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The Authoritarian Personality, 9/11 And Responses To Threat: A Quantitative Analysis, Danielle Gaden Jan 2015

The Authoritarian Personality, 9/11 And Responses To Threat: A Quantitative Analysis, Danielle Gaden

Theses & ETDs

The Authoritarian Personality (TAP) by Adorno et al., published in 1950, remains a pivotal piece of research in political science. TAP marked the beginning of a new direction in studying discrimination, ethnocentrism, authoritarianism and the effects of personality on political decisions. This thesis examines the effect that threat has on the manifestation of authoritarian traits. I further the existing literature on threat and authoritarianism by focusing on the effects of terrorism threat. In order to study the effect of terrorism threat on authoritarian behavior I review authoritarian behavior over time while concentrating on the periods before and after the September …

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Until It’S Yours: Childbirth Knowledges And Embodying Cultural [Re]Production, Jessica Wopinski Jan 2015

Until It’S Yours: Childbirth Knowledges And Embodying Cultural [Re]Production, Jessica Wopinski

Theses & ETDs

During a time of vehement debate surrounding Choice and the childbearing body, women in the United States have unprecedented health care options regarding pregnancy and birth. As critiques against the medicalization of standard hospital care are growing in visibility, increasing numbers of women are leaving the hospital for maternal care. This situation has created a divide between natural and medical birthing ideologies, which is exemplified in the Sarasota birthing community. In this thesis, I explore the manners in which women are socialized into these “camps” through childbirth education courses at the local hospital and birthing home, and discuss the political …

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“Making It Work”: Public Representation And (Re)Interpretation Of Homelessness And Homeless Management In Sarasota, Fl, Haris Adele Peteranecz Jan 2015

“Making It Work”: Public Representation And (Re)Interpretation Of Homelessness And Homeless Management In Sarasota, Fl, Haris Adele Peteranecz

Theses & ETDs

Following Ferguson’s (1990) methodology of studying the ‘development apparatus’ through analyzing professional development reports, this thesis examines the professional ‘homeless management apparatus’ in Sarasota, Florida by analyzing ‘The Marbut Report,’ a professional homeless management report created to represent homelessness in Sarasota as an issue created by the local “culture of enablement” and recommends twelve steps to shift to a “culture of engagement.” These recommendations sparked public debate, and since the city and county commission’s decision to end their pursuit of the report’s recommendations, Sarasota community members have created their own forms of “engagement” with homelessness. Through analyzing academic literature about …

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"A Progeny More Interesting Than Either Parent:" Interpretive Tensions In Multimodal Texts Including Theresa Cha's Dictée, Contemporary Comics, And Online Graphic Novels, A. Reed Wilson Jan 2015

"A Progeny More Interesting Than Either Parent:" Interpretive Tensions In Multimodal Texts Including Theresa Cha's Dictée, Contemporary Comics, And Online Graphic Novels, A. Reed Wilson

Theses & ETDs

This thesis portfolio contains three papers that explore multimodal works that rely on the integration of image and text to form a cohesive narrative. The first piece explores how a multimodal text supports a woman to contextualize the disorientation caused by her diasporic identity in a post-colonial society. The second piece is a sociological piece that analyzes a specific genre of the graphic novel, collections of serialized superhero comics, and how these works handle come of their main thematic concerns: crime, policing, and vigilantism. The third piece in this portfolio discusses the development of the comic form in the United …

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An Analysis Of Band-Making Traditions At The Mortuary Site Of Uraca In The Majes Valley, Department Of Arequipa, Peru, Samantha Seyler Jan 2015

An Analysis Of Band-Making Traditions At The Mortuary Site Of Uraca In The Majes Valley, Department Of Arequipa, Peru, Samantha Seyler

Theses & ETDs

The coastal valleys of the far south of Peru have received relatively little attention in the archaeological literature on the Andes. Recently, however, scholars have begun to examine this area to better understand the relationship between these valleys and the Central Andean cultural sphere. Of particular interest are the dynamics between the south coastal valleys of Peru and the Wari heartland during the Middle Horizon. This research aims to better understand Wari methods of expansion and control by examining Wari presence in areas on the periphery. During the summer of 2014 Cassandra K. Scaffidi and Manuel García Márquez conducted excavations …

