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The Phonetics Of Moraic Alignment In Yoloxóchitl Mixtec, Christian Dicanio, Jonathan Amith, Rey Castillo Garcia
The Phonetics Of Moraic Alignment In Yoloxóchitl Mixtec, Christian Dicanio, Jonathan Amith, Rey Castillo Garcia
Anthropology Faculty Publications
This talk highlights recent research on the phonetics of tonal alignment in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (YM). This language is notable for its large tonal inventory, where 20 tonal melodies contrast on monosyllabic words. The language’s phonological structure strongly supports the alignment of tonal targets to moras, resulting in contrastive contour types even within a single syllable, e.g. /1.3/ vs. /13.3/. Patterns of phonetic tonal alignment were investigated. The alignment of non-glottalized tonal targets was examined with original field data collected by the authors from 10 speakers. Words varied by word type (monosyllabic, disyllabic) and tone. Both the phonological patterning of tone …
Returning Urbanite, Matthew H. Amster
Returning Urbanite, Matthew H. Amster
Anthropology Faculty Publications
Christian is not a typical returning urban-rural migrant. Unlike most men who come back to the Kelabit Highlands after living in town, he did not return having struggled to make a decent living, nor did he return expecting to get married and start a family. Christian had already done both, leaving behind a good job and returning with his wife and children. What he did not anticipate is how out of place and misunderstood he would be once back home. [excerpt]
Communing With Nature, The Ancestors And The Neighbors: Ancient Ceramic Musical Instruments From Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico, Guy David Hepp, Sarah B. Barber, Arthur A. Joyce
Communing With Nature, The Ancestors And The Neighbors: Ancient Ceramic Musical Instruments From Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico, Guy David Hepp, Sarah B. Barber, Arthur A. Joyce
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The Mesoamerican Formative period (1600 BCE–CE 250) saw the establishment of sedentism, dietary transformations and the development of ceramic technologies for subsistence, artistic representation and the region’s earliest preserved musical instruments. These instruments include aerophones such as whistles, ocarinas and flutes. In this paper, we describe sixty-three ceramic aerophones from mostly Formative period contexts in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico. We situate our analysis in the broader contexts of research on music and iconography in Mesoamerican archaeology, as well as of the anthropology of sensory perception. Through a consideration of archaeological context, artifact form and technical properties, we conclude that music was …
Late Classic Maya Provisioning And Distinction In Northwestern Belize, David J. Goldstein, Jon B. Hageman
Late Classic Maya Provisioning And Distinction In Northwestern Belize, David J. Goldstein, Jon B. Hageman
Anthropology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Better A Broader Diagnosis Than A Misdiagnosis: The Study Of A Neoplastic Condition In A Male Individual Who Died In Early 20th Century (Coimbra, Portugal), Carina Marques, Ana Luisa Santos, Eugénia Cunha
Better A Broader Diagnosis Than A Misdiagnosis: The Study Of A Neoplastic Condition In A Male Individual Who Died In Early 20th Century (Coimbra, Portugal), Carina Marques, Ana Luisa Santos, Eugénia Cunha
Anthropology Faculty Publications
The paleopathological record of neoplastic conditions in the past is considered scarce. The detection of tumours in ancient populations is hindered by the quality and quantity of signs visible on the skeleton, the methodological approach, the preservation of remains, and by difficulties of differential diagnosis. The aims of this paper are to report the extensive and multiple osteolytic lesions observed in an adult male and to discuss the possible etiology of these lesions. The individual, a 71-year-old male who died in 1932, is part of the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection. Records indicate that he died of a ‘heart lesion’. The …
Qualitative Data Archiving In The Digital Age: Strategies For Data Preservation And Sharing, Lisa Cliggett
Qualitative Data Archiving In The Digital Age: Strategies For Data Preservation And Sharing, Lisa Cliggett
Anthropology Faculty Publications
Given the combination of recent mandates from funding agencies for data management plans and data sharing, and the explosion of data in digital form over the past two decades, it is time for the qualitative social science community to embrace digital archiving as an inherent component of research methodology. Archiving digital data ensures, at the least, that an individual scholar’s data is preserved and accessible to the user many decades into his or her career. Digital archiving also has the potential to preserve for the broader scholarly community, the full range of social science knowledge far beyond an individual researcher’s …
K’U’X Como Vínculo Corporal En El Cosmos, Servando Z. Hinojosa
K’U’X Como Vínculo Corporal En El Cosmos, Servando Z. Hinojosa
Anthropology Faculty Publications
