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News And Notes - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Contents:

Call for papers

Conferences

Review Of Disease And Demography In The Americas By John W. Verano And Douglas H. Ubelaker, Karl J. Reinhard

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Disease and Demography in the Americas addresses an important issue in history of European-Native American interaction: what was the disease impact of European contact? A collection of papers came from a 1989 Smithsonian sponsored conference "Disease and Demography in the Americas, Changing Patterns Before and After 1492," this edited volume addresses disease and demography on a regional basis. The first section, "Disease before and after contact" confronts the evidence of prehistoric and historic disease in North America, while the second section, "Population size before and after contact" deals with Native American population reduction at the time of contact and a …

Review Of Nebraskaland Magazine's The Cellars Of Time: Paleontology And Archaeology In Nebraska Vol 72, No. I. Lincoln: Nebraska Game And Parks Commission, 1994, Karl J. Reinhard

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This is a popular-oriented work designed to acquaint Nebraskans with the paleontology and archaeology of their state. The work is divided in halves. The first half summarizes the paleontological work in Nebraska. The second half summarizes the archaeological culture history of the state.

The paleontology portion is a "must read," holistic work. It is written almost entirely by Michael R. Voorhies with one insert by Margaret R. Bolick. Voorhies has a wonderful writing style that enables him to translate complicated, technical subjects into plain English. Thus, the paleontology is summarized in wonderful prose that is a delight to read. The …

Annual Index – Volume 5, Number 2, August 1994

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

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The Politics Of Retribalization: The Northern Ponca Case, Beth Ritter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The recently restored Ponca Tribe of Nebraska has faced considerable challenges to the expression of their tribalism throughout the contact period. As a small. prairie-plains tribe the Ponca have endured the ravages of epidemic disease. land cessions. dispossession and removal. assimilation and finally in 1962. the outright termination of their status as a federally recognized tribe. The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska has been granted the opportunity to attempt retribalization with the 1990 Congressional restoration of their recognized status. The historical circumstances which have contributed to the assaults on their political and cultural identity will be explored within the larger framework …

Director's Note - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This issue marks an end of an era for Great Plains Research. Begun in 1990 as a path breaking regional interdisciplinary science and social science journal, Great Plains Research is now poised for its fifth year of existence. Recently giving it a strong vote of confidence was a review panel chosen from the Fellows of the Center for Great Plains Studies to evaluate GPR. Their report issued in the spring of 1994 noted that because of the high quality of its initial editing and article submissions, the journal has quickly established itself as a quality scientific scholarly publication with …

Review Of The First Americans: Photographs From The Library Of Congress By William H. Goetzmann, Mary Beth Klauer

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

For his The First Americans, Goetzmann selected photographs from the Library of Congress collection. Since their prints were offered for sale, turn-of- the-century photographers submitted copies of their work for federal copyrights. The collection does not include anthropological photographs since they were not generally sold to the public. The photos are indicative of the fascination with Native Americans which existed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Goetzmann notes that this fascination centers on the aspect of "lost innocence" from a classical, romantic point of view.

Introduction - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This special issue of Great Plains Research was edited by Clare McKanna, Jr., and Beth R. Ritter. The issue represents a unique interdisciplinary examination of a number of current issues facing Plains Indian peoples. These issues include gaming, education, medical problems, land titles, retribalization, and cultural retention.

Initially the idea of a special issue was proposed by Beth R. Ritter. Clare McKanna, Jr., editor of Great Plains Research, decided this would be an excellent opportunity to pursue a variety of social science approaches to Native studies, and he agreed to the proposal. Together McKanna and Ritter selected possible essays …

An Investigation Of Small Apparel Retailers’ Definition Of Customer Satisfaction Using A Naturalistic Approach, Sandra L. Cardillo

