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An Urban Model Of Applied Preservation, David Stewart Barksdale Butler

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research prioritized the identification and retention of African American cultural heritage in the face of dramatic landscape alteration associated with comprehensive redevelopment. As an approach aimed at providing the most comprehensive understanding of cultural phenomenon, the holistic tradition applied by anthropology asserts that it is productive to identify and apply as many sources of data toward engaging research as is possible. Consistent with this goal, this study applied several categories of data toward investigating material symbols of African American cultural heritage in Tampa, Florida. The holistic anthropological approach demonstrated the relevance and complementarity of research documenting cultural heritage and …

Amcs Activities Newsletter, No. 30, June 2007, Bill Mixon

KIP Articles

Contents: Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Deep Pits List -- The Saga of Cueva Charco, Third-Deepest Cave in Mexico -- The Discovery and Descent of Sotano de las Golondrinas -- The Exploration of Sistema Sac Actun, 1987-2007 -- Sistema Yax Muul -- The Infernal Survey in the Crystal Paradise -- Sian Ka'an Exploration Expedition -- Bat Caves of Chihuahua and Snora -- Pits and Parrots: The 2006 Los Toros Expedition -- Yaxchen and Ox Bel Ha, Quintana Roo -- Caves of Tabasco Project 2007 -- Descriptions of Caves Explored by Circolo Speleologico Romano in Chiapas, 1996 …

Ecological Art: Ruth Wallen And Cultural Activism, Susan Birchler

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Twentieth century modernity has provoked multiple problems ranging from environmental degradation to human rights violations. Globally, diverse communities of people have organized to promote, not just reactive reforms, but a fundamental alteration of the foundational worldview underlying these issues. Radical activists committed their work to promoting an alternative ethos based on egalitarian, democratic, and ecologically-wise concepts. An array of methodologies emerged from these endeavors. More radical political groups focused on cultural tools to engage people in the construction of an alternative worldview. Radical activists utilized two forms of cultural politics: prefigurative politics, the physical presentation of an envisioned future and …

Commencement Convocation Program, Lakeland Campus, May 7, 2007, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Outstanding Senior - Kristen Dailey

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, May 6, 2007, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Brian Christian and Judith Winter

Commencement Convocation Program, Tampa Campus, May 5, 2007, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Brian David Bright, Julie Michelle Clift, Elizabeth Ann Corsentino, Matthew Emory Davison, Alla Vladimirovna Kireeva, Kathleen Ann DiLorenzo, Rebecca Dimond, Fabio Ferrari, Zachary Cole Flowerree, Scott Daniel McDermott, Whitney Lyn McGinniss, David Andrew Sallman, Mrunal Lalitkumar Shah, Carol Terrazas, Katherine Marcella Thomas, Patricia J. Turffs; Honorary Doctorate of Law - Jose Insulza; Outstanding Senior - Ahmad Al-Jallad

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 5, 2007, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

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End Of Life Issues Among Hispanics/Latinos: Studying The Utilization Of Hospice Services By The Hispanic/Latino Community, Iraida V. Carrión

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study focuses on how terminal diagnoses impact individuals and families within the Hispanic/Latino community. Hispanic/Latino hospice caregivers, Hispanic/Latino non-hospice caregivers and physicians participated in the study, which explores the utilization of hospice by Hispanic/Latino terminally ill individuals. The data collected from 30 semi-structured interviews, ethnographic participant observations, and archival data were analyzed using structured and statistical analysis. Verbatim transcripts were examined through a combination of ethnographic and content analysis. Barriers related to language and culture, as well as immigration, are critical themes that impact access to healthcare. The physicians' discourses relate patients' responses to terminal diagnoses, including the Hispanic/Latino …

The Right To Health: Conflicting Paradigms Of Health As Commodity Vs. Health As Human Right, Robert Colin Nelson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Despite the fact that the United States spends more per capita than any other nation on healthcare for its citizens, the quality of American health outcomes lags well behind every other developed country in the world. This paper proposes that it is no coincidence that the United States is also the only developed nation that does not guarantee the right comprehensive coverage of medical services for its citizens. Instead, we rely on a fee-for-service system which functionally denies quality health care to those without the means to pay for it. In this paper I document the experiences of various clients …

