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Ecological Impacts Of Historic And Prehistoric Hurricanes On Horn Island, Mississippi, Kari Gathen Dec 1994

Ecological Impacts Of Historic And Prehistoric Hurricanes On Horn Island, Mississippi, Kari Gathen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Hurricanes play an important role in the ecology and geomorphology of the northern Gulf of Mexico coast. In order to study the impact of hurricanes on barrier island vegetation, the sedimentary and fossil pollen records taken from cores in three ponds on Horn Island, Mississippi were examined to establish a record of ecological and geomorphological disturbance on Horn Island. Surface samples taken from the bottom of 15 ponds and 3 lagoons, delineated as fresh or brackish according to salinity test results, provide the modern vegetational analog to compare with the fossil pollen record using a discriminant analysis. Discriminant analysis results …

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A Water Balance Evaluation Of The Effects Of Climate Variability And Human Modification On The Flow Regime Of The Mississippi River, 1932-1988., Judy Lee Hoff Jan 1994

A Water Balance Evaluation Of The Effects Of Climate Variability And Human Modification On The Flow Regime Of The Mississippi River, 1932-1988., Judy Lee Hoff

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Human activities affecting runoff and streamflow within the Mississippi River drainage basin have been and continue to be significant. Since the disastrous flood of 1927, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has established an extensive regulatory system for flood control purposes and navigational benefits. Along with these river system modifications, significant landscape alterations have occurred within the basin as a result of cultural and economical development. In light of the dramatic Midwest flood of 1993, it becomes increasingly necessary to understand the comprehensive relationship between streamflow, climatic variability, and human-induced change within the overall drainage basin. A water balance methodology …

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Celts, Greeks, And Germans: Macpherson’S Ossian And The Celtic Epic, Howard D. Weinbrot Jan 1994

Celts, Greeks, And Germans: Macpherson’S Ossian And The Celtic Epic, Howard D. Weinbrot

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Eric Voegelin's Mystical Epistemology And Its Influence On Ethics And Politics., Charles Warren Burchfield Jan 1994

Eric Voegelin's Mystical Epistemology And Its Influence On Ethics And Politics., Charles Warren Burchfield

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The primary purpose of this dissertation is to examine and analyze Eric Voegelin's theory of knowledge, and to see what implications it has on his theories of ethics and politics. The profundity of Voegelin's epistemological search and recovery is apparent when placed in the context of his disillusionment with and resistance to the dominant epistemology of his day, namely, positivism. Through a recovery and restoration of the symbolizations of classical and Christian philosophy, Voegelin searches for and finds experiential knowledge which is gained through faith in search of understanding (fides quaerens intellectum), which brings about a vision of the whole …

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The Dimensionality Of Factors Underlying Satisfaction With Continuing Care Retirement Communities., Aimee Desobry Prawitz Jan 1994

The Dimensionality Of Factors Underlying Satisfaction With Continuing Care Retirement Communities., Aimee Desobry Prawitz

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose was to develop and test a model to predict satisfaction with consumer selection of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). The family resource management conceptual framework of Deacon and Firebaugh (1988) provided the theoretical base for development of the proposed model. Another area of study, consumer behavior, was drawn upon to find pertinent indicators for the decision-making component of the model. Constructs of the Engel, Blackwell and Miniard (1990) consumer behavior model were incorporated to represent the managerial aspect of the family resource management model. The model was tested by applying it to the CCRC selection process of consumers. …

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Temporal And Synoptic Analyses Of Heavy Rainfall In The Southeastern United States., Barry David Keim Jan 1994

Temporal And Synoptic Analyses Of Heavy Rainfall In The Southeastern United States., Barry David Keim

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The abundance of recent heavy rainstorms in the southeastern United States has raised concerns that excessive rainstorms may be increasing in frequency and magnitude across the region. For this reason, the heavy rainfall climatology was examined to determine whether long-term trends exist within the historic climate record. In addition, the synoptic conditions leading to these events were examined. The synoptic weather patterns that generated storm events over a 75 mm (3 inches) threshold were classified using an all-inclusive manual weather typing system. Heavy rainfall events in the region were generated primarily by frontal weather systems (79 percent) followed by tropical …

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Cognition And Learning: The Implications Of A Situated Connectionist Perspective For Theory And Practice In Education., John A. St. Julien Jan 1994

Cognition And Learning: The Implications Of A Situated Connectionist Perspective For Theory And Practice In Education., John A. St. Julien

