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Transitional Justice In A Transnational World: The Ambiguous Role Of Law, Peer Zumbansen

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

In situations of military, political or economic transition, the reassessment of the role of law in the transition process becomes a crucial site of a people's or a nation's negotiating the past, present and future. Allusions to a tabula rasa or an annee zero after traumatic collapses of societal order, however, turn into ill-fated attempts to address the challenges of confronting the past when building the future. The law's concern with nations that struggle with transition expresses itself through hybrid concepts such as transitional or post-conflict justice, restorative justice, or reconciliation. This paper revisits these instantiations and places them in …

The Ties That Bind: Indigenous Peoples And Environmental Governance, Benjamin J. Richardson

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

Canvassing practices in many countries, this chapter analyses the relationships between Indigenous peoples and environmental governance. It examines the environmental values and practices of Indigenous peoples, primarily in order to assess their implications for the Indigenous stake in environmental governance. It identifies at least six major theories or perspectives concerning Indigenous environmental values and practices. Secondly, the chapter reviews the legal norms and governance tools that structure Indigenous involvement in environmental management, in order to assess their relative value for Indigenous stakeholders and implications for sustainable utilisation of natural resources.

Toward A Visceral Scholarship Online: Folkvine.Org And Hypermedia Ethnography, Craig Saper

The Journal of e-Media Studies

This essay describes an experiment in scholarly presentation and ethnographic representation. The project, called folkvine.org, focuses on folk art and artists in Florida. It specifically examines Ruby C. Williams, Taft Richardson, Diamond Jim Parker, the Scott family, and Ginger LaVoie among many other folk and outsider artists represented on the website. Design functions as a crucial aspect of the content to illuminate the sensibility of the artists and traditions explored. The visceral, visual, and sonic modes function not as ornamentation. The visceral design of scholarship, not merely an ornament or a necessarily invisible lens for scholarship, has unique advantages. This …

Mexican Personality Types Inventory: Validity And Differences Among Groups, Luz Maria Cruz-Martinez, Rozzana Sanchez-Aragon

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

No abstract provided.

The Age, Function, And Distribution Of Keyhole Structures In The Upper Susquehanna River Valley, Douglas H. Macdonald

Anthropology Faculty Publications

This paper provides a summary of current data regarding the age, geographical distribution, and function of keyhole structures in the upper Susquehanna River Valley of north-central Pennsylvania and south-central New York. Keyhole structures have been identified at 11 sites in the West and North Branches of the Susquehanna River Valley. The feature type likely originated in the West Branch Valley from which it spread to the north, south, and east. Their main period of use was during the latter portion of the Late Woodland period, between approximately 1230 and 1670 A.D. Given the locations of the sites along major waterways, …

General Undergraduate Catalog, 2008-2009, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 2000-2009

Marshall University Undergraduate Catalog for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Graduate Catalog, Spring 2008, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 2000-2009

Marshall University Graduate Catalog for the Spring 2008 academic year.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 3: Change And Continuity At Fort St. Joseph, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 3.

At Fort St. Joseph, evidence points to many instances of cross-cultural exchange between the French fort inhabitants and neighboring Native American groups such as the Potawatomi, Miami and Sauk.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 5: Project History, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 5.

Investigations at the long lost fort were begun in 1998 by WMU archaeologists.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 1: What Is Archaeology?, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 1.

What is Archaeology and Historical Archaeology?

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 2: Fort History, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 2.

The French established Fort St. Joseph in 1691 in present day Niles.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 4: Commercial Activities At Fort St. Joseph, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 4.

Fort St. Joseph was an important link in the chain of frontier outposts that marked the far reaches of New France and facilitated the fur trade between the French and Native Americans in the Western Great Lakes region.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 6: Military Presence At Fort St. Joseph, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 6.

From 1691 to 1698 and from 1717 to 1761, French military personnel occupied Fort St. Joseph to defend the site's strategic position on a major trade route near the portage between the St. Joseph and Kankakee rivers, while maintaining alliances with friendly Native American groups to facilitate the trade in furs.

