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Economic And Social Change In A Village In Giza, Judy H. Brink

Faculty Book Chapters

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Markets, Marketing, The Market: Informal Egypt, Nicholas S. Hopkins

Faculty Book Chapters

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Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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[Review Of] Marjorie Harness Goodwin. He-Said-She-Said: Talk As Social Organization Among Black Children, Maryln Zupicich

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The author, acting both as ethnographer and sociolinguist, recorded conversations of black children in a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia over a period of one-and-a-half years. She acted as observer of children's games and talk as they interacted with their peers in their after school surroundings. Goodwin argues that peer setting provides the best opportunity to observe children as they develop social organization, and she challenges the traditional view of anthropology that perceives children as being in the process of internalizing adult values in order to integrate into the social world.

[Review Of] Thomas Vennum, Jr. Wild Rice And The Ojibway People, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Everything you wanted to know and lots more you never thought to ask about North American wild rice are included in this extensive tome. The plant is labelled Zizania aquatica in the Linnaean nomenclature; the Ojibway called it manoomin. The author discusses the scientific classification of wild rice, its germination, growth cycle, habitat, and enemies. He also takes up the varied uses of wild rice as food: its nutritional value, methods of preparing and cooking the grain, and the reactions of Euro-Americans to this native plant which is exceedingly rich in carbohydrates and converts efficiently to energy in the body. …

[Review Of] Miriam Makeba And James Hall. Makeba: My Story, Nancy Hellner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Like much of her music, Miriam Makeba's autobiography is both personal and political. As it details the story of a young girl's coming of age and search for identity, it simultaneously records the history of a country struggling for independence. In the prologue, Makeba compares herself to a South African bird soaring above the horror of apartheid (aparthood) which was instituted in 1947. As she recounts the details of war and injustice in direct, understated, idiom-filled prose, and as she intertwines details of ancient customs with the realities of modern technology, Makeba suggests that music best expresses the tragic subject …

[Review Of] Mariano Azuela. The Underdogs, Silvester J. Brito

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Underdogs (Los De Abajo) is a classic novel of the Mexican Revolution. The foreword briefly covers Mexican history, from Spanish Conquest to Independence to Revolution. Its purpose is to focus upon the main sociopolitical and economic problems of the Mexican Revolution.

[Review Of] Bienvenido L. Lumbera. Tagalog Poetry: 1570-1898, Cruz Skinner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Bienvenido Lumbera, in his Preface to this survey of Tagalog poetry, apologizes for the shortcomings of his book. Originally written twenty years ago as a doctoral dissertation, it does not take into account new information on Tagalog poetry and its discussion of precolonial poetry does not include new data on the oral poetry of contemporary Filipino groups. "I have bailed myself out," say Lumbera, "by persuading myself that many scholarly sins could be forgiven under the rubric of 'pioneering.''' And indeed these omissions can be forgiven for what the reader gains in return is a pioneering study describing and analyzing …

[Review Of] Charles Green And Basil Wilson. The Struggle For Black Empowerment In New York City, Otis L. Scott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This book by Charles Green and Basil Wilson is most informative. The authors, a sociologist and a political scientist respectively, draw upon the research and reporting methods of their disciplines in bringing forth a comprehensive interdisciplinary social science examination of the melodrama that is politics in New York City.

Informal Education. Sociocultural Expression. And Symbolic Meaning In Popular Immigration Music Text, Jose Macias

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

One February morning as I noted the events of the primary school talent show, a sixth-grade boy belted out this song made popular in two countries by the Mexican rock group, Los Bukis. It was 1987, and I was doing fieldwork in a rural Mexican immigrant-sending community I call San Felipe, for an ethnography of families and their children who emigrated from Mexico to the United States[2]

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 14, Issue 2, 1991

[Review Of] Anne Wette Garland. Women Activists: Challenging The Abuse Of Power, Allene Jones

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Women Activists is a long overdue book of stories written by women who have been involved in community political activities. The author, Anne Wette Garland, is to be commended for her ability to organize the stories told by fourteen women in an organized and interesting manner.

