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Subaltern Social Movement Learning And The Decolonization Of Space In India, Dip Kapoor

International Education

Part of a special issue on international perspectives on education and decolonization. A study examined subaltern agency as expressed through social movement learning and decolonization of physical/material space in south Orissa, India. Results revealed how learning within Adivasi—original dweller—movements in south Orissa framed a process of Adivasi activism that reasserted itself over forest and land spaces necessary for reproducing Adivasi lives in accordance with their material and existential rationalizations.

Oral Societies And Colonial Experiences: Sub-Saharan Africa And The De-Facto Power Of The Written Word, Ali. A. Abdi

International Education

Part of a special issue on international perspectives on education and decolonization. The writer examines the devaluing of oral traditions in Sub-Saharan Africa through the written word of various colonial powers.

Colonialism, Education And Rural Buddhist Communities In Bangladesh, Bijoy Barua

International Education

Part of a special issue on international perspectives on education and decolonization. The writer examines the nature of colonial domination in education in Bangladesh and the related efforts of the country's Buddhist communities at cultural and educational decolonization.

The Leading Object: December 2007

Leading Object

Content:
Perspectives: John C. Owens
‘Know how, Know now’ Seeks to Educate about Value of Extension
Extension Guardianship Program Nationally Recognized
Alumnus Gets Degree 58 Years After Starting School
Dairy Store Busy Preparing Cheese and Gift Boxes
Natural Resources, Plant Industries Halls Renamed
Dinsdale Award To Go to Three Assistant Professors
Hart, Baxendale Receive Awards

Decolonization And The Politics Of Syncretism: The Catholic Church, Indigenous Theology And Cultural Autonomy In Oaxaca, Mexico, Kristin Norget

International Education

Part of a special issue on international perspectives on education and decolonization. The writer examines the indigenous theology practiced by the Roman Catholic church in Oaxaca, Mexico. In particular, he examines the future potential and limitations of this approach for progressive social change, especially in non-Western contexts.

The Rise Of Agricultural Animal Welfare Standards As Understood Through A Neo-Institutional Lens, Elizabeth Ransom

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

In recent years agricultural animal welfare standards have increasingly been placed on the agenda of international, regional, and national governance bodies, as well as private agrifood organizations. Standards, long the domain of economists, are now recognized as one of the most significant emerging practices for governing food, and as such, a growing number of scholars have focused on the role that powerful actors have in setting standards and the distributional benefits of standards implementation. However, much of the existing literature relies on consumer-demand arguments for explaining the rise of animal welfare standards. This article uses sociological neo-institutionalism, specifically institutional isomorphism, …

Did The Kulinas Become The Marubos? A Linguistic And Ethnohistorical Investigation, David W. Fleck

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

This paper presents the results of a study designed to clear up confusion surrounding the ethnic and linguistic identity of several indigenous groups from western Amazonia that have been denominated “Kulina,” “Marubo,” or variants of these terms.  Linguistic analysis revealed unequivocally that the term Kulina has been used to refer to three different languages, two in the Panoan family and one in the Arawan family, and that the term Marubo has been used to refer to two different languages in the Panoan family.  To elucidate the ethnohistory of each of these five groups, the usage of the terms Kulina and …

Shipibo Hunting And The Overkill Hypothesis, Warren M. Hern

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

The "overkill" hypothesis, as promulgated by Paul Martin and others, is supported by evidence of asynchronous extinction of megafauna and other species in North America associated with the arrival of Pleistocene hunters in the Western Hemisphere. In this essay, further evidence—based on observations made of the response of a small party of Shipibo hunters in the upper Peruvian Amazon—is offered in support of the hypothesis. These observations were made during an exploratory tripinto the headwaters of a remote Amazonian tributary, a pristine area not occupied by human beings that was plentiful with wildlife. The Shipibo aggressively took the opportunity to …

A Structural Analysis Of Higher Education Government Relations Organizations And Their Relationship To State Funding, Randall Brumfield

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Competing interests for state government funding have affected the status of public higher education as a budget priority. State legislators and executive officeholders are increasing appropriations to areas such as public K-12 education, health care, infrastructure, and social services programs at the expense of state colleges and universities. As such the higher education community must effectively utilize its government relations organizations to communicate with elected officials the importance of state funding. The purpose of the study was to identify the functional and personnel trends existing within government relations offices, and, to determine the extent a relationship may exist between organizational …

Collaboration Between Usc’S Department Of Geology And The Maritime Research Division, Christopher F. Amer, Jeffery Morin

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Legacy - December 2007, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Magazine - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Draught Triggers Archaeology at Dry Lake Beds.....p. 1
Director’s Note.....p. 2
SCIAA Offers Postdoctoral Position.....p. 3
Conference on Southeastern Colonial Frontiers.....p. 3
Collaboration with USC’s Department of Geology.....p. 6
SCIAA’s Maritime Research Division Web Site Available.....p. 9
German Stonewares from Colonial Sites.....p. 10
New Book: Ceramics in America.....p. 13
New Thoughts on Old Pottery.....p. 14
Late Holocene Taquara/Itareare Culture in Argentina.....p. 16
R. L. Stephenson Fund.....p. 17
SCIAA/ART Donors 2006-2007.....p. 18
34th Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology.....p. 20