Today, for the kaqchikel maya of the Guatemalan Highlands, the word k'u'x has gained great importance. Generally translated as "corazon" k'u'x has a strong sense or viral force. In the community under study, k'u'x has its expression in three significant ways: focusing on life and sensibility, as a placenta and as the creator-sustaining deity. Among its multiple aspects it shows a spiritual character interlacing with the physical dimensions of human life. The purpose of this paper is to approach co an integral understanding of k'u'x, taking in regard its position in several domains of Mayan experience. I present the fundamental …
At Home, Anthony Graesch
The Search For "Strong Medicine": Pathways To Healthcare Development In Remote Nepal Using Gis, Catherine Lee Sanders, Kimber Haddix Mckay
The Search For "Strong Medicine": Pathways To Healthcare Development In Remote Nepal Using Gis, Catherine Lee Sanders, Kimber Haddix Mckay
Anthropology Faculty Publications
Nepalese agropastoralists’ confrontations with forces of change in the last generation have altered villagers’ abilities to gain access to health services, clean water, and nutrition in Humla District, Nepal. Development efforts and Nepal’s recent armed conflict, in particular, introduced novel technologies and ideologies that a subsection of villagers have responded to in a fashion that we did not expect. In this article, based on theories about the diffusion of innovation and risk, we argue that, together, villagers and other change agents have cocreated new contexts of vulnerability in the postconflict setting of rural Nepal, as observed in remote Humla District. …
Componentes Sociais Da Migração: Experiências Da Província Sul, Zâmbia, Lisa Cliggett
Componentes Sociais Da Migração: Experiências Da Província Sul, Zâmbia, Lisa Cliggett
Anthropology Faculty Publications
As suposições comuns atribuem causas econômicas e ambientais às decisões de migração. Este trabalho revela a importância das estruturas do poder local – ao nível da comunidade e da família – para entender a migração. São examinados os processos migratórios na Província Sul da Zâmbia por meio do uso de informações coletadas de dois projetos de pesquisa qualitativa. Até recentemente, quando a seca e as doenças bovinas começaram a devastar a área, a Província Sul era conhecida por suas condições ideais para agropecuária. Até os últimos anos de 1980, os agricultores da Província Sul começaram a migrar para áreas da …
Review Of The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction And Dispossession Along The Rio Grande, Gilbert Quintero
Review Of The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction And Dispossession Along The Rio Grande, Gilbert Quintero
Anthropology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Remaking Culture And Truth: Cultural And Necro-Citizenship In The Borderlands, Miguel Diaz-Barriga
Remaking Culture And Truth: Cultural And Necro-Citizenship In The Borderlands, Miguel Diaz-Barriga
Anthropology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
White Kids: Language, Race, And Styles Of Youth Identity, Marcia Mikulak
White Kids: Language, Race, And Styles Of Youth Identity, Marcia Mikulak
Anthropology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Social Memory And Ritualized Practice In Prehispanic Honduras, Julia A. Hendon
Social Memory And Ritualized Practice In Prehispanic Honduras, Julia A. Hendon
Anthropology Faculty Publications
This paper discusses ritualized practices in domestic spaces as signs of an ongoing and dynamic engagement between the people living there and non-human material and incorporeal social actors, using archaeological evidence from the ancient town of Cerro Palenque and related sites in northwestern Honduras occupied from the 7th to 11th centuries. The paper considers the ways that figurines, pottery, and other kinds of material culture were given meaning through their involvement in these ritualized practices, the materiality of the objects themselves, and their association with human bones. These practices are situated in particular spaces and occur at particular points in …
La Lógica Curativa Maya Kaqchikel: Oración, Fármaco Y Supervivencia Cultural, Servando Z. Hinojosa
La Lógica Curativa Maya Kaqchikel: Oración, Fármaco Y Supervivencia Cultural, Servando Z. Hinojosa
Anthropology Faculty Publications
Dada la creciente presencia de recursos médicos occidentales en el altiplano guatemalteco, se observa que practicantes de la medicina tradicional maya han llegado a conocer y a manejar una importante cantidad de fármacos y otros productos de patente. Esta utilización se ha llevado a cabo dentro de un esquema terapéutico fisiológico que a la vez reconoce la frecuente apariencia de casos de males de naturaleza espiritual como son el susto, el mal de ojo y la brujería. Esta situación se vuelve más compleja puesto que el sistema nacional de salud privilegia los conceptos occidentales y urbanos de la salud y …
Mayas, Spirituality, And The Unfinished History Of Conflict In Guatemala [Los Mayas, La Espiritualidad Y La Historia Incompleta Del Conflicto En Guatemala], Servando Z. Hinojosa
Mayas, Spirituality, And The Unfinished History Of Conflict In Guatemala [Los Mayas, La Espiritualidad Y La Historia Incompleta Del Conflicto En Guatemala], Servando Z. Hinojosa
Anthropology Faculty Publications