E-Poetry: Between Image And Performance -- A Cultural Analysis, Jan Baetens, Jan Van Looy

The Journal of e-Media Studies

By establishing an opposition between two ways of studying e-poetry: the patrimonial stance, which historicizes and canonizes a corpus and the cultural stance, which discusses e-poetry in its social context, the article makes a plea for a broad, cultural approach to electronic reading and writing. This approach defines e-poetry in terms of performance, placing a strong emphasis on the mediated and often networked environment in which e-poetry creation and reception take place. The close reading of two examples by Pierre Alferi and Eric Sadin, two prominent authors of electronic literature in France, further illustrates the idea of writing and reading …

Living With Stories, William Schneider

All USU Press Publications

In essays about communities as varied as Alaskan Native, East Indian, Palestinian, Mexican, and African American, oral historians, folklorists, and anthropologists look at how traditional and historical oral narratives live through re-tellings, gaining meaning and significance in repeated performances, from varying contexts, through cultural and historical knowing, and due to tellers' consciousness of their audiences.

The Folklore Muse, Frank De Caro

All USU Press Publications

Folklore—the inherently creative expression, transmission, and performance of cultural traditions—has always provided a deep well of material for writers, musicians, and artists of all sorts. Folklorists usually employ descriptive and analytical prose, but they, like scholars in other social sciences, have increasingly sought new, creative and reflexive modes of discourse. Many folklorists are also creative writers, some well known as such, and the folk traditions they research often provide shape and substance to their work. This collection of creative writing grounded in folklore and its study brings together some of the best examples of such writing.

Contributors to this collection …

The Fierce Tribe, Mickey Weems

All USU Press Publications

In this ethnography that documents the folk nature of popular culture, Mickey Weems applies interdisciplinary interpretation to a subject that demands such a breakdown of intellectual boundaries. The Circuit, an expression of gay culture, comprises large dance events—gatherings, celebrations, communions, festivals. Music and dance drive complex, shared performances—electronic house music played by professional DJs and mass ecstatic dancing that engenders communitas. Other performances, from drag queens and concerts to contests, theatrics, and the individual display of muscular bodies are part of the festivities.

Body sculpting through muscle building is strongly associated with the Circuit, and masculine aggression is both displayed …

Seattle Pacific University Catalog 2008-2009, Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-202-Nk-003-001-Lcth, Gabriella Soto

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-202-Mo-001-001-Fwo, Marcela Esqueda

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

An Ethnography Of The English Language Industry In The Republic Of Korea, Melissa Stachel

Digitized Theses

This thesis is the outcome of four months of multi-sited ethnographic research conducted in Canada and South Korea. It is my thesis that two beliefs, one held by Koreans and the other by foreign English instructors, maintain the English language industry in South Korea. South Koreans, I will show, believe that education, and specifically English, grants an individual and his or her family status. This belief, I argue, ensures a steady demand for English language instructors in the country. It is not only the desire to fill this demand, however, that motivates native English speakers to travel to South Korea. …

Borders Of Knowledge: Cultural And Political Borderlands, Identity And The Ironsides In The Great Lakes (1790-1863), Ellen Kimberly Brown

Digitized Theses

This thesis which examines three generations of the Ironside family that lived through the frontier borderlands, along western Lake Erie and the Detroit River, and later along north Lake Huron and Manitoulin Island, is ideal for exploring how identity on a physical borderland, and between the biological and cultural borderlands between European and Native, could be revised to serve personal notions of self, as well as to create a hybrid of innovative categories of identity. To achieve this exploration, I examine the identity of the Ironside family by primarily focusing on correspondence by members of this family, written in official …

A Multivariate Taphonomic Approach To Understanding Midden Formation In Thule Inuit Contexts: A Case Study From Arctic Canada, Tom Porawski

