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Local Textile Trading Systems In Indonesia: An Example From Flores Island, Roy W. Hamilton

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Several of the papers presented at this symposium deal with the trade of textiles over long distances, from one continent to another. Such trade systems undeniably had tremendous impact on the societies involved, but in many parts of the world individuals and communities are bound together in much smaller circles of trade that are equally formative. In this paper I will discuss a tiny network of textile trade that involves the carrying of cloth to neighboring villages over mountain paths and along surf-swept beaches. Trading systems on this scale are as much the rule as the exception and our understanding …

Toba Batak Textile Inventions, Sandra A. Niessen

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

INTRODUCTION

This article focuses on fruits of looms worked by Toba Batak weavers in the Silindung Valley, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Silindung Valley weavings are characteristically bright and fashionable. They are described by the Batak themselves and by visitors from outside as the "least traditional" of Batak woven goods. They are also surging in popularity throughout all of Toba and increasingly making inroads into the market replacing the old-style textiles which are larger, of coarser yarn, and deeper/sober in colour. It is the modern style of Batak textile which today commands the highest prices locally. "Connoisseurs" of Indonesian textiles, however, usually …

Silk In European And American Trade Before 1783: A Commodity Of Commerce Or A Frivolous Luxury?, Natalie Rothstein

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This outline is taken from ray as yet unpublished book on The English Silk Industry 1700-1825, and especially from the chapters on raw silk and the distribution of the woven material. In addition, I have widened the scope for this talk to discuss the subject more generally. In terms of general economic history the quantities of silk produced and sold are minuscule but there are a lot of instructive points to be made which are of general importance - as well as some very pretty objects. The latter are "documents" in the French sense as well as works of art …

Modern Traditions: The Impact Of The Trade In Traditional Textiles On The Sakaka Of Northern Potosi, Bolivia, Elayne L. Zorn

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

An elegantly dressed woman, wearing the handwoven clothing characteristic of her ethnic group, stands in front of a vendor displaying the latest machine-woven shawls from Bolivia's capital city, La Paz. The women, her daughter, and friends have just walked five hours from their rural home to attend an annual festival in the region's only town. The merchant, a young man of indigenous origin, wearing jeans, a jacket, sneakers, and a baseball cap, urges her to try on his merchandise. Glancing at her women friends for support, she opens the large safety pin holding closed her handwoven shawl and deftly slips …

Speaker Bios- 1990

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

SPEAKERS

A-Z (2 pages)

Rita J. Adrosko is Supervising Curator in the Division of Textiles, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, -D.C.

Patrida. RieffAnawalt is Director of the Center for the Study of Regional Dress at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, California.

Lisa L. Aronson is Assistant Professor at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.

Suzanne Baizerman teaches in the Department of Design, Housing and Apparel and is Registrar for the department's costume, textile, and decorative arts collection in the Goldstein Gallery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Elizabeth Barber is …

Barns And Farms, Christin J. Mamiya

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The art of Ed Ruscha has been a consistent and important presence on the art scene since 1960. Yet his works have not received the high visibility media coverage that the work of many of his peers, such as Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, have garnered. This situation can, in part, be attributed to the fact that contemporary art criticism has tended to center around clearly defined movements, and Ruscha's work has resisted easy categorization. In addition, interpretations of his work have shifted over the past few decades--his work has been cited in discussions of Pop art, Conceptual art and, …

Indian Textiles For The Thai Market: A Royal Prerogative?, John Guy

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The historical trade in Indian textiles to Thailand can be well documented from the beginning of the seventeenth century. Archaeological as well as textual sources allow our understanding of this trade to the region to be pushed back to the late thirteenth century, when Indian textiles had already assumed a high status at the court of Angkor.

In the course of the Ayudhyan period the control of this trade appears to have been secured by the Thai king and nobility. The earliest European accounts of trade with Thailand refer to the central role the king assumed, as both the dispenser …

The Triumph Of Spirit Over Law: Free Will Versus Determinism In Adam Bede, William Klein

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

One of the primary intellectual influences that shaped George Eliot's thought was positivism, or rather the various influence of positivistic philosophers such as Comte, Mill, Spencer, Feuerbach and Lewes, who each in his own way subscribed to an empiricism dictating that knowledge of anything but actual phenomena is impossible, and thus rejected any metaphysical speculation concerning ultimate causes or origins. This is a broad definition of positivism, and perhaps generalizes at the expense of the fine points of the thinkers under discussion; however, George Eliot's ultimate rejection of the notion of a God whose existence cannot be empirically demonstrated was …

Review Of Region And Regionalism In The United States: A Source Book For The Humanities And Social Sciences, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This multidisciplinary bibliography with annotations offers a judicious sampling of the best published work on American regions and regionalism. It is so useful that most scholars seriously working in regionalism will want to benefit from the authors' wide-ranging yet measured assessments.

Review Of New Directions In American Indian History, Michael Eastin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This appropriately titled collection of essays is the first volume of a continuing bibliographic series intended to supplement earlier bibliographies and further assist American Indian historians, especially newcomers to the field, in determining the relative merit of the hundreds of new publications concerning American Indians becoming available annually.