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In this dissertation I attempt to construct a framework for an alternate theory of instruction, starting from the position that education has no theory of learning; instead, what passes for theories of learning are actually descriptions of the conditions under which knowledge is acquired. Descriptive theorizing does not serve education well because it is not likely, being a description of what is known told in terms of assumed categories, to be generative or adaptive. I question the naturalness of current assumptions about thought and learning by tracing the consolidation of the present discursive formation around a presumed unity of logic, …

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An Ethnographically Informed Case Study Of An Art Teacher Using Right Brain Drawing Instruction., Sara Jan Smith Jan 1994

An Ethnographically Informed Case Study Of An Art Teacher Using Right Brain Drawing Instruction., Sara Jan Smith

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The first and central purpose of this study was to identify and describe one high school art teacher's basis for incorporating into the curriculum right-brain drawing instruction based on Edwards' (1989) book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. The second was to provide art educators with preliminary information about the right-brain theory's popularity that might assist them in future research on a larger scale. Computer searches of ERIC and PSYCH INFO were conducted to locate related research findings dealing with hemispheric function. The empirical findings were analyzed and compared to rationales for employing right-brain teaching strategies. The research …

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Critical Chorology And Peasant Production: Small Farm Forestry In Hojancha, Guanacaste, Costa Rica., Michael Stephen Yoder Jan 1994

Critical Chorology And Peasant Production: Small Farm Forestry In Hojancha, Guanacaste, Costa Rica., Michael Stephen Yoder

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The "new regional geography" is an attempt to fuse traditional regional geography's concerns with cultural and environmental uniqueness of places, with political economy's regard for the nature of global and local structures guiding resource allocation. The approach infuses chorology with theory, and political economy with place-specific empirical research. Most studies exemplifying the new approach have been of industrial localities of Europe and North America. This dissertation is a case study of regional transformation in a Third World locality, the canton of Hojancha, in Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula. The approach utilized is "critical chorology," a variant of the new regional geography …

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Development And Construct Validation Of An Instrument To Measure Caring In The Helping Professions., Barbara Spruill Moffett Jan 1994

Development And Construct Validation Of An Instrument To Measure Caring In The Helping Professions., Barbara Spruill Moffett

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the construct of caring in the helping professions and to develop an instrument to measure the affective component of caring in the specific context of professional nursing. The study involved development of a conceptual framework for the construct of caring, instrument development, and examination of validity evidence using multiple criteria. The sample for this study included 421 registered nurses employed in randomly selected acute care settings. Each participant completed the Caring Inventory for Nurses (CI-N) which included 40 items representing four hypothesized dimensions: receptivity, responsivity, moral/ethical consciousness and professional commitment. Seven …

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Agricultural Terracing In The Fiji Islands. (Volumes I And Ii)., Robert Thomas Kuhlken Jan 1994

Agricultural Terracing In The Fiji Islands. (Volumes I And Ii)., Robert Thomas Kuhlken

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Agricultural terraces form a distinctive element in the cultural landscape of Fiji. These skillfully fashioned earthworks were developed for the irrigated cultivation of one specific cultigen--taro (Colocasia esculenta), a long domesticated edible aroid. Constructing pondfields on slopes represents an intensification of production, with taro yields responding favorably to higher levels of labor input. In Fiji, irrigated terraces on the leeward side of larger islands also served to overcome seasonal conditions of drought or soil moisture deficits. Nearly all of these intensive agrosystems have been abandoned. But the carefully sculpted hillsides endure, and serve as poignant reminders of past travail. Taro …

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The Rhetoric Of The Organizational Saga: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of The Organizational Communication Culture Of The Louisiana State Police., Brookie Ann Allphin Jan 1994

The Rhetoric Of The Organizational Saga: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of The Organizational Communication Culture Of The Louisiana State Police., Brookie Ann Allphin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation is a fantasy theme analysis of the organizational communication culture of the Louisiana State Police. This study interprets the rhetorical function of the organizational sagas of State Police. State Police has a distinct history aligned with Louisiana Politics. In 1937, General Louis F. Guerre, the first superintendent, envisioned a new State Police, immune from political pressures, "soldiers of the law in the first line of defense for society." The symbolic persona of LSP has survived through fifty-six years of politics and policing as the state's ranking law enforcement agency. As participant observer, the researcher gathered communication data and …