Digitized Theses

Archaeologists attempting to reconstruct local and regional Thule subsistence behaviour place great emphasis on faunal assemblages recovered from Thule semisubterranean house structures and their associated middens (refuse dumps). Despite the importance of this dataset, limited attention has been given to understanding the taphonomic processes that created these assemblages. The faunal material observed in middens can be highly variable due to the impact of natural and cultural formation processes. This thesis uses faunal data collected from a Thule site (NeHd-1, ca. AD 1400-1600) located near Hall Beach, Nunavut to examine the formation and preservation of three different middens. Application of a …

Being And Belonging: Identity And Community Among Gay Asian-Canadians In Toronto, Pamela S. Yuen

Digitized Theses

This thesis examines the concepts of identity, community and belonging among gay and Queer Asian-Canadian men and women who live in the Greater Toronto Area. Most of these persons emigrated from East Asia with their families through the late 1970s to 1990s and subsequently came of age in Canada. I look at the ways in which ethnicity and sexuality converge in the life histories of these individuals through a range of topics that demonstrate how individuals conceptualize themselves and each other, as well as how social networks are formed and maintained. I argue that ethnic and sexual boundaries are not …

Hair Cortisol As A Historical Record Of Systemic Hormone Exposure, Steven G. Thomson

Digitized Theses

Cortisol is a glucocorticoid hormone secreted under normal and pathological conditions. It is typically measured in the serum, urine, or saliva which, while useful, are limited in the period of time measurable, and are only applicable prospectively. We measured cortisol in hair as a novel method to obtain long term data about exposure to cortisol. Using a modified salivary cortisol immune-assay, hair cortisol levels were measured in hair as old as 1800 years, and showed cortisol levels similar to modern day individuals living with elevated stress. Hair samples from patients with Cushing's Syndrome were analyzed and showed higher cortisol content …

Small Point Archaic Lithic Procurement And Use In Southern Ontario, Sherri H. Pearce

Digitized Theses

This thesis examines the lithic procurement and use behaviours of Small Point Archaic people occupying southern Ontario. The ultimate goal of this thesis was to test the “Direct-Embedded” procurement model originally proposed by Ellis and Spence (1997) in which they argued that Small Point Archaic people used mainly two toolstone sources and traversed most of southern Ontario in their seasonal rounds. An examination of data collected from 54 Small Point Archaic sites has shown that direct-embedded procurement of lithic resources was the norm at most sites, but Small Point Archaic people were not traveling all over southern Ontario utilizing both …

Radiological Assessment Of Age-Related Change In The Trabecular Structure Of The Human Os Pubis, Andrew D. Wade

Digitized Theses

This thesis examines correlations between age-at-death and changes in the trabecular architecture of the human os pubis, utilizing data from plain film radiography, computed tomography (CT), and micro-CT scans of 65 males from the Grant skeletal collection. Radiography provides researchers with non-destructive options for assessment, digital preservation, and electronic data sharing of human skeletal remains. Plain film radiographs have high spatial resolutions and the required equipment allows for rapid assessment of results even in the field. CT and higher resolution micro-CT, largely unexplored in the field of age estimation, can image trabecular micro-structures in three dimensions at higher contrast resolutions. …

Learning Outcomes For American Sign Language Skill Levels 1-4, Kim B. Kurz, Marty M. Taylor

Books

This document describes measurable learning outcomes for American Sign Language (ASL) levels 1 – 4. A history of ASL provides the background and foundation for the document and includes an overview of teaching and learning ASL in the United States. The processes leading to the creation of the outcomes for ASL levels 1 – 4 are discussed and incorporate the development of ASL outcomes for college-level courses. Information about how the outcomes were adapted was taken, with permission, from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). The key premise of ACTFL’s “5 Cs” are: Communication, Cultures, Connections, …

2008, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Graduate Highlights

No abstract provided.

Force-Velocity, Impulse-Momentum Relationships: Implications For Efficacy Of Purposefully Slow Resistance Training, Brian K. Schilling, Michael J. Falvo, Loren Z.F. Chiu

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.