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Flooded: The Excesses Of Geography, Gender, And Capitalism In Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, Cynthia Dobbs

Cynthia Dobbs

No abstract provided.

Hombres, Diablos Y Animales: Exposición De Máscaras De Las Tradiciones Festivas Centroamericanas, Sylvie Duran

Sylvie E. Duran Mrs.

Exhibit project from the Cultural Association InCorpore on masks and performative traditions, cultural diversity. A version relating the topis to natural diversity was also developed. The tool "Red narrativa de la productividad cultural" was part of the conceptualization of the exhibit.

Muchos Caribes: El Caribe Mesoamericano En El Festival Internacional De Las Artes Fia 2002, Sylvie Duran

Sylvie E. Duran Mrs.

Music artistic proposal to the Costa Rica International Festival of the Arts 2002. It summarizes Cultural Association InCorpore´s research-production projects on Central American music during 1998-2001.

Chernobyl Stories And Anthropological Shock In Hungary, Krista Harper

Krista M. Harper

The Budapest Chernobyl Day commemoration generated a creative outpouring of stories about parental responsibilities, scientific knowledge, environmental risks, and public participation. I examine the stories and performances elicited by the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1996. In these “Chernobyl stories,” activists criticized scientific and state paternalism while engaging in alternative practices of citizenship. The decade between the catastrophic explosion and its commemoration coincides with the development of the Hungarian environmental movement and the transformation from state socialism. Chernobyl Day 1996 consequently became an opportunity for activists to reflect upon how the meaning of citizenship and public …

The Return Of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives On Immigration And Its Sequels In France, Germany, And The United States, Rogers Brubaker

Rogers Brubaker

This article argues that the massive differentialist turn of the last third of the twentieth century may have reached its peak, and that one can discern signs of a modest “return of assimilation”. The article presents evidence of this from the domain of public discourse in France, public policy in Germany, and scholarly research in the US. Yet what has “returned” is not the old, analytically discredited and politically disreputable “assimilationist” understanding of assimilation, but a more analytically complex and normatively defensible understanding. The article concludes by specifying the ways in which the concept of assimilation has been transformed.

Isolated And Proximate Illiteracy, Srijit Mishra

Srijit Mishra

This paper is a discussion of the externality that an illiterate person would get from being in proximity to a literate person.

Νεολιθική Μακεδονία, Kosmas Touloumis

Kosmas Touloumis

No abstract provided.

American Multiculturalism - The Position Of Jewish Americans, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

This brief essay is written at the time of the end of the American election of November 2000. From the perspective of the history Jews in the United States one of the significant aspects of this election has been that for the first time in history there has been a Jewish candidate on the ballot. Joseph Lieberman, the Senator from Connecticut, has been the candidate of the Democratic Party for Vice-President. Not only is Joseph Lieberman of Jewish background but also, more remarkably, he is a practicing Orthodox Jew. At the same time, in this very close and contested election, …

The Image Of Paul Robeson:Role Model For The Student And Athlete, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

No abstract provided.

Parental Investment And Child Health In A Yanomamö Village Suffering Short Term Food Stress, Hagen H. Edward, Raymond B. Hames, Nathan M. Craig, Matthew T. Lauer, Michael E. Price

Nathan M Craig

The 1998 El Niño significantly reduced garden productivity in the Upper Orinoco region in Venezuela. Consequently, parents were forced to allocate food carefully to their children. Nutrition data collected from village children combined with genealogical data allowed the determination of which children suffered most, and whether the patterns of food distribution accorded with predictions from parental investment theory. For boys, three social variables accounted for over 70% of the variance in subcutaneous fat after controlling for age: number of siblings, age of the mother’s youngest child, and whether the mother was the senior or junior co-wife, or was married monogamously. …

Politywide Analysis And Imperial Political Economy: The Relationship Between Valley Political Complexity And Administrative Centers In The Wari Empire Of The Central Andes, Nathan M. Craig, Justin Jennings

Nathan M Craig

This article tests a model for the political economy of the Wari Empire (AD 600–1000) of Peru. This model divides the empire into core and periphery zones. In the core, Wari political economy was organized to extract surplus agricultural production to feed the capital. In the periphery, the Wari strove to extract prestige goods. We suggest that there is a strong relationship between where the empire chose to locate its centers in the periphery and the political complexity of the local population in which the center was placed. We argue that in areas of low political organization sites should be …

