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Witches On The Wind: Weather Magic In New England Folktales, Zephyros Quinn Craven
Witches On The Wind: Weather Magic In New England Folktales, Zephyros Quinn Craven
Thinking Matters Symposium
The English language folktales collected from coastal New England in the 19th and 20th centuries display a prominence of weather magic motifs compared with folktales from other regions of the United States. This paper aims to explain the success of the weather magic theme in New England folklore collections and to serve as a starting point for scholarly discourse on the subject, which has hitherto been sparse. This study utilizes climate research, both scholarly and popular collections of folktales, local travel guides, and colonial and labor histories. Through a combination of historical analysis, comparative study, and textual analysis, …
The Rise Of An Eco-Spiritual Imaginary: Ecology And Spirituality As Decolonial Protest In Contemporary Multi-Ethnic American Literature, Andrew Michael Spencer
The Rise Of An Eco-Spiritual Imaginary: Ecology And Spirituality As Decolonial Protest In Contemporary Multi-Ethnic American Literature, Andrew Michael Spencer
English Theses and Dissertations
The Rise of an Eco-Spiritual Imaginary reveals a shared ecological aesthetic among contemporary U.S. ethnic writers whose novels communicate a decolonial spiritual reverence for the earth. This shared narrative focus challenges white settler colonial mythologies of manifest destiny and American exceptionalism to instantiate new ways of imagining community across socially constructed boundaries of time, space, nation, race, and species. The eco-spiritual imaginary—by which I mean a shared reverence for the ecological interconnection between all living beings—articulates a common biological origin and sacredness of all life that transcends racial difference while remaining grounded in local ethnicities and bioregions. The novelists representing …
Traversing Paradigms: An Environmental Journey To Body And Mind, Martin Ceja Mejia
Traversing Paradigms: An Environmental Journey To Body And Mind, Martin Ceja Mejia
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Traumatic life experiences altered the way I perceive the world. As a result, I embark on a journey to reshape my relationship to self, the built and natural world; to environment. In this thesis I ask: How do I want to relate to the environment? Considering I am a doubly colonized agent, I also aim to decolonize my relationship to environment along the process. Therefore, this work aims to formulate a new, personal, relationship to environment through academic literature, history, psychology, Indigenous knowledge and science, and literary studies, among other fields of knowledge. This work is interdisciplinary in nature; life …
Animal-Human Vocabulary Builder, Domenick Acocella, Rene Cordero
Animal-Human Vocabulary Builder, Domenick Acocella, Rene Cordero
Open Educational Resources
The assignment helps students individually build a usable, expanding vocabulary of terms and concepts, enabling each to further contribute to the ongoing, evolving written, oral, and visual conversations centered on the use of and thought about animals for food, clothing, work, entertainment, experimentation, imagery, and companionship.
Apocalypse And Eschatology In John Ford's The Grapes Of Wrath (1940), Nancy Wright
Apocalypse And Eschatology In John Ford's The Grapes Of Wrath (1940), Nancy Wright
Journal of Religion & Film
John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath (1940) visualizes conventions of the apocalypse genre to represent not simply a particular historical setting, the Great Depression, but also a vision of history to be interpreted in terms of eschatology. Expressionistic photography transforms the characters’ experiences into enigmatic visions that invite and guide interpretation. A comparison of montage sequences in Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath and Pare Lorentz’s The Plow That Broke The Plains (1936), a Farm Security Administration documentary, clarifies how Ford’s narrative film aligns spectators within and outside the mise-en-scène.