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Just A Stage: An Ethnography Of Booker High School’S Visual And Performing Arts Magnet Program, Chelsea Driver Jan 2015

Just A Stage: An Ethnography Of Booker High School’S Visual And Performing Arts Magnet Program, Chelsea Driver

Theses & ETDs

My ethnographic research was conducted at the Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) magnet program at Booker High School in Sarasota, Florida in the 2014-2015 school year. Booker was historically an all black neighborhood school and in 1979 the VPA was employed as a strategy for integrating the study body. I explore this complicated history of the VPA’s position within Booker and pursue a more nuanced understanding of how the program serves the student body today. Engaging with the history of school choice policy, I explore how the choice to be involved in this intensive program has particular meanings for its …

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The Ground Shakes Even In Paradise: Identity, Resistance, And Image In Waiahole-Waikane Valley, Hawaii, James Carillo Jan 2015

The Ground Shakes Even In Paradise: Identity, Resistance, And Image In Waiahole-Waikane Valley, Hawaii, James Carillo

Theses & ETDs

From December 2013 through January 2014 I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Waiahole-Waikane Valley of Oahu in the State of Hawaii. This ethnography traces anthropological ethics in fieldwork, the problems of historical narrative, compartmentalized views of space and place, and daily aspects of resistance(s) within a local context. I explore the openings of a heterogeneous theory and approach to my writing and fieldwork – as well as the film portion of this thesis. The film compiles three separate events that I attended: A family Christmas Party, The Honolulu City Lights, and A first Baby Luau. These two portions combine to …

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Conversations On Race, Mental Health, And Community In Newtown, Sarasota, Leah Windsor Duncan Jan 2015

Conversations On Race, Mental Health, And Community In Newtown, Sarasota, Leah Windsor Duncan

Theses & ETDs

This thesis consists of an ethnographic account of groups working to address mental health care needs in Newtown, Sarasota, a community with a historically large Black population compared to the rest of the city of Sarasota. This project addresses the histories of race, racism, and power in the United States, with a focus on the ways these structures affect mental health and mental health care for Black Americans in particular. Presented here are the findings of participant observatory and survey research that was conducted with the United Sarasota committee, a group of community organizers who live or work in the …

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QʷidiččaʔA·Tx̌ / Makah: Cultural Self-Representation And The Struggle For Sovereignty, Hannah Gilbert Jan 2015

QʷidiččaʔA·Tx̌ / Makah: Cultural Self-Representation And The Struggle For Sovereignty, Hannah Gilbert

Theses & ETDs

The Makah, an American Indian tribe who live on the tip of the Olympic Peninsula, are trying to revive their treaty-protected traditional whaling practice which was, in past years, halted due to endangered populations. Now that the gray whale stock has recovered, the Makah are embroiled in a controversy over Treaty Rights, environmental protection, and heritage. Through the Makah Cultural and Research Center (MCRC) exhibit, public speaking, interpretation, and media coverage, different Makah people represent their culture in order to forward self-determination and human rights goals. This thesis is the result of fieldwork observation at the MCRC. I analyze how …

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“Bring Home The Salmon”: Examining The Klamath Dams And The Largest Dam Removal In World History, Darcey Evans Jan 2015

“Bring Home The Salmon”: Examining The Klamath Dams And The Largest Dam Removal In World History, Darcey Evans

Theses & ETDs

The Klamath River, stretching between California and Oregon, has been used as an artery of life support by Native American peoples in the region for thousands of years. The river provides the tribal peoples with a connection to their creators, ancestors, and environment, and continuing into the 21st century, the subsistence, ceremonies, identities, and worldviews of the tribal peoples are deeply connected to the Klamath River and its surrounding landscape. During the 20th century, six dams were constructed on the Klamath River, causing unprecedented levels of ecological and cultural disruption. The four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River are potentially …

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The Manasota Key Cemetery (8so1292): Insights Into Everyday Life In The Manasota Period (500 Bce- 800 Ce) On Florida’S Gulf Coast, Aric Archebelle-Smith Jan 2015

