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Anth 3090, Rachel Breunlin

University of New Orleans Syllabi

This course introduces you to the concepts of urban public culture through the lens of New Orleans. We will begin by considering what the “public” is and how the concept of the “public realm” applies to living in cities. With this foundation, we will then begin to consider how publics were, and continue to be, created in New Orleans. Throughout the semester, we will be listening and learning about all kinds of music as a way of understanding the way that people in the city have participated and made claims to public life.

Anth 3220, Ryan Gray

University of New Orleans Syllabi

In this course, the archaeology of historic sites in New Orleans will be used as the starting point for a broader discussion of material culture and its relationship to contemporary themes in anthropology. In particular, theoretical approaches to the city and to urban space will provide a background for addressing the issue of identity, as expressed along axes of race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender, and so on. Other topics to be addressed include the city and mortuary practices, health and sanitation, utopias and imagined cities, and the archaeology of disaster. Data from archaeological studies of other urban sites in the …

Anth 3750, David Beriss

University of New Orleans Syllabi

This course will bring an anthropological perspective to the study of contemporary food systems. We will begin by explaining why people eat what they eat. Not everyone agrees on what food is, exactly, and our first task will be to try and understand how people figure that out. Although the answer may be related to the environment, it is also and profoundly determined by social structure and by culture. We will examine how the definition of food, along with the ways in which it is produced and distributed, shapes and is shaped by society and culture. We will analyze the …

Anth 4440, Jeffrey Ehrenreich

University of New Orleans Syllabi

This course takes a cross-cultural approach to "religion," religious behavior and practices, worldview, cosmologies, and the "supernatural" in society. Rites of transition (passage), death and afterlife, ritual, religious leaders, traditional curing, religious movements, revitalization, cults, witchcraft, magic, trance, altered states of consciousness, and especially shamanism are critically examined. An investigation of religion is made from a cross-cultural, comparative, anthropological perspective.

Anth 5766, Ana Croegart

University of New Orleans Syllabi

This course explores key anthropological treatments of the study of sex and gender. The first part of the course will explore the origins of the concepts of “sex” and of “gender” and their transformations. We are especially attentive to the ways that “gender” as a category of analysis is connected to theoretical formations against inequality based on race and class, and to the marginalization of the study of sex within academic disciplines. We ask why some scholars argue for separating “sex” from “gender” studies entirely, and, what are the implications of such an approach? The second part of the course …

Anth 4766, Ana Croegart

University of New Orleans Syllabi

This course explores key anthropological treatments of the study of sex and gender. The first part of the course will explore the origins of the concepts of “sex” and of “gender” and their transformations. We are especially attentive to the ways that “gender” as a category of analysis is connected to theoretical formations against inequality based on race and class, and to the marginalization of the study of sex within academic disciplines. We ask why some scholars argue for separating “sex” from “gender” studies entirely, and, what are the implications of such an approach? The second part of the course …

Anth 4775, David Beriss

University of New Orleans Syllabi

In this class, you will learn to analyze and evaluate claims about authenticity and culture in urban environments. You will be able to discuss, explain, and debate theories of urban poverty, crime, and policing. You will learn to evaluate claims made about development and arguments surrounding gentrification. You will discuss the role of immigration, ethnicity, and race in shaping urban life. You will learn to use ethnographic research methods. Above all, you will learn to ask critical questions that should enhance your ability to participate in the ongoing development of this city, a decade after the floods.

Anth 4801, Jeffrey Ehrenreich

University of New Orleans Syllabi

The course is a critical and historical study of theories of culture. It explores historical and contemporary schools of thought and major trends in ethnological theory, along with consideration of seminal theorists. It examines theoretical approaches in relation to biography, historical era, and sociocultural milieu of theorists, as well as to the function and purposes of anthropology in Western thought.