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"A Proper Little Lady" And Other Twisted Tales Of Adolescent Femininity., Natalie Guice Adams Jan 1994

"A Proper Little Lady" And Other Twisted Tales Of Adolescent Femininity., Natalie Guice Adams

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this ethnographic study is to explore the stories told by four adolescent females about how they construct a gendered identity amidst the conflicting and contradictory expectations of them as adolescents and as females. After situating the study within a feminist poststructuralist framework, the dominant cultural scripts that have dictated what constitutes normative adolescent and feminine behavior are examined. Of particular importance to this study is the way in which these dominant discourses of femininity and adolescence are manifested in the middle school that the participants attend, especially in the school's attempt to mold its female students into …

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A Comparative Study Of The Oral Language Of Students In Basal-Based And Whole Language Kindergartens., Joan H. Lucille Benedict Jan 1994

A Comparative Study Of The Oral Language Of Students In Basal-Based And Whole Language Kindergartens., Joan H. Lucille Benedict

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Concern has existed for several years over the classroom practices relating to the "whole language" approach as opposed to the "basal-based" approach relative to literacy development, especially with respect to the appropriateness of each method for use with minority and lower socioeconomic groups of children entering kindergarten. This study describes the oral language of both African American and European American kindergarten children from low and middle socioeconomic status families who are attending public school kindergartens, one using whole language and one a basal-based approach. The language during centertime of seventeen children from these two classrooms was audiotaped using wireless microphones …

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Colonial Natal, 1838 To 1880: The Making Of A South African Settlementsystem. (Volumes I And Ii)., Darrell Peter Kruger Jan 1994

Colonial Natal, 1838 To 1880: The Making Of A South African Settlementsystem. (Volumes I And Ii)., Darrell Peter Kruger

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The study of colonial settlement policy is one way for human geographers to understand how people shape the places they inhabit. The major concern of this study was to determine the impact of Dutch-Afrikaner, Native, and British cultures on the Natal colonial settlement system between 1838 and 1879. A prolonged era (1844-1879) of British settlement policy was preceded by a brief period of Dutch-Afrikaner hegemony (1838-1843). I test the hypothesis that Natal's British settlement system was a syncretic compromise between European and South African (Native and Dutch-Afrikaner) adaptations. My interpretation turns on frontier processes of transfer and borrowing. I suggest …

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Geographical Factors Influencing The Rise And Growth Of Cotton Textile Manufacturing In The South Carolina Piedmont, 1880-1940. (Volumes I And Ii)., Gregory John Labyak Jan 1994

Geographical Factors Influencing The Rise And Growth Of Cotton Textile Manufacturing In The South Carolina Piedmont, 1880-1940. (Volumes I And Ii)., Gregory John Labyak

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Despite the South's defeat in the Civil War and the economic hardships occasioned by the conflict and its aftermath, Southerners possessed the resources and the enthusiasm to undertake an industrial campaign that greatly altered the economic course of their region. Industrial development in the South, centered largely on cotton textiles, focused on the Piedmont. The area possessed several advantages over other Southern subregions as a center of cotton manufacturing, but it failed to supply all of the raw material, capital, and labor needed by the rapidly-growing industry. This study examines the progress of cotton textile manufacturing in the South Carolina …

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The Influence Of Regional-Scale Circulation On Precipitation Variability In The Southern United States., Anthony Jude Vega Jan 1994

The Influence Of Regional-Scale Circulation On Precipitation Variability In The Southern United States., Anthony Jude Vega

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The proximity of the southern United States to large water bodies, mountain systems, and the arid climate of the desert southwest makes extended precipitation forecasts exceedingly difficult. In order to better understand the complex precipitation mechanisms, this analysis addresses the relationships between the regional-scale circulation and long-term precipitation variability and change in the southern US for each season through a 42 year study period. Five unique precipitation regions were created for each season, and seasonal anomalies were calculated and examined by region for changes in variability and slope through time. Long-term climate change was detected in the precipitation regions only …

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Surplus Labor And Mobility In Hebei, China: An Evaluation Of The Litu Bu Lixiang Approach., Chunxiao Li Jan 1994

Surplus Labor And Mobility In Hebei, China: An Evaluation Of The Litu Bu Lixiang Approach., Chunxiao Li

