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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Exhibiting Human Evolution: How Identity And Ideology Get Factored Into Displays At A Natural History Museum, Chanika Mitchell
Exhibiting Human Evolution: How Identity And Ideology Get Factored Into Displays At A Natural History Museum, Chanika Mitchell
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
This paper focuses on how identity and racial ideology are factored into displays in the exhibit, Fossil Fragments: The Riddle of Human Origins, at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. I used visitor questionnaires, observations, exhibition construction and curatorial interviews to examine that the concept of race is so ingrained in our society racial ideology and identity is automatically embedded in exhibits about human evolution. How may the exhibition inform the visitors’ perception of race and human evolution? A key aspect investigated was if the curatorial staff was conscious or unconscious about the racial ideological information present in the …
Bolivia's Coca Headache: The Agroyungas Program, Inflation, Campesinos, Coca And Capitalism In Bolivia, John D. Roberts
Bolivia's Coca Headache: The Agroyungas Program, Inflation, Campesinos, Coca And Capitalism In Bolivia, John D. Roberts
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Bolivia in the 1980s was wracked by monetary inflation approaching levels of the German Weimar Republic. Immediately following this time of great financial crisis in Bolivia, the U.N. founded a project through the U.N.D.P. to encourage peasant farmers in Bolivia to switch from growing coca (the plant used manufacture cocaine) to growing other cash crops for market. This crop substitution and development program, called the Agroyungas Project, lasted from 1985 to 1991 and is the focus of this study. While many U.N. pundits and journalists considered the program’s initial small successes promising, it has been considered since its conclusion to …
After Abolition: Britain And The Slave Trade Since 1807, Marika Sherwood, Christian Hogsbjerg
After Abolition: Britain And The Slave Trade Since 1807, Marika Sherwood, Christian Hogsbjerg
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Archaeology, Language, And The African Past, Roger Blench
Archaeology, Language, And The African Past, Roger Blench
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
No abstract provided.
On The Transportation Of Material Goods By Enslaved Africans During The Middle Passage: Preliminary Findings From Documentary Sources, Jerome S. Handler
On The Transportation Of Material Goods By Enslaved Africans During The Middle Passage: Preliminary Findings From Documentary Sources, Jerome S. Handler
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Gender And Resistance At North Bend Plantation: The Beginnings Of An Interdisciplinary Study Of An Enslaved Community, Kelley Deetz
Gender And Resistance At North Bend Plantation: The Beginnings Of An Interdisciplinary Study Of An Enslaved Community, Kelley Deetz
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Writing African History, Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Writing African History, Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Digging City's History: Finds Show A Black Middle Class Had Once Thrived On Beacon Hill, Jenna Russell
Digging City's History: Finds Show A Black Middle Class Had Once Thrived On Beacon Hill, Jenna Russell
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Online Exhibition By The Museum Of African Diaspora, Modou Dieng, Lauren Woods
Online Exhibition By The Museum Of African Diaspora, Modou Dieng, Lauren Woods
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
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Review Of "Foul Means: The Formation Of A Slave Society In Virginia", Michelle Lemaster
Review Of "Foul Means: The Formation Of A Slave Society In Virginia", Michelle Lemaster
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Free Frank Leaves Descendants A Legacy Of Freedom, Deborah Gertz Husar
Free Frank Leaves Descendants A Legacy Of Freedom, Deborah Gertz Husar
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
No abstract provided.
African-American History Museum Opens Doors, Margaret Horton Edsall
African-American History Museum Opens Doors, Margaret Horton Edsall
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Blacks Pin Hope On Dna To Fill Slavery's Gaps In Family Trees, Amy Harmon
Blacks Pin Hope On Dna To Fill Slavery's Gaps In Family Trees, Amy Harmon
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Pan-African History: Political Figures From Africa And The Diaspora Since 1787, Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood, Robert Trent Vinson
Pan-African History: Political Figures From Africa And The Diaspora Since 1787, Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood, Robert Trent Vinson
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
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The Good Empire: Japan's New Order At Home And Abroad, Stephen E. Pelz
The Good Empire: Japan's New Order At Home And Abroad, Stephen E. Pelz
Asian Language & Literature Occasional Papers
PREFATORY NOTE
The Area Studies Programs within the International Programs Office of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst initiated in 1976 a series of Occasional papers to provide an outlet for both informal and formal scholarly works of a generci interest to the University community. In 1978 the first numbers in this series devoted to issues and themes related to Asia were introduced under the sponsorship of the Asian Studies Committee at the University. The initial three papers deal with topics in Japan, China and Laos. In future papers topics will be presented which encompass the major regions of Asia; …