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Anthropology In The Real World: Year Vi, Ed Millar, Kiyomi Juillerat

Petersheim Academic Exposition

2012 Petersheim Academic Exposition

Interview With Billy Sanders Gibson And Glenda (Webb) "Gaye" Gibson (Mss 707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Billy Sanders Gibson and Glenda (Webb) "Gaye" Gibson conducted by John Bryan "Jack" LeSieur related to the mining of rock asphalt at Kyrock in Edmonson County, Kentucky.

Alternative Individual Cartridge Case Identification Techniques, Curtis H. Sedlacek

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

Individual cartridge case identification is an essential component of historic battlefield archeology. With individual cartridge case identification archeologists are able to track the movement of the combatants as they move across the battlefield, giving a highly detailed view of the past. While useful, current methods of individual cartridge case identification require expensive equipment and extensive training and time to conduct. In this thesis two alternative methods of cartridge case identification are evaluated in order to determine if recent developments in the areas of 3D scanning and statistical analysis can be utilized to develop new methods of individual cartridge case method. …

Fishermen, Politics, And Participation: An Ethnographic Examination Of Commercial Fisheries Management In St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Cynthia Grace-Mccaskey

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Currently, there is widespread debate regarding the overall status of the world's fisheries, with some researchers projecting their total collapse in only a few decades, and others concluding the situation is not quite as bleak. Additional debates include what strategies should be used to manage fisheries at various scales, and further research is needed to determine which strategies are most appropriate for use in particular situations and locales, as context is critical.

Recently, prominent common pool resources scholars have expressed the need for ethnographic approaches to studying resource management institutions in order to move beyond the current focus of simply …

Interview With Jackson Wayne Ashley (Mss 707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an Interview with Jackson Wayne Ashley conducted by John Bryan "Jack" LeSieur related to the mining of rock asphalt at Kyrock in Edmonson County, Kentucky.

The Cinderella Connection: Structural Resonance Of A Narrative Motif, Katie Owens '12

Honor Scholar Theses

The Cinderella motif is found in countless stories across the globe. This thesis explores the underlying motifs that connect the tales, attempting to pinpoint what could cause its thematic material to be consistent across variations. A sociobiological perspective will be used to supplement the traditional cultural approach to interpreting the motif, creating a novel reading and greater understanding of the story’s resonance with humans around the world. An evolutionary lens is applied to the human relationships in the stories, while a cultural lens is applied to the nonhuman motivic elements. The analysis gained through this sociobiological approach adds a scientific …

Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School, Steven Silliman

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

This project assists with locating historical cultural sites on Eastern Pequot reservation established in A.D 1683, and providing historical preservation and archaeological services at low to no cost to this Native American community. This project also trains undergraduate and graduate students from UMass Boston and other institutions and tribal community interns in archaeological techniques, heritage preservation, Native American history, colonial studies and collaborative research methods. It aims to improve archaeological fieldwork and interpretations as part of a deeply collaborative relationship, and also study Eastern Pequot house sites, using artifacts, animal bones , plant remains, architecture, landscape historical documents and oral …

Richey, Nancy Carol, B. 1959 (Fa 575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 575. Interview conducted on 21 February 2012 by Nancy Richey and Sue Lynn McDaniel with Angela Townsend regarding Jonesville, an African American community in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that was eliminated by an urban renewal project in the 1960s.

Interrogating Grenadian Masculinities And Violence Against Women: An Evaluation Of The United Nations Partnership For Peace Program, Rohan Dexter Jeremiah

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This applied anthropology study, guided by a feminist perspective and in particular, Black Feminist Thought is an outgrowth of an evaluation study of the Partnership for Peace Program (PFP) in Grenada, West Indies. The PFP is a Caribbean-specific model that was built into a sixteen-week cycle program by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UNWomen). Since 2005, the PFP has been geared towards Grenadian men, who have used violence against women to express their masculine identities. PFP focuses exclusively on rehabilitating male perpetrators with a goal to protect the human rights of women. This research …

Intergenerational Transmission Of Reproductive Behavior During The Demographic Transition, Julia Jennings, Allison R. Sullivan, J. David Hacker

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

New evidence from the Utah Population Database (updp) reveals that at the onset of the fertility transition, reproductive behavior was transmitted across generations—between women and their mothers, as well as between women and their husbands' family of origin. Age at marriage, age at last birth, and the number of children ever born are positively correlated in the data, most strongly among first-born daughters and among cohorts born later in the fertility transition. Intergenerational ties, including the presence of mothers and mothers-in-law, influenced the hazard of progressing to a next birth. The findings suggest that the practice of parity-dependent marital fertility …

Issue 60, Spring 2012, Society Of Bead Researchers

The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers

Glass Beads from Gloucester Point, Virginia, by Laurie E. Burgess and Christopher Sperling. • Borneo International Beads Conference 2011, by Karlis Karklins.

