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Cohort Description Of The Madagascar Health And Environmental Research–Antongil (Mahery–Antongil) Study In Madagascar, Christopher D. Golden, Cortni Borgerson, Benjamin L. Rice, Lindsay H. Allen, Evelin Jean Gasta Anjaranirina, Christopher B. Barrett, Godfred Boateng, Jessica A. Gephart, Daniela Hampel, Daniel L. Hartl, Erwin Knippenberg, Samuel S. Myers, Dera H. Ralalason, Herlyne Ramihantaniarivo, Hervet Randriamady, Setareh Shahab-Ferdows, Bapu Vaitla, Sarah K. Volkman, Miadana Arisoa Vonona
Cohort Description Of The Madagascar Health And Environmental Research–Antongil (Mahery–Antongil) Study In Madagascar, Christopher D. Golden, Cortni Borgerson, Benjamin L. Rice, Lindsay H. Allen, Evelin Jean Gasta Anjaranirina, Christopher B. Barrett, Godfred Boateng, Jessica A. Gephart, Daniela Hampel, Daniel L. Hartl, Erwin Knippenberg, Samuel S. Myers, Dera H. Ralalason, Herlyne Ramihantaniarivo, Hervet Randriamady, Setareh Shahab-Ferdows, Bapu Vaitla, Sarah K. Volkman, Miadana Arisoa Vonona
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The Madagascar Health and Environmental Research-Antongil (MAHERY-Antongil) study cohort was set up in September 2015 to assess the nutritional value of seafood for the coastal Malagasy population living along Antongil Bay in northeastern Madagascar. Over 28 months of surveillance, we aimed to understand the relationships among different marine resource governance models, local people’s fish catch, the consumption of seafood, and nutritional status. In the Antongil Bay, fisheries governance takes three general forms: traditional management, marine national parks, and co-management. Traditional management involves little to no involvement by the national government or non-governmental organizations, and focuses on culturally accepted Malagasy community …
Assemblages, Routines, And Social Justice Research In Community Archaeology, Christopher Matthews
Assemblages, Routines, And Social Justice Research In Community Archaeology, Christopher Matthews
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Archaeologists often perceive community archaeology as an inclusive space where the presence of multiple voices drawn into this space through a shared interest in recovering and understanding the past broadens the discourse of archaeology and related heritage. While this work provides access for diverse stakeholders, certain routines seem embedded that limit the potential for community archaeology to produce something new. I suggest that rethinking the point of engagement, by shifting it from stakeholders to the discursive assemblages that cohere as stakeholders come together, allows for a deeper ethnographic reading of the engaging communities and the possibility that they will learn …
Confusion And Frustration As Catalysts For Change: ‘Rich Points’ In Multicultural Education, Maisa Taha
Confusion And Frustration As Catalysts For Change: ‘Rich Points’ In Multicultural Education, Maisa Taha
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Despite compelling need for transformational approaches to multiculturalism, the measures in place at many schools may be works in progress. Based on twelve months of fieldwork at the secondary-school level in El Ejido, Spain, and longitudinal interviews with key participants, this article examines conflicting articulations of race, racism, and civility shaping interactions in state mandated intercultural education courses. Interweaving analysis of in-class exchanges with attention to textual/audiovisual inputs and socio-historical contexts, this article employs a discourse-centred approach to untangle the tensions shaping local interpretations of race and racism, based particularly on the experiences of marginalised Moroccan immigrant youth. Drawing on …
Public Space, Legitimacy And Democracy, Julian Brash
Public Space, Legitimacy And Democracy, Julian Brash
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
Population Viability And Harvest Sustainability For Madagascar Lemurs, Cara E. Brook, James P. Herrera, Cortni Borgerson, Emma C. Fuller, Pascal Andriamahazoarivosoa, B. J.Rodolph Rasolofoniaina, J. L.Rado Ravoavy Randrianasolo, Z. R.Eli Rakotondrafarasata, Hervet J. Randriamady, Andrew P. Dobson, Christopher D. Golden
Population Viability And Harvest Sustainability For Madagascar Lemurs, Cara E. Brook, James P. Herrera, Cortni Borgerson, Emma C. Fuller, Pascal Andriamahazoarivosoa, B. J.Rodolph Rasolofoniaina, J. L.Rado Ravoavy Randrianasolo, Z. R.Eli Rakotondrafarasata, Hervet J. Randriamady, Andrew P. Dobson, Christopher D. Golden
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Subsistence hunting presents a conservation challenge by which biodiversity preservation must be balanced with safeguarding of human livelihoods. Globally, subsistence hunting threatens primate populations, including Madagascar's endemic lemurs. We used population viability analysis to assess the sustainability of lemur hunting in Makira Natural Park, Madagascar. We identified trends in seasonal hunting of 11 Makira lemur species from household interview data, estimated local lemur densities in populations adjacent to focal villages via transect surveys, and quantified extinction vulnerability for these populations based on species-specific demographic parameters and empirically derived hunting rates. We compared stage-based Lefkovitch with periodic Leslie matrices to evaluate …