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

This study uses an inductive research design to approach customer satisfaction from the perspective of the small apparel retailer. Social exchange theory served as a theoretical framework. The small apparel retailers interviewed in this study had businesses in non-metropolitan communities located in counties with an agricultural, trade, or diversified economic base. Using a qualitative methodology, hypotheses were generated for future study of small apparel retailers’ definition of customer satisfaction. The work done in this study proposes that customer satisfaction, from small apparel retailers’ perspective is a dynamic, multidimensional process requiring the constant evaluation of exchanges that take place between the …

The Effects Of Migration Upon The Quality Of Life Of Elderly Movers In A Small Prairie City: The Case Of Brandon, Manitoba, John Everitt, Barbara Gfellner

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Mobility decisions and the effects of migration upon the quality of life of elderly people who had recently relocated to or within Brandon are assessed and compared with the responses ofa non-mover "control group." Although confirming many established results concerning the migration of the elderly, other conclusions also emerged. For instance, migrants and non-movers have a number of different social demographic characteristics, and their needs and desires appear to be quite dissimilar. Although non-movers appear apprehensive about the future, many movers see positive outcomes, in terms of life satisfaction, resulting from their migration. The research also raises the question of …

News And Notes - Volume 4, Number 1, February 1994

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Contents:

Call for papers

Conferences

Preserving Vertebrate Fossils: Notes From The Laboratory, Gregory Brown, Pauline Denham

University of Nebraska State Museum: Programs Information

The word "paleontology" is derived from the Greek words meaning "the science or study of ancient life". Usually, paleontology does not concern itself with human remains, artifacts or cultures; these are the realms of archeology and anthropology. Paleontologists excavate and study fossils, the remains of once-living plants and animals. By convention, such remains must be at least 10,000 years old to be considered fossils. In North America, there is very little overlap between the sites and materials that are studied by paleontologists and by archeologists because humans are relative newcomers to the continent. A site which produces …

As I Lay Writing: How To Write Law Review Articles For Fun And Profit: A Law-And-Economics, Critical, Hermeneutical, Policy Approach And Lots Of Other Stuff That Thousands Of Readers Will Find Really Interesting And Therefore You Ought To Publish In Your Prestigious, Top-Ten, Totally Excellent Law Review, C. Steven Bradford

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

You've made it onto a law faculty, and you're wondering what to do. Teaching obviously isn't going to occupy much of your time. You prepare your notes the first year, and you're home free. To fill the gap in your life, why not publish something in a law review?

Publishing an article in a law review is an honor and a privilege. "[L]aw reviews hold a special place of trust and importance in the legal system and in society"; they "play a vital role in the preservation of society." Most important, they make it much easier for a law professor …

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Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

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Continuity Of Culture: A Reenactor’S Goal, Elizabeth Mcclure

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper examines the maintenance of cultural continuity through historical reenactment. It is the reenactor's goal, in this case, to portray and maintain the culture of Ireland and Scotland. They are holding on to this culture and presenting it to others by maintaining the dress, crafts, and lifestyles of sixteenth-century Scotland and Ireland.

The methods of data collection for this study were ethnographic in nature. Interviews with key informants were conducted. In addition, there was a questionnaire distributed to members of the group This method of data collection provided the insight to see how a member of this group achieved …

Bolong-Bolong And Tirtanadi: An Unknown Group Of Balinese Textiles, Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff, Monika Palm-Nadolny

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

On late 19th- and early 20th-century photographs, South and East Balinese people clad in traditional adat wardrobe for rituals, temple ceremonies, and dances often wear transparent, netlike open-work textiles as breastcloth (anteng), shouldercloth (cerik) girdle (selendang), or headcloth (destar, lelunakan). Information given by elderly Balinese concerning the situation before World War II confirm their use as part of their ceremonial wardrobe but also as important items in offerings and rituals. Such textiles could be laid over several fabrics, covering the body of a toothfiling candidate, or serve as curtains (langse …

Micronesian Textiles In Transition: The Woven Tol Of Kosrae, Ann Deegan, Ross Cordy

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper presents findings on the major steps in the transition of the Kosraen tol from traditional clothing, to tourist souvenir, to the end of tol manufacture. An extensive study of the German, French, and English literature of the 19th and 20th centuries was done to piece together the history of the Kosraen tol.