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The most fundamental economic reforms were introduced within the rural areas in China during the 1980s. The resulting greater efficiency in production, and the continued population growth have combined to result in a vast number of surplus laborers in rural areas. While concerned about the rural surplus labor problem, the Chinese government also determined to avoid mass rural-urban migration. In 1984, the Chinese Government promulgated a policy called litu bu lixiang (leave the land, but not the countryside). The basic idea is to absorb surplus labor through the retention of labor in the rural areas by creating non-agricultural opportunities. The …

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Cauldron Of Changes: Feminist Spirituality In Contemporary American Women's Fiction., Janice Celia Crosby Jan 1994

Cauldron Of Changes: Feminist Spirituality In Contemporary American Women's Fiction., Janice Celia Crosby

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

My dissertation, Cauldron of Changes: Feminist Spirituality in Contemporary American Women's Fiction, combines feminist perspectives from literary and religious thinkers to inform a discussion of the overlooked aspects of contemporary European-American women's speculative fiction. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the feminist spirituality movement as it incorporates Goddess- and earth-centered religious perspectives, and covers the themes common to both spiritual practice and fiction. "Rewriting History and Legend," the second chapter, shows how the feminist spirituality movement has furthered the feminist project of rewriting myth, legend, and history, thus challenging the foundations of the cultural tradition of the West. In …

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Lsu General Catalog 1993-1994, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1993

Lsu General Catalog 1993-1994, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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The Southern Baptist Convention Reformation, 1979-1990: A Social Drama., William Stanley Stone Jr Jan 1993

The Southern Baptist Convention Reformation, 1979-1990: A Social Drama., William Stanley Stone Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

From Michael Thompson, Richard Ellis, and Aaron Wildavsky's cultural theory perspective, the authoritarian and the individualistic ways of life have coexisted in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) for more than a century. In 1979, Southern Baptist fundamentalists began a concerted movement to reform the SBC according to authoritarian beliefs and social practices. From Victor Turner's dramaturgical perspective, the 1979-1990 Southern Baptist controversy was a social drama that transferred power and reshaped Southern Baptists' perception of the past, present, and future. Rhetorical strategies facilitated each stage of the fundamentalists' reformation movement and the moderate counter movement. The present study symbolically explicates …

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The Absent Father In Modern Drama., Paul Nagim Rosefeldt Jan 1993

The Absent Father In Modern Drama., Paul Nagim Rosefeldt

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Theories of modern drama point out the powerful sense of loss and alienation that is woven into the very fabric of modern drama. This sense of loss is connected with the death of God and the destruction of absolute value systems. This study, however, takes the theory of loss one step further, tying the absence of God in modern drama to the absence of the father. The psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Carl Jung view the father as a disembodied presence standing above and outside of culture. These psychological theories of the father can be connected to …

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Mass Belief Systems Reconsidered: Myths And Political Thought., Bryan Douglas Vincent Jan 1993

Mass Belief Systems Reconsidered: Myths And Political Thought., Bryan Douglas Vincent

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation is a response to Bennett's (1977) call for a theoretical framework capable of integrating existing theories of mass belief systems. The theory offered here is built on two important discoveries in this body of research: the importance of simplifying heuristics and the hierarchical structure of belief systems. Recognizing that heuristics are described in a narrative form, the general importance of narrative for political cognition is suggested and explored. Of particular importance is the possibility that hierarchical belief systems are grounded in core narratives or myths. After demonstrating the theoretical links between myth and belief system, a way of …

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Mimesis And Poiesis In The Novel: William Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses" And The Mythopoeic Turn In The American Imagination., Paul Richard Connell Jan 1993

Mimesis And Poiesis In The Novel: William Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses" And The Mythopoeic Turn In The American Imagination., Paul Richard Connell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In the course of its development as a genre, the novel shifted in the mid-twentieth century from a mimetic model grounded in imitation and colored with pessimism, to a poietic one based on discovery and novelty and foregrounded in hope. Precipitated by a crisis in representation after Joyce, the novel found in its own history, through the recuperation of older literary forms, new possibilities of representation, and shifted away from assumptions based on fact and history, to one grounded in miracle and myth. This shift was anticipated by the theories of the German Romantics Schlegel and Novalis and is adumbrated …

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Peasant Subsistence In Northwestern Haiti: Geography, Cultural Ecology, And Rural Development., Edward Cameron Britton Jan 1993

Peasant Subsistence In Northwestern Haiti: Geography, Cultural Ecology, And Rural Development., Edward Cameron Britton

