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Navajo (Diné) Weavers And Globalization: Critiquing The Silences, Kathy A. M'Closkey

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Native Americans, along with the scenery, are primary attractions in New Mexico and Arizona, and tourism brings billions into the region annually. Since the Indian arts and crafts ‘boom’ in the 1970s, unemployment has increased dramatically on reservations where artisanal production provides essential income. Isleta carver Andy Abeita acknowledges that the world renowned recognition of southwest arts and crafts does not reflect what goes on within impoverished makers’ homes. Currently 80% of the 1.5 billion dollar sales annually of “Indian” products is fabricated and imported into the US. ‘Knock-offs’ flood the shelves of hundreds of retailers, ‘trading posts,’ casino gift …

A New Unit For Study And Research The Textile Museum And The George Washington University In Washington, D.C, Sumru Belger Krody

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

France, so renowned for its fashion, has only recently begun to consider it as a subject of theoretical study; and French historiographical projects, when they dealt with fashion, were primarily concerned with the history of dress and the work of the designers, but hardly took the textile fabrics into account. The stuff of which fashion is made, its particular materiality, its history and its impact on the history of dress and fashion were too often overlooked.

In 2012, the President of the University Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) decided to start a program for the study of dress, textiles and fashion at …

More Than A Footnote Or Bibliographic Entry: Mary Lois Kissell As An Innovator Of Textile Study, Ira Jacknis, Erin L. Hasinoff

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Mary Lois Kissell was a pioneer in the comparative cultural study of textiles and basketry, an art educator, a museum anthropologist, and an intrepid fieldworker. When she died in 1944, no obituary was written about her, and no single study has focused on her contributions to textile scholarship. We have not come to know her through a single collection of personal papers; for as far as we can tell, nothing of the kind was ever deposited in a repository. The scattered correspondence that we have amassed by and about Kissell comes from various museum, library, historic society, and university archives …

Who Were Joanne Segal Brandford And Lillian Elliott? The Brandford/Elliott Award, Catherine K. Hunter

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Joanne Segal Brandford and Lillian Elliott were key innovators in fiber art and basketry for 30 years. They were colleagues along with Ed Rossbach in the Design Department of the University of California, Berkeley, in the late ‘60s, when the contemporary basket movement began. Brandford’s foundation was in textile history and Elliott had a broad background in art. Drawing on different backgrounds and philosophies, they represented and encouraged creativity and experimentation in fiber art. Subsequently, Brandford and Elliott influenced several generations of students, curators, collectors and artists. Following their deaths in 1994, the Brandford/ Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber …

Redefining Borders And Identity: Ethnic Dress Of The Lolo/Yi Across The Vietnam-China Border, Serena Lee

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This innovative work explores several intriguing topics new to the field of textiles. Based on multiple field studies conducted from 1999-2013 in the northern Vietnam provinces of Cao Bang and Ha Giang and the southwestern China provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan, this paper is unprecedented in its approach as a comparative study of ethnic dress among kinship groups living along both sides of the Vietnam-China borderline. It is also unique in its focus on the Flowery Lolo, Black Lolo, Red Lolo and White Lolo, small subgroups of ethnic minorities who remain unknown to outsiders. The identities and histories of these …

Before There Was Pinterest: Textile Study Rooms In North American “Art” Museums, Sarah Fee

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper examines the roots and future of textile museum collections, display and curation in North America. The first half looks back, to the origins of dedicated textile galleries, museums, museum departments, and curators, and examines why this one medium was systematically singled out for special attention in early museums, who the early audiences were, and the methods for communicating textile collections. The history of textile curation and display at the Royal Ontario Museum, of Toronto, Canada, founded in 1914 as an encyclopedic museum, is examined as a fascinating and classic case study in point. The second part of the …

Textiles And Museum Displays: Visible And Invisible Dimensions, Ruth Barnes

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The paper discusses changing attitudes towards textiles and their displays in museum collections. As a curator of textiles who has worked in two major university museums, at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Yale University Art Gallery, over a stretch of more than twenty years, I document a change in attitude to textile history and collections. Much of it is positive, as textiles have moved from a Cinderella role into a position where they are taken seriously both in art and social history.

The two museums mentioned above were recently the subjects of dramatic building projects, and I was …

Rethinking The Tiwanaku Phenomenon In San Pedro De Atacama Through The Study Of Textiles Of Solcor 3 And Their Associated Contexts (400-1000 Ad), Carolina Aguero, Mauricio Uribe

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

From San Pedro de Atacama, Chile we examine the alleged relationship with Tiwanaku. Our investigation focuses on elaborate and plain textiles with associated ceramics and recent bio-archaeological data that allow us to question this relationship. We see a heterogeneous and unequal society in San Pedro rather than one that responds to a superior political entity and a culture born from a strong tension between dominant and subordinate groups. Discussing the funeral bundles discovered in Solcor-3 we characterize individuals who wear Tiwanaku textiles with their contextual associations and compare them to others who do not wear such textiles. Solcor-3 presents contexts …

