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Threads, Twist And Fibre: Looking At Coast Salish Textiles, Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Coast Salish textiles are: remarkable for their quality; unusual in the fibres used; notable in their designs; singular in the innovative processes used to manufacture them. Salish textiles were determined by geography, shaped by trade, and influenced by colonization. That the textile tradition has survived is a reflection of the prestige they hold and the importance of the textiles in the Coast Salish culture. Relatively unknown and underappreciated, the older textiles deserve to be looked at with fresh eyes and modern methods that bring to light the outstanding abilities of the Coast Salish women in the creation of these important …

Ancient, Indigenous And Iconic Textile Motifs In Contemporary Fashion Case Study: Defining Concepts Through Textile Designs: Appropriation, Collaboration, Provenance And Identity, Kristin Scheel Lunde

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper investigates the material and visual characteristics of certain ancient and historical textile motifs with roots in Chinese and African culture, and their sudden appearance in new geographical and cultural context. Appropriated into western contemporary textile and fashion trends, this paper examines the new roles of these designs in context of foreigness, identity, and hybridity. Their consumption and reception both within and beyond their original cultures is a central theme, and it is evident that their reception in both locations, although different, exhibits some similarities. Exploring the transcultural consumption and reception that occurs in various cultural locations this paper …

News Literacy, Sissel W. Mccarthy

Open Educational Resources

"The digital age has created the need for a new kind of literacy-a literacy that empowers news consumers to determine whether information is credible, reliable and truthful. This is not just a skill; it is a new core competency for the 21st century. So-called “fake news” is hard to spot and spreads easily, leading to disagreements over basic facts. The antidote to the growing challenges posed by this digital revolution is news literacy. This mini news literacy course includes two three-hour sessions that will teach anyone to become a more critical consumer of news. "

The News Literacy course package …

How To Develop Film, Patterson Beckwith

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

The United States: From Its Origins To 1877, Alexander P. Gambaccini

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Art 1011 (Art History Survey I), Janine Defeo

Open Educational Resources

This introductory course presents a global view of art history through slide lectures and museum visits, with an emphasis on works of art found in New York City museums. It selectively surveys the visual arts of Europe from prehistory through the Middle Ages and concurrent historical periods in Egypt, the Near East, the Islamic world, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Phi 1600 (Logic And Moral Reasoning), Gerrit Jan Kamperdyk

Open Educational Resources

This course examines the principles of clear and accurate thought, including sound and valid arguments and methods of scientific reasoning in moral and political argument.

Copyright For Creators: Bridging Law And Practice, Carla-Mae Crookendale, Hillary Miller, Sue Robinson

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

Everyone is a publisher, a maker, or a creator in the digital age, and understanding copyright is a foundational skill. Artists, designers, and arts scholars need acute awareness of the legal landscape and fair use. To help meet this need, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries, in concert with the VCU School of the Arts, created a series of programs on the nuances of copyright for artists, designers, and art scholars.

Nd’Awakananawal Babijigwezijik Wd’Elasawawôganôl: “We Wear The Clothing Of Our Ancestors”, Vera Longtoe Sheehan

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

When thinking of Native American people, a typical image is of tanned people with long dark hair wearing leather and furs in the distant past, but that is not an accurate depiction of the Abenaki people or their textiles. As an Abenaki scholar, artist, and educator, my research into the textile traditions of the Abenaki people includes archaeological evidence, primary resources, and oral history interviews. Abenakis themselves have different ideas of what it traditional because textile and fiber arts evolved over many millennia throughout N’dakinna, the Abenaki homeland which once encompassed Vermont, New Hampshire, northern Massachusetts, and parts of New …

Manipulating The Threads Of Culture: Contemporary Shibori Artist Yvonne Wakabayashi, Eileen Wheeler

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Deeply anchored in her practice of shaping and manipulating fibre are both the aesthetic integral to Yvonne Wakabayashi’s Japanese heritage and the inspiration of the natural environment she finds along the shores of her own birth place, Canada’s west coast. Wakabayashi’s journey to find her authentic voice in her varied textile works, engaged both historical craft practices of Japan and printmaking processes of the West. Most importantly, it led to the discovery of shibori with its ancestral links and innovative contemporary possibilities. This paper explores how an individual artist embraces her artistic cultural identity that also negotiates the upheaval wrought …

Mcnair Scholars Research Journal 2018, Ryne Dingler, Efret M. Ghirmazion, Paola M. Iracheta, Regan Kubicek, Henry Alvarez, Jazmyn Barajas-Trujillo, Julian Beatty, Enriqueta Calderon, Silvia Chapa, Dominic French, Octavio Miranda, Mariah Ochoa, Susana Pimentel, Elida E. Sorto-Ramos, Andrew Soto-Levins

McNair Scholars Research Journal-Archive

No abstract provided.

