratizations of human life, and towards a creative realignment of humans with the rest of the web of life. These social imaginaries are both open and encompassing. They are open in the sense that they can be filled with new possibilities …

The Vital Role Of Dehcho Dene Knowledges In Climate Change & Permafrost Thaw Adaptation In Jean Marie River First Nation Nwt, Mackenzie Bell

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Across the globe climate change has become an issue of growing concern for both Indigenous and non – Indigenous peoples alike. In Northern Canada this narrative is no different. For Indigenous groups such as the Jean Marie River First Nation (JMRFN) anthropogenic climate change is not only a reality but is visible through their daily interactions with the environment around them. Additional insight pertaining to these climatic changes and their impacts can be found through analyzing the traditional knowledge systems of the JMRFN and how these before mentioned interactions have changed over time. This two-year participatory research project has investigated …

Advancing Estuarine Shoreline Change Analysis Using Small Uncrewed Autonomous Systems, Thomas R. Allen, Devon Eulie, Mariko Polk, George Mcleod, Robert Stuart, Alexandra Garnand, A. J. Manning (Editor)

Political Science & Geography Faculty Publications

Estuarine shorelines face the threats of accelerating sea-level rise, recurrent storms, and disruptions of natural sediment and ecological adjustments owing to historic human interventions. The growing availability and technical capability of uncrewed systems (UxS), including remote or autonomous aerial and surface vessels, provide new opportunities to study and understand estuarine shoreline changes. This chapter assesses the state of the technology, interdisciplinary science and engineering literature, and presents case studies from the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, and coastal North Carolina, USA, that demonstrate new insights into coastal geomorphic processes and applications to managing complex and dynamic estuarine shorelines. These technologies enhance the …

The Political Ecology Of Death: Chinese Religion And The Affective Tensions Of Secularised Burial Rituals In Singapore, Quan Gao, Orlando Woods, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This paper explores the political ecology of death and the affective tensions of secularised burial rituals in Singapore. Although scholars have recently acknowledged the roles of biopower and affect in shaping environmental politics, religion and death as socio-affective forces have not been substantively engaged with by political ecologists. We argue that death is inherently both a spiritual and ecological phenomenon, as it exposes not only the spiritual geographies that structure how people see the natural world, but also the affective tensions and struggles over what counts as a “proper” form of burial in relation to religion and nature. First, we …

Structural Analysis And Slip Kinematics Of The Keweenaw Fault System Between Bête Grise Bay And Gratiot Lake, Keweenaw County, Michigan, Daniel J. Lizzadro-Mcpherson

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

The Keweenaw fault is perhaps the most significant geologic structure on the Keweenaw Peninsula, with an estimated 7-11 km of reverse slip juxtaposing volcanic strata of the ~1.1 Ga Portage Lake Volcanics above ~1.0 Ga Jacobsville Sandstone. The fault has been interpreted as a rift-bounding normal fault later inverted by compressional pulses of the Grenville Orogeny or, more recently, as part of a detached thrust fault system unrelated to an earlier normal fault. The fault is shown on published maps as a single continuous fault trace whose sinuosity implies multiple fault segments and complex slip dynamics. Mapping along Bête Grise …

Structural Analysis And Interpretation Of Deformation Along The Keweenaw Fault System From Lake Linden To Mohawk, Michigan, Nolan G. Gamet

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

The Keweenaw fault is likely the most significant and most studied fault associated with the Midcontinent Rift System. The fault roughly bisects the Keweenaw Peninsula and places Portage Lake Volcanics (~1.1 Ga) over much younger Jacobsville Sandstone (~1.0 Ga). Published bedrock geology maps with cross sections from the 1950s show the fault as a single continuous trace that is locally associated with smaller cross faults and splays. The accompanying cross-sections show hanging-wall volcanic strata having a well-defined, listric geometry with dip decreasing away from the fault to the northwest.