New Directions In Australian Aboriginal Fabric Printing, Louise Hamby, Valerie Kirk

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Missionaries, teachers and art advisers during the 1970s introduced the process of fabric printing to Aboriginal people, particularly in remote areas. Printing was a means to encourage productive work and income generation. Early forms included lino block and stencil prints, followed by screen printing. Bima Wear, was the earliest cooperative to established a business initially producing fabrics for their own clothing and then to sell to others. Historically men were the primary producers of artistic works dominating the production of carvings, sculpture and painting. Designing for fabric printing opened up a new space for men and women to work freely …

Anty 333.01: Culture And Population, Selena M. Garefino

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Anty 210n.01: Introduction To Physical Anthropology, Meradeth H. Snow

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Anty 450.01: Archaeological Theory, Matthew J. Walsh, Douglas H. Macdonald

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Behind The Mirage In The Desert - Customary Land Rights And The Legal Framework Of Land Grabs, Fatmata S. Kabia

Cornell International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Variety, Mergers, And Consumer Well-Being: Towards A Capability Approach To Merger Law, Jennifer E. Sturiale

West Virginia Law Review

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Setting The Bar High: Danish Youth Education Counselors And National School-Completion Goals, Anne Nurse

All Faculty Articles

European countries are striving to increase secondary school completion rates as part of their labor market planning. Denmark has taken an approach that places youth education guidance counselors at the center of their efforts. Based on interviews with 25 counselors and 10 other education leaders, this article explores the role and practice of these Danish counselors in regard to meeting state education goals. While the counselors strongly support the country’s high educational goal, they have concerns about its attainability, its across-the-board application, and coercive, or ‘individual-blaming’ elements of its implementation. Countries wishing to adopt this model should consider the fit …

Uis Bulletin, Volume 56, No. 2, September 2014, Efraín Mercado

UIS Bulletin

Contents: Editorial: A new awakening: UIS Code of Ethics -- Final Report: 16th International Congress of Speleology (ICS) -- Report of UIS Awards 2013 -- Commission on Bibliography -- Commission on Speleotherapy -- Report of the UIS Mission of Expertise in Lebanon -- 2014: 50th Anniversary: International Journal of Speleology - IJS -- 2015: 50th Anniversary - UIS - Union Internationale de Speleologie -- In Memoriam: Michel Letrône (France) -- In Memoriam: Ivan Garns (Slovenia) -- In Memoriam: Osvaldo Martínez (Argentina) -- UIS Bureau 2013/2017 -- Contributions and Bank Account -- Editor's Disclosure

"To Erasmians, Everywhere": Reflections On The Life And Work Of Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., Michael Sweeney O.P.

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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The Fourth Trimester, Saru M. Matambanadzo

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article introduces a new conceptual framework to the legal literature on pregnancy and pregnancy discrimination: the fourth trimester. The concept of a fourth trimester, drawn from maternal nursing and midwifery, refers to the crucial three to six month period after birth when many of the physical, psychological, emotional, and social effects of pregnancy continue. Giving this concept legal relevance extends the scope of pregnancy beyond the narrow period defined by conception, gestation, and birth and acknowledges that pregnancy is a relational process, not an individual event. In the United States, however, antidiscrimination law has failed to acknowledge the demands …

Academic Affairs Update, September 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Office Of The Provost And Executive Vice President For Academic Affairs.

Academic Affairs Update

Inside this issue:

-- Is This for "Real?" 3D Printing at UNI
-- Welcome to Our New Faculty!

Institutional Settings In A Rice Cluster: Assessing The Effects Of Social Capital On Learning In Malaysia, B.K. Ng, A.S. Magli, C.Y. Wong, V.C. Govinda

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Based on a case study of the Sekinchan rice cluster in Malaysia, this paper provides empirical evidence demonstrating that geographic proximity goes hand-in-hand with social capital. The paper argues that the study of social capital within a geographic dimension (such as Regional Innovation Systems and clusters) needs to take place in its institutional context. Thus, agricultural cluster development policies must address the 'soft' elements of the cluster in fostering cooperative relationships and "social contracts" among the cluster actors. Findings also indicate that the cluster's learning processes take place mainly in the form of informal learning and learning by doing, in …

Restraining The Hand Of Law: A Conceptual Framework To Shrink The Size Of Law, Bryan Druzin

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Gender And Sexual Orientation In The Family: Implications For The Child Welfare System, Megan Fulcher

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Southern Alumni, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Alumni Magazine

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Bch 595.01: Special Topics - Stem Graduate Research Fellowships, Michele A. Mcguirl

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Anty 422.01: Mind, Culture And Society, G. G. Weix

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Anty 412.01: Osteology, Jennifer L. Foust

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Anty 351h.01: Archaeology Of North America, John E. Douglas

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Anty 330x.51: Native Peoples Of The Interior Northwest, Christina J. Heiner

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Anty 330x.50: Native Peoples Of The Northwest Coast, Richard A. Sattler

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Anty 330x.01: Peoples Of Asia, Nathan Francis Domitrovich

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.