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Madre An Ethnographic Study Of Feminism, Social Change And Women's Human Rights, Erica Lindegren

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of how the staff members of one New York City-based nongovernmental organization, MADRE Inc., effect transnational social change. MADRE is a self-proclaimed women�s human rights organization that works with grassroots women�s organizations worldwide to provide �rights, resources, and results.� Using anthropological and feminist theoretical frameworks, I draw from interviews with staff members, observations from my internship experience, and research from MADRE and its partner organizations to analyze how MADRE serves as a conduit for social transformation through two partners in Sudan and Colombia. I examine how feminist goals have informed women's human rights, and …

As The World Burns Theoretical Frameworks For Analyzing Domestic Terrorism, Thomas Mckay

Theses & ETDs

Despite the large amount of research done on terrorism of all stripes, an overall theoretical framework of terrorism has not yet been developed. Political terrorism is a vastly complicated and politically sensitive phenomenon; as a result, the overall state of the literature is incomplete, making any attempts to develop such a model unlikely and possibly even undesirable. Even basic definitions, assumptions, and relational models are still a matter of intensive debate. This study examines two dominant approaches to terrorism analysis, the instrumental/strategic model and the organizational/incentive framework. It contains a breakdown of existing theoretical perspectives on terrorism and applies the …

Toxic Entanglements Florida's Farmworkers And The Fight For Environmental Justice, Samuel Chillaron

Theses & ETDs

Environmental Justice is the pursuit of equitable treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender and income in questions of environmental regulation, management and public health. This thesis explores the environmental justice issue of pesticide exposure amongst Florida�s farmworkers, with an ethnographic and historical focus on the activism of the Farmworker Association of Florida and the former farmworker community of Lake Apopka�s muck farms. From the early 1940s to the late 1990s, not only did Lake Apopka�s farmworkers endure low wages, substandard living conditions, and exposure to a variety of hazardous pesticides, but were also excluded …

"You Can't Wait For The Cavalry That Won't Come!" Combating Post-Katrina Urbicide, Christina Lawrence

Theses & ETDs

This thesis argues that top-down political processes enabled Katrina�s destruction, including the sustained displacement and systematic disenfranchisement of Black working-class residents during the rebuilding process. �This paper looks at post-Katrina urbicidal trends (and residential resistance to them) through a method of open-ended, grounded-theory interviews with founders, directors and workers in the grassroots, community-based organization network of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. �The project integrates secondary literature and with participation and observation to create a narrative of urbicide and urbicide resistance in post-Katrina New Orleans. �It contends that the two most salient features of this story are a local history of …

The Great Ringling A Cristical Archaeology Of Cad'zan In Sarasota, Florida, Michael Sanderson

Theses & ETDs

Beginning in the 1980s, historical archaeologists began to scrutiny the residential gardens of the North American elite, analyzing how these deliberately-created landscapes were both produced and were the product of their hierarchical, elite-controlled societies. John Ringling's Sarasota estate was part of his larger social action in 1920s America, and this thesis uses archival research and analysis of the landscape to document how Ringling used the estate to create a local identity for Sarasota based on climate, coastline, and �culture� (meaning the arts and links to Europe). The thesis argues this identity was only partially present before and that Ringling used …

Betwixt And Between Au Pairs In The United States, Agne Milukaite

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the au pair program in the United States. I argue that au pairs do not conform to a simple explanation or definition. Instead, the young women who participate in the program are better understood in terms of their liminality�a temporary phase that is part of a life-stage transformation similar to a rite of passage. I believe that this program is an illustration of a broader phenomenon of modern liminality which retains aspects of pre-industrial rites of passage but adds to those rites labor as a means of ordering this transformation. My findings show that while this labor …

"Feminist Fairy Tales" Female Agency And Subversive Message In Fairy Tales Of The Traditional European Canon, Marisa Reichert

Theses & ETDs

The thesis is situated in the context of previous feminist literary critique of fairy tales, attempting to answer common questions of whether fairy tales can be considered "feminist" or pro-woman. The author uses tale type AT 425A from the traditional European canon of fairy tales to examine this question and attempt to answer it. This tale type, The Search for the Lost Husband, is based on the plot structure and themes of Apuleius's second-century AD work, The Tale of Cupid and Psyche, and is a story about arranged marriage from the wife's perspective. The thesis first discusses the history of …

