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Playing God Paintings Of Companies That Pollute Water And The Repercussions Of Their Actions, Alexandra Miranda

Theses & ETDs

From shock portraits where the subject is doused in water, to depictions of people drowning, what began as an investigation of water framed by Shakespeare's Ophelia became a cohesive body of work inspired by the idea of a contemporary Poseidon. Water's destructive and distortion-creating nature was explored through various modes of experimentation in concept and medium. Water's political meaning rose to the surface as the focus turned to companies who pollute and destroy water. Portraits painted in a fauvist manner of 14 heads of companies who have been fined, have killed wildlife, and have ruined people's ways of life drew …

Ethnographic Cinema In The 21st Century, Jacqlyn Bender

Theses & ETDs

Visual anthropology has been in practice for over a hundred years, but has been seriously considered as a subdiscipline only in the past few decades. In this thesis, I examine the changing academic and social contexts of ethnographic filmmaking through several strands of inquiry, based on my experience attending the Royal Anthropological Institute's 12th International Festival of Ethnographic Film in London, 2011, and the Society for Visual Anthropology's Visual Research Conference at the 2011 American Anthropological Association meetings in Montreal. I explore notions of ethics for visual anthropology in the "digital age" and the broader discussion surrounding a codified ethics …

The Economics Of The Hackers' Revolution How Open Source Challenges Notions Of Innovation And Value In The Age Of Free, Jonathan Davidson

Theses & ETDs

This paper addresses the open source development model of information goods production. Features of its non-proprietary and free nature appear to clash with economic and legal assumptions, so this paper aims to reconcile them by reflecting a paradigmatic shift in intellectual property ownership and use, sparked by the user-innovators called hackers. Contrary to the notion of creating more incentives by restricting intellectual property, rights in a collaborative and modern information goods economy can be overly restrictive and reduce production, leading us to consider alternative ownership styles with software as a public good. As open source communities evolve, altruistic motives give …

Archaeology Rolls Into The Public Sphere An Introduction To Florida Public Archaeology Network's Archaeocart, Rozalyn E. Crews

Theses & ETDs

Nearly every professional archaeologist in North America is funded directly or indirectly by public monies, and thus, all archaeologists should share their information and exciting discoveries in a public friendly format. Unfortunately, this responsibility is not always acknowledged by professionals, and the ways by which an archaeologist should uphold their public duties is not exactly clear. In partial fulfillment of this role, I argue that archaeologists should be working towards a proficient understanding of how to teach archaeology to children and the general public. This thesis focuses on ArchaeoCart, a mobile education tool designed to bring archaeology to classrooms across …

The Enduring Landscape The Archaeology Of Seminole Ethnogenesis In West-Central Florida, Michael Wass

Theses & ETDs

The Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, and the Independent Traditional Seminole Nation of Florida are the descendants of the people who were not sent to the Indian Territory along the Gulf Coast route of the Trail of Tears. The origins of the Unconquered Seminoles are contested with popular, scholarly, and indigenous understandings offering differing perspectives. As a result of the confusions created by the colonial encounter in the American Southeast, the historical record has impacted earlier understandings of the origins of the Seminoles. This thesis contributes to uncovering its 19th-century history by focusing on …

"Some Kind Of Smart-Smart For True" Examining Trickster Heroes In Four North American Folklore Traditions, Rose Marz

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines four distinct folklore traditions from across the North American continent �the African American, Franco-Canadian, Appalachian and Cajun�by comparing the characteristics and stories of their prominent trickster heroes: Br'er Rabbit, Ti-Jean, Jack, and Lapin. The folk heroes I examine arose among the New World immigrants who were living in an unstable environment. These socially and geographically marginalized groups used folklore creation to strengthen their internal community and develop strategies of subversive resistance against the larger social hierarchy. I argue that these folklore heroes are representative of the cultural adaptations used by the groups to adjust to their new …

2012-2013 Nova Southeastern University Undergraduate Student Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

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Climate Influence On The Health Of An Appalachian City, Ryan Wade Becka

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In 2008 the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found Huntington, West Virginia, to be the unhealthiest city in America. A Gallup Poll conducted in 2010 found the Huntington-Ashland metropolitan area number one of 188 metro areas where depression diagnoses are most common. Manifestations of poor health in Huntington may be related to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a type of depression that occurs mainly in winter months. Symptoms of SAD are reported as a lack of energy, sleeping more, and consuming high amounts of carbohydrates and starchy foods. I theorize that these maladaptive behaviors may be a reaction to climate conditions …

The Aché And Guaraní: Thirty Years After Maybury-Lewis And Howe’S Report On Genocide In Paraguay, Richard Reed, John Renshaw

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

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La No-Frontera Pano: Etnónimos Como Categorías Alternativas Y Múltiples Entre Matis Y Korubo, Barbara Arisi