“‘The Strata Of My History’: Reading The Ecological Chronotope In Wendell Berry’S That Distant Land”, Ellen M. Bayer
“‘The Strata Of My History’: Reading The Ecological Chronotope In Wendell Berry’S That Distant Land”, Ellen M. Bayer
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
This article examines Wendell Berry’s short story collection, That Distant Land (2004) through the lens of the ecological chronotope. Berry’s characters cultivate an intimate relationship with their physical environment, and the land, in turn, inscribes their history within it. Furthermore, it is through a shared sense of responsibility to the land that the characters foster a sense of community, shared history, and timeless connection with each other. My analysis of Berry’s fiction employs the notion of the ecological chronotope as a lens for understanding the environmental implications encountered at the intersection between time and place in That Distant Land. …
History Of Archeological Investigations At Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Veronica M. Arias, Anthony S. Lyle, Rolla H. Shaller
History Of Archeological Investigations At Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Veronica M. Arias, Anthony S. Lyle, Rolla H. Shaller
Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State
Palo Duro Canyon has been an important locale for human occupation with its distinct topography, fauna, and flora from the Paleoindian inhabitants to those of the Historic Period. There is archeological evidence of human habitation at Palo Duro Canyon throughout the past 12 millennia. Native Americans who lived in and around the canyon had access to resources not easily found on the adjoining upland plains. The canyon provided an abundance of sheltered camping and year-round supply to water, wood, stone tool materials, game, and wild plant resources. The bordering uplands, covered with grass and dotted with playa lakes, afforded campsites …
Chasing The Phantom Ship: Revisiting Interpretations Of The Boca Chica No. 2 Shipwreck On The Texas Coast, Amy A. Borgens, Steven D. Hoyt
Chasing The Phantom Ship: Revisiting Interpretations Of The Boca Chica No. 2 Shipwreck On The Texas Coast, Amy A. Borgens, Steven D. Hoyt
Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State
Boca Chica Beach spans the south Texas coast in Cameron County for a distance of roughly 12 kilometers between Brazos Santiago Pass and the mouth of the Rio Grande River at the Texas and Mexican border. More than 165 historic ships have been reported lost along the south Texas coast in this general area and at least four, or portions thereof, have been discovered so far. The most well-known of the shipwreck remains is archeological site 41CF184, nicknamed Boca Chica No. 2, which has gained almost mythological status in the region as it has long been circumstantially linked to the …
Spanish Edition: Chasing The Phantom Ship: Revisiting Interpretations Of The Boca Chica No. 2 Shipwreck On The Texas Coast, Amy A. Borgens, Steven D. Hoyt
Spanish Edition: Chasing The Phantom Ship: Revisiting Interpretations Of The Boca Chica No. 2 Shipwreck On The Texas Coast, Amy A. Borgens, Steven D. Hoyt
Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State
La playa de Boca Chica se extiende aproximadamente 12 kilómetros a lo largo la costa sur de Texas, en el condado de Cameron, entre el paso de Brazos Santiago y la desembocadura del río Bravo (río Grande) en la frontera entre Texas y México. Se tienen noticias del naufragio de más de 165 barcos históricos a lo largo de la costa sur de Texas, de los cuales, al menos cuatro o parte de ellos, han sido descubiertos hasta el momento. El más conocido de estos naufragios es el pecio 41CF184, apodado Boca Chica No. 2, que ha adquirido un estatus …
“We Are A Very Happy Family”: 19th-Century Familial Power Dynamics, Stella A. Ress
“We Are A Very Happy Family”: 19th-Century Familial Power Dynamics, Stella A. Ress
Midwest Social Sciences Journal
This article examines the roles of family members in the mid-19th century in America, using the Willard family as a case study. Ultimately, this thick description of the Willard family demonstrates that power within the family structure was neither intrinsic nor static; moreover, one person did not control the family and its decisions at all times. Instead, each family member, depending upon circumstances, situations, and his or her own nature, negotiated and laid claim to power through various sources of authority. Josiah Willard’s authority stemmed from his role as father and husband; society crowned him king of the household, and …
Disasters Fast And Slow: The Temporality Of Hazards In Environmental History, Fiona Williamson, Chris Courtney
Disasters Fast And Slow: The Temporality Of Hazards In Environmental History, Fiona Williamson, Chris Courtney
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Popular representations of disasters tend to focus upon dramatic moments of chaos. They envision panicked communities desperately scrambling for safety as earthquakes reduce cities to rubble or lava turns villages to ashes. Yet disasters actually unfold on numerous temporal scales. Media reports tend to reduce disasters to discrete events, initiated on the shallow causal timescale of a meteorological fluctuation or seismic disruption. Social scientists, by contrast, have often sought to emphasise the processual nature of disasters—embedding causality in the deeper timescale of a community, in which risk and vulnerability build over months or years.2 Environmental historians elongate causality even further, …
Forgotten Soldiers: Burials On The Texas Frontier And Shifting Perceptions Of Military Interment, Anthony Schienschang Ii
Forgotten Soldiers: Burials On The Texas Frontier And Shifting Perceptions Of Military Interment, Anthony Schienschang Ii
Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State
This research examines the interrelation between civilian and military burials on the Texas frontier in the 1850s with further discussion about the drivers for changing military burial practices. A soldier’s life on the Texas frontier is briefly outlined along with some of the difficulties facing service members living in border forts. Special focus is placed on examining the socio-economic differences between officers and enlisted personnel, as well as the recording of deaths on the frontier. As a case study, the condition of the proposed location of the Fort Gates cemetery is explored and brief analysis of data gathered from the …
The Twisted Roots Of U.S. Land Policy In The West, John Freemuth
The Twisted Roots Of U.S. Land Policy In The West, John Freemuth
Public Policy and Administration Faculty Publications and Presentations
The seizure of a Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in southeastern Oregon by armed and self-styled “constitutionalists” was disturbing. To many it is viewed as a dangerous escalation in a long, admittedly heated and passionate but rarely violent, discussion of federal or public land management in the western United States.
Guide To The Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Papers, Linfield College Archives
Guide To The Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Papers, Linfield College Archives
Linfield Archives Finding Aids
This collection reflects the life work of Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds, a student and professor of Linfield College. A dedicated and scrupulous woman, the majority of the collection consists of her research, teaching materials, and correspondence. The collection also includes research and correspondence by Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds’s mentor, Dr. James A. Macnab.