Socio-Natural Landscapes In The Palmarejo Valley, Honduras, James R. Hawken

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Communities have traditionally been viewed as spatially bounded social units composed of multiple households whose inhabitants are integrated by shared resources and a common sense of identity. While investigating resources and identity is useful for archaeological study because of their material correlates, such views of community ultimately fail to acknowledge the dynamic interaction between cultural and environmental forces in shaping and shifting those arrangements over time. This study examines settlement, excavation, and geoarchaeological data from the Palmarejo Valley in northwestern Honduras with the aim of modeling the process of community formation at the intersection of social and natural landscapes in …

Alaskan Caver, Volume 27, No. 2, April 2007, Carlene Allred

Alaskan Caver

Contents: Juneau’s UAS Caving Club Happenings - Chitistone Expedition Report, By Donald G. Davis - Map Of Whispering Cave And Others In Vicinity - Map Of Birthday Cave - Map Of Ominous Crack Cave - Map Of Upper Sheep Cave - Ketchikan Caving Club Happenings - Map Of Frost Ring Cave - World’s Largest Cave Crystals - Grotto Election Results - Dr. Science

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 69, No. 1, April 2007, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

An Unexplored Realm In The Heartland Of The Southern Gulf Olmec: Investigations At El Marquesillo, Veracruz, Mexico, Travis F. Doering

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines El Marquesillo, a settlement in an archaeologically unexplored region of the Southern Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz, Mexico. Evidence suggests the site has been consistently occupied from the Early Formative period (c. 1500 BC) to the present. Thus, this investigation presents an opportunity to re-examine the sociopolitical continuum encompassing the Olmec cultural phenomenon (c. 1150-300 BC), the emergence of which has been used repeatedly as an example of incipient social complexity.

Theorists have portrayed the development of sociopolitical complexity as a mosaic process in which environmental, social, political, economic, ideological, and demographic variables act independently or in combination …

Good Girl, Bad Girl: The Role Of Abigail And Jessica In The Jew Of Malta And The Merchant Of Venice, Anna Beskin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice, both Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare question anti-Semitism, Christian presumption, and socially constructed gender roles. Often compared, the two plays have obvious similarities: both plots center on rich, Jewish protagonists---Barabas in The Jew of Malta and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice---who are vilified and then destroyed by a merciless Gentile society. On the surface, the protagonists' daughters---Abigail in The Jew of Malta and Jessica in The Merchant of Venice---also share many similarities. Both are the young, beautiful daughters of rich and much maligned Jews; both love …

Speech, Judy Genshaft, State Of The University: 2006, January 31, 2007, Judy Genshaft

USF University Archives and Documents

University of South Florida's President Judy Genshaft's speech "State of the University" for 2006. Genshaft spends a good portion of the speech talking about achieving goals set in the strategic plan.

Annual Report - 2007, Nctr

U.S. DOT Reporting

No abstract provided.

Alaskan Caver, Volume 27, No. 1, January 2007, Carlene Allred

Alaskan Caver

Contents: President’s Corner - A Look At The Burren, By Carlene Allred - New Caving Club Started In Ketchikan - Map Of Bayview Cave, Coronation Island - Map Of Pete’s Pissed Pit, Coronation Island - Map Of Sinkside Cave, Coronation Island - Map Of Improvisation Pit, Coronation Island - Membership List - Who’s Who In Alaskan Caving, By Bruce White - Dr. Science - 2006 Financial Statement

Defendendo Privilégio: Os Limites Da Participação Popular Em Salvador, Bahia, Bernd Reiter

Government and International Affairs Faculty Publications

Este estudo enfoca as mudanças das relações Estadosociedade no estado da Bahia, e os fatores que condicionam uma participação democrática. A partir de trabalho de campo realizado durante várias viagens entre 2001 e 2006 à Salvador, BA, coletei dados sobre a qualidade da participação comunitária na gestão de escolas públicas, no processo de planejamento urbano (PDDU) e no orçamento participativo, iniciado em janeiro de 2005 naquela cidade.