A Resource For Harmony An Etunographic Study Of Exhibition, Heritage, And Race At Family Heritage House Museum, Bradenton, Florida, Christina Chavez

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is the product of ethnographic fieldwork spanning from January 2010 to January 2011. The artifacts, exhibits, and events which are a part of Family Heritage House Museum were methodological tools which provided cultural insight into the community-centered African American heritage museum. An analysis of specific artifacts, exhibits, and events illustrate the manner in which exhibition, heritage, and race intersect at Family Heritage House Museum. As an instrument of power exhibition separates the subject from the object turning the intangible and ephemeral responses to culture into a tangible thing. Through this process, the museum constructs heritage for specific social …

The Role Of Guanxi In Chinese Economic Transition Firm Networking & Market Autonomy, Chelsea Dye

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the role of guanxi in China's economic transformation. Guanxi is an institutionalized form of social capital in China that has evolved since the time of Confucius. Social capital is lauded as a resource that may help economic actors overcome the uncertainties of economic transition through the use of social networks to share information. When examining the history of China's economic transition since 1979, it is evident that guanxi has had many roles in facilitating cooperation and information sharing among Chinese firms. Yet as the transition progressed, the use of social networks to surmount barriers to entry and …

Water Purification In The Global South, Meagan Patrick

Theses & ETDs

The past few decades have marked an international effort to provide improved water sources, and development projects have become increasingly interdisciplinary. After careful consideration of the problem, an appropriate framework through which to view the effectiveness of design and implementation is determined to be based on a synthesis of the natural sciences, theoretical anthropological critiques of development, and real world experiences. To test the feasibility of reproducing an manganese-oxide coated filter based on an Indian design, coated sand gathered from a Florida site is tested for its ability to remove zinc. The failure of the sand to maintain its structure …

Bon Voyage? Tourism And Development In The Caribbean The Case Of Barbados, Nicole Whalen

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International tourism has become a significant economic sector for many developing countries, and its potential to contribute to national development has become the subject of recent development literature. Due to the increased advocacy by international organizations and national governments to adopt tourism as a development strategy, it is important to examine how tourism has affected past development endeavors before prescribing the tourism treatment to other developing countries. This thesis examines the divergent development experience of two Caribbean islands�Barbados and Jamaica�to examine how the recent development of mass tourism has affected each island�s quest for economic growth and development. It concludes …

What Do The Textbooks Say? An Anthropological Study Of Highschool American History Curriculum Content, Chelsea Montgomery

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Public outreach is a growing concern within anthropology, but anthropological research that focuses on what is being taught in K-12 classrooms is nearly non-existent. However, this thesis lies at an intersection of anthropology, education, and public outreach. I begin by providing background information on the current state of educational inequity in the United States before reviewing John Ogbu's cultural ecology model (CEM). When problematized, CEM becomes a useful tool for analyzing the connection between curriculum content and student engagement. To further elucidate this connection, I looked at two recent sociological investigations of curriculum content and student engagement. From this grounding …

God Bless America How Presidents Use American Civil Religon To Legitimize Military In Their Inaugural Addresses, Tm Mawn

Theses & ETDs

This thesis demonstrates the ways in which Presidents use civil religious language to legitimize military policy in their inaugural addresses. Specifically, it focuses on the second inaugural addresses of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Using the theories of Robert Bellah and Jon Pahl, it demonstrates the ways in which these presidents use civil religious language to justify military policy while masking the true reasoning behind and consequences of those policies.

An Anthropology Of Remembering Queer Theory, Collaborative Archaeology, & The Apalachea Past, Lee Bloch

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the potential of queering and decolonizing archaeology with a focus on the Apalachee past. The first chapter examines the Mississippian-era Lake Jackson site, outlining queer and Indigenist critiques of Southeastern archaeology. Based on collaborative research with a Muskogee community, I further an interpretation of the so-called �Birdman� or �Birdwoman� of the SECC as a gender-neutral anthropomorphic moth. The second chapter discusses 17th century Mission San Luis, using engendered and historical archaeological methods. I suggest that jewelry found discarded in a trash pit reflects the identity politics of an Apalachee woman and her Spanish lover, situating this interpretation …

Successes And Failures Of Democratic Consolidation South Asia A Comparative Study Of India And Pakistan, Dolan Cochran