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

This article is a result of research developed in 2006 about the contact between Matis and Korubo, two Indigenous people that belong to the Panoan speaking family and live in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land, in the Amazonas, Brazil. My intention was to comprehend the relationship between them and not to study them as an “isolated” or an “ethnic” group, away from the other people around them. This article is about social organization and ethnonyms. I conclude that the way Matis use ethnonyms serve to identify the people around them, to identify parts of their own group or parts …

¿Existe Un Warao Genérico?: Cuestiones Clave En La Etnografía Y La Ecología Histórica Del Delta Del Orinoco Y El Territorio Warao-Lokono-Paragoto, Rafael Gassón, Dieter Heinen

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Con frecuencia, la región del delta del Orinoco ha sido considerada como un paisaje prístino que ha experimentado, si acaso, pocos cambios en su geografía natural y humana. No obstante, durante el último siglo, el delta del Orinoco ha sufrido cambios radicales con graves consecuencias para la ecología y la distribución de las poblaciones locales

En este essayo comentaremos algunos de los cambios que han afectado el modo de vida, la distribución de los grupos poblacionales y la composición de los conglomerados Warao en el noreste venezolano a lo largo del tiempo. Finalmente, discutiremos algunos de los cambio ocurridos en …

Warfare And Shamanism In Amazonia, James Andrew Whitaker

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Book review of Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia. Carlos Fausto. Translated by David Rodgers. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012. xv + 347 pp., maps, illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, annex, index. USD $99.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-107-02006-1

2012 Final Program

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Final Program

Tuesday September 18, 2012

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PRE-SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOPS

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

POST-SYMPOSIUM TOURS

Sunday, September 23, 2012

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Effective Practices And Resources For Support Of Beginning Teachers, Dawn Lambeth

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

School district-level, site-based support and effective mentoring and induction programs for new teachers can help new teachers’ self efficacy, dispositions and acquisition of knowledge and skills. In addition, sustained support may lower attrition rates, increase teacher effectiveness in the classroom, and save school districts money. School districts must intensify efforts to work with school administrators to provide effective support, guidance and orientation programs during the initial years of teaching. While induction programs vary considerably from state to state and across school districts, they are typically intended to increase teacher effectiveness in the classroom and impact teacher attrition rates.

Integrating Archaeology Into A Standards-Based, Fifth Grade Classroom, Lindsey Lee Elizabeth Mieras

Theses and Graduate Projects

Archaeology enhances student learning through use of cooperative skills, inquiry, anthropologic thought, hands-on learning, and community connections. However, a standards aligned curriculum to educate students in the field of archaeology is currently inadequate. Due to variation in teacher's interest, knowledge base, and ability to merge archaeology into several disciplines, a guide to be used as engagement activities, individual lessons, or filler activities is more helpful than integrating it in a social studies or science unit. In the process of this project, a curriculum guide was created and intended to reach all types of teachers, disciplines, and standards in the process …

Buletin Pusat Dialog Peradaban Universiti Malaya, Volume 21, 2012, Centre For Civilisational Dialogue University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

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On The American Paradox Of Laissez Faire And Mass Incarceration, Bernard E. Harcourt

Articles

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Annual Report, Wally And Louise Bishop Center For Ethical Leadership, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Wally And Louise Bishop Center For Ethical Leadership, David O'Neill

Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership & Civic Engagement

The 2012 annual report for the Wally and Louise Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership and Civic Engagement.

Infant And Juvenile Play Patterns In Tibetan Macaques (Macaca Thibetana), Courtney Batts

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Primate play is an important feature of physical and cognitive development. Previous research suggests differences among age and sex classes for type and amount of play, and that play partner preference is for individuals of the same age and sex class. We investigated play among Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana) infants and juveniles. Infants played more often and engaged in more solitary play behaviors, juvenile females played the least and engaged in more object play, and juvenile males engaged in the most social play. Total play time differed significantly among infants, juvenile males, and juvenile females. Cluster analysis showed that overall …

Holocene House Hunting: An Application Of Satellite Image Analysis Towards Locating Prehistoric Archeological Sites In Alaska's Brooks Range, Joseph Keeney

Undergraduate Honors Theses

In this study, satellite image analysis was applied to archeological sites at Lake Matcharak in the Brooks Range of Alaska. The Goal was to test whether or not satellite remote sensing, which has been successful in locating large-size archeological features, could be applied to small-size prehistoric features found in Arctic Alaska. Using 1-m resolution IKONOS and 30-m resolution ASTER DEM data, vegetation indices (NDVI and tasseled cap) and slope were generated and stacked into one image. Supervised and unsupervised classifications were then applied to the resulting image to look for spectral/slope characteristics that were unique to known site locations at …

Good Men Grow Corn: Embodied Ecological Heritage In A Belizean Mopan Community, Kristina Baines

