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Your Trash Is Someone's Treasure: The Politics Of Value At A Michigan Landfill , Joshua Reno

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

This article discusses scavenging and dumping as alternative approaches to deriving value from rubbish at a large Michigan landfill. Both practices are attuned to the indeterminacy and power of abandoned things, but in different ways. Whereas scavenging relies on acquiring familiarity with an object by getting to know its particular qualities, landfilling and other forms of mass disposal make discards fungible and manipulable by stripping them of their former identities. By way of examining the different ways in which people become invested in the politics of value at the landfill, whether as part of expressions of gender and class or …

Prism #37, March 2009, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

The Rom / Uwo Mummy Project: A Microcosm Of Progress In Mummy Research, Andrew J. Nelson, R. Chhem, I. A. Cunningham, S. N. Friedman, G. Garvin, G. Gibson, P. V. Granton, David W. Holdsworth, S. Holowka, F. Longstaffe, V. Lywood, N. Nguyen, R. Shaw, M. Trumpour, Andrew D. Wade, C. D. White

Anthropology Presentations

The beginnings of the Royal Ontario Museum can be traced back to the excavations and collections of Charles Trick Currelly, a staff member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund in the early 1900s. Currelly excavated with Sir Flinders Petrie at Abydos and with Edouard Naville at Deir el Bahari. With the assistance of Robert Mond and others, Currelly amassed a rich and diverse collection that became the basis for the ROM, which opened its doors in 1914. Part of that collection included several Egyptian mummies (Currelly 1971) .

The Egyptologicalholdings at the ROM include eight mummies: one dating to the Predynastic …

Shafer Court Connections (2009-03)

Shafer Court Connections, 1994-2010

For alumni of the Academic Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Territory, Plants, And Land-Use Rights Among The San Of Southern Africa: A Case Study In Regional Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, And Intellectual Property, Stephen R. Munzer, Phyllis Chen Simon

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2009 Spring, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Spring 2009.

Careers And Languages, Lynne Mcclendon

Dimensions

In selecting the theme for the 2009 conference, the SCOLT Executive Board wanted to emphasize the need for languages outside traditional career paths and the ways that language professionals can contribute to those careers; thus was born the idea of “Empowerment through Collaboration.” The SCOLT Board invited spokespersons from non-profit agencies and business organizations to share information about their need for languages via special collaborative sessions during the conference. This article describes recent collaboration resulting in legislation to empower the language community. It concludes with a series of interviews with individuals whose careers outside the language profession require language skills. …

Is Neo-Calvinism Calvinist? A Neo-Calvinist Engagement Of Calvin's "Two Kingdoms" Doctrine, Jason Lief

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Thomas Ruffin And The Politics Of Public Honor: Political Change And The Creative Destruction Of Public Space, Sanford Levinson

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Update On Research At The Topper Site, Albert C. Goodyear

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Legacy - March 2009, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Magazine - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

More Survey For Lucas Vázquez De Ayllón’s Lost Capitana.....p. 1
Director’s Note – SCIAA Projects.....p.2
Conference on Archaeology of Recent African American Past.....p. 7
Update of Recent Topper Site Research.....p. 8
Update of Santa Elena Research.....p. 14
ART Grants Given in 2009.....p. 16
SCIAA/ART Donors 2008-2009.....p. 18
Volunteer on Allendale Paleoamerican Expedition.....p. 20

Planting The Promised Landscape: Zionism, Nature, And Resistance In Israel/Palestine, Irus Braverman

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Confounded And Compounded By Language: English Language Learners And High Stakes Testing, Elizabeth Park

Occasional Paper Series

As her students prepare to take their tests to exhibit English proficiency, the atmosphere, writes Park, "becomes military at best, prison-like at worst. Regulations are distributed. Teachers are warned that state examiners may appear unannounced to look for infractions of the myriad rules..." Scare tactics are used to try to assure that the testing activity remains uncontaminated by human desire, fear, or simple boredom.

Vol. 32 No. 2-3 (2009): Pacific Island Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US $26.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, …

Sfra Review, Spring 2009, Science Fiction Research Association

SFRA Newsletter (Science Fiction Research Association)

The Spring 2009 issue of the SFRA Review.

Art And Art History Collection Development Policy, Jeanetta Drueke

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The art and art history collection supports the teaching, research and service activities of the entire university community. Its primary audience is the faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Art and Art History in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. Its primary focus is support for the undergraduate and graduate curricula for art and art history. Specific and transient research needs of art and art history faculty and graduate students are supplemented through Interlibrary Loan. Materials are not purchased for the general public though they may benefit from the collection. While the collection focuses on works …

What Matters, And What Matters Most, For Change In Life Satisfaction In The Oldest-Old? A Study Over 6 Years Among Individuals 80+, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Lesa Hoffman, Linda Björk Hassing, Gerald M. Mcclearn, Boo Johansson

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Objectives: The study investigates whether markers of life satisfaction identified in a cross-sectional study – quality of social network, self-rated health, depressive symptoms, locus of control and widowhood, in addition to financial satisfaction and the personality traits of extraversion and neuroticism - predict change in life satisfaction (LSI-Z) across four measurement occasions during a 6-year period in individuals aged 80+. Method: Data were drawn from the Swedish OCTO-Twin-study of individuals aged 80 and older. Results: Growth curve analysis showed a relatively consistent significant linear decline in life satisfaction, but certain markers predicted change in life satisfaction. The …