Rights Of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Status Of The Family, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Is the family subject to principles of justice? In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls includes the (monogamous) family along with the market and the government as among the "basic institutions of society" to which principles of justice apply. Justice, he famously insists, is primary in politics as truth is in science: the only excuse for tolerating injustice is that no lesser injustice is possible. The point of the present paper is that Rawls doesn't actually mean this. When it comes to the family, and in particular its impact on fair equal opportunity (the first part of the the Difference …

Sucatas Do Mundo: Noções De Contaminação E De Abjeção Em Uma Instituição De Portadores De Aids, Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

No abstract provided.

Living Homeland And Speaking With The Dead: Crimean Tatars In Uzbekistan, Greta Uehling

Greta Uehling

No abstract provided.

Flood Reptiles, Serpent Temples, And The Quadripartite Universe: The Imago Mundi Of Late Postclassic Mayapán, Timothy W. Pugh

Timothy W Pugh

No abstract provided.

The Archaeological Study Of Empires And Imperialism In Prehispanic Central Mexico, Michael E. Smith, Lisa M. Montiel

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

The Aztec Empire And The Mesoamerican World System, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

Postclassic Ceramics From The Toluca Valley In U.S. Museums: The Bauer And Blake Collections, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

The Aztec World Of Gary Jennings, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

Trabalho Voluntário Vis-A-Vis A Marginalização Do Idoso: Um Paradigma De Integração Social, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.

If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem: Archaeology, Religious Commemoration, And Nationalism In A Disputed City, 1801-2001, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.

“We Are All Malcolm X!”: Negu Gorriak, Hip Hop, And The Basque Political Imaginary, Jacqueline Urla

Jacqueline L. Urla

Music has been an important terrain of cultural politics for many minorities and indigenous people, a means of unmasking power imbalances, denouncing injustice, and reframing identities. This paper explores the political imaginary of the Basque radical rock music group Negu Gorriak and the ways they articulated alliances with politicized hip hop. (Prepublication version, no photos)

Cultural Constraints On Children’S Play, David F. Lancy

David Lancy

No abstract provided.

Silicon Missionaries And Identity Evangelists, Jan English-Lueck, A. Saveri

Jan English-Lueck

No abstract provided.

"The Culinary Fantasy Of The Andes", Jack Weatherford

Jack Weatherford, Retired

No abstract provided.

"Money", Jack Weatherford

Jack Weatherford, Retired

No abstract provided.

Cultural Value Of Food Among The Naskapi, Treena Orchard

Dr. Treena Orchard

No abstract provided.

Stone Tool Function At The Paleolithic Sites Of Starosele And Buran Kaya Iii, Crimea: Behavioral Implications, Bruce Hardy, Marvin Kay, Anthony Marks, Katherine Monigal

Bruce Hardy

Conversational Borderlands: Language And Identity In An Alternative Urban High School, Betsy Rymes

Betsy Rymes

This groundbreaking study of an innovative charter school is the first to look closely at adolescent identity by analyzing the language of narratives told in school. The author helps us to understand why adolescents sometimes make choices that seem incomprehensible to the adults who work with them. This unique book links issues of school reform with close analysis of language and interaction within a school to help us understand the needs and desires of some of today’s diverse adolescent students. Both compelling and illuminating, this important book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the human effects (and not …

Serum Leptin Levels And Anthropometric Correlates In Ache Amerindians Of Eastern Paraguay, Richard G. Bribiescas

Richard G. Bribiescas

Leptin is a recently discovered peptide hor- mone secreted primarily from adipocytes in humans and other mammals; it is a reflection of fat stores, and has been associated with reproductive function. However, few leptin measurements are available from nonindustrialized popula- tions, including contemporary hunter/gatherer communities undergoing the transition to sedentary agriculture. This in- vestigation reports single-sample serum leptin measure- ments in healthy Ache Amerindian males (n 􏱕 21; average age, 32.8 􏱣 3.4 SE) and females (n 􏱕 12; average age, 31.3 􏱣 4.3) in eastern Paraguay. Ache leptin concentrations were much lower than in industrialized populations, although significant sexual …