Litmag 2017-18, University Of Missouri-St. Louis, Kathryne Johanna Watt

Litmag

The mission of the journal is to nurture the creativity of the students, staff, and alumni by increasing awareness of the vigorous literary talent on UMSL’s campus. We aim to produce a professional, high-quality publication that gives budding writers and artists a venue to display their work and experience the exciting world of publishing. The journal is offered to the campus and local community free of charge, a service we are committed to maintaining.

Mark’S Young Man And Homer’S Elpenor: Mark 14:51-52, 16:1-8 And Odyssey 10-12, Sungchan Moon

CGU Theses & Dissertations

Mark obviously says that all of the disciples of Jesus desert him and flee (Mark 14:50). Mark, however, introduces a young man as a new character who was following Jesus like other disciples and fled naked before Jesus’s suffering. This young man is the most enigmatic character in Mark. In particular, the young man never appears in other Gospels. For this reason, the young man’s identity and his conduct has been a topic of longstanding dispute among scholars.

Some regard him as historical figures, one of Jesus’ own disciples like John the son of Zebedee, James the Lord’s brother, or …

Urban Information Specialists And Interpreters: An Emerging Radical Vision Of Reference For The People, 1967–1973, Haruko Yamauchi

Publications and Research

In the post-War on Poverty years, certain quarters of the U.S. library profession expressed a growing desire to enable librarians to beome more relevant and responsive to low-income, primarily African American, urban communities. This article traces how ideas and trends shifted within library discourse over roughly a decade starting in the mid-1960s, and offers an overview of the urban librarian training programs that emerged in the early 1970s. The latter half of the article, based on archives of internal and external correspondence, funder reports, and other primary documents, examines in greater detail the case of three related projects that were …

การออกแบบระบบอัตลักษณ์สำหรับการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรมด้านอาหาร, กฤตวิทย์ กฤตมโนรถ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ 1) เพื่อหาอาหารที่แสดงถึงอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมของ 4 ภูมิภาค ได้แก่ อาหารภาคเหนือ อาหารภาคกลาง อาหารภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ และอาหารภาคใต้ 2) เพื่อหาสัญลักษณ์ ตัวอักษร อารมณ์และสี ที่เหมาะสมกับอัตลักษณ์อาหาร 4 ภูมิภาค 3) เพื่อหาสัญลักษณ์ ตัวอักษร อารมณ์และสี ที่เหมาะสมกับอัตลักษณ์อาหารไทย ขั้นตอนและวิธีการวิจัย เก็บข้อมูลจากหนังสือ และบทความต่าง ๆ เพื่อสร้างแบบสอบถามสำหรับคนท้องถิ่น 200 ท่านและผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านอาหาร 3 ท่านด้วยเทคนิคเดลฟาย เพื่อให้ได้คำตอบตามวัตถุประสงค์ข้อ 1 แบบสอบถามได้ผ่านการตรวจสอบความเที่ยงตรงเชิงเนื้อหา มีค่าดัชนีความเที่ยงที่ 0.9921 หลังจากนั้นสร้างแบบสอบถามสำหรับผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านเรขศิลป์ 34 ท่านด้วยเทคนิคเดลฟาย เพื่อให้ได้คำตอบตามวัตถุประสงค์ข้อ 2 และ 3 แบบสอบถามได้ผ่านการตรวจสอบความเที่ยงตรงเชิงเนื้อหา มีค่าดัชนีความเที่ยงที่ 1.0000 ผลการวิจัยพบว่า อาหารที่แสดงถึงอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมของภาคเหนือ ได้แก่ แกงฮังเล น้ำพริกอ่อง ไส้อั่ว ขนมจีนน้ำเงี้ยว ข้าวซอย น้ำพริกหนุ่ม อาหารที่แสดงถึงอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมของของภาคกลาง ได้แก่ แกงเขียวหวาน ต้มยำกุ้ง ห่อหมกปลา แกงเผ็ด พะแนง แกงส้ม อาหารที่แสดงถึงอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมของของภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ ได้แก่ ไส้กรอกอีสาน ส้มตำ ลาบ น้ำพริกปลาร้า ปลาร้าบอง อาหารที่แสดงถึงอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมของของภาคใต้ ได้แก่ แกงไตปลา ข้าวยำ แกงเหลือง คั่วกลิ้ง ปลาทอดขมิ้น บูดูทรงเครื่อง ไก่กอ ผัดสะตอ การออกแบบระบบอัตลักษณ์ที่เหมาะสมกับอัตลักษณ์อาหารภาคเหนือ สัญลักษณ์ ได้แก่ 1. แบบสมมาตรหลายแกน 2. แบบเปิด 3. แบบเส้นโค้ง 4. แบบไม่มีเส้นขวาง ตัวอักษรไทย ได้แก่ Handwriting และ Crossover ตัวอักษรอังกฤษ ได้แก่ Humanist และ …