Drought Triggers Archaeology At Santee Cooper's Dry Lake Beds, Jonathan Leader

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Friends Of The Uta Library Mcnair Scholarship Awards, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Cover And Front Matter, Black Catholic Theological Symposium

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

Cover, table of contents, administrative information

The Rhetoric Of Anti-Relativism In A Culture Of Certainty, Howard Lesnick

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Consuming Culture: Extralocal Exchanges And Kalinago Identity On Dominica, Kathryn A. Hudepohl

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Tourism is a significant global force affecting indigenous residents of numerous destination locales worldwide. This paper considers the effects of tourism on Kalinago ethnicity in the Commonwealth of Dominica. In this particular case, tourist consumption of indigenous handicrafts reinforces Kalinago claims to a distinct ethnic identity. Extralocal exchanges that occur as a result of tourism strengthen identity in part by heightening awareness of the ethnic boundary that differentiates the community from outsiders and by stimulating participation in traditional handicraft production. In addition to tourism, other types ofinteractions with outsiders, such as land boundary disputes and cultural borrowing from other indigenous …

University Reporter - Volume 12, Number 04 - December 2007

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about J. Keith Motley’s appointment as UMass Boston’s Eighth chancellor, the University's involvement with OpenCourseWare initiatives, a celebration of Native American heritage on campus, the Gastón Institute's analysis of community responses to recent immigration raids, and other news from UMass Boston.

And They Were There -- Reports Of Meetings -- 27th Annual Charleston Conference, Ramune K. Kubilius

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Ecotourism As A Driver Of Forest Conservation On Small Farms In Costa Rica, December 2007, Sarah Owens

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Conservation of fragmented forest on private land is instrumental to long-term protection of tropical biodiversity. However, few incentives exist for small landowners to conserve. This study addresses ecotourism as an incentive for forest fragment conservation. Small farmers were interviewed to determine the extent of land in regeneration or protection and the ecotouristic activities on each property. The data suggest that a greater percentage of land is in regeneration on farms with small-scale tourism (20% + 10.1) than on farms with large-scale tourism (12% + 6.0) and no tourism (5% + 2.1; Kruskal-Wallis Test, H = 6.0673, p = 0.0481, N …

Charting The New Territory Of Adaptive Co-Management: A Delphi Study, Ryan Plummer, Derek Armitage

Geography and Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Complex systems understanding implies a world characterized by dynamic, nonlinear interactions, discontinuities, and surprises. Such conditions are not amenable to conventional resource management approaches that stress command-and-control, and therefore, novel governance approaches are more suited to complexity and uncertainty are required. Adaptive co-management has emerged as an interdisciplinary response to this need, and blends the adaptive management and collaborative management narratives. However, concepts associated with adaptive co-management are relatively new and quickly expanding from multiple perspectives. The objective of this paper is to take stock of this relatively recent concept and synthesize current thinking in terms of: (1) the core …

John Bartlam: America’S First Porcelain Maker, Lisa Hudgins

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The Archaeology Of Captivity And Freedom At Joseph Lloyd Manor, Jenna Coplin, Christopher Matthews

Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Development Of Photography Curriculum Program: Facilitating The Transition From Academic Theory To Business Practice, John M. Osborne

Theses and Dissertations

Competition for job openings is becoming increasingly difficult for college graduates. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2007), "Photographers can expect keen competition for job openings. The number of individuals interested in positions is much greater than the number of openings" (~27). As a result of this increasing competition, this study is intended to develop a model curriculum for a four-year baccalaureate degree program in photography with a business emphasis. More specifically, this study is aimed at developing curriculum that will enable students to more readily transition from academic theory into business and industrial practice.

In this study, a …

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Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Group Therapy -- Database Trials, Christine Fischer

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Homerus Lex: Investigating American Legal Culture Through The Lens Of The Simpsons, Kimberlianne Podlas

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 69, No. 3, December 2007, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

Topics In Action Sources Of Definiteness Of Topic Noun Phrases In Thai Interactive Discourse, Prakaiwan Vajrabhaya

English Theses & Dissertations

The notion of topic has been widely discussed in past literature; however, the use of naturally occurring data in these studies, especially in Thai, has been lacking. This study approaches topic from a functionalist standpoint. It uses definiteness, a feature of topics generally agreed upon by scholars, to investigate topic noun phrases (NPs) in the topic with a clausal comment construction in naturally occurring data in Thai. The main objectives are to identify the sources of definiteness of topic NPs and demonstrate their functions. The data for this study was obtained from the Chulalongkorn University Linguistics Department corpus which …

Beyond Foraging: Behavioral Science And The Future Of Institutional Economics, Alexander J. Field

Economics

Institutions affect economic outcomes, but variation in them cannot be directly linked to environmental factors such as geography, climate, or technological availabilities. Game theoretic approaches, based as they typically are on foraging only assumptions, do not provide an adequate foundation for understanding the intervening role of politics and ideology; nor does the view that culture and institutions are entirely socially constructed. Understanding what institutions are and how they influence behavior requires an approach that is in part biological, focusing on cognitive and behavioral adaptations for social interaction favored in the past by group selection. These adaptations, along with their effects …