Publications and Research

Recent developments in land rights and land use in the Toledo district, Belize has generated anthropological and activist interest surrounding traditional ecological knowledge and practice, and the role of heritage in communities. This study explores the connection between ecological knowledge and practices, and the concurrent construction of heritage, and community health and wellness, broadly defined. Developing and using the concept of “embodied ecological heritage,” this dissertation takes a phenomenological approach to understanding the convergence of ecological heritage and health in multiple realms of everyday life, arguing that lived experience of participating in “traditional”practices is fundamentally connected to wellness in the …

Black Beauty - How Schultz And The Trial Of Marion True Changed Museum Acquistions, Michael Murali

American University Criminal Law Brief

No abstract provided.

The Economics Of Insurance Law—A Primer, Ronen Avraham

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Primary Schools In The Elias Piña Province On The Dominican Haitian Border: Immigrant Haitian Access To Education In The Dominican Republic In The 2010 Post-Earthquake Era, Matthew D. Kaye

CGU Theses & Dissertations

The research question of the study asked "In the post 2010 earthquake, what are the conditions faced by Haitian immigrants in accessing primary public education in the Dominican Republic"? Within the context of primary education, the study takes place in the town of Comendador, the capital of the Elías Piña province in the Dominican Republic. Using a mixed methods approach, incorporating ethnographic methods and database analysis, the study documents the voices of Haitian and Dominican parents, Dominican school personnel, non-governmental organization (NGO) officials and community stakeholders. Within the construct of access, there are six areas of focus: educational policy, curriculum …

Authoring Authority: The Apostle Paul And The Prophet Joseph Smith--A Critical Comparison Of Texts And Power In The Generation Of Religious Community, Alonzo Huntsman

CGU Theses & Dissertations

. . . believe in God, believe also in me . . . --John 14.1

"Authoring Authority" analyzes the ways texts function to generate social cohesion while at the same time advancing the power interests of their authors. The study is a comparative, critical, and interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary excavation of the religion-making efforts of the first-century Christian Apostle Paul and the nineteenth-century Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith.

This comparison defamiliarizes and recharacterizes the heroes and origin-stories of the dominant (and my own) tradition to force important questions about scholarly perspectives, interests and deferences (protection, exceptionalization), self-reflexivity, and politics. The project's critical orientation deploys …

Say It Loud: An Action Research Project Examining The Afrivisual And Africology, Looking For Alternative African American Community College Teaching Strategies, Daniel E. Mitchell

CGU Theses & Dissertations

For this study, the researcher sought to implement a visual arts-based Afrivisual to help inspire, motivate and empower African American students in gaining a culturally relevant education in Euro-American-centered schools. Using the Afrivisual in this work as an action-oriented tool the researcher sought to expose African American students to an African historical context.

This research project utilized three African-centered theoretical frameworks: (1) Afrocentricity, (2) Africana Philosophy, and (3) Africana Critical Theory. The problem this work addresses is found in four areas, (1) American history is Eurocentric, (2) African history has been distorted, (3) Africa’s contribution to world civilization has been …

The God-World Relationship Between Joseph Bracken, Philip Clayton, And The Open Theism, Dong-Sik Park

CGU Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation investigates the God-world relationship between Joseph Bracken as a process theologian, Philip Clayton as a panentheist, and the open theism. They have affinities and differences as conversational partners in their multilayered relations. Their common question must be as follows: “What does it mean to believe in God today?” In this dissertation I compare their respectively theological perspectives and explore their affinities and differences. Many scholars have already noted more affinities than untenable differences among Bracken’s theology, Clayton’s panentheism, and the open theism. On the one hand, even though theological perspectives of Bracken and Clayton are obviously different from …

Stylizing, Commodifying, And Disciplining Real Bodies: An Examination Of Wwe Wrestling, Isamu Horiuchi

CGU Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation examines professional wrestling in the U.S., in particular, live and television shows produced by the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Through the examination, it addresses complex issues of authenticity, audience, commodification, and discipline in contemporary popular culture and media.

I use three approaches in this study. First, I apply the theory of culture industry, developed by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, to understand WWE wrestling. I examine how the WWE thoroughly stylizes its products to attract fans and condition them to repeat the same calculable reactions. However, contemporary fans often refuse to react as the WWE wants them …

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Marian Library Studies

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The Use Of Space At The Late Woodland Shady Grove Site (22-Qu-525), Stephen George Harris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Very little previous work has been done at the Late Woodland Shady Grove site. This thesis will examine and reconfirm some of the previous conclusions about this site's placement within the temporal framework of the Northern Yazoo Basin. The Late Woodland and Mississippian occupations of the site used the same space in decidedly different ways. How the use of space has changed through time will be examined from several different perspectives, including geophysical survey and the intra-site distribution of artifacts.