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Preserving The Oneida Nation Culture, Brian Patterson

St. Thomas Law Review

The topic of this symposium - "Sacred Sites and Modem Lives" - is very timely. We often hear news about some building project that has unearthed an ancient village or burial ground. For every building project that is unearthed you also hear great debate about what to do about the building project, or what to do with the artifacts and the human remains. There exists a big struggle - on the one hand, the needs of society and science, and on the other hand, respect for places and things and people that came long before.

The Miami Circle: Teacher Of Respect For Nature, People, History, And Place, Dennis Wiedman

St. Thomas Law Review

Cut into the limestone bedrock shore of the Miami River where it enters Biscayne Bay, the Miami Circle has captured local, state, national and international attention since its discovery in September 1998. This paper captures the information, insight, and cultural values expressed by the various contributors to the conference on "Sacred Sites and Modem Lives: The Miami Circle and Beyond." It highlights the lessons that enable us to better understand the significance of the Miami Circle's past, its present implications for the South Florida community, and visions of its future.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken--The Miami Circle Discovery And It's Significance For Urban Evolution And Protection Of Indigenous Culture, Pamela G. Levinson

St. Thomas Law Review

A mysterious, ancient stone circle carved into limestone bedrock discovered on a downtown Miami bayfront lot has set a legal precedent for the world. The unique formation known as the Miami Circle has been saved by the exercise of the ultimate power of government - eminent domain. Thus its relevance stretches beyond the local struggle to save one ancient archaeological curiosity. Rather, it stands as a model for the preservation of similar archaeological structures and artifacts found on private lands, which up to now have been vulnerable to destruction. It also stands as a model of hope for other sites …

Contributors

Ethnic Studies Review

Contributors to Ethnic Studies Review, Vol. 23, No. 1,2&3, April 2000.

Ethnic Studies Review

Ethnic Studies Review

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Thinking About Drug Law Reform: Some Political Dynamics Of Medicalization, Fredrick Polak

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The article begins by stating that many people believe that medicalization offers the most reasonable approach to drug policy because it offers a dignified approach to treatment of addicts. However, it risks being a form of repression itself because it may define abstinence as the only acceptable treatment outcome. The article then explores the position of the medical profession in drug policy. It then looks at the negative political and social aspects and consequences of an abstinence-directed medicalization policy. The article concludes by stating that if abstinence is always the treatment goal then medicalization will be even less voluntary and …

The Estimation Of Ante-Mortem Weight From Adult Human Skeletal Remains: An Examination Of The Humerus And The Femur, Thomas Scott Sichta

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Death Of Privacy, Darren W. Bax

Theses

This thesis will focus on the issue of personal privacy and the growing threat to its existence in a technological society.

The areas most associated with privacy loss include increased government intrusions, legislation, workplace, healthcare industry, Internet, and identity theft. Chapter one provides a historical perspective beginning with primitive culture and their struggle to maintain privacy in the lives. Interesting enough, privacy protection was not mentioned by the judicial system until 1880 when privacy was defined as the "right to be left alone." To address concerns about privacy reform the Supreme Court cited this right of privacy as having " …

Can Anyone Stop Big Brother? New York's Drunk Driving Laws Do Not Pass The Constitutional Test, Michael J. Langer

Hofstra Law Review

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Constructing Solidarity: Interest And White Workers, Martha R. Mahoney

Articles

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Gay Rights For Gay Whites: Race, Sexual Identity, And Equal Protection Discourse, Darren Lenard Hutchinson

Cornell Law Review

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Bulletin: General Catalog Issue 2000-2001, Portland State University

Bulletin & Curriculum Change Documents

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The Secret Of The Court In The Netherlands, Niels F. Van Manen

Seattle University Law Review

The procedural organization of the legal system in the Netherlands is quite different from the North American model. The Dutch legal system forbids the publication of dissenting opinions. There is even a veil of ignorance about unanimity, created by what is "secret of the court": justice is handed out in black and white terms, regardless of the judges' motivations. This might create an image of unity and unanimity, and thus promote the legitimacy of jurisprudence, however, this secret of the court also prevents the effects of therapeutic jurisprudence, since those who have "won," but even more so those who have …

