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Lisa Lau And Ana Cristina Mendes (Eds.). Re-Orientalism And South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within. New York: Routledge. 2011., Ann Marie Davis

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Una Mcgahern. Palestinian Christians In Israel: State Attitudes Towards Non-Muslims In A Jewish State. London & New York: Routledge. 2011., Sarah Cardaun Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Gyanendra Pandey (Ed.). Subalternity And Difference: Investigations From The North And The South. London: Routledge. 2011., Emily Rook-Koepse Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Chris Spring. Angaza Afrika: African Art Now. London: Lawrence King. 2008, Mathias Alubafi Fubah

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

The Family Name As Socio-Cultural Feature And Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts To Methods, Pierre Darlu, Gerrit Bloothooft, Alessio Boattini, Leendert Brouwer, Matthijs Brouwer, Guy Brunet, Pascal Chareille, James Cheshire, Richard Coates, Paul Longley, Kathrin DräGer, Bertrand Desjardins, Patrick Hanks, Kees Mandemakers, Pablo Mateos, Davide Pettener, Antonella Useli, Franz Manni

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

A recent workshop on "Family name between socio-cultural feature and genetic metaphor - From concepts to methods" was held in Paris on the 9th and 10th December 2010, partly sponsored by the Social Science and Humanity Institute (CNRS), and by Human Biology. This workshop was intended to facilitate exchanges on recent questions related to the names of persons and to confront different multidisciplinary approaches in a field of investigation where geneticists and historians, geographers, sociologists and ethnologists have all an active part. Here are the abstracts of some contributions.

Association Among Obesity-Related Anthropometric Phenotypes: Analyzing Genetic And Environmental Contribution, Aline Jelenkovic, Esther Rebato

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Obesity has become a public health and policy problem in many parts of the world. Epidemiological and population studies in this field are usually based on different anthropometric measures, however, common genetic and environmental factors between these phenotypes have been scarcely studied. The objective of this work is to assess the strength of these factors on the covariation among a large set of obesity-related traits. The subject group consisted of 533 nuclear families living in the Greater Bilbao (Spain), and included 1702 individuals aged 2-61 years. Detailed anthropometric measurements (stature, breadths, circumferences and skinfolds) were carried out in each subject. …

Islamization As Part Of Globalization: Some Southeast Asian Examples, Ron Lukens-Bull, Amanda Pandich, John P. Woods

Journal of International and Global Studies

In both popular and academic imagination, Islamization and globalization are the opposing processes, representing ”the clash of civilizations” (Huntington, 1993,1996). In Southeast Asia, specifically, globalization is imagined as something distinctly Western and, hence, inherently at odds with Islam, while Islam, meanwhile, is seen as the natural enemy of globalization. This paper instead sees Muslims as active participants in globalization. Further, it explores the concept of “Muslim globalization” to suggest that Islam has long been a globalizing force alongside Western-based capitalism and other forces. It explores this general model by using examples primarily from Southeast Asia

The Sinkholes Of Global Finance: Racialization And Cosmopolitanism Among Financial Elites In Malaysia, Laura Elder Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

An ethnographic examination of the day-to-day networking sociality of financial elites in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong shows that, in line with ethnographic studies of core country elites, the subjectivities inculcated among hedge fund managers show racial and class cleavages, but in fund managers’ work, bridging capital structures takes primacy, while bridging structures of privilege remains unacknowledged and thus provides an advantage to those who display conspicuously cosmopolitan consumption and networking sociality. Simultaneously, fund managers’ pervasive ascription of objectivity to a perspective associated with white masculinity creates a structural disadvantage for women, racialized others, and those lacking training or networking …

Esther Goh. China’S One-Child Policy And Multiple Caregiving: Raising Little Suns In Xiamen. New York: Routledge. 2011., Lisa Fischler Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Dilip K. Das. The Asian Economy: Spearheading The Recovery From The Global Financial Crisis. New York: Routledge. 2011., James Parisot Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

R. Vazquez. Politics, Culture, And Sociability In The Basque Nationalist Party. Reno: University Of Nevada Press. 2011., Steven Ybarrola

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Review Of The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction And Dispossession Along The Rio Grande, Gilbert Quintero