Anth 5440, Jeffrey Ehrenreich `

University of New Orleans Syllabi

This course takes a cross-cultural approach to "religion," religious behavior and practices, worldview, cosmologies, and the "supernatural" in society. Rites of transition (passage), death and afterlife, ritual, religious leaders, traditional curing, religious movements, revitalization, cults, witchcraft, magic, trance, altered states of consciousness, and especially shamanism are critically examined. An investigation of religion is made from a cross-cultural, comparative, anthropological perspective.

Anth 5775, David Beriss

University of New Orleans Syllabi

In this class, you will learn to analyze and evaluate claims about authenticity and culture in urban environments. You will be able to discuss, explain, and debate theories of urban poverty, crime, and policing. You will learn to evaluate claims made about development and arguments surrounding gentrification. You will discuss the role of immigration, ethnicity, and race in shaping urban life. You will learn to use ethnographic research methods. Above all, you will learn to ask critical questions that should enhance your ability to participate in the ongoing development of this city, a decade after the floods.

Anth 6801, Jeffrey Ehrenreich

University of New Orleans Syllabi

This course surveys the critical and historical study of cultural and social theory. Theorists and schools of thought, including Marxism, functionalism, structuralism, historical materialism, world systems, critical theory, feminist social analysis, postmodernism, post-colonial theory, and globalization, will be examined in the course. This course is an advanced seminar for graduate students in the social sciences, humanities, or related disciplines. It is a required course for the doctorate in urban studies at UNO.

Mus 3705, Edward Petersen

University of New Orleans Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Urbn 3002, Toni Riley

University of New Orleans Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Trends And Spatial Variability In Dry Spells Across The South-Central United States, Jill C. Trepanier, Michael J. Roberts, Barry D. Keim

Faculty Publications

Annual average and maximum spells with no precipitation in the southern United States are analyzed. In this study, dry spells are defined as consecutive days with no measurable rainfall. The study area includes 70 weather stations in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Interarrival times between daily precipitation records for each station provide the data for this analysis. All 70 stations were analyzed from 1950 to 2013. Six stations that each have data for more than 100 years were analyzed for the period from 1908 to 2013. Approximately 25% of stations in the region show significant negative trends through …

Excavations Of Mound B: A Ridge-Top Mound At The Carson Site, A Mississippian Mound Center In The Northern Yazoo Basin, Samuel Henri Butz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Material Melancholy: Stranded Objects In Modern Southern Women's Writing, James Travis Rozier

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation traces the origins and uses of a specifically southern obsession with the past. Examining how southern women writers represent the compulsion to remember, I demonstrate how, in their narratives, efforts to retain intimate relationships with an idealized past obstruct characters' ability to live in the present. Their fiction aligns neatly with the dynamic described in psychoanalysis as 'melancholia’—not least because, in each case, these relationships with the past are typically ambivalent or even destructive, and the melancholic subjects must 'work through' their damaging attachments. Typical psychoanalytic approaches, however, have neglected how such troubled remembering might be influenced by …

Notes On Distance Dialing, Liam Baranauskas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My mom thought watching professional wrestling would turn me gay, so I saw the WWF mostly at my dad’s house, on his twelve-inch black and white television with aluminum foil for an antenna. Every other week I got two hours of gyrating pretty boys, unexamined racism, heavy breathing, and the occasional obese man whose blubbery folds could endure endless punishment until he ended his match by sitting on his opponent. There was a Jewish accountant wrestler who would berate the crowd for cheating on their taxes. There was “Kamala the Ugandan Giant.” There was a clown. The greytoned pixels on …

An Evaluation Of Geophysical Methods In The Detection Of Toddler-Sized Burials During The First Six Months Of Burials, Paul Sullivan Martin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Geophysical survey has become a major tool in the search for clandestine graves associated with missing person cases. However, relatively little research has been done to evaluate the efficacy of different instruments. Ground-penetrating Radar (GPR), magnetometry, resistivity, conductivity, and susceptibility survey data were collected over the first six months of interment at approximately 30-day intervals for two research plots: an open grassy area and a wooded area. Each area contained five pig burials representing toddler-size (less than 50 pounds) remains and two areas of disturbance or false burials to serve as control graves. The resultant imagery was evaluated in terms …

