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Deep Play, Urban Space, Adolescent Place: A Multi-Sited Study Of The Effects Of Settings On Adolescent Risk/Reward Behavior, Benjamin A. Shirtcliff

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The extant literature on the play behavior of youth normalizes adolescent behavior in public space as transgressional, resistant, and in need of social control. The dissertation counters this trend by looking to see if physical qualities, peer effects, and neighborhood context of settings play a deeper role in youth behavior. The study documented urban context, peer effects, physical features, and play behavior across 21 urban settings in New Orleans. Unobtrusive observations employed a highly innovative technique based on YouTube videos and analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling. Coded observations of risk-taking and prosocial behavior demonstrated some stability in behavior amongst adolescents—“youth” …

Dutch Filipiniana, Otto Van Muijzenberg

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Codemakers, Dawn Manning

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Codemakers is a book of poems by Dawn Manning divided into three sections: "Topophilia," "Goodwill," and "Women's Work."

Growing Support: Localism, Nonprofits, And Food Access In Post-Katrina New Orleans, Brent Tranchina

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Problems with food insecurity, such as a lack of access to healthy and affordable food in low-income neighborhoods, has been an ongoing challenge in New Orleans. The damages inflicted by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent citywide flooding on the local food system reduced the numerical count of operational full-service supermarkets and grocery stores throughout the city. The result has been a widespread presence of food deserts and grocery gaps, particularly in low-income neighborhoods. This thesis explores the emergence of food localism practices by food advocacy professionals as a capacity-building tool for New Orleans residents to increase community food security and develop …

Origins Of Money, Alla Semenova

Economics Invited Speakers

Alla Semenova, Assistant Professor of Economic, Dickinson College, presented on the Origin of Money. The seminar is part of the Pisediscalzi Lecture Series. Dr. Nicholas Pisediscalzi was the founding chair of the Religion Department and a life-long student of the dialectic of Religion and Culture—especially Art, literature, and Politics. The seminar was cosponsored by the Departments of Religion, Philosophy and Classics and the Department of Economics, Wright State University.

Undergraduate Curriculum And Academic Policy Committee Minutes, May 17, 24, And 31, 2012

Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee meetings held on May 17, 24, and 31, 2012.

Diet And Affinity From The Middle Neolithic To Early Bronze Age, Estremadura, Portugal: A Comparison Of Human Dental Remains From Feteira Ii And Bolores, Briana Christa Horwath

Anthropology

The social and political changes accompanying the transition from the Neolithic through Early Bronze Age in southwestern Iberia are reasonably well understood; much less is known about population movements and dietary changes that accompanied these transformations. To address possible population movements and dietary change, human dental remains from the Middle Neolithic through Late Neolithic site of Feteira II (3600-2900 B.C.E) and the Late Neolithic through the Early Bronze Age site of Bolores (2800-1800 B.C.E) will be used to examine diet and affinity. Two hypotheses are tested: the period of social change was associated with dietary change between individuals interred at …

Population Continuity Or Replacement At Ancient Lachish? A Dental Affinity Analysis In The Levant, Clarissa R. Dicke-Toupin

Anthropology

Are material culture changes between late Bronze and early Iron Age inhabitants of Lachish, in modern day Israel, the result of immigrants settling the region, or an in situ evolution of practices by the same indigenous peoples? The research objectives are to: 1) assess dental affinity of an Iron Age Lachish sample relative to its Bronze Age predecessor, and 2) compare data in both groups with European and North African comparative samples to estimate biological affinity within the Mediterranean area. In the process, two competing hypotheses are tested; one postulates continuity and the other population replacement between the Bronze and …

The Materiality Of Mobile Pastoralism: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives From Samburu, Kenya, Katherine Mary Grillo

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This thesis represents the first comprehensive ethnoarchaeological study to date on the material culture of African mobile pastoralism, a way of life economically, culturally, and ideologically centered on the herding of livestock. In Africa, tens of millions of people today still rely on cattle-based pastoralism for survival in arid lands that are unsuitable for agricultural production. Our understanding of ancient pastoralism is still hampered, however, by a belief held by many that nomadic populations such as pastoralists are difficult to trace in the archaeological record. Results from ethnographic research among modern Samburu cattle pastoralists in Kenya in fact challenge common …