Maya spiritual practice in Guatemala has been actively challenged by mainstream religions and by pressures originating from other institutions. Many Maya ritualists have been directly reproached by religious leaders and have been targeted by a state apparatus that associates rural Maya life with insurgency. As a result, many Maya spiritual elements have been pushed to, and kept at, the margins of society. Focusing on the past two decades, this essay reviews how Mayas nevertheless maintain an active ritual life. They do this by engaging in a close relationship with the spirit-owners of the landscape, beings upon whom humans depend for …
Land Grab Or Legal Title Transfer? Reviewing The Evidence For Land Title Fraud In 19th Century South Texas, Elmer Sierra, William R. Yaworsky, Amy Frazier
Land Grab Or Legal Title Transfer? Reviewing The Evidence For Land Title Fraud In 19th Century South Texas, Elmer Sierra, William R. Yaworsky, Amy Frazier
Anthropology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Music, Anthropology, And The Senses: Cognition For Social Change, Marcia Mikulak
Music, Anthropology, And The Senses: Cognition For Social Change, Marcia Mikulak
Anthropology Faculty Publications
Both anthropology and music embrace the method of participant observation: performance and observation of self and others. As a classical musician, I bring a musical heritage in both classical and experimental music performance, and as a cultural anthropologist my training in ethnology allows me to couple musical sensibilities with participant observation. This paper explores three venues of human expression: experimental musical improvisation, musical performance with and for street and working youth in Brazil, and anthropological fieldwork. I argue that the combination of musical expression and participant observation provide unique opportunities to share the universality of lived experiences, while augmenting complex …
The Symbolic Power Of Color: Constructions Of Race, Skin-Color, And Identity In Brazil, Marcia Mikulak
The Symbolic Power Of Color: Constructions Of Race, Skin-Color, And Identity In Brazil, Marcia Mikulak
Anthropology Faculty Publications
Some current cultural anthropologists define race as a social construct, yet explorations of the socio-historical constructions that give form and structure to racial identities perpetuating notions of “race” are rarely discussed. This study explores the theory of racial formations proposed by Michael Omi and Howard Winant as it applies to Brazil’s racial project, arguing that Brazil’s rhetoric on race and national identity during the late 19th to early 20th century culminated in a racial project ultimately known as democracia racial. As a result, I propose that Brazilian racial consciousness is symbolically pluralistic, encompassing race, social class, and social position, generating …
Anthropologists And Two Spirit People: Building Bridges And Sharing Knowledge, Sandra Faiman-Silva
Anthropologists And Two Spirit People: Building Bridges And Sharing Knowledge, Sandra Faiman-Silva
Anthropology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Steatite On The Juniata: Early Pottery At The Sunny Side Site (36bd267), Central Pennsylvania, Douglas H. Macdonald, Eric P. Scuoteguazza, David L. Cremeens
Steatite On The Juniata: Early Pottery At The Sunny Side Site (36bd267), Central Pennsylvania, Douglas H. Macdonald, Eric P. Scuoteguazza, David L. Cremeens
Anthropology Faculty Publications
Archaeological excavations recovered early steatite-tempered pottery at the Sunny Side site (36BD267), Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The Sunny Side site is on a floodplain/terrace of Yellow Creek near its confluence with the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River. A 70-cm-wide hearth was excavated along with associated Selden Island steatite-tempered pottery and lithic debris at a depth of 94 cm below ground surface in a buried Ab horizon. A hickory wood charcoal sample from the hearth was dated to 3500±100 B.P. (CAL BC 2120 - 2090 and BC 2050 - 1540). The early pottery at the Sunny Side site confirms prior work …
Late-Paleoindian Versus Early-Archaic Occupation Of Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, Douglas H. Macdonald, Richard E. Hughes, Jannifer W. Gish
Late-Paleoindian Versus Early-Archaic Occupation Of Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, Douglas H. Macdonald, Richard E. Hughes, Jannifer W. Gish
Anthropology Faculty Publications
No Abstract available for this article.
So Far, Yet Home? The Impact Of Colonization And Globalization On The Philippine Family, Kathleen Nadeau
So Far, Yet Home? The Impact Of Colonization And Globalization On The Philippine Family, Kathleen Nadeau
Anthropology Faculty Publications
This paper looks at the changing role of the Filipino family from precapitalist to present times. After exploring the issue of how the precolonial and precapitalist family changed in response to colonization, it focuses on the question of how the underlying structure of the modern family has changed as a result of the impact of global capitalism. The paper ends with a brief reflection on some of the implications of changed family relations, structures, and roles for the moral fiber of the family and economy.