Estimating The Population Size Of Lemurs Based On Their Mutualistic Food Trees, James P. Herrera, Cortni Borgerson, Lydia Tongasoa, Pascal Andriamahazoarivosoa, B. J.Rodolph Rasolofoniaina, Eli R. Rakotondrafarasata, J. L.Rado Ravoavy Randrianasolo, Steig E. Johnson, Patricia C. Wright, Christopher D. Golden
Estimating The Population Size Of Lemurs Based On Their Mutualistic Food Trees, James P. Herrera, Cortni Borgerson, Lydia Tongasoa, Pascal Andriamahazoarivosoa, B. J.Rodolph Rasolofoniaina, Eli R. Rakotondrafarasata, J. L.Rado Ravoavy Randrianasolo, Steig E. Johnson, Patricia C. Wright, Christopher D. Golden
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Aim: Species’ distributions and abundances are primarily determined by the suitability of environmental conditions, including climate and interactions with sympatric species, but also increasingly by human activities. Modelling tools can help in assessing the extinction risk of affected species. By combining species distribution modelling of abiotic and biotic niches with population size modelling, we estimated the abundance of 19 lemur taxa in three regions, especially focusing on 10 species that are considered Endangered or Critically Endangered. Location: Madagascar. Taxa: Lemurs (Primates) and angiosperm trees. Methods: We used climate data, field samples, and published occurrence data on trees to construct species …
Created Communities: Segregation And The History Of Plural Sites On Eastern Long Island, New York, Christopher Matthews, Allison Manfra Mcgovern
Created Communities: Segregation And The History Of Plural Sites On Eastern Long Island, New York, Christopher Matthews, Allison Manfra Mcgovern
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The making of communities is often treated as a quasi-natural process in which people of similar backgrounds and heritage, or people living in close proximity, form meaningful and mutual ties. Missing here is an appreciation of the ties that bind people to others, that are often beyond their own control. Especially in contexts of inequality, communities form because of shared interests in perpetuating, dismantling, or simply surviving the structures of an unequal distribution of resources. This article investigates the formation of communities of color on eastern Long Island since the 18th century by looking at intersections between race and settlement …
Plantation Soilscapes: Initial And Cumulative Impacts Of Colonial Agriculture In Antigua, West Indies, E. Christian Wells, Suzanna M. Pratt, Georgia L. Fox, Peter Siegel, Nicholas P. Dunning, A. Reginald Murphy
Plantation Soilscapes: Initial And Cumulative Impacts Of Colonial Agriculture In Antigua, West Indies, E. Christian Wells, Suzanna M. Pratt, Georgia L. Fox, Peter Siegel, Nicholas P. Dunning, A. Reginald Murphy
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This paper examines physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils and sediments from landforms in eastern Antigua, West Indies, to better understand the long-term consequences of colonial plantation agriculture for soil health. Plantation farming played a central role in the history of Caribbean societies, economies, and environments since the seventeenth century. In Antigua, the entire island was variably dedicated to agricultural pursuits (mostly sugarcane monoculture) from the mid-1600s until independence from the United Kingdom in 1981, when most commercial cultivation ceased. Today’s soilscapes are highly degraded, although it is unknown what the role of the island’s plantation legacy has played …
Environmental Remediation And Its Discontents: The Contested Cleanup Of Vieques, Puerto Rico, Katherine Mccaffrey
Environmental Remediation And Its Discontents: The Contested Cleanup Of Vieques, Puerto Rico, Katherine Mccaffrey
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Since protest forced the US Navy off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico in 2003, the US military has embarked on one of the largest environmental remediation projects it has ever undertaken. This article explores the way a narrowly conceived, technocratic cleanup process is translated onto an island with a deep history of grassroots mobilization and antagonism towards federal authority. The Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) is a crucible for considering the uneasy dynamics of cleanup. US law enshrines the RAB as the principal venue for "public participation" in the cleanup process. However, the prevailing technocratic framework, constrained by under-resourced bureaucratic agencies, clashes …
Shadow Subjects: A Category Of Analysis For Empathic Stancetaking, Maisa Taha
Shadow Subjects: A Category Of Analysis For Empathic Stancetaking, Maisa Taha
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This article analyzes conversational and material data collected during 12 months of fieldwork at a secondary school in southeast Spain. I focus on the cultivation of stance positions—particularly around gender equality—involving “shadow subjects”: imagined discursive figures that both prompt and constrain empathy for others whose rights have been violated. Within this multicultural context, Moroccan immigrant youth get positioned as defenders of outdated patriarchal mores. I argue that the semiotic burdening and elaboration of stance on behalf of shadow subjects makes this possible and points to inherent biases in operationalizing “universal” egalitarian values among ideologically and experientially diverse communities.