[Review Of] Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality And Feminism, Patricia Grimshaw

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In Woman, Native, Other, Trinh T. Minh-ha has taken on an ambitious task, which is to explain something of the problems confronting non-Western women writers who publish and are subjected to critiques within the established paradigms of Western scholarly discourses. Must she and her fellows position themselves as "writer of color," "woman writer," or "woman of color," she asks, as she proceeds to display the boundaries others place upon their freedom to create their own realities and establish their distinctive voices. Whereas other women theorists of postcolonialism and feminism have challenged Western-conventions largely within the linguistic and stylistic conventions of …

[Review Of] Silvester J. Brito. The Way Of A Peyote Roadman, D. C. Cole

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Way of a Peyote Roadman is a work which is certain to stir controversy in a number of academic circles. Silvester J. Brito holds a Ph.D. in folklore and anthropology from Indiana University. The book begins with a personal affirmation of the author's belief in the power of sorcery, based on his personal experiences culminating in a peyote ritual curing ceremony.

[Review Of] Edward H. Spicer. People Of Pascua, Gretchen Harvey

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

On the surface, People of Pascua appears to be a focused anthropological field study limited to a narrow period of time. It should not surprise those who are familiar with Edward Spicer's preeminent scholarship on acculturation, however, that things are not always what they seem to be. It is true that this study concerning the Yaquis, begun in 1941, stems from Spicer's first field experience as a graduate student. Yet, People of Pascua has broader implications that go beyond the lives of the Yaquis who made Pascua Village, Arizona, their home. Spicer's methodology included biography as a means to better …

[Review Of] Peter M. Whiteley. Deliberate Acts: Changing Hopi Culture Through The Oraibi Split, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In this volume, Peter Whiteley, an anthropologist, probes into the reasons for the split in Oraibi, largest of the thirteen Hopi Indian communities in northeastern Arizona, early in this century. Oraibi was a thriving village in 1540 at the time of Coronado's entrada into the southwest; archaeological evidence suggests that the village was settled at least four or five centuries earlier. In 1906, one group of villagers angrily left or were forced out of Oraibi and established a settlement known as Bacavi. Previous studies have portrayed the Bacavi Hopi as "hostiles," that is, culturally traditional people who opposed U.S. goverment …

[Review Of] Margaret B. Wilkerson, Ed. 9 Plays By Black Women, Opal Palmer Adisa

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Black women writers, primarily novelists, have taken center stage for the last two decades, but black women playwrights have not been given similar coverage. The explanation, in part, is that plays are often only published after successful productions, and the plays by the majority of black women have only been produced in local, small theaters. Consequently, their works have not been given serious critical attention. Margaret Wilkerson's 9 Plays by Black Women showcases plays by established and well celebrated black female playwrights, like Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, and Beah Richards as well as less well-known playwrights whose works …

Prevention Of Morbidity And Mortality From Induced And Unsafe Abortion In Nigeria, Friday E. Okonofua, Toun Ilumoka

Reproductive Health

These proceedings are from a seminar organized by the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Perinatology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (Nigeria) in collaboration with the Population Council. The primary purpose of the multidisciplinary seminar was to identify the determinants of the high rate of mortality and morbidity from unsafe abortion in Nigeria. The specific objectives were: 1) to identify measures that could be undertaken on a short- and long-term basis to reduce the rate of abortion-related mortality, and 2) to set an agenda for research into abortion in Nigeria. The seminar consisted of oral presentations on related topics by researchers and …

Are There Multiple Paths To Delinquency, David Huizinga, Finn-Aage Esbensen, Anne Wylie Weiher

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Explaining Crimes And Analogous Acts, Or The Unrestrained Will Grab At Pleasure Whenever They Can, Hugh D. Barlow

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Omaha Focus, 91-1, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

This issue of Omaha Focus features "The Omaha Housing Authority's Scattered Site Housing Program: Nearby Residents' Perceptions" by William T. Clute from UNO's Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Utah Indians And The Indian Slave Trade: The Mormon Adoption Program And Its Effect On The Indian Slaves, Robert M. Muhlestein

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a study of the Mormon adoption program developed by the Mormons in response to the Indian slave trade in Utah, 1850-1880. It focuses on the Mormon justifications, as enumerated by Brigham Young, for the adoption policy and it links those justifications to expected results. Further this thesis compares the Mormon's expected results with the actual results of the adoption program through an analysis of historical accounts and Mormon ordinance records.