The island of Kosrae, located in the Pacific (4–10°N latitude, 140–163°E longitude), is part of the Federated States of Micronesia. Since earliest European contact it has seen numerous changes in its traditional culture. One of its most beautiful and complex traditional crafts is the woven …

The "Severed Shroud": Local And Imported Textiles In The Mortuary Rites Of An Indonesian People, Penelope Graham

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper explores the significance of local and imported textiles as these interact forming complex categories in the mortuary rites of the Lamaholot-speaking people of the traditional district Lewolema in eastern Flores, Indonesia. Within this regional framework, my account draws primarily on field work in the village of Lewotala. There a person's physical demise elicits diverse social and ritual practices, depending on the deceased's achievements during his or her lifetime and the circumstances surrounding the death. As regards the mortuary sequence that commonly occurs, I will argue that various uses of cloth for exchange purposes mark both the severence—consequent on …

Cloth As Marriage Gifts: Change In Exchange Among The Lio Of Flores, Willemijn De Jong

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The exchange of gifts at life cycle ceremonies is one of the most important institutions in Lio society, as in many other societies in Oceania. The life cycle event of marriage and its exchange of gifts is often significant, because important sociopolitical alliances between kin groups are initiated or renewed. In these exchanges, cloth wealth may play a crucial role, especially in ranked societies. Weiner contends that in Samoa "each distribution [of fine mats] is an example of the negotiation and validation of rank and power." Gittinger has pointed out the economic and symbolic value of cloth gifts at marriage …

The Pomegranate Pattern In Italian Renaissance Textiles: Origins And Influence, Rosalia Bonito Fanelli

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The term "pomegranate motif" includes a series of vegetal patterns—the pine cone, the artichoke, the thistle, variants of the tree-of-life motif, and, in particular, the lotus and the palmette. These last two patterns were closely studied by Alois Riegl in his 1893 work Stilfragen (Problems of Style). The term itself came into use during the period of historic revivalism in the latter half of the nineteenth century. At that time important design theorists and practitioners such as Owen Jones, William Morris, and Walter Crane dedicated space in their writings with accompanying plates to the reconstruction of Renaissance pomegranate patterns. The …

The Transformation Of Men Into Masquerades And Indian Madras Into Masquerade Cloth In Buguma, Nigeria, Elisha P. Renne, Joanne B. Eicher

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The Kalahari Ijo people of the Niger Delta area of southeastern Nigeria use a group of dark indigo-blue cloths with white patterning to cover the faces of masquerade performers. Subsumed under the name of alubite (masquerade cloth) are at least three distinct types: (1) ukara cloth, an indigo-resist of imported muslin, stitched and dyed by Igbo craftsmen, (2) alubite cloth, a gauze-weave, also an indigo-resist, but of unknown provenance, and (3) pelete bite, an Indian madras from which threads are cut and pulled by Kalahari women to form a new pattern.

The first two types of cloth apparently come …

Ethnic Artists And The Appropriation Of Fashion: Embroidery And Identity In The Colca Valley, Peru, Blenda Femenías

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

"When I'm in Arequipa and I see a lady in embroidered clothes, I always greet her; she's from my land, she's my compatriot. . . . [When I teach embroidery] no matter how much one teaches, the motifs don't come out the same. If there are twenty embroiderers, twenty different motifs come out although they have the same name. It's like, even if you're my brother, we're not the same."

These comments by embroidery artist Leonardo Mejfa neatly express the character of Colca Valley ethnic clothes: simultaneously shared and individual. Similar appearance is important in recognizing a compatriot, but an …

Paracas Cavernas, Paracas Necroplis, And Ocucaje: Looking At Appropriation And Identity With Only Material Remains, Ann Peters

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Paracas Cavernas, Paracas Necropolis, and Ocucaje are groups of burials made some 2000 years ago on the south coast of Peru. The Peruvian coast is a desert, and textiles, basketry, and other artifacts made from plant fiber and animal fiber and other organic materials are preserved there in ancient tombs. The Andes is known for funerary traditions that emphasize the dressing of the dead, with documented preservation of mummified ancestors or funerary bundles, and in some cases their participation as ancestors in kin group and community ritual.

