Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Anthropology of neoliberalism (1)
- Applied anthropology (1)
- Biblical Archaeology (1)
- Ceramic analysis (1)
- Cultural Resource Documentation and Planning (1)
-
- Cyprus (1)
- Design ethnography (1)
- Gullah; cultural landscape; commons; landscape commons; common open space (1)
- Heritage Theory and Policy (1)
- Landscape theory (1)
- Libraries (1)
- Libraries, Participatory Design Ethnography, Applied Anthropology (1)
- Library anthropology (1)
- Open Space Analysis and Conservation (1)
- Participatory design ethnography (1)
- Petrography (1)
- Politics of Archaeology (1)
- Russia (1)
- Sacred and profane (1)
- Social welfare (1)
- Voluntarism (1)
- Youth (1)
Articles 1 - 5 of 5
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Participatory Design Ethnography In The Learning Commons: Initial Research Findings, Krista Harper
Participatory Design Ethnography In The Learning Commons: Initial Research Findings, Krista Harper
Krista M. Harper
Presentation on initial findings from research at the UMass Amherst Learning Commons using participatory design ethnography and Photovoice. In this Spring 2014 project, I guided students through a semester-length research study of students' perspectives on and practices in the library.
Community Commons: An Analysis Of The Gullah Communities Of South Carolina, Elizabeth Brabec
Community Commons: An Analysis Of The Gullah Communities Of South Carolina, Elizabeth Brabec
Elizabeth Brabec
Descended from slaves brought to the southeast United States between the early 17th and mid 19th centuries, the Gullah-Geechee of South Carolina and Georgia in the United States, have developed distinctive, culturally-expressive creole communities. Juxtaposed against their ancestor’s plantation slave villages, present-day settlements reveal deliberate creations of community and strong connections to place. The Gullah concept of place and community also includes an understanding of the land as commons that is at odds with the dominant culture in the United States.Under slavery the Gullah lived in rigidly geometric settlements. Although this was the only settlement pattern the slaves had experienced, …
The Tyranny Of Narrative History, Heritage, And Hatred In The Modern Middle East, Neil A. Silberman
The Tyranny Of Narrative History, Heritage, And Hatred In The Modern Middle East, Neil A. Silberman
Neil A. Silberman
Narrative is the heart of heritage interpretation, and modern Middle Eastern narratives of national histories tell distinct and conflicting tales. This paper highlights some major genres of archaeological and historical storytelling and analyzes the symbolic messages they convey. A closer look at the juxtaposition of competing story forms reveals a complex intertwining, in which one nation or ethnic group’s “period of desolation” is simultaneous with their rivals’ “Golden Age.”
Pottery In The Landscape: Ceramic Analysis At The City-Kingdom Of Idalion, Cyprus, Rebecca M. Bartusewich
Pottery In The Landscape: Ceramic Analysis At The City-Kingdom Of Idalion, Cyprus, Rebecca M. Bartusewich
Rebecca M Bartusewich
The ancient site of Idalion, Cyprus has a landscape dominated by two acropoleis containing sacred sites. The plain below is the location of domestic occupation. I have petrologically analyzed 45 ceramics from the domestic area and one sacred area and found that while the sacred spaces dominate the landscape, ceramics were not produced/chosen differently for the sacred area over the domestic area. The visual proximity of the sacred and the everyday seems to indicate cohesion in the social and natural landscape. The preliminary petrological analysis of pottery from Idalion has shown, thus far, that the sacred and profane are intertwined.*
Redefining Need, Reconfiguring Expectations: The Rise Of State-Run Youth Voluntarism Programs In Russia, Julie D. Hemment
Redefining Need, Reconfiguring Expectations: The Rise Of State-Run Youth Voluntarism Programs In Russia, Julie D. Hemment
Julie D Hemment
This article investigates the restructuring of the Russian social welfare system by interrogating Putin-era state-run projects to promote youth voluntarism. Set up in the aftermath of liberalizing social welfare reform, these organizations are interesting hybrids: at the same time as they honor the Soviet past and afford symbolic prominence to Soviet era values, they simultaneously advance distinctively neoliberal technologies of self-help and self-reliance. In dialogue with recent studies in the anthropology of neoliberalism and the anthropology of postsocialism, I consider the implications of these intertwined logics. Focusing on the interpretive work undertaken by one provincial voluntary organization, I argue that …