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Geographers are challenged to explain "the why of where." This study grapples with "whys" of peasant subsistence in contemporary rural Haiti. Cultural ecology, one of the fundamental themes in cultural geography, examines the interplay between cultural traditions and the realities of subsistence in a given physical environment. Haitian cultural traditions derive from a rich melange of folkways from West Africa, Indian Middle America, and Western Europe. The land is semiarid and hilly in Northwestern Haiti, the poorest, driest, and most sparsely settled of Haiti's provinces. Crops and livestock betray traditional preferences in foodways, and reveal much about the constraints of …

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Performance And Organized Labor In Depression America: Community And Contestation. (Volumes I And Ii)., Kirk Wayne Fuoss Jan 1993

Performance And Organized Labor In Depression America: Community And Contestation. (Volumes I And Ii)., Kirk Wayne Fuoss

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study investigates the relationship among cultural performance, community, and contestation in two depression-era, organized labor social dramas. The major arguments developed in the study are summarized in the following three contentions. First, performances are inherently contestatory. Second, contestation and community stand in an interdependent rather than oppositional relationship to one another. Third, a dialectical relationship exists between performance and community whereby communities not only produce but are produced by performances. Chapter one defines key concepts and offers a rationale for the study. Two rationales for exploring the relationship among cultural performances, contestation, and community are advanced. First, despite the …

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The Literacy Characteristics Of Navajo Readers And Writers., Diane Clarite Greene Jan 1993

The Literacy Characteristics Of Navajo Readers And Writers., Diane Clarite Greene

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this ethnographic research was to begin the process of identifying the literacy characteristics of Navajo readers and writers. The study replicates aspects of the research project, Home Environmental Characteristics of Successful Navajo Readers, by Dr. David Hartle-Schutte (1988). Home and school discontinuities were investigated in a traditional Navajo environment to determine literacy development (Cazden, Courtney, 1982). Ethnographic data collection consisted of six months of participant observations in two sixth grade classrooms. Structured interviews were used to gather information from teachers, students and parents about the school and community literacy characteristics. A researcher designed instrument was used to …

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Disclosure Decisions And Patterns After A Near-Death Experience., Regina M. Hoffman Jan 1993

Disclosure Decisions And Patterns After A Near-Death Experience., Regina M. Hoffman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

As a dimension of privacy regulation, self-disclosure is the means through which individuals manage the psychological boundary area between the inner, private world and the outer, public world of interaction with others. In communication research, a gap has been noted between self-disclosure as defined by scientific method and self-disclosure as it is experienced by people in their daily life. This study reduces that gap by investigating disclosure decisions about a major life experience through the thick perspectives of the individuals themselves. Disclosure is examined as a context-embedded communicative process. To provide a thick description of disclosure decisions, an ethnographic methodology …

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Toward Understanding Post-Structuralism And Curriculum., Wen-Song Hwu Jan 1993

Toward Understanding Post-Structuralism And Curriculum., Wen-Song Hwu

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation describes extensions of post-structuralism in contemporary curriculum discourses. Post-structuralist thought is mainly associated with the seminal work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Michel Serres. Post-structural criticism and analysis challenge prevailing structuralist approaches and question the fundamental assumptions upon which these approaches rest. A key assumption of structural approaches is that all phenomena are constituted by an underlying structure. In curriculum, these structural assumptions (often scientific) remain unacknowledged and thus are immunized against criticism; rather, they are incorporated into the preferred structural analyses, interpretations, and organizations promoted by the promise of order and rationality. …

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Late-Holocene Vegetational History Of A Subtropical Mountain In Southeastern China., Hong-Lie Qiu Jan 1993

Late-Holocene Vegetational History Of A Subtropical Mountain In Southeastern China., Hong-Lie Qiu

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This research primarily examines the pollen evidence of vegetation change in the light of human disturbance in the subtropical mountains in southeastern China based on three sediment cores from the elongated peat-filled depressions in subalpine headwater zones (dambos) from the Daiyun Mountain Range of Fujian Province (approximately 25$\sp\circ 40\sp\prime$N, 118$\sp\circ 11\sp\prime$E). Twenty-four surface pollen samples collected from different locations in Fujian Province were included in this study intended to provide a better understanding of the relationships between vegetation and pollen rain in hilly areas, and the pollen signature of human disturbance. Analysis of pollen and sediment-stratigraphic data from this study …

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