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It is clear that there are continuing relations of contact, …

Dressing The Part: Indigenous Costume As Political And Cultural Discourse In Peru, Katharine E. Seibold

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In Latin America, indigenous clothing has often been equated with indigenous cultural identity. When we speak of indigenous fashion as being a marker of cultural identity, we must also examine the more fluid roles of the indigenous individual and community within the state. How is individual, community, and state identity represented? What form does the discourse between the individual, the community, and the state take? Many anthropologists have written of the flexible and strategic use of ethnicity, and costume as a primary tool in the manipulation of ethnic identity. Indigenous, handwoven dress legitimates community as well as ethnic group membership …

Maximilian, Prince Of Wied (1782-1867): Reconsidered, Paul Schach

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 3 November 1992 the British Society for the History of Natural Sciences convened at the Naturkundliches Museum in Vienna. Since the theme of the six-day convention was "The Exploration and Opening Up of America as Mirrored by Natural History," it is appropriate that one of the papers presented should have been devoted to Maximilian, Prince of Wied, whose complementary expeditions to North and South America have so greatly enriched our knowledge ofIndian cultures that once flourished in Brazil and on the Great Plains. Yet, despite the fact that Maximilian was "by far the best trained scientific observer to explore …

Plains And Prairie Space, History, And The Literary Imagination, In Australia And The United States, Don D. Walker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1825 a space observer orbiting the earth could have looked down on two enormous land masses separated by more than 7000 miles. In the southern hemisphere the great body of land was Australia, an insular continent surrounded by the southern seas. In the northern hemisphere the great body of land was the United States, framed on east and west by oceans, bordered on the north by the even greater land of Canada and on the south by the lesser land of Mexico. Australia and the United States were roughly the same size, some three million square miles.

Review Of Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, Lisa Knopp-Ramsay

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

If we are to make valid critical interpretations of Native American literature, we must "discover, or rediscover, cultural values other than those rooted in Western aesthetic or individual aesthetic sensibilities," Laura ColtelIi recommends. She provides this perspective through a series of ten "oral autobiographies" (interviews) with contemporary American Indian authors. This format provides a particularly poignant form of self-revelation given the rich oral tradition of First Americans.

Review Of The Upstream People: An Annotated Research Bibliography Of The Omaha Tribe, Mark J. Swetland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Michael Tate has gathered nearly 1900 documents related to the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and Iowa, providing the reader of The Upstream People with a valuable research tool. Divided into 32 sections with cultural or historical subject headings, each entry is accompanied by a summary and/or critique. Since each item is provided with only a single index entry, browsing the book does require a bit of creativity. Nonetheless, it is a handy device for anyone interested in Omaha research materials.

Review Of The Vanishing American: White Attitudes And U.S. Indian Policy, Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Last spring, as we cleared several generations worth of household goods and memorabilia from the Ridington family home in Westminster, Maryland, we came upon a framed print of "Appeal to the Great Spirit." In it, an Indian "brave" sits astride his horse, his head flung back, his arms beseechingly out at his sides, his palms up. The body language tells of grief and supplication, and of one last desperate hope. The colors are brown, yellow, and orange, the tones of sunset. When we read Brian Dippie's The Vanishing American, we realized that "Appeal to the Great Spirit," or works …

Unconscious Values Within Four Academic Cultures: An Address Given At The 1994 Pod Annual Conference, William Bergquist

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Origins Of POD

The Unconscious Dimension Of Values In Academic Cultures

The Four Cultures Of The Academy: An Overview: The Collegial Culture, The Managerial Culture, The Negotiating Culture, The Developmental Culture

Interaction Among the Four Cultures

Developmental Culture In Dialogue With The Other Three Cultures

Personal Values of the Four Cultures

Group Values Of The Four Cultures

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