Martin Kahl (Ed.). The Transnationalisation Of Risks Of Violence. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. 2011., Erin Mcelroy M.A.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Michael Arthur, Aung-Thwin, & Kenneth R. Hall (Eds.). New Perspectives On The History And Historiography Of Southeast Asia: Continuing Explorations. London & New York: Routledge. 2011., James M. Hastings Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Yan Xuetong. Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power. Edited By Daniel A. Bell & Sun Zhe. Translated By Edmund Ryden. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2011., Lik Hang Tsui

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

David Boucher. The Limits Of Ethics In International Relations: Natural Law, Natural Rights, And Human Rights In Transition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009., Jared Michael Phillips

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Jonathan D. James. Mcdonaldisation, Masala Mcgospel And Om Economics: Televangelism In Contemporary India. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2010., Robert Stephens Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Gary Dorrien. Economy, Difference, Empire: Social Ethics For Social Justice. New York: Columbia University Press. 2010., Aaron Patrick Mulvany

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Tai-Chun Kuo & Ramon H. Myers. Taiwan’S Economic Transformation—Leadership, Property Rights And Institutional Change, 1949-1965. Routledge. 2012., Cheng Linsun Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Michael K. Connors, Rémy Davison, & Jörn Dosch. The New Global Politics Of The Asia Pacific, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 2012., Nilanthi Samaranayake

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Kissinger’S Year: 1973 By Alistair Horne, Simon & Shuster, Uk, 2009., William J. Jones Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Tonio Andrade. Lost Colony: The Untold Story Of China's First Great Victory Over The West. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2011., David D. Buck Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Arshad Alam. Inside A Madrasa. Knowledge, Power And Islamic Identity In India. New Delhi: Routledge. 2011., Shirin Jahangir

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Resource Availability, Mortality And Fertility: A Path Analytic Approach To Global Life History Variation, Mark A. Caudell, Robert J. Quinlan

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Humans exhibit considerable diversity in timing and rate of reproduction. Life history theory suggests that ecological cues of resource richness and survival probabilities shape human phenotypes across populations. Populations experiencing high extrinsic mortality due to uncertainty in resources should exhibit faster life histories. Here we use a path analytic approach informed by life history theory to model the multiple pathways between resources, mortality rates, and reproductive behavior in 191 countries. Resources that account for the most variance in population mortality rates are predicted to explain the most variance in total fertility rates. Results indicate that resources (e.g., calories, sanitation, education, …

Returning To The Homeland: The Migratory Patterns Between Brazil And Japan For Japanese-Brazilians, Yoko Baba, Claudio G. Vera Sanchez Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Migration to well-off countries has been well documented. However, the reasons why migrants return to their home countries, which often face severe economic disadvantages, are examined less frequently. The return migration of Japanese-Brazilians (Brazilian citizens of ethnic Japanese descent) who migrate to Japan and return again to Brazil has not been studied to any great extent. To understand the factors associated with Japanese-Brazilians’ return migration, using Gmelch's (1983) model of push and pull factors, we examined what motivated Japanese-Brazilian migrant laborers to return to Brazil from Japan. With a mixed method including in-person interviews, a total of n=47 Brazilian migrants …

International Security, Development, And Human Rights: Policy Conversion Or Conflict?, Miao-Ling Lin Hasenkamp

Journal of International and Global Studies

This article uses an institutional network governance approach to explore the overlapping dimension of the policy fields between security, development, and human rights, reflected in the US and German provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan. The past two decades have witnessed a gradually changing paradigm in academic and policy debates regarding the questions of the normative basis of world order and possibilities for tackling imminent threats to security and peace (i.e. intra-state armed conflicts, failed states, terrorism, poverty, and deepening inequality). The introduction of concepts such as “human security” and “the right to humanitarian intervention/responsibility to protect (R2P)” as well …

Senate Voting On The Strategic Defense Initiative: The Impact Of The 1991 Gulf War, James F. Pasley Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

This paper examines the effects of the success of the Patriot missile system in the 1991 Gulf War on Senate roll call votes for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Previous studies have shown that both Party Identification (PID) and Ideology have had a significant effect on senators' votes on defense weapons systems. Using Logit regression techniques, this paper examines whether PID and Ideology, both of which are central to political identity, remained significant factors in three Senate votes on SDI; this paper is unique compare to previous studies of such matters in that it adds two additional explanatory variables to …

S. Philip Hsu, Yu-Shan Wu, & Suisheng Zhao (Eds.). In Search Of China’S Developmental Model: Beyond The Beijing Consensus. Milton Park, Uk: Routledge. 2011., Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

S. Mahmud Ali. Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics In The Obama Era: A New World Emerging. London & New York: Routledge. 2012., Zhiqun Zhu

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Zubida Jalalzai & David Jefferess (Eds.). Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, And The Rhetoric Of Nation Building. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 2011., Robert Canfield Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Junaid Rana. Terrifying Muslims: Race And Labor In The South Asian Diaspora. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 2011., Mohammad A. Siddiqi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.