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2013-2014 Bulletin

Undergraduate Bulletins

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Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2013 Fall, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Fall 2013.

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HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Publics And Politics In Ladakh, Jonathan Demenge, Radhika Gupta, Salomé Deboos

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Readings On Islam In Ladakh: Local, Regional, And International Perspectives, John Bray

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

The influences of two major religions – Buddhism and Islam - are interwoven in Ladakhi history and contemporary society. However, by comparison with Buddhism, the study of Islam has often been neglected. This essay offers a reading guide as a basis for further study. It draws on a range of sources in Asian and European languages, including texts published locally in Ladakh, as well as academic monographs and articles in specialist international journals. The essay begins with a discussion of the key historical texts before looking more closely at Ladakh’s links with Central Asia, and the political and cultural impact …

Religious Fundamentalism In Zanskar, Indian Himalaya, Salomé Deboos

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Zanskar valley, nested in the Indian Himalayas is at a turning point of its history. After centuries of Buddhist-Muslim marriages, these are now rejected by both religious groups. This paper addresses the impact of the rise of religious fundamentalism on social regulation and communal negotiation in Padum and Zanskari society. This is a Tibeto-Burman speaking Himalayan population made up of a majority of Mahayana-Buddhists and a minority of Sunni-Muslims. Based on ethnographic research conducted since 2001 in the local language, the anthropological approach presented here emphasizes the importance of speech acts and also uses a socio-cultural and psycho-sociological perspective. It …

Katia Buffetrille, Ed., Revisiting Rituals In A Changing Tibetan World. Reviewed By David Templeman., David Templeman

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Sienna R. Craig, Healing Elements: Efficacy And The Social Ecologies Of Tibetan Medicine. Reviewed By Calum Blaikie, Calum Blaikie

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Toni Huber And Stuart Blackburn, Editors, Origins And Migrations In The Extended Eastern Himalayas. Reviewed By Mélanie Vandenhelsken., Mélanie Vandenhelsken

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Michael Meister, Temples Of The Indus: Studies In The Hindu Architecture Of Ancient Pakistan. Reviewed By J. Mark Kenoyer., J. Mark Kenoyer

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Deepak Shimkhada, Nepal: Nostalgia And Modernity. Reviewed By Michael Baltutis, Michael Baltutis

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

The Liberal Professor? An Analysis Of The Beliefs Of Teacher Educators, Andrew Kemp, C. Steven Page

Journal of Contemporary Research in Education

There is much discussion in public discourse about the liberal leanings of faculty in higher education. The researchers in this study investigated the validity of this assumption. Using data collected from faculty from colleges of education throughout the country, the belief systems of this group were analyzed. What was discovered was that faculty in colleges of education are not liberal. In fact, the opposite is true. Discussion about the implications of these finding leads to an analysis of current policies and practices.

Call For Papers 3rd Anhs Himalayan Studies Conference

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

The Importance Of Being Ladakhi: Affect And Artifice In Kargil, Radhika Gupta

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Ladakh often tends to be associated predominantly with its Tibetan Buddhist inhabitants in the wider public imagination both in India and abroad. It comes as a surprise to many that half the population of this region is Muslim, majority belonging to the Twelver Shi‘i sect and live in Kargil district. This article will discuss the importance of being Ladakhi for Kargili Shias through an ethnographic account of a journey I shared with a group of cultural activists from Leh to Kargil. A view of the landscape, natural and cultural, through their eyes provided a different, more eclectic portrayal of the …

Songs, Cultural Representation And Hybridity In Ladakh, Noe Dinnerstein

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Songs and cultural representation in Ladakh This article examines how Ladakhi songs represent cultural self-images through associated musical, textual, and visual tropes. Many songs of the past, both from the old royal house and the rural Buddhist populations, reflect the socio-political structure of Ladakhi society. Some songs, past and present, reflect a pan-Tibetan identity, both in connecting the former Namgyal dynasty to both the legendary King Gesar, as well as Nyatri Tsangpo, the historical founder of the Tibetan Yarlung Dynasty. Nevertheless, a distinct Ladakhi identity is consistently asserted. A number contain texts that evoke a mandala or symbolic representation of …

Project-Based Section 8 Housing Participants' Perception Of Cultural And Structural Factors To Explain Barriers To Economic Self-Sufficiency, Yolanda Javette Clark

Dissertations

The Project-Based Section 8 program began as temporary housing of the last resort for people who experience temporary setbacks. However, due to participants' inability to become economically self-sufficient, the anti-poverty program has become permanent housing from which few families have been able to escape. Recent studies related to escaping poverty and becoming economically self-sufficient suggest cultural and structural factors are equally important and collectively impact upward economic mobility.