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This study investigates processes of democratic transition in India and Pakistan in an attempt to explain why India achieved democratic consolidation while democracy in Pakistan became unstable and prone to authoritarian interventions. The political and social systems of South Asia are analyzed utilizing a historical institutionalist approach that incorporates process-tracing methods and event history analysis. Particular attention is paid to the period of British Colonial rule and its impact on social, political, and economic systems, as well as notions of identity in the subcontinent. A focus on political development over time reveals significant disparities between Hindus and Muslims during British …

Saints And Geography, Margaret Cormack

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Action Anthropology And Pedagogy: University-Community Collaborations In Setting Policy, Lutchmie Narine, Sandra D. Lane, Robert A. Rubinstein, Inga Back, Caitlin Cornell, Alexander Hodgens, Monique Brantley, Rachel Kramas, Kathleen Keough, Brandon O'Connor, William Suk, Eric Morrissette, Mary Benson

Public Health, Food Studies, and Nutrition

This article describes a student-led, community-participatory project focused on reducing the burden of childhood lead poisoning in rental housing. A multidisciplinary group of students and faculty worked with community members. We compiled the social, public health, economic, and policy information on the human and fiscal costs of childhood lead poisoning. This analysis was done for community advocates to use to persuade policymakers to enact a local law strengthening the prevention of childhood lead poisoning in rental property. In conducting this work, the students gained experience in qualitative research methods, quantitative data analysis, the health consequences of lead exposure, health policy, …

What Is And What Can Be: How A Liminal Position Can Change Learning And Teaching In Higher Education, Alison Cook-Sather, Zanny Alter

Education Program Faculty Research and Scholarship

In this article we analyze what happens when undergraduate students are positioned as pedagogical consultants in a faculty development program. Drawing on their spoken and written perspectives, and using the classical anthropological concept of liminality, we illustrate how these student consultants revise their relationships with their teachers and their responsibilities within their learning. These revisions have the potential to transform deep-seated societal understandings of education based on traditional hierarchies and teacher/student distinctions.

Suffolk Alumni Magazine, Vol. 7, No.1, 2011, Suffolk University

Suffolk University Magazine

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An Immigrant, Not A Worker: Depiction Of The 2006 ‘Day Without An Immigrant’ Protests In Printed Media Of The United States, Teal Ruthschild

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

writing about the Day Without an Immigrant (DWI) Protests within the year of the 2006 protests are analyzed in order to understand narratives on labor activism of documented and undocumented immigrants in the United States. DWI protests marked an anticipated ‘turning point' in collective action among immigrant workers in the United States. Content analysis was employed to ascertain the portrayal of the protesters by a variety of print media sources. Both univariate and multivariate procedures utilized find that charged rhetoric of racialized anti-immigrant sentiment is present in most sources regardless of the ‘political leaning' of the press, reaffirming the status …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 23:1 — Winter 2011, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Lillian Elliott Award Recipient: Sharon Kallis
Symposium 2010: TSA Award and Scholarship Winners
From the President
TSA Study Tours
Symposium 2010 Photos
TSA Member News
Symposium 2010: Reports by TSA Award Recipients
Book Reviews
Conference Reviews
Textile Community News
Publication News
Calendar-Conferences & Symposia, Exhibitions, Lectures, Workshops, Tours

Better Half, Better Twelfth: Women In The Arts Collection- Part Ii

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

This reinstallation of the permanent collection galleries continues Sheldon's focus on American women artists, The fact of women's historical exclusion from the art world provides a basis for our exploration, In a 1971 essay, art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked, "Why have there been no great women artists)" She detailed various exclusions women suffered-from working with male nude models, hence from apprenticeships, then art professions and academies, to which we add commercial gallery exhibitions, art criticism, and art history. Over the centuries, this vicious cycle has shaped the current phenomenon: the predominance of male artists in museum collections.

The expression …

The Shaping Of Modern Human Immune Systems By Multiregional Admixture With Archaic Humans, Laurent Abi-Rached, Matthew J. Jobin, Subhash Kulkarni, Alasdair Mcwhinnie, Klara Dalva, Loren Gragert, Farbod Babrzadeh, Baback Gharizadeh, Ma Luo, Francis A. Plummer, Joshua Kimani, Mary Carrington, Derek Middleton, Raja Rajalingam, Meral Beksac, Steven G. E. Marsh, Martin Maiers, Lisbeth A. Guethlein, Sofia Tavoularis, Ann-Margaret Little, Richard E. Green, Paul J. Norman, Peter Parham