Oral Healthcare In Kenya: Implications For Dental Hygiene Care, Grace Kogi

Dental Hygiene Master's Papers and Projects

This paper is a review of literature describing the educational, healthcare delivery and healthcare finance systems in Kenya. The document discusses the unmet oral health needs of the Kenyan population and how implementing the role of the dental hygienist would positively impact oral health promotion throughout the country. Kenyan communities experience all of the major environmental determinants of oral disease, e.g., widespread poverty, underdevelopment, outdated dental equipment, insufficient supply and distribution of qualified dental care professionals and lack of preventive oral health services. About six in ten Kenyans are unable to afford healthcare, clothing, or food; therefore, oral healthcare has …

Creatividad Léxica En Una Jerga Gay De La Frontera México-Estados Unidos, Israel Sanz-Sánchez

Languages & Cultures Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

以極有限資源在醫學系三年級進行基礎臨床溝通技巧教學, 祖裕 陳, 浩民 鄭, 金洲 黃, 春蓮 巫, 惠文 楊, 雅琳 程, 震寰 陳

Journal of Medical Education

自2004年9月開始，我們在醫學系三年級推動一項臨床溝通技巧的課程。其中基礎臨床溝通技巧的課程內容包括：⑴講授：疾病診斷原則、問診內容，以及臨床溝通技巧的理念及方法；⑵影片教學；⑶利用標準化病人作問診演練。問診技巧是以Calgary-Cambridge observation guide為架構，而問診演練特別著重演練者的自我反省(reflection)及其他學生及教師的描述性回饋(feedback)。由於資源有限，課程的執行乃秉持下列策略：⑴以影片教學彌補演練次數的不足；⑵以時間分割彌補教師人力的不足；⑶巧用心思使能儘量提供重複體驗的機會。在經過5年的執行和改進，大部分的學生在學期結束的評估都有令人滿意的表現，證實本課程具有不錯的教學效能。這項課程將會繼續執行，並且不斷改進。

The Government Menage 'A Trois: Unraveling The Government Sex Partner In Undercover Prostitution Stings, Kelley Frances Stieler

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Attaining Moral Knowledge In The Church And Models Of Adult Learning, Richard Shields

Journal of Catholic Education

For the Holy See this signifies a loss of a sense of sin and reconciliation, rightly connecting moral consciousness and faith in salvation with sacramental celebration. Cultural studies underscore the importance of ritual practices as an essential element of religion’s ability to deal with the experience of moral evil. However, decline in the frequency of confession may also be complicated by indifference among North American Catholics to current roles and power relations in the Church. In light of moral individualism in society and new ways of envisioning the Church fostered by Vatican II, the challenge of moral education in the …

More Survey For Lucas Vázquez De Ayllón’S Lost Capitana, Christopher F. Amer

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Property And Relative Status, Nestor M. Davidson

Michigan Law Review

Property does many things-it incentivizes productive activity, facilitates exchange, forms an integral part of individual identity, and shapes communities. But property does something equally fundamental: it communicates. And perhaps the most ubiquitous and important messages that property communicates have to do with relative status, with the material world defining and reinforcing a variety of economic, social, and cultural hierarchies. This status-signalingf unction of property-withp roperty serving as an important locus for symbolic meaning through which people compare themselves to others-complicates premises underlying central discourses in contemporary property theory. In particular, status signaling can skew property's incentive and allocative benefits, leading …

Anthropology And Ethnography: Contributions To Integrated Marketing Communications, Claudia M. Wright

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Student Research

This paper explores the ways in which anthropological research, specifically ethnography, can be useful in an Integrated Marketing Communication approach. Starting from a brief description of the different ways in which the discipline of anthropology has studied consumption, the paper turns to review how it can serve effectively to understand both the corporate as well as the consumer culture. Furthermore, the role that the anthropological discipline plays for Integrated Marketing Communication strategies is presented along with some examples of how different firms have used it. This paper is an approach to understanding ethnography not only as a market research methodology, …

University Reporter - Volume 13, Number 07 - March 2009

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about university budget cuts, Black History Month festivities, the Private Industry Council’s annual Job Shadow Day, writing workshops for veterans offered by the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, and other news from UMass Boston.

Preaching To The Court House And Judging In The Temple, Nathan B. Oman

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Structuration Theory And Critical Consciousness: Potential Applications For Social Work Practice, Jennifer Wheeler-Brooks

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Anthony Giddens' structuration theory provides concepts that can be used to think differently about oppression and consciousness raising. Structuration sees society as being recursively created through its members' social practices, and oppression as being but one of these social practices. Consciousness raising, then, is recognizing that a given social practice is oppressive, and then deliberately working to change the practice. This is done by altering one's social performance and disrupting the recursive process that maintains the oppressive practice. Implications follow for empowerment-oriented social work practice and narrowing the gap between clinical and community social work practice.

Types Of Comparative Studies In Cross-Cultural Psychology, Fons J. R. Van De Vijver

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

From a methodological perspective cross-cultural studies in psychology differ in three dimensions. First, cross-cultural psychological studies can be exploratory or test specific hypotheses. Second, some cross-cultural studies compare countries or ethnic groups while other cross-cultural studies relate specific characteristics of a country or ethnicity (e.g., socialization patterns or religiosity) to psychological variables. Third, studies can compare either constructs (e.g., do Chinese and Kenyans mean the same when they say that a person is intelligent?) or score levels (e.g., are Americans more extravert than Italians?). A classification of cross-cultural psychological studies, based on the three dimensions, is presented and examples are …

Morris Catalog 2009-11, University Of Minnesota Morris

UMM Catalog

This catalog covers academic years 2009–2010 and 2010–2011. The Morris Catalog is in effect for nine years; this catalog is in effect from fall 2009 through the end of summer session 2018.