Similarly, the purpose of this study was to determine if Project-Based Section 8 housing participants' characteristics, described as cultural and structural barriers to economic self-sufficiency, interrelate and collectively predict ability to escape …

24-Archaeological Investigations: Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum Site, Stephen A. Damm, Louann Wurst, Department Of Anthropology

Archaeological Reports

This report documents an archaeological investigation conducted on the property of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum (LHBM) in South Haven, Van Buren County, MI, which was given the site number 20VA78. The homestead is the birthplace and childhood home of Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, Jr. (1858-1954), a naturalist, farmer, and Professor of Horticulture at Cornell University who gained prominence as a pioneer of the progressive farming movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the spring of 2012, John Stempien, then Director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, contacted Dr. LouAnn Wurst of Western Michigan University to request …

2013-2014 Farquhar Forum, Farquhar College Of Arts And Sciences

The Farquhar Forum College Magazine

No abstract provided.

Theresia Hofer, The Inheritance Of Change: Transmission And Practice Of Tibetan Medicine In Ngaming. Reviewed By Sienna Craig, Sienna Craig

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Asilomar Declaration And Call To Action On Women And Leadership, Susan R. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

The Asilomar Declaration and Call to Action (Declaration) was first published in 2013 by attendees of the International Leadership Association’s (ILA) Women and Leadership Affinity Group (WLAG) inaugural conference held June 9-12, 2013. The conference, held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, USA, had the theme “Building, Bridging, and Blazing Pathways for Women and Leadership: Celebrating the Past, Present, and Future.” After the second conference “Advancing Women in Leadership: Waves of Possibilities” was held in June 2015, we updated and refined the Declaration, resulting in this edition. The purpose of the Declaration is to capture and disseminate …

Integrating Student-Centered Learning To Promote Critical Thinking In High School Social Studies Classrooms, Elaine Sayre

HIM 1990-2015

Traditional teacher-centered methods of lectures and PowerPoint presentations are commonly used when teaching secondary social studies, yet these methods continually prove to be boring for most high school students and neglect to teach critical thinking skills. Student-centered methods are different than teacher-centered methods because these methods incorporate several learning styles, cooperative activities, and even technology in order to engage the student and promote critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is important for students to master because it gives them the skills to move past the obvious and make individual connections with the text. The intent of this thesis was to explore …

Fall 2013, College Of The Pacific

History News

No abstract provided.

Graduate Bulletin | 2013-2014, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Vol. 35, No. 1 (August 2013). Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

Science Fictional Transcendentalism In The Work Of Robert Smithson, Eric Saxon

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

In studies of American artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973), scholars often set the artist’s early abstract expressionist and Christian iconographical paintings apart from the rest of his body of work, characterizing this early phase as a youthful encounter with the enduring legacy of abstract expressionism in the late 1950s to early 1960s as well as a temporary preoccupation with ritualized Catholic imagery. This thesis argues for the inclusion of this early phase into Smithson’s career as a foundational period in which he established the set of problems that artistically engaged him throughout his life: issues of temporality, materiality, and universal entropy. …

Animal Waste Management Practices In The Monteverde Zone: Perceptions, Barriers, And Solutions, August 2013, Jordan Atnip, Jillian Flavin, Joseph Friedman, Elana Curry, Radhe Patel, Thomas Decker

Monteverde Institute: Culture, Community, and Health

Using methodologies from medical anthropology and environmental engineering animal waste treatment practices in Monteverde were investigated to assess current practices, future intentions, and how perceptions of farm impacts are changing in the region, and identify potential practices and technologies that could facilitate changes.

The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity And Intellectual Property In Digital Environments, Justin A. Lewis

Writing Program – Dissertations

The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity and Intellectual Property in Digital Environments examines the definition, function, and application of intellectual property in contexts of electronically mediated social production. With a focus on immaterial production - or the forms of coordinated social activity employed to produce knowledge and information in the networked information economy - this project ultimately aims to demonstrate how current intellectual property paradigms must be rearticulated for an age of digital (re)production. By considering the themes of "Piracy", "Intellectual Property", and "Distributed Social Production" this dissertation provides an overview of the current state of peer production and intellectual property …

News From Hope College, Volume 45.1: August, 2013, Hope College

News from Hope College

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Reperformance: Re-Creating And Reinterpreting Performance Art’S History, Harry J. Weil

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation analyzes the history and theory of reperformance, arguing it as a “mode of reproduction” for the dissemination and institutionalization of performance art practices. In four chapters, I draw together sources in art history, performance studies, sociology, and anthropology to frame how performances of the past are re-created and reinterpreted, specifically within the context of museums and the art historical canon. While reperformance has been integral to the development of performance art since its inception in the early decades of the 20th century, my focus will turn to how post-World War II practices have been engaged with in recent …

“To Boldly Go”: Why Cross-Cultural Missionaries Should Read Science Fiction, Alan Howell

Faculty Research and Publications

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Perceived Creative Partnership: A Consequence Of Music's Social Use, Paul Gennaro Barretta

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

As contemporary consumers interact with one another and the market in a more symbolic manner, the ways music and other products are used are changing. Scholarly research has investigated the use of music in a social manner, mostly in terms of self-identity, and practitioners have explored the sharing of music, particularly with regard to the use of technology. The present research takes a closer look at the social use of music and proposes a consequence that is termed Perceived Creative Partnership; people use music in a social manner in order to achieve a state of being where they feel as …