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Not A Cinematic Hair Out Of Place: Examinations In Identity (Transformation) As Evidenced Through Haircuts In The Crying Game, Allen Herring Iii Feb 2011

Not A Cinematic Hair Out Of Place: Examinations In Identity (Transformation) As Evidenced Through Haircuts In The Crying Game, Allen Herring Iii

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This thesis asks a question: Can transformations to a cinematic character's hair be indicative of a realignment or shifting of that character's identity? As an attempt to answer this question, I introduce three new concepts: the Opaque Movement (OM), the Transparent Violent Moment (TVM), and the Transparent Moderate Moment (TMM). All of these concepts revolve around the treatment and appearance of a character's hair within a film. In this examination, I establish a theoretical foundation for cinematic haircutting and apply the three concepts to several films. I ground the discussion in a thorough examination of The Crying Game by Neil …


Occam's Beard: Belief, Disbelief, And Contested Meanings In American Ufology, William J. Dewan Feb 2011

Occam's Beard: Belief, Disbelief, And Contested Meanings In American Ufology, William J. Dewan

American Studies ETDs

The purpose of this dissertation is to critically examine the emergence, maintenance, evolution, and dissemination of belief traditions in New Mexico and the United States that are most commonly associated with the UFO phenomenon. This critical analysis incorporates theoretical frameworks from a multitude of interrelated disciplines, including folklore, history, anthropology, popular culture studies, sociology, and psychology. The primary goal of this dissertation involves the attempt to formulate a typology of UFO accounts in American culture, and how said accounts are interpreted, communicated, and publicly evaluated. To achieve this end, a database of UFO-related experiences was compiled in New Mexico and …


Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review Jan 2011

Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Jan 2011

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Guido De Lavezariis: The Life Of A Financier Of The Coronado And Villalobos Expeditions, Richard Flint, Shirley Cushing Flint Jan 2011

Guido De Lavezariis: The Life Of A Financier Of The Coronado And Villalobos Expeditions, Richard Flint, Shirley Cushing Flint

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Showdown At Catron: Cows, Wolves, And The Ecology Of Public Lands Policies, Raymond B. Wrabley Jr. Jan 2011

Showdown At Catron: Cows, Wolves, And The Ecology Of Public Lands Policies, Raymond B. Wrabley Jr.

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.


Ho-Chunk Nation Tribal Law Profile, Daniel B. Snyder Jan 2011

Ho-Chunk Nation Tribal Law Profile, Daniel B. Snyder

Tribal Law Journal

In this tribal profile provides an excellent point of reference for practitioners dealing with any legal matter within the Ho-Chunk Nation. Starting with an overview of the legal history of the tribe, including modern government and law, the author examines the traditional legal practices and responsibilities of the Ho-Chunk. Mr. Snyder then explores the modern judicial and legislative branches, and their work to preserve the tribe's traditional laws and customs.


Ogalala Sioux Tribal Profile, Karen Kimbro Chase Jan 2011

Ogalala Sioux Tribal Profile, Karen Kimbro Chase

Tribal Law Journal

This profile offers an excellent overview of Oglala Sioux law, both traditional and modern. Like many tribes, the Indian Reorganization Act had a major impact on the contemporary law of the Oglala Sioux. While the IRA resulted in tribal constitutions that reflected the values of the U.S. Constitution, this profile examines the traditional and customary law that was subsequently incorporated into the Oglala Sioux Constitution. This profile includes a brief history of the Oglala Sioux, overview of traditional law, governmental structure, summary of contemporary law, and history of political activism.