Folklore Museums And Their Roles In Displaying And Preserving Communal Cultural Heritage : The Case Studies Of Yaowarat Chinatown Heritage Center, Bang Lamphu Museum And Bangkokian Museum, Xie Xiaoran

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Communal cultural heritage as the embodiment of cultural diversity of the nation, plays more significant roles in the contemporary context. Adopted from the definitions of tangible and intangible heritages and their displaying in communities, the idea of preserving communal cultural heritage has extended its instruments to various fields and different forms. Among them, local folklore museum plays irreplaceable roles in the displaying and maintaining the cultural identity of the local community. In this research, three folklore museums in Bangkok, Thailand are chosen as study cases to examine the roles that folklore museum plays in the process of displaying and preserving …

Re-Creation Of Tribals: Debt, Bonded Slavery And Bonded Prostitution In Mahasweta Devi's Imaginary Maps, Kittiphong Praphan

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Bonded labor or bonded slavery and bonded prostitution in India is a legacy left by British colonialism. Under this system, a person has to fall into servitude to whomever he or she has loaned money from with no means of repaying that debt. Mahasweta Devi has raised this social phenomenon in her writing, demonstrating that tribal people are those who have been victimized by this system. This study explores the issue of bonded slavery and bonded prostitution by analyzing two stories from Devi's Imaginary Maps. This literary work depicts the plight of tribal communities as a result of the exploitation …

Vampires And Sexual Degeneration In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nathamon Sunthikhunakorn

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

In the late-nineteenth century, Victorian people lived their lives in fear and anxiety caused by the negative consequences of the Industrial Revolution and uncertainty about their future. The concept of degeneration invented by influential nineteenth-century European scientists was used to explain the causes and effects of these pessimistic outcomes. It terrified Victorian people because it proposed the idea that the Caucasian race would be physically degraded and would, unavoidably, face extinction because later generations would become morally and culturally corrupted. This concept is reflected in the analysis of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) in the form of sexual degeneration in the …

Urban Morphological Transformation Of Riverfront Communities In The Nakhon Chaisri Basin, Thailand, Pornchai Jittiwasurat, Tapanee Rattanathavorn

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

The main objectives of this study were to analyze the urban morphological transformation of riverfront communities in agricultural areas in the Nakhon Chaisri river basin based on a spatial configuration model following the Theory of Urban Morphology and to compare their transformations from the past to present. The theory of urban morphology was used to create a pattern of transportation networks and open spaces on geographical maps; moreover, a field survey, interviews and a review of related literature were included. According to the analysis, the basin has undergone three noticeable phases of development as follows: 1) plantation-rice field-orchard areas encompassing …

Book Review (Hanns Zischler. 2017. Kafka Geht Ins Kino / Kafka Va Au Cinema / Kafka Goes To The Movies. 4-Disc Dvd Set. (Language: German, English, Czech, French, Italian, Russian, Hebrew. Subtitles: German, French, English. Region Code: All Regions, Joachim Warmbold

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

No abstract provided.

Language Shift And Identity: Exploring Factors Which Condition Identity When A Traditional Language Is Lost, David M. Eberhardt

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

The loss of a minority group's language may or may not be accompanied by the loss of the same group's identity. This study explores the factors that appear to condition identity choices among minority communities. A number of language communities in advanced stages of language shift are chosen as case studies. Based on these case studies, a framework is proposed that organizes the factors involved in group identity choices into either language internal or language ecology factors, each with their own set of relevant characteristics. The benefit of this new approach over previous explanations is its ability to describe identity …

There’S Nowhere To Hide: Artificial Intelligence And Privacy In The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Sarah Denton, Eleonore Pauwels, Yujia He, Walter G. Johnson

Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce Faculty Publications

At its core, artificial intelligence (AI) optimizes data. Machine-learning algorithms, one component of AI, are trained using massive datasets curated by humans to predict various aspects of our daily lives. Such predictive intelligence could be a positive force amplified by continued decentralization of the technology. Or, ubiquitous cognition and surveillance could be a disruptive force amplified by the unregulated proliferation of AI technologies. Yet, though we will certainly see more and more AI systems being integrated into every facet of our infrastructures, homes, and bodies, the proliferation of AI technology isn’t the problem. A privacy-security quagmire arises from the interconnectivity …

Life Sucks: Classifying Transgressive Fiction, Jena Christianson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the genre of transgressive fiction and locates my own creative work within this genre. Los Angeles Times writer Michael Silverblatt popularized the term transgressive fiction in 1993 and associates authors such as Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, Roland Barthes, Bret Easton Ellis, Michel Foucault, William Gass, Jean Genet, and William Burroughs with the genre; however, the definition of transgressive fiction remains elusive. Therefore, in my first chapter, I analyze three transgressive novels—Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, and Tony Tullamuthe’s Private Citizens. My second chapter consists of selections from my creative work, a transgressive novel …

Finding Home In Memory: Stories Of Immigration, Diaspora And Dis/Location, Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Promises And Practicalities Inherent In The Palestinian Mandate, Rob Rogers

History: Graduate Seminar Papers (Archived)

A Seminar Paper submitted to the Faculty of the School of Graduate Studies at Georgia Southern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree Master of Arts in History

Sillage, Brooke Alexander

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The blurry, the dark, shadoplaces hidden and dwelling amongst the certainty steal my attention. Such places can communicate a vast sense of both time and setting, can convey that which is both occurring and that which is past. I do not think those spaces can be explicitly defined. They are reflections and explorations of the figures’ minds, providing a place for both their physical bodies and their thoughts to live. The paintings that compose Sillage communicate a space that requires engagement and that is not readily understood. The painted area changes as it invites and rejects visual entry. These ambiguous …

Un/Veiling, Marisa Andropolis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

David Freedberg wrote in The Power of Images that the purpose of painting portraits was to show the living reality of the sitter by representing subjects in a way they wanted to be seen or remembered. The body of work Un/Veiling challenges that idea by representing both the subject’s staged persona (their “ideal”) alongside their hidden, inner realities. To begin, I referenced photographs of myself as a vehicle to create personas that convey ideas about the fluidity of identity that I then painted using traditional processes (layered oil painting technique to imitate a studied naturalism) on less-traditional, multi-faceted canvases. Un/Veiling …

The Use And Effectiveness Of Warm-Downs By Brass Students From The University Of Mississippi And Band Directors From Mississippi, David Matthew Cuevas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Although many instrumental directors recognize the importance of warm-downs for their brass players, actual research surrounding the topic is practically non-existent. This study was started with the purpose of determining the effectiveness and use of warm-downs in the state of Mississippi. Twenty brass players from The University of Mississippi were surveyed over the course of four weeks; at the end of each week the subjects would report the amount of pain they experienced while playing. In addition, band directors from various parts of Mississippi where surveyed on how they implemented warm-downs. The study found that there was a direct correlation …

Cantonment Belle Fontaine 1805-1826 The First U.S. Fort West Of The Mississippi River, David L. Browman

Books and Monographs

A brief summary extrapolated from various unpublished archaeological and archival reports detailing the results of five seasons of test excavations from 1992 to 1997 at this National Register of Historic Places property. Some sections, as indicated, may include information from research report analysis data by former Washington University students Jennifer Bonarek, Rachel Boyarsky, Marco Brewer, Tiffany Bruckert, Ellen Chapman, Myla Coffie, Laura Downing, Jennifer Fee, Kelly Gelpi, Rui Guan, Ronald Hampton, Joe Harl, Emily Hollinger, Mary Holst, Lauren Hosek. Lauren Hunter, Alexandra Jensen, Bobby Kahlon, Stephanie Kain, Ian Kalish, Sarah Keast, Meghan Kenny, Joanna Kovalski, Catherine Koziol, Amy Kramer, Aimee …

A Review Of Conceding Composition: A Crooked History Of Composition's Institutional Fortunes, Andrew Hollinger

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

Compositionists (a community in which I include myself) often work with a chip on our shoulders. Perhaps we find the chip during grad school or when we are asked to teach an overload or when a literature professor’s summer course does not make and they demand a section of first year writing instead or because so many of us remain contingent faculty. Whenever and however the chip appeared, many of us have felt or discussed its presence: we, and our courses, are the misunderstood and much maligned. In fact, this is “the field’s conventional historical narrative, [that] composition is marginalized …