United States Public Health Resources

Whole genome comparisons identified introgression from archaic to modern humans. Our analysis of highly polymorphic HLA class I, vital immune system components subject to strong balancing selection, shows how modern humans acquired the HLA-B*73 allele in west Asia through admixture with archaic humans called Denisovans, a likely sister group to the Neandertals. Virtual genotyping of Denisovan and Neandertal genomes identified archaic HLA haplotypes carrying functionally distinctive alleles that have introgressed into modern Eurasian and Oceanian populations. These alleles, of which several encode unique or strong ligands for natural killer cell receptors, now represent more than half the HLA alleles of …

Diversity Of The Kir Gene Cluster In An Urban Brazilian Population, D. G. Augusto, L. Zehnder-Alves, M. R. Pincerati, M. P. Martin, Mary Carrington, Maria Luiza Petzl-Erler

United States Public Health Resources

The activity of natural killer cells depends on the balance between activating and inhibitory signals coming from their receptors. Among these are the killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) that recognize specific HLA class I allotypes. Here we characterized KIR genetic diversity and their HLA ligands in the population of Curitiba, Paraná State (n=164), and compared it with other worldwide populations. The distribution of 2DL4 alleles was also analyzed. The Curitiba population did not differ significantly from European and Euro-descendant populations, but as an admixed population showed higher genetic diversity. We found 27 KIR profiles, many of them uncommon in European …

Breaching The “Cultural Contract:” Committing To Cultural Sensitivity And Cultural Inclusion For Native American College Students, Kristen Emery

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

A culturally responsive, respectful, and inclusive academic environment is a must for Native American students. Educational institutions must work to accommodate and allow Native American cultural traditions to become an integral part of the classroom, of teaching and learning procedures and processes, and of the student experience in general (Burk, 2007). At the colleges and universities of today, Native American students often face challenges beyond that of students from the dominant, typically White, non-Hispanic culture; these challenges are reflected in low retention and college dropout rates of Native American and Alaskan Native students nationwide (Campbell, 2007). Research has indicated that …

Attitudes Of Teachers Toward Teaching Creative Strategies, Kirsten Limpert, Stuart Ervay

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Given the recent national emphasis on standards and the use of high stakes tests, American teachers may not have positive attitudes toward teaching creative strategies. It is possible for them to conclude that they will be held accountable primarily for how well students perform on summative tests that are based either on state standards or the new national Core Standards being adopted by many states. With so much emphasis on standards, they may not be acquainted with the New Bloom’s Taxonomy that places creating at the top of learning hierarchy, nor are they likely to be aware of why that …

Wooster Magazine: Winter 2011, Karol Crosbie

Wooster Magazine: 2011-2020

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the winter of 2011. Alumni news is featured on pages six to eight. A section from page ten to nineteen is on the fall exhibition at the College of Wooster Art Museum titled Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy and Painting. The following section is on alumni involved in global health care: Craig Lindsey '80, Angela Garcia '95, Jay Cox '54, and Susan McDowell '05. Andy Weaver '49 inspired four students to study spiders and those four students are now successful in their field. The history of the bronze Abe Lincoln statue that …

The Rise And Fall Of Lake Bonneville Between 45 And 10.5 Ka, L.V. Benson, S.P. Lund, J.P. Smoot, D.E. Rhode, R.J. Spencer, K.L. Verosub, L.A. Louderback, C.A. Johnson, R.O. Rye, R.M. Negrini

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

A sediment core taken from the western edge of the Bonneville Basin has provided high-resolution proxy records of relative lake-size change for the period 45.1-10.5 calendar ka (hereafter ka). Age control was provided by a paleomagnetic secular variation (PSV)-based age model for Blue Lake core BL04-4. Continuous records of δ¹⁸O and total inorganic carbon (TIC) generally match an earlier lake-level envelope based on outcrops and geomorphic features, but with differences in the timing of some hydrologic events/states. The Stansbury Oscillation was found to consist of two oscillations centered on 25 and 24 ka. Lake Bonneville appears to have …

The Bluebook Blues (Reviewing Harvard Law Review Association, The Bluebook: A Uniform System Of Citation (19th Ed., 2010)), Richard A. Posner

Articles

No abstract provided.

Buletin Pusat Dialog Peradaban Universiti Malaya, Volume 18, 2011, Centre For Civilisational Dialogue University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

No abstract provided.