The Manasota Key Cemetery (8so1292): Insights Into Everyday Life In The Manasota Period (500 Bce- 800 Ce) On Florida’S Gulf Coast, Aric Archebelle-Smith

Theses & ETDs

The Manasota Culture prospered from around 500 BCE to 800 CE along the coastline that stretches from around the Tampa Bay all the way south to the northern end of Charlotte Harbor. Like many other cultures from coastal Florida, the Manasota people subsisted primarily on marine resources with some reliance on terrestrial resources. The Manasota Key Cemetery is a burial site located in the middle of Manasota Key in Englewood, Florida. Wilbur “Sonny” Cockrell excavated the site in 1989 with a team of local archaeologists and volunteers. It is one of the largest Manasota period burial sites in the region. …

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Woody Guthrie As Country Musician, Francis Christopher Alibro Jan 2015

Woody Guthrie As Country Musician, Francis Christopher Alibro

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This thesis explores the popular history of folk revivalist Woody Guthrie, and the implications of his designated role as a forefather to the Urban Folk Revival in Greenwich Village, New York. By exploring distinctions between concepts of “folk” and “country” music, this work looks back in time, examining the vast repertoire of early country music that influenced Woody Guthrie. I approach this through various angles, such as the historical origin and context of these songs, linguistic analysis, and stylistic analysis. Genre studies by Karl Hagstrom Miller and linguistic anthropological perspective by Aaron Fox are two such perspectives that I incorporate …

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Framed Up: Meaning-­Making And Collective Identity In Social Movements, Anne Mccabe Jan 2015

Framed Up: Meaning-­Making And Collective Identity In Social Movements, Anne Mccabe

Theses & ETDs

In this thesis, I worked with three separate social movements located within Florida. The key research question is: how do social movements utilize cultural resources and symbols and how does this affect whether a movement will succeed or fail? In order to address this question, I looked at how three different movements used frames and how their collective identity both informed and was informed by the symbolic work employed by these movements. By using evidence from multiple sources (participant observation, interviews with participants and organizers, and websites) I analyze the signifying work these movements engaged in.

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No Future In “Progress” The Embodiment Of Illegality Among Migrants In Rabat, Morocco, Zachary Natale Jan 2015

No Future In “Progress” The Embodiment Of Illegality Among Migrants In Rabat, Morocco, Zachary Natale

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This thesis explores experiences of "illegality in a community of irregular sub- Saharan migrants in Takadoum, a quarter of Rabat, Morocco. Since the early 2000s, increased migration flow from sub-Saharan Africa to the European Union and Europe's exertion of extraterritorial power over its southern Mediterranean neighbors have turned Morocco into a place of immigration rather than a point of transit. Morocco's increasingly punitive measures against irregular migration have "criminalized" migrants, turning them into social pariahs in popular discourse. Through ethnography, I explore the embodied expressions of abjection through the theoretical lens of biopower, or sovereign power over life. First, I …

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Spectacle And Dining In Imperial Rome: The Outdoor Triclinia Of Sperlonga And Tivoli, Sarah Tew Jan 2015

Spectacle And Dining In Imperial Rome: The Outdoor Triclinia Of Sperlonga And Tivoli, Sarah Tew

Theses & ETDs

The dining complexes at Tivoli and Sperlonga offer two different case studies of ancient art that should be understood in the context of creative re-vision and participatory reenactment. The dining rooms use the physical landscape to create idealized visions of the empire. This type of vision and revitalization is not unique to the dining room but an incarnation of a culture of spectacle in ancient Rome. Similar phenomena occur in the funeral and triumph, where idealized histories are depicted and reenacted. The architecture and décor of the triclinia at Sperlonga and Tivoli function as stages, on which the foundation and …

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Spicy Curry And Racist Salad: Representations Of India And Indian Americans In U.S. Sitcoms, Kyna Patel Jan 2015

Spicy Curry And Racist Salad: Representations Of India And Indian Americans In U.S. Sitcoms, Kyna Patel

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the origins of specific stereotypes and preconceived notions of India and people of Indian descent in the United States and how they are manifested today in American sitcoms. I analyze how some Indian and Indian American characters’ identities are more strongly informed by race, ethnicity, and nationality, which can play a role in perpetuating stereotypes. By looking at story arcs, character development, jokes, and dialogues, I show how varied or homogenous the characters are in the depictions of their identities and to what extent these identities are integral to the series’ comedy.