Don't Ask, Must Tell—And Other Combinations, Adam M. Samaha, Lior Jacob Strahilevitz

Faculty Articles

The military’s defunct Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy has been studied and debated for decades. Surprisingly, the question of why a legal regime would combine these particular rules for information flow has received little attention. More surprisingly still, legal scholars have provided no systemic account of why law might prohibit or mandate asking and telling. While there is a large literature on disclosure and a fragmented literature on questioning, considering either part of the information dissemination puzzle in isolation has caused scholars to overlook key considerations. This Article tackles foundational issues of information policy and legal design, focusing on instances …

Theories And Interventions With Transgender And Gender Non-Conforming Clients, Charles R. Shealy

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This original qualitative study identifies the theories and techniques therapists have found supportive in their work with Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming clients. Twelve clinicians currently in practice in the New York City area and one clinician from Virginia who had experience working with Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming clients were interviewed. The questions posed to them were intended to guide them to reflect on their practice considering what theories arose as themes in their work and what techniques or approaches arose as supportive in their work with this population. Their responses were in line with the current body of literature reflecting …

'Furor' As Failed 'Pietas': Roman Poetic Constructions Of Madness Through The Time Of Virgil, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

Roman poetic portrayals of mad characters through the time of Virgil construct a fundamental opposition between madness, an ipso facto self-absorbed or egoistic condition, and sanity, which duly fixes its gaze outside of itself, on parents, forebears, and the walls of state. The poets conceptualize furor less as what a modern sensibility would label insanity or mental illness than as a passion-fueled state antithetical to social order, able to be held in check only by rigorous adherence to the duty-oriented cultural code of pietas. In this moralized conception of madness, erotic furor is not a metaphorical by-path but a …

The Role Of Fictional Narratives In Adolescent Identity Formation : A Theoretical Exploration, Anne Lind

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This theoretical study explores the ways in which adolescents' engagement with fictional narratives can support developmental processes of identity formation and individuation. The purpose of the study was to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the intense relationship that some adolescents have with favorite books, movies, and television shows. A review of the literature on the psychology of fiction showed that, when deeply engaged with a narrative, readers are able to simulate characters' experiences in ways that lead to changes in behavior, empathy, and self-concept. A review of the literature on parasocial relationships showed that readers and viewers often form …

Talking About Race : How Do White Clinicians Engage In Dialogue About Race In Cross-Racial Therapy With Black Clients?, Elizabeth J. Hare

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This qualitative study explores how White clinicians engage in dialogue about race in cross-racial therapy with Black clients. Open-ended survey questions were used to gather narrative data from 12 White clinicians who have conducted therapy with Black clients. The central question of this research study is: when, how and why do White clinicians engage in dialogue about race in cross-racial therapy with Black clients? The study investigates how White clinicians think about their choices to broach the subject of race and their perceptions of the therapeutic alliance as it relates to conversations about race and racial difference. It also explores …

Foundations Of Memory: Effects Of Organizations On The Preservation And Interpretation Of The Slave Forts And Castles Of Ghana, Britney Danielle Ghee

Theses and Dissertations

The historical understanding of a place is bent to the will of the passage of time, but is susceptible to the pressures of entities that lay claim to the space. The memory of forts and castles dispersed along the tropical shorelines of Ghana have been remembered, forgotten, and rediscovered several times over the span of five centuries. But how has their story been changed? What is privileged and created for the collective memory and what has been concealed? The buildings currently serve as memorials to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but this understanding is complicated by the previous preservation motives and …

