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Local Arbitration And Conflict Deferment In Punjab, Pakistan, Stephen Lyon

Faculty & Staff Publications

In Pakistan different conflicts require different legal venues and different stages of the same conflict may require plural legal venues. Attempts by the Pakistan government to undermine traditional conflict arbitration have not eradicated these processes. This paper argues that none of the current legal venues available to Pakistanis is sufficient without recourse to the others. The three venues are Islamic law (shari‚Äôat), the Pakistani civil code and traditional arbitration systems in the form of jirga or panchayat (or their equivalents). While the first two may arguably be classified as modernist legal systems with compatible objectives, the third is distinctly different. …

Power And Patronage In Pakistan, Stephen Lyon

Faculty & Staff Publications

Asymmetrical power relationships are found throughout Pakistan's Punjabi and Pukhtun communities. This thesis argues that these relationships must be examined as manifestations of cultural continuity rather than as separate structures. The various cultures of Pakistan display certain common cultural features which suggest a reexamination of past analytical divisions of tribe and peasant societies. This thesis looks at the ways power is expressed, accumulated and maintained in three social contexts: kinship, caste and political relationships. These three social contexts are embedded within a collection of 'hybridising' cultures (i.e. cultures which exhibit strong mechanisms for cultural accommodation without loss of 'identity'). Socialisation …

A Study Of Sign Language In Clump Anzees, Kelli Bacon

Nebraska Anthropologist

One of the hot topics in anthropology concerns the debate over chimpanzee communicative and lingual abilities. This paper will offer evidence gatheredfrom studies by Allen and Beatrice Gardner, Roger Fouts, Maury and Jane Temerlin, Herbert S. Terrace, T G. Bever, and Sheri Roush who all used American Sign Language (Ameslan) to teach their students Washoe, Lucy, Bruno, Booee, Cindy, Thelma, Nim, Moja, Pili, Tatu, Dar, Loulis, and Ally. Each of the studies lfas tailored differently, but many of the results were the same. This, in itself, might be evidence for some level of lingual ability, but some scholars such as …

An Exploration Of Possible Causes Of High Dropout Rates In Native American Reservation Schools, Mary Cornelius

Nebraska Anthropologist

Native American reservation schools have significantly higher dropout rates and lower graduation rates than the national average. Significant problems behind high dropout rates on Native American reservations in the United States include poverty, lack of support from elders and differing expectations and ways of communicating between teachers and students in the classroom. The history of Native American education includes many efforts at assimilation and the destruction of native cultural practices and languages. This still impedes today 's youth in that many elders still see schooling as a tool of assimilation and do not encourage or support success in what they …

Analyzing Anthropogenic Landscapes With Gis And Remote Sensing: A Literature Review, Andi O. Kraft

Nebraska Anthropologist

Anthropogenic landscapes are those that have been modified, to varying degrees, by human. Their development is affected by the over-use of natural landscapes in the past such as overgrazing, frequent fires, or excessive depletion of forests. Anthropologists analyzing land-use intensification are now realizing the promise of geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensingfor their research. A literature review of case studies done on varying anthropogenic landscapes will highlight how GIS can give practical integration of geographic spatial structures (habitation, soils, river drainage) to past and current relationships between the environment and human systems when combined with local-level knowledge. Research of …

Battlefield Oddities: Explaining Two Minié Balls From Pea Ridge National Military Park, Don Arp Jr.

Nebraska Anthropologist

Two minié ball bullets, each with a different caliber and similar longitudinal lines were recovered at Pea Ridge National Military Park during the fieldwork conducted there in March 2001. Thefunction of these lines was unknown. Several hypotheses were advanced to explain the Irfarkings. However, through detailed mathematic and microscope analysis, it has been determined that the lines were made by the same process and machine and may have served as a point of attachment for an experimental cartridge made of either metal, cloth, or paper. The bullets may have been part of a pre-Civil War experiment and found action in …

The Nazis' Archeology, Megan Young

Nebraska Anthropologist

The Nazi Party found that archeology is a very useful tool in propaganda. The Nazis used it to justify their nationalistic interests, from the conquest of Europe to create the Third Reich to genocidal racial cleansing. They glorified their past to unite the German people and gain their support. However, the people could not have been misled without the cooperation or apathy of German archeologists in general.