Roger Bass, Roger Bass, Arthur Bednar, Charles Closmann
Roger Bass, Roger Bass, Arthur Bednar, Charles Closmann
Voices from the Stream: An Environmental History of the St. Johns River
Roger Bass, environmentalist and a founding member of the St. Johns Riverkeeper, interviewed by Arthur Bednar and Charles Closmann on November 19, 2010.
Bob And Kae Andry, Bob Andry, Kae Andry, Chris Brooks, Clayton Galloway
Bob And Kae Andry, Bob Andry, Kae Andry, Chris Brooks, Clayton Galloway
Voices from the Stream: An Environmental History of the St. Johns River
Bob and Kae Andry, co-founders of Save Rodman Reservoir, interviewed by Chris Brooks and Clayton Galloway on November 13, 2010
Robert Knight, Robert Knight, Margaret Devore
Robert Knight, Robert Knight, Margaret Devore
Voices from the Stream: An Environmental History of the St. Johns River
Robert Knight, leading expert and scientist working on protection of Florida springs and executive director of the Florida Springs Institute, interviewed by Margaret Devore on November 10, 2010.
Frankie Pacetti, E.J. Pacetti And Sandie Stratton, Frankie Pacetti, E.J. Pacetti, Sandie Stratton, Jennifer Warren, Melissa Williams
Frankie Pacetti, E.J. Pacetti And Sandie Stratton, Frankie Pacetti, E.J. Pacetti, Sandie Stratton, Jennifer Warren, Melissa Williams
Voices from the Stream: An Environmental History of the St. Johns River
Frankie Pacetti, a noted sports and commercial fisherwoman, E.J. Pacetti, an experienced commercial crabber in the region and Sandie Stratton, interviewed by Jennifer Warren and Melissa Williams on October 30, 2010.
Ron Littlepage, Ron Littlepage, Robert Mcdermott
Ron Littlepage, Ron Littlepage, Robert Mcdermott
Voices from the Stream: An Environmental History of the St. Johns River
Ron Littlepage, staff columnist at the Florida Times Union, interviewed by Robert McDermott on October 26, 2010.
Vince Seibold, Vince Seibold
Vince Seibold, Vince Seibold
Voices from the Stream: An Environmental History of the St. Johns River
Vince Seibold, division chief of the City of Jacksonville Environmental Quality Division, interviewed by Charles Cold on October 25, 2010.
Neil A. Armingeon, Neil A. Armingeon, Katie Tofano
Neil A. Armingeon, Neil A. Armingeon, Katie Tofano
Voices from the Stream: An Environmental History of the St. Johns River
Neil A. Armingeon, St. Johns Riverkeeper (at the time of the interview), interviewed by Katie Tofano on October 22, and November 18, 2010.
Francis Harper Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Francis Harper Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Finding Aids
This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Cornell-trained naturalist Dr. Francis Harper. Materials span 1904-1972 and include field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, and audiovisual materials documenting the plant and animal life as well as human ecology of the Okefenokee Swamp area of South Georgia. The photographs within Series 1 show the flora, fauna, and people of the Okefenokee swamp. The photographs were taken by the Harpers while on their trips to the swamp. Photographs are all in black and white and range in size. The Field Journals chronicle his travels in the okefenokee, Canada, and New England. Materials …
Phase Ii Historical Investigations At Justiceburg Reservoir, Garza And Kent Counties, Texas, Martha Doty Freeman, Douglas K. Boyd
Phase Ii Historical Investigations At Justiceburg Reservoir, Garza And Kent Counties, Texas, Martha Doty Freeman, Douglas K. Boyd
Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State
Phase II cultural resources investigations at the proposed Justiceburg Reservoir in Garza and Kent counties, Texas, conducted in 1988-1989 included work at four historic sites, the recording of a previously unrecorded historic site, and development of two National Register contexts. This report documents the archeological work at the sites and presents data that resulted from in-depth research concerning the history of the use and development of these sites. In addition, the report presents two historic contexts which were developed in order to provide tools for the assessment of sites within the project area and, at the same time, to present …
River Voyageurs: A Journal, Duane A. Stober
River Voyageurs: A Journal, Duane A. Stober
Local History
A Journal compiled by Duane A. Stober for a 1969 Wofford College Interim project. The project was a canoe trip on several South Carolina rivers from Pacolet to Charleston. The project studied the biology, history, and geology of the river system in addition to canoeing on the rivers. The tour took place between January 9 and 21, 1969.
Part 06 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
Part 06 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908
No abstract provided.
Part 11 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
Part 11 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908
No abstract provided.
Part 07 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
Part 07 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908
No abstract provided.
Part 10 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
Part 10 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908
No abstract provided.
Part 03 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
Part 03 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908
No abstract provided.
Part 01 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
Part 01 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir
John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908
No abstract provided.