Creating A User-Friendly Interactive Interpretive Resource With Esri’S Arcgis Story Map Program, Alexis Alemy, Sophia Hudzik, Christopher Matthews
Creating A User-Friendly Interactive Interpretive Resource With Esri’S Arcgis Story Map Program, Alexis Alemy, Sophia Hudzik, Christopher Matthews
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The introduction of new technologies to archaeology brings opportunities for making archaeological work more accessible to the public. The ESRI ArcGIS platform has facilitated this effort and offers exciting ways to do this, including the ESRI Story Map program. Part of the cloud-based ArcGIS Online platform, the Story Map application allows for the integration of narratives, images, and maps in a user-friendly format. A collaborative effort led by Montclair State University has applied this technology to Dr. Christopher Matthews’s work with Higher Ground Intercultural and Heritage Association in Setauket, New York, to counter the dominant historical narrative of the town …
A Counter-Archaeology Of Labor And Leisure In Setauket, New York, Bradley D. Phillippi, Christopher Matthews
A Counter-Archaeology Of Labor And Leisure In Setauket, New York, Bradley D. Phillippi, Christopher Matthews
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Setauket, New York, a small village on Long Island, has a historical narrative connecting it to the fabric of colonial and early America. Historic sites and structures in Setauket provide the setting for this narrative and support its tourist industry. Additionally, an important minority community comprised of the descendants of colonized Native Americans and enslaved Africans has concrete connections to Setauket’s past. Despite their documented and physical presence, Native Americans and African Americans have been almost entirely left out of local history. The descendant community actively countered their historical marginalization by collaborating with archaeologists to recover aspects of their heritage …
Optimizing Conservation Policy: The Importance Of Seasonal Variation In Hunting And Meat Consumption On The Masoala Peninsula Of Madagascar, Cortni Borgerson
Optimizing Conservation Policy: The Importance Of Seasonal Variation In Hunting And Meat Consumption On The Masoala Peninsula Of Madagascar, Cortni Borgerson
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Studying seasonal hunting patterns can be critical for developing sound actions for conservation and public health. As availability of funds to implement conservation policy is limited, it is essential to focus efforts during the most critical times of year. During July 2011-June 2012 I recorded direct observations of hunting of forest mammals, and conducted daily 24-hour recall surveys (2 weeks per month over 11 months: August 2011-June 2012), and interviews of all households in a focal village on the Masoala Peninsula of Madagascar to investigate (1) what drives seasonal hunting patterns and (2) how seasonal variation in consumption of wildlife …
Who Hunts Lemurs And Why They Hunt Them, Cortni Borgerson, Margaret A. Mckean, Michael R. Sutherland, Laurie R. Godfrey
Who Hunts Lemurs And Why They Hunt Them, Cortni Borgerson, Margaret A. Mckean, Michael R. Sutherland, Laurie R. Godfrey
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The main threats to lemurs are habitat loss and hunting. Conservation policies often assume that people will decrease lemur hunting if they understand government prohibitions on hunting, are educated and/or involved in ecotourism, have access to affordable meat, and/or are healthy and financially secure. Yet these assumptions are often not well tested where conservation policies are implemented. We interviewed every member of a focal village in one of the most biodiverse places on earth, the Masoala peninsula of Madagascar. The factors that best predicted the decision to hunt lemurs were poverty, poor health, and child malnutrition. Knowledge of laws, level …
Paleoenvironmental Evidence For First Human Colonization Of The Eastern Caribbean, Peter Siegel, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, Jason H. Curtis, Sushant K. Singh
Paleoenvironmental Evidence For First Human Colonization Of The Eastern Caribbean, Peter Siegel, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, Jason H. Curtis, Sushant K. Singh
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Identifying and dating first human colonization of new places is challenging, especially when group sizes were small and material traces of their occupations were ephemeral. Generating reliable reconstructions of human colonization patterns from intact archaeological sites may be difficult to impossible given post-depositional taphonomic processes and in cases of island and coastal locations the inundation of landscapes resulting from post-Pleistocene sea-level rise. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction is proving to be a more reliable method of identifying small-scale human colonization events than archaeological data alone. We demonstrate the method through a sediment-coring project across the Lesser Antilles and southern Caribbean. Paleoenvironmental data were …
Responsible Girls: The Spatialized Politics Of Feminine Success And Aspiration In A Divided Silicon Valley, Usa, Elsa M Davidson
Responsible Girls: The Spatialized Politics Of Feminine Success And Aspiration In A Divided Silicon Valley, Usa, Elsa M Davidson
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This article offers a comparative ethnographic examination of working-class Latina and middle-class white girls’ narratives of aspiration and expressions of self-cultivation in early twenty-first-century Silicon Valley, USA. I argue that such girls’ subject-making statements of aspiration and gendered practices of self-cultivation reflect their emotively charged negotiations of race and class differentiated ideals of feminine success, their experience of school and community spaces inscribed by hierarchies of race, class, and gender, and shifting political-economic circumstances. Moreover, I maintain that such statements and practices reveal girls’ engagements with an open-ended gendered dynamic of responsibilization.