Review Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Frederick E. Hoxie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This contribution to the Boise State University Western Writers Series is slightly more than fifty pages long, but it represents the fullest presentation of D'Arcy McNickle's life and work available in print. While two recent American doctoral dissertations (by Birgit Hans, English, University of Arizona; and Dorothy Parker, History, University of New Mexico) work their way toward publication as books and articles, this will stand as the handiest guide to the man and his work.

Review Of The Good Red Road: Passages Into Native America., Raymond J. Demallie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, the red road represents the path of life, of peace, and of the continuity of the generations. To many American Indians today it stands for the old, traditional ways, a state of being in harmony with the universe. In this book, the symbol of the red road has been generalized to embrace all humanity, a deeply-felt psychological sense of oneness and balance that serves as counterpoint to the frenetic lifestyle of modem America.

Coronado, Quivira, And Kansas: An Archeologist's View, Waldo R. Weldel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Four hundred and forty-nine years ago this summer, the Kansas prairies were visited for the first time by white men. These were a select group of Spanish adventurers from Mexico led by a thirty-year-old nobleman by the name of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado. Francisco was a lad of eleven years when Hernando Cortez looted the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, and sent back to Spain a vast treasure in gold, silver, and precious stones. One of several younger sons, and thus denied by the rule of primogeniture from inheriting any significant share of the family patrimony, Francisco followed …

Review Of Lakota Storytelling: Black Elk, Ella Deloria, And Frank Fools Crow, Thomas F. Schilz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The reciting of oral traditions, or storytelling, is the oldest form of human literary achievement. But because time changes everything, including oral traditions, human societies finally are forced to put their stories into written form to preserve them for posterity.

Review Of A Stranger In Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher And The American Indians, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is the best written biography I have read in many years. A beautifully crafted book, it is a comprehensive picture and excellent scholarly treatment of a most unpleasant person, a person one can have little sympathy for in today's world. And yet, to the credit of the author, one comes away from this work having a much greater understanding of Alice Fletcher and a more balanced view of the meaning of her work.

A Model For Infusing Cultural Diversity Concepts Across The Curriculum, Barbara Flannery, Maureen Vanterpool

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Background

Purpose

Assumptions

Student Learning: Conceptual Frameworks for Culturally Receptive and Culturally Resistant Students

The Culturally Receptive Student: The Role of Cognitive and Affective Learning Objectives

The Culturally Resistant Student: Using Personal Relevance to Increase Salience of Cultural Diversity Concepts

A Model for Infusing Cultural Diversity Concepts Across the Curriculum: Combining Cognitive and Affective Learning Objectives and Personal Relevance

Applications of the Model: Two Case Studies

Teacher Education

Housing and Interior Design

Interdisciplinary Applications of the Model

References

Psychodynamics And The Insanity Defense: "Ordinary Common Sense" And Heuristic Reasoning, Michael L. Perlin

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Psychodynamics and the Insanity Defense: Piercing the Veil of Consciousness ... A. Introduction ... B. The Significance of Wrong Verdicts ... C. The Behavioral Roots of Insanity Defense Decisionmaking—The Power of Heuristic Reasoning … 1. The Insanity Defense and Human Inference ... D. Ordinary Common Sense (OCS): The Unconsciousness of Legal Decisionmaking ...1. Introduction ... 2. OCS and the Insanity Defense ... 3. Jurisprudential Approaches to Explaining Deviance ... 4. Conventional Morality ... 5. OCS and Judicial "Cognitive Dissonance"... 6. A Twilight Zone: OCS and Individual Jury Verdicts

III. OCS and Heuristic Reasoning in Action: Two Case …

Ec 90-428 Household Waste Management : Yours, Mine, And Ours Year One, Shirley Niemeyer, Ann Ziebarth, Leon Rottman

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 90-428 Household Waste Management : Yours, Mine, and Ours Year One

A Brief History Of The Textile Society Of America Summary Report By The President, Milton Sonday

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

After The Textile Museum decided to discontinue its Irene Emery Roundtables and die Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens finally admitted it was not interested in an American branch, it became clear that an independent American group of textile enthusiasts should be formed to satisfy the many requests for such an organization. There had been an attempt to form a group which was called WHATS, but it never got off the ground. Peggy Gilfoy at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, one of the original organizers, was left guarding its small fund when it folded.

On April 3, 1987 a small …

Sandhill Crane Press Catalogs

Insecta Mundi

This is a catalog of the books now published by or available directly from The Sandhill Crane Press, Inc. All of the Flora & Fauna Publications books are now stored in our warehouse. They may be ordered from us, some at a significant discount, by using the order form sent with this catalog. Note that some books are in press, but they may be ordered at a prepublication price.

Museum Studies In Collection Management, Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Programs Information

First paragraph:

At the workshop on "Collection Resources for the 1990's" held in Washington, D.C., October 1988, one of the identified needs for institutions was for additional trained collection management staff (Hoagland and Mabee, ASC Newsletter 16(6): 9, 1988). There are few academic programs that provide training in the management of biological, geological, and anthropological collections. Because this is an identified need for the 1990's, the question arises: "Are we able to meet this need?" and, if we are not currently in a position to do so, "What must be done in the future to meet this need?"