Gender And Generation In Household Labor Supply In Jordan, Mary Kawar

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper examines gender and age differences in the labor supply of households in Jordan, and the impact of young women’s employment on gender and generation relations. The objective of the study is to address the issues of gender and generation as factors influencing accessibility to labor markets, and to provide a broader understanding of female employment by exploring age-related factors. Empirically, the study looks at the disproportionate workforce participation of young urban single women in Amman, Jordan, and argues that this generation of working women is evidence of a new stage in the lives of Jordanian women: single employed …

Tribal Jurisprudence And Cultural Meanings Of The Family, Barbara Ann Atwood

Nebraska Law Review

This article explores the ways in which Indian tribal judges are constituting their tribe's unique culture through jurisprudential "weavings" in the realm of family dispute resolution. Part II describes the history of tribal courts in this country and the contemporary characteristics of many such judiciaries. In addition, Part II highlights the vast differences among modern tribal courts but also suggests that many tribes share common values regarding the cultural role of dispute resolution. Part III briefly explores the incorporation of custom and tradition into judicial decision making by tribal courts, including the methods by which traditions are proven and the …

The Role Of Classification In Knowledge Representation And Discovery, Barbara H. Kwasnik

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

The link between classification and knowledge is explored. Classification schemes have properties that enable the representation of entities and relationships in structures that reflect knowledge of the domain being classified. The strengths and limitations of four classificatory approaches are described in terms of their ability to reflect, discover, and create new knowledge. These approaches are hierarchies, trees, paradigms, and faceted analysis. Examples are provided of the way in which knowledge and the classification process affect each other.

Biotechnology And The Legal Constitution Of The Self: Managing Identity In Science, The Market, And Society, Jonathan Kahn

UC Law Journal

This article revisits the case of Moore v. Regents of the University of California to explore and elaborate an approach that points toward a more effective and just manner of ordering the legal management of identity in the realm of biotechnology-and perhaps beyond.

First, Professor Kahn explores how the tort of appropriation of identity, as invoked by the California Appellate Court in Moore, opens up new approaches to inform and perhaps supplement principles of property law as a guide to managing genetic information or other materials that seem intimately bound up with a particular human subject.

Second, he analyzes how …

The History Of Archeological Research At Medicine Creek Reservoir, Robert Blasing

United States National Park Service: Publications

Medicine Creek is a tributary which flows southeast into the Republican River, which in turn contributes to the Kansas River. The drainage basin is in southwest Nebraska and is about 75 km or 50 miles in length. It drains an area of slightly under 700 square miles.
Medicine Creek Reservoir (Reservoir) was completed in 1949. It was built primarily to control destructive flooding on both the Medicine and Republican drainages. It is also part of the Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation Project, administered by the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation).
The area around the Reservoir is covered by a deep mantel of wind blown …

Ancient Traditions, New Interpretations: Compression Resist Textiles In North And Mesoamerica, Virginia Davis

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Anasazi pieces from the Southwest USA, circa 1100 - 1300 AD, are known having compression resist patterning by tieing or stitching. These may possibly show influence from further south. In Mexico, tie and stitch resist is seen in pre-Hispanic indigo dyed brown cotton fragments recovered in the region of Tehuacan, Puebla. The codices are rich in depiction suggesting tie-dye, in particular, the cloak of Nezahualpilli, Lord of Texcoco, Codex Ixtlilxochitl, analyzed by Dr. Patricia Anawalt. Nezahualpilli, means in Nahuatl "blue knot," linguistically reflecting the design in the legitimizing cloak. Codex Mendoza shows tribute to the Aztecs with tie design from …

Cloth In Contemporary West Africa: A Symbiosis Of Factory-Made And Hand-Made Cloth, Heather Marie Akou

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The concepts of "tradition" and "fashion" both center on the idea of change. Fashion implies change, while tradition implies a lack of change. Many scholars have attempted to draw a line between the two, often with contradictory results. In a 1981 article titled, "Awareness: Requisite to Fashion," Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins argued that,

If people in a society are generally not aware of change in form of dress during their lifetimes, fashion does not exist in that society. Awareness of change is a necessary condition for fashion to exist; the retrospective view of the historian does not produce fashion.¹

Although …

Conversing With The Cosmos, Linda L. Beeman

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper focuses on the silk tapestry headcloths woven by Tausug peoples from the Philippine Sulu Archipelago. Called pis siyabet, they captured my attention because they diverge so wildly from the cotton or abaca warp ikat weaving one associates with indigenous peoples from the Philippines and Indonesia. Their material, structure, motif and color fly in the face of local tradition. The dense complexity created by their interlocking square, triangle and diamond motifs suggests cosmic mazes - treasure maps to the unconscious. Pis puzzle us and compel our imaginations.