Issue No. 85: October 2010, Historical Society Of New Mexico Oct 2010

Issue No. 85: October 2010, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 Donaciano Vigil, "The Gifted Giant"--But Was He a Traitor?
4 Donaciano Vigil House in Santa Fe
4 Los Viejos Book Group of Santa Fe Field Trips in Search of New Mexico Literary History
5 Reba Wells Grandrud Honored as 2010 Arizona Culturekeeper
5 The Lodge at Sierra Blanca, Ruidoso, New Mexico
5 Dr. Richard Greenleaf Honored
5 Membership Benefits Historical Society of New Mexico
6 Carlos Ortiz Receives 2010 Buck Ramsay Heritage Award
6 In Memoriam
7 From Our President
8 Curtis Fort "Scatterin' the Drive" in New Mexico Stockman
8 New Books for Your New Mexico History Library


The More Of Them Are Killed The Better: Racial Identity And Noncombatant Immunity In Civil War New Mexico, James Bartek Oct 2010

The More Of Them Are Killed The Better: Racial Identity And Noncombatant Immunity In Civil War New Mexico, James Bartek

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Journey To The "Outside": The U.S. Army On The Road To The Southwest, Janne Lahti Oct 2010

Journey To The "Outside": The U.S. Army On The Road To The Southwest, Janne Lahti

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Oct 2010

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


An Emotion Model For Video Game Ai, Thomas Caudell, Anthony Campisi Sep 2010

An Emotion Model For Video Game Ai, Thomas Caudell, Anthony Campisi

Electrical & Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Modeling human behavior in computer simulations and games is a subject which draws considerable attention. Despite the increased realism of graphics in games, poor modeling of non-player characters AI often leads to a shallow and unfulfilling game experience. Recently there has been increased focus on more sophisticated AI routines which have been used in both academic and commercial games. Emotion, however, is often ignored despite being an essential element of human behavior especially under stressful conditions. Research into the use of emotion in agent-based systems seems more concerned with how to convey the emotions of agents to the human player, …


To Prevent The Breakup Of The Indian Family: The Development Of The Indian Child Welfare Act Of 1978., Evelyn Lance Blanchard Sep 2010

To Prevent The Breakup Of The Indian Family: The Development Of The Indian Child Welfare Act Of 1978., Evelyn Lance Blanchard

American Studies ETDs

This dissertation is the story of the destruction of Indian families as told to Congress in hearings held by the Sub-Committee on Indian Affairs in 1974 and the Select Committee on Indian Affairs in 1977 through the testimony of children, parents, Indian leadership, the Association on American Indian Affairs, psychological witnesses, and other advocates who opposed destructive child welfare practices. Their testimony described the illegal removal of Indian children, the exploitation of families through violation of their due process rights, the tragedy of children who were abused and neglected in placement, the psychological damage suffered by the children and their …


Human Development In Poor Countries: Bangladesh In Comparative Perspective, Nafisa Halim Sep 2010

Human Development In Poor Countries: Bangladesh In Comparative Perspective, Nafisa Halim

Sociology ETDs

My dissertation addresses the developmental paradox' of rapid gains in human development in Bangladesh against the backdrop of a social scientific literature that portrays two of the country's endemic features—Islam and illiberal politics—as inveterate obstacles to their achievement. I use data from household surveys conducted by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies in collaboration with the World Bank in 1991-2 and 1998-9, and identify the distal determinants of the Bangladeshi mortality decline. I find female education has a linear effect and household income has a curvilinear effect on infant and child mortality. Why is the relationship between income and child …


Rape And Male Identity In Arthurian Romance, Chrétien De Troyes To Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anna Angeli Sep 2010

Rape And Male Identity In Arthurian Romance, Chrétien De Troyes To Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anna Angeli

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This work explores the evolution of troped rape in Arthurian literature from the 12th century to modern day. I focus on three works: Chrétien de Troyes Erec et Enide, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. In each, I examine the five functions of troped rape — the establishing of military prowess, the encoded patriotic message, the moral test, and the aesthetic and class marker. These five functions remain intact but evolve in accordance with historical and social context, the real societal conditions and common perception of women influencing each work's representation of rape. …


Evidence For A Change In The Rate Of Aging Of Osteological Indicators In American Documented Skeletal Samples, Wendy Elizabeth Potter Jul 2010

Evidence For A Change In The Rate Of Aging Of Osteological Indicators In American Documented Skeletal Samples, Wendy Elizabeth Potter