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Dancing Out Of Bounds: The Disruptive Image Of The Tavern Dancer In The Babylonian Talmud, Katherine Renee Mullin Jan 2015

Dancing Out Of Bounds: The Disruptive Image Of The Tavern Dancer In The Babylonian Talmud, Katherine Renee Mullin

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the image of the tavern dancer in two passages from the Babylonian Talmud. Using contemporaneous descriptions of dance and taverns in combination with modern scholarship of late antiquity, this thesis unpacks some of the implications of this image in the context of broader concerns in rabbinic literature of the time. Modern dance theories are used to facilitate this exploration, and generate a model for understanding rabbinic anxieties about the body of the tavern dancer. This thesis argues that the body of the tavern dancer is a productive site for the exposition of rabbinic anxieties about how bodies …

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Voodoo Fire : An Ethnographic Study Of The Multifaceted Nature Of New Orleans Voodoo, Harriet Barnes-Duke Jan 2015

Voodoo Fire : An Ethnographic Study Of The Multifaceted Nature Of New Orleans Voodoo, Harriet Barnes-Duke

Theses & ETDs

New Orleans, Louisiana is credited for the introduction of Voodoo to the United States. While Voodoo and its commodification began to catch fire more than a century past, it remains present in the city today as both a religious practice and a significant aspect of the tourist industry. In this study I focus on Voodoo as it is relevant to New Orleans currently, using ethnographic research and musical analysis of ritual practices and secular aesthetic tropes presented within the city. My research is based on interviews, observations, and participant-observation in events between June 2014 and January 2015. My fieldwork was …

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Talking Landscapes And Ways Of Seeing: An Archaeological Perspective On Oral Tradition Among Turkana Peoples, Katherine M. O'Brien Jan 2015

Talking Landscapes And Ways Of Seeing: An Archaeological Perspective On Oral Tradition Among Turkana Peoples, Katherine M. O'Brien

Theses & ETDs

While archaeology stems from Western colonial practice, there is a need to promote African archaeologies that integrate African ways of seeing the world. Landscape archaeology and oral tradition, used as historical tools, have the potential to create knowledge and interpretation free of the Western system of thought. In Turkana, Kenya, the dry, unpredictable landscape is a repository of Turkana pasts. Using landscape archaeology as a theoretical lens, this thesis is a survey of Turkana historical pasts through the present. Looking at the Turkana landscape as a multilayered and everchanging palimpsest can help one better understand how people live in and …

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Restoring And Re-Storying The Haitian Landscape, Nicolas Scheffer Jan 2015

Restoring And Re-Storying The Haitian Landscape, Nicolas Scheffer

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There is a common thread in Western depictions of Haiti that emphasizes a constant state of revolution and crisis, an inherent instability or inability to reconcile the goals and promises of emancipation with the realities of Haiti’s position in the world economy. Rhetoric of failure and crisis permeates Western political discourse and journalism and even into the ranks of Haitian society. Media coverage after the earthquake in January 2010 reinforced these tropes and prompted renewed attention to Haiti’s environmental problems, perpetuating a cycle of de-contextualized narratives that blame the rural peasant for the state of Haiti’s environment. Natural events such …

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From Doing To Saying: Towards A Pragmatic Theory Of Language, Matthew Broerman Jan 2015

From Doing To Saying: Towards A Pragmatic Theory Of Language, Matthew Broerman

Theses & ETDs

Philosophical accounts of discursive practice often take one of two forms. One wants to say what is distinctive about discourse, and so highlight the line that separates us from our non-speaking brethren. The other wants to say what discourse shares with strategies used to prevail over the environment, and so see it as subject to desire, power, and violence. Each account motivates a choice of vocabulary, either logical or natural, and a form of critique, either rational or genealogical. 'The force of the better argument' either refers to the force generated by argument, or the force deployed in argument. We …

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Walls Of Flesh: Abject Aesthetics, Coral Chepren-Moore Jan 2015

Walls Of Flesh: Abject Aesthetics, Coral Chepren-Moore

Theses & ETDs

The abject disturbs identity, system, and order. "Walls of Flesh: Abject Aesthetics" explores the aesthetics of the abject within the context of the gallery. It explores identity by exposing the viewer to artwork that lies in a state of liminality. Using the gallery as an artistic medium instead of backdrop for art, the system and order of a common space is disrupted, in an attempt to evoke abject responses from the viewers.