Conclusions

Currently, …

Survey Of Methodologies For Valuing Externalities And Public Goods, F. Gregory Hayden

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this report is to explain and evaluate six different methodologies for the valuation of externalities and public goods with respect to natural resources and the ecosystem. The six methodologies are: 1) general systems analysis, 2) the social fabric matrix, 3) direct cost, 4) contingent valuation, 5) travel cost, and 6) the property approach. The explanation and analysis contained in this report intends to determine their applicability to a broad definition of an ecosystem or socioecosystem.

The concept of externalities in the field of economics is essentially a concept formulated to take account of interdependence in a model …

A Theory Of The Sociology Of Women, Helen A. Moore, Jane C. Ollenburger

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Feminist theories present a number of options for organizing a model of inequality for women. At times, these present mutually exclusive concepts or definitions, or even causal factors. Patriarchal theories will not be used because they do not perceive women's oppression. Without an assumption of sex stratification and oppression, women's reality cannot be accurately described. Along with these patriarchal models, sex role socialization theories have been criticized for having (1) an emphasis on finding a singular universal truth and verification method, (2) a commitment to objectivity and observer neutrality, (3) dichotomous classification and primarily causal models, (4) ahistorical views, and …

Institutionalism For What: To Understand Inevitable Progress Or For Policy Relevance?, F. Gregory Hayden

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

In two recent papers, Anne Mayhew challenged the approach and purpose of institutionalism [Mayhew 1987a, 1987b]. Her message was that institutionalism should be concerned with describing cultures in order to understand the inevitable flow of human progress, and should not be undertaking analysis for the purpose of social evaluation and policy. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the insufficiency of the base upon which that message was constructed.

Teachers' Expectations About The Timing Of Developmental Skills: A Cross-Cultural Study, Carolyn P. Edwards, Lella Gandini

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Today, in the United States, teachers often need to understand what behaviors are normal in terms of children's cultural background. To understand children, teachers of course must have authentic respect for cultural diversity. But they also need something more: depth of knowledge about child development so they know what to expect of children of a given age. Teachers hold internal guidelines regarding many behaviors, but to what degree are they objective standards that can be applied to all children? How much, instead, do they reflect unconscious cultural biases? In recent years, we have begun to find out more about people’s …

Kansas Attitudes On Prairie Dog Control, Charles D. Lees, F. Robert Henderson

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

In Kansas prairie dog management is primarily determined by private individuals and local government agencies. We conducted a mail survey of 350 affected landowners as a means to evaluate the effectiveness of current prairie dog control. The same survey was also sent to 350 randomly selected state residents within the general prairie dog range. We evaluated people's perceptions of prairie dogs, the effectiveness of control methods, costs of control, and reasons for poor response to control techniques. Results indicate people that have previously been involved in prairie dog control on lands they manage have different opinions about prairie dogs than …

Geology Of The Pre-Dune Strata, James B. Swinehart, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Over the last 98 million years, four general geological processes have acted to shape the ancient landscapes buried beneath the Sand Hills. Three of these affected the area directly, either depositing sediments on the land surface or eroding it, while a fourth took place west of Nebraska, but affected the region nonetheless.

Shells of clams, oysters, and numerous other kinds of creatures similar to forms that live today in the seas are preserved as fossils in the chalks, limestones, and shales that form the oldest rocks beneath the Sand Hills that will be described. These deposits indicate to geologists that …

Preface And Introductory Materials To Approaches To Teaching Cather’S My Ántonia, Susan J. Rosowski

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The aim of this volume is to provide background and ideas others have found most helpful in teaching My Antonia. The portion presented here describes Cather's role in preparing the text and supervising the physical design of My Antonia, and reviews other writing by Cather relevant to My Antonia, as well as biographical studies and criticism recommended most often by instructors who teach it. It includes also a selective introduction to materials recommended for instructors' libraries: reference works on Cather, general background, biographical studies, and critical commentary. Finally, it surveys aids to teaching: pedagogical articles and non-print …

From The Gulf To The Rio Grande: Human Adaptation In Central, South, And Lower Pecos Texas, Thomas Hester, Stephen L. Black, D. Gentry Steele, Ben W. Olive, Anne A. Fox, Karl Reinhard, Leland C. Bement

Karl Reinhard Publications

The South Texas area, Region 3 of the Southwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is synthesized from archeological and bioarcheological perspectives. Three distinct geographic units within Region 3 are treated in detail: Central Texas Plateau Prairie, South Texas Plains, and Lower Pecos Canyonlands. More than 11,000 years of human adaptation are chronicled for this area, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Rio Grande along the border with northeastern Mexico. Particular attention is devoted to a consideration of the region's prehistoric record; significant problems and data gaps are outlined. For the first time, a compilation has been done …

The Tutor: Graduate Teacher Program Newsletter, University Of Colorado At Boulder, Vol. 5 No. 4

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Using common sense and kindness in teaching: Students with Special Needs, by Susan Anderson

Words from the Wise