Anthropology ETDs

The question of uniformity in skeletal age changes across populations is fundamental to all comparative work in skeletal biology. Whether an aging standard will work on target groups that differ in time, space, and background from the reference sample is essential for reliable, accurate age estimation. This research addressed whether a difference in skeletal senescence exists between older American documented collections and more recent ones. The pubic symphysis, auricular surface, sternal rib end, and suture obliteration were scored for a sample of American Blacks and Whites drawn from the Terry, Hamann-Todd, Bass Documented, Maxwell Museum, and Maricopa County Forensic Science …


Triptych Cultural Critique: Fray Angelico Chavez And Southwestern Critical Regionalism, 1939-2004, Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán Jun 2010

Triptych Cultural Critique: Fray Angelico Chavez And Southwestern Critical Regionalism, 1939-2004, Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán

American Studies ETDs

Fray Angelico Chavez was a Franciscan priest and man of letters whose published writings span most of the twentieth century. The dissertation is a critical biography of Fray Angelico's writing, and it uses religion as a critical lens for understanding his work in relation to a host of other Southwestern regional writers, both Anglo and Mexican American. I argue Fray Angelico's Franciscanism fosters a mode of Southwestern critical regionalism in his writing. The main objective of this dissertation is to build and apply a comparative methodology that I call triptych cultural critique to understand better the different modes of regional …


Figuration & Frequency: A Usage-Based Approach To Metaphor, Daniel Sanford May 2010

Figuration & Frequency: A Usage-Based Approach To Metaphor, Daniel Sanford

Linguistics ETDs

Two of the major claims of the cognitivist approach to metaphor, the paradigm which has emerged as dominant over the last three decades, are 1) that metaphor is a conceptual, rather than strictly linguistic, phenomenon, and 2) that metaphor exemplifies processes which are at work in cognition more generally. This view of metaphor is here placed within the context of the functionalist approach to language, which asserts that linguistic structure is emergent in nature, the use of language directly influencing the storage and representation thereof. The dissertation argues that metaphors, as conventionalized cognitive structures, are themselves highly influenced by frequency …


Cerro Chepen And The Late Moche Collapse In The Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast Of Peru, Marco Rosas Rintel May 2010

Cerro Chepen And The Late Moche Collapse In The Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast Of Peru, Marco Rosas Rintel

Anthropology ETDs

In this dissertation, I investigate the socio-political processes that led to the collapse of the Late Moche political communities located in the Lower Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast of Peru. During the Late Moche phase (AD 600 to 850), the human populations of this valley evidenced an interesting case of political fragmentation and internal conflict. The Moche collapse in the Jequetepeque Valley is approached from the perspective of one of the largest power centers of the region: the fortified site of Cerro Chepén. This site occupies the upper and eastern slopes of a hill, located in a relatively central position within …


Chanka Settlement Ecology: Hilltop Sites, Land Use And Warfare In Late Prehispanic Andahuaylas, Peru, Lucas C. Kellett May 2010

Chanka Settlement Ecology: Hilltop Sites, Land Use And Warfare In Late Prehispanic Andahuaylas, Peru, Lucas C. Kellett

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation investigates Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1400) hilltop settlements of the central Andean highlands. Rather than a traditional warfare-centered political perspective, the research employs primarily an ecological model in which to evaluate the widespread settlement shift to high altitude ridge tops beginning ca. AD 1000. More specifically, the research investigates the multi-faceted role that climate change may have played in the establishment of LIP hilltop settlements. I examine the concomitant shifts in the local ecology and the economic organization of hilltop communities. Using a multi-scalar and methodologically diverse research design, incorporating ethnohistory, field survey, excavation and GIS, I examine …


Exploring Social Interaction At The Ancient Maya City Of Copan, Honduras: A Multi-Scalar Geographic Information Systems (Gis) Analysis Of Access And Visibility, Heather M. Richards-Rissetto May 2010