Anthropology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Fort St. Joseph Post - Spring 2012, Department Of Anthropology

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Vol. 3. No. 1

For friends of Western Michigan University’s Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Table of Contents:

• Welcome to the Project!
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2011
• Direct from the Lab...
• Fur Trade Booklet Now Available!
• A Report on the 2011 Field Season
• French Cloth Seal Recovered at Fort St. Joseph, Michigan
• The Digital Archaeological Record
• Public Outreach: An Important Job
• A Student’s Experience with Outreach
• 2011 was the Best Year Yet!
• Comments from 2011 Open House Surveys
• Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Open House: A Colonial Militia Muster on the Eve of Revolution
• Where Are They Now?
• 2011 Field Season …

Participant/Observer Vol. 5. No. 1 Spring 2012, Anthropology Department

Participant/Observer

A Newsletter for Friends of the Western Michigan University Department of Anthropology

Table of Contents:

• Anthropology Unveils New Archaeology Labs
• Letter from the Chair
• 2011 Farmstead Archaeology Project Season
• Finding Fossils in New Ways: Using GIS and Remote Sensing Approaches in Paleoanthropology
• WMU Archaeologists Invade Baltimore for the Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology
• El Sol Students Get a Firsthand Look at Anthropology
• The 36th Annual Western Michigan University Archaeological Field School
• WMU Now Offering Virtual Lectures on Fort St. Joseph Archaeology Programs
• Fur Trade Booklet Now Available!
• Sweet Memories in Japan
• Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Lecture Series …

Orientalism And Three British Dames: De-Essentialization Of The Other In The Work Of Gertrude Bell, Freya Stark, And E.S. Drower, Lynn Sawyer

Masters Theses

Although postcolonial criticism has run its course for thirty years, a fresh look at Edward Said's Orientalism offers insight into how Orientalism functions in the writings of three British dames. Gertrude Bell in The Desert and the Sown, Freya Stark in The Southern Gates of Arabia, and E.S. Drower in The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran, however, challenge Said's theory. Their writing raises questions about how gender alters the discourse about the Other, and whether Said essentializes the Occident. Bell, Stark, and Drower serve as case studies in which to analyze the politically and rhetorically complex interactions between the West …

Iowa Academy Of Science: The New Bulletin, V08n1, Spring 2012, Iowa Academy Of Science

New Bulletin

Inside This Issue:

--Message from the Executive Director

--Candidates for IAS President –Elect

--Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science

--Iowa Academy of Science 2012 Ballot

--124th Annual Meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science

--2011 Member Donations to the Academy

--Announcements, Events & Deadlines

Remaking Culture And Truth: Cultural And Necro-Citizenship In The Borderlands, Miguel Diaz-Barriga

Anthropology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Mars Bluff Navy Yard, Christopher F. Amer

Presentations

This presentation gives a brief accounting of the Confederate Mars Bluff Navy Yard on the Great Pee Dee River, the ships, boats, and vessels built there, a brief history of the underwater archaeology conducted at the site, and future archaeological plans.

The presentation consists of 40 slides. The first seven pages of the downloadable file is the text which accompanied the presentation, and the remaining 40 pages are the presentation slides.

Development Of Modern Healthcare In Pre-1949 China With Emphasis On Geographical Relationships, Matthew Monroe Schexnayder

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Susquehannock Material Culture Revisited: Eight Pennsylvania Ethnographic Artifacts In The Skokloster Castle Collection In Sweden And A Possible Connection To Capt. John Smith, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Quarterly Reporter - April 2012, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Sport Diver Newsletters

Contents:

SDAMP Leap Year Wing Night..... p.1
April Quarterly Reports..... p.2
NEW Fillable PDF Fossil Form!..... p.2
Upcoming Events..... p.3
SDAMP News..... p.3
2012 Allendale Project – Volunteer Opportunity..... p.4
Artifact Identification Workshops..... p.4
2012 Field Training Course..... p.5
Hobby Diver of the Quarter..... p.6
Feature Hobby Diver Article..... p.6
My First SC Diving Experience..... p.7
Native America Site Found On Congaree River..... p.8
Diver Safety - Say What?..... p.8
Conservation Corner - Storing Your Collection..... p.10
From Gunboat to Garbage Can: The Conservation of a Cannonball Final..... p.11
Paleontologist’s Panel - The Mammoth Mammoth..... p.12
Letters to the …