This M.S. thesis presents a structural analysis and interpretation of the …

Isotopic Signature Of Massive, Buried Ice In Eastern Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Implications For Its Origin, Christopher B. Gardner, Melisa A. Diaz, Devin F. Smith, Andrew G. Fountain, Joseph S. Levy, W. Berry Lyons

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

The coastal regions of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, contain deposits of the Ross Sea Drift, sedimentary material left from the Ross Sea ice sheet from the advance of the West Antarctic ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum. Much of this deposit is ice-cored, but data on the stable isotopic composition of water from this ice, which may contain a valuable climate archive, are sparse or incomplete. Widespread thermokarstic ground subsidence in this “coastal thaw zone” of the McMurdo Dry Valleys suggests that these potential records are rapidly being lost due to the melting of ground ice and permafrost. …

Development Indicators Of Health Services Using Geographical Information Systems In Beit Lahia, Gaza, Saleh Abu Amra

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

The study aimed to identify the health services and contribute to solving their problems in Beit Lahia, Gaza in light of urban indicators in terms of quantity, type and the efficiency and effectiveness of spatial distribution. To achieve this, the population of the study was studied in terms of its size, growth and sustainable development of health services. The results showed that the population was growing at a high rate as it multiplied about 25, 8 times in an estimated period of (50) years with poor health services. That is, the health services constituted 0,06% of the total concern as …

Correlation Of Road Network Structure And Urban Mobility Intensity: An Exploratory Study Using Geo-Tagged Tweets, Li Geng, Ke Zhang

Publications and Research

Urban planners have been long interested in understanding how urban structure and activities are mutually influenced. Human mobility and economic activities naturally drive the formation of road network structure and the accessibility of the latter shapes the patterns of movement flow across urban space. In this paper, we perform an exploratory study on the relationship between the street network structure and the intensity of human movement in urban areas. We focus on two cities and we utilize a dataset of geo-tagged tweets that can form a proxy to urban mobility and the corresponding street networks as obtained from OpenStreetMap. We …

Economic Indicators And Special Distribution Of Private Playgrounds In Greater Irbid Municipality: A Study In Service Geography, Omar Al-Dayaflah, Ahmad Khawaldeh

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

This study aims to define the general and spatial characteristics of special playgrounds within the greater Irbid municipality. It also analyzes the reasons of their locational selection and provides the qualitative and quantitative analysis of this service in the study area. In order to achieve the aims of this study, a descriptive and analytical approach is employed. The results show that the reasons of the positional selection of these playgrounds are due to their accessibility and vehicle parks availability. Moreover, the study finds that the allocation for each person from these playgrounds is 4322 person to every playground (4322 person/ …

“Cuando Crezca, Quiero Ser Fotógrafo”: Caminos De La Producción Audiovisual De Kamikia Kisêdjê, Rodrigo Lacerda, Ximena Flores Rojas, Tatiane Maíra Klein

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Entrevista con Kamikia Kisêdjê.

Movements In C Minor: Vocal Soundscapes In Eastern Amazonia (Araweté), Guilherme Orlandini Heurich

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

This article examines the capture of forest spirits through music in the Anĩ pihi speech-songs of the Araweté, a small Amerindian society in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil. The Anĩ pihi are unique in their combination of spoken and sung forms, in which spirits and divinities are voiced by a ritual specialist. I explore how particular sounds index the presence of different kinds of others (gods and spirits), and how these sounds are, in turn, related to the use of reported speech – in other words, how others talk about other others in sung form. As such, the Anĩ pihi are a …

Camaraderie, Mentorship, And Manhood: Contemporary Indigenous Identities Among The A’Uwẽ (Xavante) Of Central Brazil, James R. Welch

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Rites of passage and associated social processes and configurations can foster a sense of shared purpose, fraternity, and dedication to community through common experiences of group trials and commitment. A’uwẽ (Xavante) age organization entails the social production of manhood through a privileged form of male camaraderie constructed through age sets and mentorship, rooted in the shared experience of rites of passage and coresidence in the pre-initiate boys’ house. This process is central to how A’uwẽ men understand themselves, their social relations with certain delineated segments of society, and their ethnic identity. It is a basic social configuration contributing to the …

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Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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