The Myth Of Performance Appraisals, Michael Bochenek

Dissertations

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An Ethnohistorical Study Of The Swan-Canning Fishery In Western Australia, 1697-1837, Paul R. Weaver

Theses : Honours

The study takes a multidisciplinary approach by examining historical and contemporary scientific literature in order to determine the degree of intercultural competition which took place between Aborigines and Europeans for the native food resources which were associated with the Swan-Canning estuarine system, which is located in the south west of Western Australia, at approximately longitude 116" E. and latitude 32" S. The 1697-1827 time frame of the study, covers all the documented pre-colonial European visits to the fishery environs and also incorporates the first decade of the British colonisation process at the Swan River, which can be said to have …

Lifetimes In Humanist Sociology, Elizabeth Briant Lee, Alfred Mcclung Lee

Clinical Sociology Review

Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee describe their family backgrounds, their dedication to humane values and their interest in alleviating social problems. The authors discuss the humanistic social science organizations they founded which were a reflection of their values.

The Emergence Of American Clinical Sociology: The First Courses, Jan M. Fritz

Clinical Sociology Review

This article describes the first clinical sociology courses at the University of Chicago, Tulane University, New York University and Antioch College as well as the proposal for a clinical sociology department at Yale University. The author discusses why the earliest clinical sociology courses didn't become institutionalized in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Clinical Sociology And Religion, C. Margaret Hall

Clinical Sociology Review

Although religious concerns are generally not clients' primary presenting problems in secular therapists' practices, religious beliefs and values can have a strong influence on clients' behavior and clinical progress. For this reason, knowledge about religion and its impact can be useful in intervention work.

Three case studies illustrate how sociology of religion can be a substantive resource in clinical sociology and sociological practice. In this paper, religion is defined as a belief system of denominational, sectarian or secular values which explains natural and supernatural phenomena.

As the concept of a supreme being is central in most Western belief systems, the …

Socio-Legal Defenitions Of Family, Jean H. Thoresen

Clinical Sociology Review

Recent decisions in family law cases suggest that some courts are ready to broaden the judicial definition of "family," and to create or accept a definition that extends the traditional notion of what constitutes a "family." This provides sociologists with an opportunity to work within or coordinate with the legal system in redefining "family" to provide a more inclusive concept which courts could then apply.

Combining Sociology With Epidemiology: Community-Oriented Primary Care In A Rural Mountain County, Thomas Plaut, Suzanne Landis, June Trevor

Clinical Sociology Review

Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) focuses attention on the community as "patient" and involves its residents in a process of discernment of health needs and consequent action. COPC's emphasis on community involvement provides an opportunity for the sociologist to create the tools for resident participation in health needs assessment and subsequent interventions. This paper describes sociology's role in a rural Appalachian county COPC program funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Some 41 focus group interviews were employed to reach more than 416 residents. Interview results were combined with epidemiological and census data and fed back to a 27-member Community Advisory …

Obesity And Nutritional Sociology: A Model For Coping With The Stigma Of Obesity, Jeffery Sobal

Clinical Sociology Review

Nutritional sociology uses sociological theories and methods to study and influence food patterns, eating habits, and nutrition. Obesity and weight loss are important topics in nutritional sociology, and stigmatization of the obese is a long-standing interest. Most past sociological work has only described stigmatization, rather than developing ways to facilitate coping with it. A model for coping with the stigma of obesity is presented here. The model includes four components: Recognition, Readiness, Reaction, and Repair. Recognition involves awareness of the stigma of obesity and understanding about stigmatization. Readiness involves anticipation that stigmatization may occur in specific settings or by some …