Ritual Effigies And Corporeality In Kaqchikel Maya Soul Healing, Servando Z. Hinojosa
Ritual Effigies And Corporeality In Kaqchikel Maya Soul Healing, Servando Z. Hinojosa
Anthropology Faculty Publications
To treat some cases of soul-loss, Kaqchikel Mayas use ritual effigies of the sufferer. These effigies, called k’al k’u’x, are made by wrapping the sufferer’s clothing around a wooden armature. For the effigy to be a viable ritual surrogate, the ritualist must douse it with water, heat it, and strike it during a soul-calling ceremony. This handling instantiates corporeality in the effigy by kindling normative body states in it, states that must be stimulated in the sufferer’s own body for it to spiritually reintegrate. Such Maya ritual substitution practices are how Kaqchikels deploy ritual surrogation processes that hinge on …
Anthropology And Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader, Marcia Mikulak
Anthropology And Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader, Marcia Mikulak
Anthropology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Socio-Cultural Dimensions Of Cluster Vs. Single Home Photovoltaic Solar Energy Systems In Rural Nepal, Kimber Haddix Mckay
Socio-Cultural Dimensions Of Cluster Vs. Single Home Photovoltaic Solar Energy Systems In Rural Nepal, Kimber Haddix Mckay
Anthropology Faculty Publications
This paper analyzes the socio-cultural dimensions of obstacles facing solar photovoltaic projects in two villages in rural Nepal. The study was conducted in Humla District, Nepal, one of the most remote and impoverished regions of the country. There are no roads in the district, homes lack running water and villagers’ health suffers from high levels of indoor air pollution from open cooking/heating fires and the smoky torches traditionally burned for light. The introduction of solar energy is important to these villagers, as it removes one major source of indoor air pollution from homes and provides brighter light than the traditional …
Borderland Tactics: Cross-Border Marriage In The Highlands Of Borneo, Matthew H. Amster
Borderland Tactics: Cross-Border Marriage In The Highlands Of Borneo, Matthew H. Amster
Anthropology Faculty Publications
The first time I traveled to Borneo was near the end of 1989. The Berlin Wall had recently fallen and the economics of Southeast Asia were booming. The towns of Sarawak, an oil-rich state of East Malaysia, were experiencing rapid economic growth - due to both the oil company and an expanding logging industry. Rural-urban migration was draining indigenous people from the longhouses of the interior and swelling the populations of coastal towns. Traveling at that time to the Kelabit Highland - a remote interior plateau located in the northeastern corner of Sarawak along the Indonesian border - was to …
Golpes, Shock, Y El Vehículo Corporal En La Ritualidad Maya, Servando Z. Hinojosa
Golpes, Shock, Y El Vehículo Corporal En La Ritualidad Maya, Servando Z. Hinojosa
Anthropology Faculty Publications
En el panorama ritual de Mesoamérica, destacan unos elementos de alta importancia. Se observa el empleo de técnicas físicas en muchos conjuntos rituales dirigidos hacia el cambio espiritual. La aplicación de golpes y shock llama la atención porque se realiza con entidades humanas y no–humanas, pero siempre con el objetivo de despertar o activar alguna potencia. Tanto en casos de sustitutos rituales, o sea efigies, como en los de cuerpos reales, el impacto físico corre paralelo con el estímulo espiritual. El presente trabajo explora cómo la transformación espiritual depende del vehículo corporal para realizarse. Dirigiéndome a un conjunto de casos …
Impact Of Empire Expansion On Household Diet: The Inka In Northern Chile's Atacama Desert, Sheila Dorsey Vinton, Linda Perry, Karl J. Reinhard, Calogero M. Santoro, Isabel Teixeira-Santos
Impact Of Empire Expansion On Household Diet: The Inka In Northern Chile's Atacama Desert, Sheila Dorsey Vinton, Linda Perry, Karl J. Reinhard, Calogero M. Santoro, Isabel Teixeira-Santos
Anthropology Faculty Publications
The impact of expanding civilization on the health of American indigenous societies has long been studied. Most studies have focused on infections and malnutrition that occurred when less complex societies were incorporated into more complex civilizations. The details of dietary change, however, have rarely been explored. Using the analysis of starch residues recovered from coprolites, here we evaluate the dietary adaptations of indigenous farmers in northern Chile's Atacama Desert during the time that the Inka Empire incorporated these communities into their economic system. This system has been described as "complementarity" because it involves interaction and trade in goods produced at …
Review: New Approaches To Old Stones: Recent Studies Of Ground Stone Artifacts, Anthony Graesch
Review: New Approaches To Old Stones: Recent Studies Of Ground Stone Artifacts, Anthony Graesch
Anthropology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.