Comparei três áreas de interação entre o governo local e a sociedade em geral, sociedade civil especificamente. Este artigo é enfocado nas duas últimas áreas da política, mas, em todos os casos observados, …

Par For The Course Of Development: A Critique Of Historical Development Theory And The Necessity Of Participatory Action Research, Cherilyn Hansen

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

In an attempt to assist "developing" countries in our increasingly globalized world, a recent neoliberal model has been produced to affirm the "right" measures of standard of living, economic policy, and governmental organization_ With the advent of the internet, the explosion of cross-cultural NGO's, and the ease of travel and media's availability, we can no longer sit in our cozy three bedroom houses in the suburbs without thinking about how our actions affect the rest of the world. There are a growing number of citizens in our society who would like to assist the countries we are dependent on - …

The Dimensions Of Sustainability And The Neo-Entrepreneurial Adaptation Strategies In Reindeer Herding In Finland, Hannu Ilmari Heikkinen, Sami Lakomäki, John Baldridge

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Current public discourse in Finland concerning reindeer herding has focused on the overgrazing problem and conflicts between herding and competitive forms of land use. Both herders and government administrators agree on the problems of herding, but conceptualize their causes differently. Administrators insist that sustainability in herding is reachable through bioeconomic management that unites biological metrics of sustainable systems with an economic efficiency calculus. However, we found that such policy erodes socio-cultural sustainability at the community level. It also encourages economic rationalization that leads to increased revenues but slower income growth, because it coexists with rising investment costs and decreasing producer …

Influence Of Hunter Adaptability On Resilience Of Subsistence Hunting Systems, Todd J. Brinkman, Gary P. Kofinas, F. Stuart Chapin Iii, David K. Person

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

The capacity of hunters to shape the fundamental properties of their lifestyle at times when extrinsic factors change the availability of subsistence foods is critical to subsistence cultures. Recent changes in deer hunting on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska illustrate the social-ecological challenges to the resilience of a rural subsistence hunting system and raise the broader question of whether efficient hunting strategies necessarily enhance resilience. During the latter half of the 20th century, indigenous people of Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island adapted to changing subsistence opportunities by capitalizing on increased availability of deer due to clearcut logging and the construction …

River Of Love In An Age Of Pollution: The Yamuna River Of Northern India, Pratyusha Basu

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, And Social Imagination, Rebecca K. Zarger

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Differentiating Livelihood Strategies Among The Luo And Kipsigis People In Western Kenya , Mary Nyasimi, Lorna Michael Butler, Lee Burras, Hsain Ilahiane, Richard Schultz, Jan Flora

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Rural communities of sub-Saharan Africa are under increasing adaptive pressure resulting from decline in the quality of land resources. To increase food, generate income, and safeguard against risks and shocks, families are engaging in multiple livelihood strategies. This study was conducted to: 1) evaluate livelihood strategies; 2) examine the dynamic diversification process in the agrarian and non-agrarian continuum; and 3) investigate how type and availability of assets influences choice of a livelihood strategy. Results from our investigation in western Kenya suggest that as land is subjected to degradation, there is a shift in the type of assets that families can …

Tribal Dependence On Fly Ash In Korba, Shikha Shrivastava

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Public Services Department : Annual Report : 2006 - 2007, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

From The Editors, Tampa Bay History

Tampa Bay History

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Tampa Bay History

Tampa Bay History

No abstract provided.

Peerless Pageant: The First Ten Years Of Tampa’S Gasparilla Festival, Rosanna Ensley

Tampa Bay History

No abstract provided.

Annual Report, Public Services Department, 2006-2007, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Library Department and Committee Reports

Annual report for the academic year 2006-2007 for public services activities at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.