Qumran: Archaeology And Theories Of Identification, Ann Putz

Nebraska Anthropologist

Research at Qumran has lead many archaeologists, religious figures, and other academics into disagreements about what the site really was during the time of the Romans in the Holy Land. Qumran was first excavated in the 1950 's after scrolls were found in the caves surrounding the site. The site has some very unique features not found anywhere else in Israel or Jordan, leaving the researchers somewhat confused. Qumran has had several occupations and has also been rebuilt many times due to earthquakes. This only adds to the confusing in determining what the site of Qumran really was.

The Mythological Role Of Gender Ideologies: A Cross-Cultural Sample Of Traditional Cultures, Richard Owens

Nebraska Anthropologist

Hunting and gathering along with horticultural societies provide a basis for understanding contemporary ideologies. Such groups are generally labeled as egalitarian societies from their status and treatment of females. A survey of traditional hunters-gatherers and horticultural societies compared their mythological charters on gender ideologies to the dally interactions of gender roles in order to determine their level of influence on the culture. Traditional societies are thought to be a basis to observe gender stratification among all known societies. The division of labor is in all cultures, as a means to limit control economic resources, often favoring men. In this paper …

In Memoriam: Peter Francis, Jr., 1945-2002, Karlis Karklins

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

The bead research community lost a principal member when Peter Francis, Jr., director of the Center for Bead Research in Lake Placid, New York, died December 8, 2002, while on a research trip to Ghana, West Africa. Pete was widely known and respected, and was responsible for significantly increasing people's awareness—on a worldwide scale—of beads and their place in human culture through his many publications, lectures, workshops, symposia, and internet website. He leaves a void that will be very hard, if not impossible, to fill.

Captions And Color Plates (V. 14, 2002)

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

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Patterns In Glass : The Interpretation Of European Glass Trade Beads From Two Protohistoric Sites In The Greater Lower Columbia Region, Gretchen Anne Kaehler

Dissertations and Theses

The issue of social status as it manifests in the archaeological record has long been a problematic one. Glass beads are often the most numerous class of historic artifacts recovered in protohistoric sites in the Pacific Northwest. Ethnohistoric accounts indicated that these beads might have functioned as prestige items and as a form of "primitive cash" among the aboriginal peoples of the Lower Columbia River in the early to mid 1800s. To what extent were glass beads indicative of status and can their spatial distribution within protohistoric sites be used to address this question?

The purpose of the present study …

Folk Beliefs - Supernatural, 2002

Mark Glazer's Traditional Mexican American Folklore Collection

Folk Beliefs collected by Dr. Mark Glazer's anthropology students. NOTE: Personally identifiable information has been redacted.

Folk Beliefs - Good Luck, Bad Luck, 2002

Mark Glazer's Traditional Mexican American Folklore Collection

Folk beliefs collected by Dr. Mark Glazer's anthropology students. NOTE: Personally identifiable information has been redacted.

Folktales - Contemporary Legend, Cucuy, 2002-2003

Mark Glazer's Traditional Mexican American Folklore Collection

Folktales collected by anthropology students 2002–2003. NOTE: Personally identifiable information has been redacted.

Pvn-Op 202-Lithic Analyses, Neil Ross

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvc Op 053 Ceramic Analyses, Patricia Urban, Edward Mark Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Ax-030-001-Enig, Miranda Stockett

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Aa-145-001-Eflr, Miranda Stockett

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Gd-026-001-Fwo, Leigh Anne Ellison

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Ci-005-000c-Wkds, Edward M. Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Bn-010-002-Ptstnd, Miranda Stockett

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Bn-014-006-Ptstnd, Edward M. Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Bn-014-019-Ptstnd, Miranda Stockett

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Bo-004-001-Ptstnd, Miranda Stockett

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Bo-004-002-Ptstnd, Miranda Stockett

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Bo-004-003-Ptstnd, Miranda Stockett

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Br-032-001-Wkds, Edward M. Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Aj-015-001-Ptstnd, Miranda Stockett

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-202-Ak-074-007-Ptstnd, Edward M. Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

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