Images Of Women In The Short Stories Of Paz Latorena (1908–1953), Eva V. Kalaw

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

The Montclarion, May 17, 2012, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

The Montclarion, May 17, 2012, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

A Total Environment Of Change: Exploring Social-Ecological Shifts In Subsistence Fisheries In Noatak And Selawik, Alaska, Katie J. Moerlein

Fisheries

Arctic ecosystems are undergoing rapid changes as a result of global climate change, with significant implications for the livelihoods of arctic peoples. In this thesis, I use ethnographic research methods to detail prominent environmental changes observed and experienced over the past few decades and to document the impact of these changes on subsistence fishing practices in the Inupiaq communities of Noatak and Selawik in northwestern Alaska. Using in-depth key informant interviews, participant observation, and cultural consensus analysis, I explore local knowledge and perceptions of climate change and other pronounced changes facing the communities of Noatak and Selawik. I find consistent …

Contributors, Contributors To Number 3 1994

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, May 16, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

May 2012

No abstract provided.

Butbut Riddles: From And Function, Norma N. Lua

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

The Igorot As Other: Four Discourses From The Colonial Period, Ma. Luisa Aguilar-Cariño

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

The Tasaday Controversy, Edited By Headland, S.J. Ocampo

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

University Of Alabama At Birmingham Professor Honored As A National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Strategically Sustaining People's Well-Being: The Case Of Ghanaian Women And Children, George O. Assibey-Mensah

African Social Science Review

A government’s commitment to an adopted policy may be the first step that symbolizes its genuine intent to ameliorate the living conditions of its people, particularly the relevant and/or beneficial populations for which the policy was formulated. Ghana’s President J. A. Kufuor’s New Patriotic Party government ended decades of debate about improving the conditions of the vulnerable group of women and children by establishing the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs. This article argues that, in order for the Ghanaian government to sustain efforts to effectively improve the plight of this group, there should be systematic mechanisms that include effective …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Adrian Johns) (Reviewed by Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara)

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) (Reviewed by Amit S. Rai, New School University)

Motives for Metaphor: Literacy, Curriculum Reform, and the Teaching of English (James E. Seitz) (Reviewed by Jack Hart, University of Pittsburgh)

Victorian Sexual Dissidence (Ed. Richard Dellamora) (Reviewed by James Eli Adams, Indiana University)

Victorian Sappho (Yopie Prins) (Reviewed by Julia F. Saville, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (Susannah Heschel) …

Confederated Tribes Of The Grand Ronde: A Look At Where They Were 100 Years Ago And Where They Are Today, Ashley Burgess

2012 Yamhill Enrichment Society (YES) Internships

Students enrolled in the Regional Interdisciplinary Internship course prepare final presentations covering all of their work during the spring semester and present their work to their colleagues, Linfield staff and faculty, community partners, and community sponsors of the internship programs. Ashley Burgess interned with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and gave this presentation as part of her YES Internship during 2012.

This research project looks at the Confederate Tribes of Grand Ronde (CTGR) 100 years ago through today and was part of “McMinnville 100 Years Ago,” a project sponsored by the Yamhill Enrichment Society (YES). The presentation describes the …

Spartan Daily May 15, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 138, Issue 55

Filipino Culture And Social Analysis, Niels Mulder

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Parcak Named A National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 5/15/2012, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Archaeological Explorations In Batanes Province, Eusebio Z. Dizon, Rey A. Santiago

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Philippine Studies And The Problem Of “Representation”, David Keck

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

You Can Eat Off The Counter I Wiped It Down This Morning, Jessica Kain

Theses and Dissertations

Alternative to meeting a calculus of quality roundness and curves are everywhere. Peaches, pinks, browns, ochres, greens. Klein Blue. --------- An experiment like a party; the hows and whys of picking bedfellows yields a list of possibilities— iterations of better, advantages in flesh volume. Inventory whittled down to give us stories, aspirations, allegiances. --------- Just to see it and touch it. Build in different ways, depending. Grow, cover, carve, cast—let for flexibility. Limbs in one direction sawed off, turned round, glued back on. If it looks like two more ways of how I want it there’s more work to be …

Filipino Religiosity Some International Comparisons, Ricardo G. Abad

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.