Exploring Social Interaction At The Ancient Maya City Of Copan, Honduras: A Multi-Scalar Geographic Information Systems (Gis) Analysis Of Access And Visibility, Heather M. Richards-Rissetto

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation investigates late eighth and early ninth century social interaction at the archaeological site of Copán, Honduras. Two main research questions are addressed: (1) Did people of different social classes experience different degrees of social connectivity? and (2) Did people living in different parts of the city experience different degrees of social connectivity? A Geographic Information System (GIS) was used to quantify social connectivity, that is, degree of social integration or social segregation, using access and visibility as proxy measures for social interaction, and to examine whether Copáns inhabitants influenced social interaction by configuring their city to facilitate or …


Colono Wares In The Western Spanish Borderlands: A Ceramic Technological Study, Jennifer Boyd Dyer May 2010

Colono Wares In The Western Spanish Borderlands: A Ceramic Technological Study, Jennifer Boyd Dyer

Anthropology ETDs

The appearance of hybrid ceramics, also known as colono wares, signals Spanish contact across the Empire and materially represents syncretism between Native American and European traditions. Because colono wares are low-fired, locally produced ceramics that take on European shapes, they are used in this study to investigate how Pueblo groups in New Mexico responded to Spanish contact during the early colonial period, defined as initial contact to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. I build a model that compares colono wares to traditional forms using technological variables to determine if cultural resilience, disruption, or innovation best characterize early colonial period interactions …


Bolivia: Local Elections Bring Surprises, Opposition From Left, Ladb Staff Apr 2010

Bolivia: Local Elections Bring Surprises, Opposition From Left, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Apr 2010

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Exílio E Homossexualidade Em Stella Manhattan De Silviano Santiago E El Beso De La Mujer Araña De Manuel Puig, Fernanda Bartolomei Feb 2010

Exílio E Homossexualidade Em Stella Manhattan De Silviano Santiago E El Beso De La Mujer Araña De Manuel Puig, Fernanda Bartolomei

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Right-wing military dictatorships in Latin America during the 1960s-80s governed the citizens of their respective countries by utilizing repressive means to control political opposition and enforce patriarchal values, including heteronormativity. Within that context, some Latin American novels present homosexuals that find supportive alternative places in which to discover and express themselves. This thesis examines two such novels, El beso de la mujer araña (1976) by Manuel Puig and Stella Manhattan (1985) by Silviano Santiago. I argue that the main characters Molina and Eduardo/Stella use the freedom of exile and interior exile (insílio) in order to develop their identities as homosexuals.


Doctrinal Uncertainty In The Law Of Federal Reserved Water Rights: The Potential Impact On Renewable Energy Development, Debbie Leonard Jan 2010

Doctrinal Uncertainty In The Law Of Federal Reserved Water Rights: The Potential Impact On Renewable Energy Development, Debbie Leonard

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.


New Deal Success Or "Noble Failure"? Bosque Farms' Early Years As A Federal Resettlement Project, 1935–1939, Richard Melzer Jan 2010

New Deal Success Or "Noble Failure"? Bosque Farms' Early Years As A Federal Resettlement Project, 1935–1939, Richard Melzer

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review Jan 2010

Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


The Prevalence Of Osteoarthritis In Wild Vs Captive Great Ape Skeletons, Demelza J. Poe Dec 2009

The Prevalence Of Osteoarthritis In Wild Vs Captive Great Ape Skeletons, Demelza J. Poe

Anthropology ETDs

This research examined whether the prevalence and skeletal distribution of osteoarthritis (OA) differed between wild and captive great ape skeletons. A secondary, but important, aspect of this research focused on the development of improved aging techniques based on methods commonly used on human osteological samples. Tests were conducted pertaining to the effect that wild versus captive status, sex, and species has on vertebral body lipping, marginal lipping, and eburnation. Age was considered a co-factor. Of the aging methods examined, use of the basilar suture to distinguish between adult and old adult specimens proved to be very imprecise. The ribs and …