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The “Foreign Factor” In Shaping The Autonomy Issue Between The Chinese Government And Its Autonomous Regions, Benjamin Normand Jan 2015

The “Foreign Factor” In Shaping The Autonomy Issue Between The Chinese Government And Its Autonomous Regions, Benjamin Normand

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This thesis examines the importance of what I call the “foreign factor” in the Chinese Government’s issue with its Ethnic Minority Autonomous Regions, mostly of the Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongols. By the “foreign factor,” I loosely refer to states, groups or individuals residing outside of the PRC’s border whose interactions with the Chinese government and/or minority regions had or has significant impact on the relationship of the two sides, specifically concerning the issue of autonomy. Few scholars have given enough attention to the effects of foreign influences on this issue. This thesis traces these “foreign factors” from the Qing dynasty …

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Ceramics And Glass Beads As Symbolic Mixed Media In Colonial Native North America, Gregory A. Waselkov, David W. Morgan, Billie Coleman Jan 2015

Ceramics And Glass Beads As Symbolic Mixed Media In Colonial Native North America, Gregory A. Waselkov, David W. Morgan, Billie Coleman

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

During the 17th and 18th centuries, Native Americans rarely adorned ceramic objects with glass beads, despite the millions of beads introduced by Europeans through trade. Bead-decorated ceramics have been reported from only nine sites in North America, perhaps due to a tendency for archaeologists to overlook or misclassify bead-inlaid pottery. The 40 artifacts represent widely divergent ethnic groups separated from each other culturally, as well as by great distances in space and time. Yet they display a remarkable consistency in the pattern of bead arrangement and use of color. Colored glass beads stand in for human eyes in effigy smoking …

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Contributor Notes Jan 2015

Contributor Notes

Corresponding Voices

No abstract provided.

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Educating Pastoralists And Extension Officers On Diverse Livestock Diseases In A Changing Environment In Tanzania, Christopher Gustafson, Elizabeth Vanwormer, Rudovick Kazwala, Asha Makweta, Goodluck Paul, Woutrina Smith, Jonna A. K. Mazet Jan 2015

Educating Pastoralists And Extension Officers On Diverse Livestock Diseases In A Changing Environment In Tanzania, Christopher Gustafson, Elizabeth Vanwormer, Rudovick Kazwala, Asha Makweta, Goodluck Paul, Woutrina Smith, Jonna A. K. Mazet

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

East African pastoralists and their livestock are vulnerable to alterations in resource availability and disease transmission and frequently face poor access to livestock health services. Government veterinarians tasked with guiding health services must prioritize livestock health risks and allocate limited resources across disparate ecosystems with different disease threats. To identify livestock diseases of concern and strategies for improving herd health and resilience, we conducted community focus groups with pastoralists and interviewed pastoralist household leaders, village extension officers, and government veterinary officials in south-central Tanzania, an area experiencing rapid population growth and environmental change. All participants discussed pastoralist access to livestock …

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Anty 101h.01c: Anthropology And The Human Experience, Rebecca J. Wood Jan 2015

Anty 101h.01c: Anthropology And The Human Experience, Rebecca J. Wood

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Bmkt 412.01: Non-Profit Marketing, Carol L. Bruneau Jan 2015

Bmkt 412.01: Non-Profit Marketing, Carol L. Bruneau

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Dominion Of The Parthians, Ernest Hilbert Jan 2015

Dominion Of The Parthians, Ernest Hilbert

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 69

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Birmingham Poetry Review 42 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2015

Birmingham Poetry Review 42 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 215-229

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