Some history is in order. The Philippine Archipelago was first peopled …

Dynamics Of Warp And Weft: Contemporary Trends In Naga Textiles And The Naga Collection At The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, Vibha Joshi

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper, based on preliminary findings, attempts to show the dynamic processes of change and incorporation of new ideas and materials in the textiles of the Nagas of northeast India by comparing the contemporary textile trends with those seen in the Naga collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM) in Oxford.

The discussion derives from Emma Tarlo and Appadurai's views on museum collections and the role clothes play in a people's identity. Tarlo (Clothing Matters, 1996) writes that textile and clothes displays in museums often take the clothes out of their social, political and economic context. Following Appadurai …

Symbolic Content In Textile Motifs: Using The Semiotic Approach, Patricia Williams

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

John Deely (1990) stated that "the whole of human experience .. .is an interpretive structure mediated and sustained by signs". The investigation of the role of signs in the sphere of textiles is, to use Deely's phrase, one of "semiotic consciousness" or the awareness of symbolic content in clothing, cloth and textile motifs.

Semiotics is the theoretical accounting for signs and what they do. It is the study of signs and sign-using behavior including semiosis or the action of signs. The action, which may be physical or psychological, takes place between two subjects that exist physically plus a third element …

The "Invasion" Of Zapotec Textiles: Indian Art "Made In Mexico" And The Indian Arts And Crafts Act, W. Warner Wood

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In May 2000, in Capitol Hill hearing testimony Andy Abeita described the "threat"," largely coming from South of the border as an "onslaught" creating "significant losses" because of ''unfair competition." He further described the situation as a "takeover" causing "economic harm" against which those in the U.S. should be "protect[ed]." Abeita's choice of vocabulary was not out of the ordinary.¹ As a number of authors have pointed out, Mexican workers are often described as an invasionary force.² megal and legal Mexican migration and work in the U.S. or in the maquiladora manufacturing plants that have sprung up along …

Tokapu Messages, Catherine Julien

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Tokapu are geometric designs that were woven into Inca tapestry garments. They were also used in the design of lacquered wooden cups, although perhaps not before the time of the Spanish arrival in the Andes in the mid-sixteenth century. During the time of Spanish colonial rule a richly narrative style of representation developed that depicted people and objects in a variety of scenes. Tokapu appear as abstract geometric motifs on cups that have narrative scenes in other registers. They also continue to be used on men's and women's garments, as they had in the prehispanic period.¹ Students of Andean …

Turkoman Embroidery And Women's Magic, Kate Fitz Gibbon

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Turkoman embroidered materials from the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries collected in Afghanistan were largely unaffected by the commercial pressures brought to bear at that time on other women's handicrafts such as carpets and kilims. Over time, the relative affluence of different tribal groups and the free time available for embroidery affected the style and richness of embroidered materials, but dowry robes, hats, bags and numerous talismariic objects continued to be embroidered for family use. Examination and comparison of these materials with others in museum collections from neighboring Turkmenistan reveal close parallels in pattern and composition, as …

Changes In Individualism And Collectivism As A Function Of Acculturation : A Study Of International Students, Layton Seth Curl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Rock Of My Soul : Slave Culture And The Meaning Of Jesus, Gregg L. Newby

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Eclectic Model Of Censorship, Kenji Yoshino

Faculty Articles

In Part I of this review, I elaborate on the parallel stories that can be told about changing conceptions of subjects and speech: stories of error (the classical model's sentimental conception), overcorrection (the Foucaultian model's skeptical conception), and equilibration (the contemporary model's comprehensive conception). I argue that despite postmodern encouragement to view all censorship as arising from norms, the contemporary model has retained a partially sentimental conception (which could also be called a partially skeptical conception) of both subjects and speech as discrete agents of censorship. I call the contemporary model the "eclectic" model of censorship, drawing on the historical …

The Lyceum : A Legacy And A Vision / By Margaret Stevens Walton, Margaret Stevens Walton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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