The Murder Of Mapepe: Military Violence In Cold War Puerto Rico, Katherine Mccaffrey
The Murder Of Mapepe: Military Violence In Cold War Puerto Rico, Katherine Mccaffrey
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
The Effects Of Illegal Hunting And Habitat On Two Sympatric Endangered Primates, Cortni Borgerson
The Effects Of Illegal Hunting And Habitat On Two Sympatric Endangered Primates, Cortni Borgerson
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Threats to primates result from the complex relationship between ecological processes and the direct and the indirect impacts of humans. Yet we know little about the proportional impacts of hunting and changes to habitat on individual primate species. This knowledge is critical to effective conservation. I used primate surveys, habitat analysis, interviews, and one year of direct observation of hunter behavior and catch to compare the relative impacts of altered habitat and snare trapping on two sympatric lemur species: the two largest-bodied and most endangered lemurs on the Masoala peninsula of Madagascar, Varecia rubra (the red ruffed lemur; Critically Endangered) …
Dynamics Of Inclusion In Public Archaeology: An Introduction, Christopher Matthews, Carol Mcdavid, Patrice L. Jeppson
Dynamics Of Inclusion In Public Archaeology: An Introduction, Christopher Matthews, Carol Mcdavid, Patrice L. Jeppson
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
No abstract provided.
Impoverishment, Criminalization, And The Culture Of Poverty, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Christopher Matthews
Impoverishment, Criminalization, And The Culture Of Poverty, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Christopher Matthews
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This introduction summarizes major new themes raised by articles in this special issue on the archaeology of poverty and processes of impoverishment. First, definitions of poverty are discussed, progressing from simple dictionary definitions to the more complex considerations in articles analyzing the cultural construction of poverty through discourse on impoverishment as a relational process involving fluid power dynamics at the intersections of classes, races, ethnic groups, and genders. Impoverishment is a complex process involving the interaction of capitalism, patriarchy, and racism to produce structurally a set of economic, social, and political positions defined by terms with different meanings. Poverty is …
The Battle For Vieques' Future, Katherine Mccaffrey
The Battle For Vieques' Future, Katherine Mccaffrey
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This article analyzes power dynamics in Vieques, Puerto Rico in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Navy's closure of its five fire range on the island. The essay examines several aspects of Vieques' continuing struggle in a post-Navy world. It considers residents' hopes and views of different kinds of development; the ramifications of former Navy-occupied land being classified as "environmentally protected"; and finally, potential organizing principles for directing Vieques' development, looking at the challenges and opportunities facing activists. The essay considers how cultural nationalism not only offers potential building blocks for collective action and opposition to privatization, but an egalitarian …
Social Struggle Against The U.S. Navy In Vieques, Puerto Rico: Two Movements In History, Katherine Mccaffrey
Social Struggle Against The U.S. Navy In Vieques, Puerto Rico: Two Movements In History, Katherine Mccaffrey
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The grassroots struggle against the U.S. Navy in Vieques transcended highly divisive colonial politics to build unprecedented political solidarity in Puerto Rico. The success of the recent Vieques movement in shutting down a U.S. Navy live-fire training facility contrasts with the experience of an earlier grassroots struggle in the 1970s. Whereas cold-war politics impeded the earlier activists from forging the alliances and formulating the vision that might advance their cause, a changed political context in the 1990s opened up a new space for protest to develop. Activists' new focus on peace was crucial to strengthening, expanding, and internationalizing the Vieques …
Context And Interpretation: An Archaeology Of Cultural Production, Christopher Matthews
Context And Interpretation: An Archaeology Of Cultural Production, Christopher Matthews
Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This paper examines the construction of modern-world contexts in historical archaeology. To help draw out and understand the social and cultural contexts of capitalism, colonialism, and modernity, and how they may be materially understood, an explanation of the German history of everyday life school (Alltagsgeschichte) is presented. In this approach, the objects of historical study become the everyday cultural interpretations of past people and how these interpretations actively produced and reproduced cultures. This approach is illustrated by a landscape archaeology of the Bordley-Randall site in Annapolis, Maryland.