The Sensory Environments Of Civil War Prisons, Evan A. Kutzler

Theses and Dissertations

The dissertation explores the experiences of four hundred thousand Union and Confederate prisoners during the American Civil War. While much has been written on the overlapping experiences of soldiers, civilians, and slaves, less attention has been paid to those behind masonry walls or wooden stockades. The premise of the dissertation, borrowed from the theory and methodology of sensory history, is that while human sensory physiology changes slowly over time, perception is fluid and varies by time, place, and culture. Drawing from nearly two hundred unpublished manuscripts as well as newspapers, government records, and postwar narratives, this dissertation explores the experiences …

Mobile Home Resident Perspectives On Preparedness, Protective Action, And Evacuation For Tornado Hazards, Kevin D. Ash

Theses and Dissertations

More than 1,000 tornadoes strike the United States each year, and no population segment has been impacted to a greater degree than those who live in mobile homes. Despite being only about 7% of the total population, mobile home residents have comprised 40% to 50% of all tornado deaths over the past fifty years. Inhabitants of mobile homes must therefore act quickly to protect themselves when they are threatened by tornadoes. Warning messages instruct mobile home occupants to move to a sturdier building until the storm passes, but what are the residents’ perspectives on this recommended behavior? It is unknown …

The Effects Of Environmental Consciousness And Menu Information On Consumers’ Perceptions Of Restaurant Image And Purchase Behavior Related To Local Foods, Daniel A.G. Remar

Theses and Dissertations

Sustainability initiatives have become increasingly important and relevant to the foodservice industry. Despite the fact that consumer demand for sustainable restaurant practices has grown substantially over the last 10 years, consumers’ pro-environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions are not always turned into concordant behavior. Though foodservice operators continue to make progress in developing new methods and strategies for implementing sustainable practices into operations, getting consumers to behave in accordance with their demand is a major challenge.

The purpose of this quasi-experimental study is to determine if consumers’ attitudes towards local food, widely considered a sustainable restaurant practice, are congruous with their …

Destination Hong Kong: Negotiating Locality In Hong Kong Novels 1945-1966, Xianmin Shen

Theses and Dissertations

Recent clashes between China and Hong Kong have attracted worldwide attention. Behind such clashes, I see anxieties over the Hong Kong identity. Based on Ackbar Abbas' theorization of the "politics of disappearance" in Hong Kong, this dissertation focuses on the postwar period in Hong Kong from 1945 to 1966. I argue going back to this historical era, which help us understand how Chineseness in Hong Kong influences people’s imagination of Hong Kong. Concentrating on four novels written between 1945 and 1966, this dissertation pays close attention to the ways in which the (re)interpretations of Chineseness in these Hong Kong novels …

Brazilian Adventist Women And Their Needs: Toward Theological-Missiological Education With An Initial Curriculum Proposal, Hanny Brcic Guzman

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Brazilian Adventist women have had limited access to theological-missiological education, partly because of a hierarchical, male-centered biblical interpretation of gender relations as applied to female teaching and learning experiences within the community of faith. Although the church intends to involve women in a kind of ministry that assumes a hierarchical paradigm, this remediative action is limited to motivation, outreach, and Christian piety.

Method

This theological-missiological non-formal curricular intervention provides access to theological education as well as role models for women in the church. It attempts to transform this restrictive scenario by the interpretation of the perspective and values of …

Using Co-Curricular Programs To Build College Student Self-Efficacy: A Pathway To Second-Year Student Persistence, Benjamin R. Davis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the potential link between college student's self-reported self-efficacy and their eventual persistence into the third-year of matriculation at Arizona State University. Using a framework of Bandura's work on self-efficacy, Ryan & Deci's work on Self-Determination Theory, and Kolb's Model of Experiential Learning a design for action that may lead to increased student self-efficacy is proposed. This study used a one within one between one-way analysis of variance design with three groups to test the potential correlation between student self-efficacy and student persistence into the third year. The study concluded with no results, as the correlations between the …