From Gunboat To Garbage Can: The Conservation Of A Cannonball Final, Ashley Deming

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Shipwrecks Of South Carolina, Christopher F. Amer

Presentations

This presentation briefly describes the S.C. coastline and inland waterways, and gives an overview of basic legal considerations regarding wreck ownership and management. It then discusses some of the wrecks that the MRD and others have been involved with such as the H.L. Hunley, U.S.S. Housatonic, U.S.S. Keokuk, Peedee, etc., and the techniques that the MRD uses in locating and evaluating wrecks.

The presentation consists of 48 slides. The first seven pages of the downloadable file is the text which accompanied the presentation, and the remaining 48 pages are the presentation slides.

Faithful Remembering: Constructing Dutch America In The Twentieth Century, David E. Zwart

Dissertations

The people of the Dutch-American community constructed and maintained a strong ethnoreligion identity in the twentieth despite pressures to join the mainstream of the United States. A strong institutional completeness of congregations and schools resulted from and contributed to this identity. The people in these institutions created a shared identity by demanding the loyalty of members as well as constructing narratives that convinced people of the need for the ethnoreligious institutions.

The narratives of the Dutch-American community reflected and reinforced a shared identity, which relied on a collective memory. The framing, maintaining, altering, and remodeling of the collective memory from …

Human Pelvis And Long Bones Reveal Differential Preservation Of Ancient Population History And Migration Out Of Africa, Lia Betti, Noreen Von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephen J. Lycett

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

One of the main events in the history of our species has been our expansion out of Africa. A clear signature of this expansion has been found on global patterns of neutral genetic variation, whereby a serial founder effect accompanied the colonization of new regions, in turn creating a within-population decrease in neutral genetic diversity with increasing distance from Africa. This same distinctive pattern has also been described for cranial and dental morphological variation in human populations distributed across the globe. Here, we used a dataset of postcranial linear measurements for 30 globally distributed human populations, and a climatic dataset …

Reacciones Al Turismo En Los Tejidos De Huilloc Y Chinchero: Una Comparación Entre Dos Pueblos, Sarah Lyon

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Los textiles en la cultura Andina no son un arte estacionario, sino como la gente, se adaptan a los nuevos tiempos y la cultura occidental. Eso no es porque la cultura y arte de los pueblos indígenas en los Andes son más propensos a las influencias de afuera, o que son más variables que otras culturas. Pensar que los pueblos indígenas y su cultura están ‘influenciado’ o ‘impactado’ por la cultura occidental es pensar que los pueblos indígenas son pasivos sin la voz para decir lo que van a escoger a sacar de la cultura occidental. Es mejor para hablar …

Beads, Sculptures, And Baskets: South African Traditional Craft As A Means Of Economic Empowerment, Sasha Kaori Hippard

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The significance of the South African traditional craft industry is often associated with the preservation of historical culture. However, besides being a crucial element in the protection and promotion of cultural heritage, craftwork also can be a significant source of income generation for disadvantaged communities across South Africa. The African Art Centre, a non-profit organization located in Durban, reaches out to various communities of disadvantage in and around the KwaZulu Natal province, holding training and design workshops, providing access to craft skills and materials, and providing a market for the sale of craft as a source of sustainable economic empowerment. …

Microgeographic Differentiation In Historical Yemen Inferred By Morphometric Distances, Maria Enrica Danubio, Emanuele Sanna, Fabrizio Rufo, Domenico Martorella, Elvira Vecchi, Alfredo Coppa

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

This study analysed the variations in space of 8 body dimensions and 11 measures of the head of 1,244 adult Yemenite males, collected in 1933/34 by Coon in Yemen and in Hadhramawt. The aim was to evaluate the presence of geographic microdifferentiation of the populations settled in the different regions of Yemen at the time. Coon sub-divided the sample into 6 geographical areas according to birthplace and ethnicity of the individuals: Tihamah, the Western Mountains, the Central Plateau, the South Coast, the Eastern Mountains and Hadhramawt. The results of ANCOVA (age as covariate) show that the observed differences of all …

To Live Means To Suffer: Exploring The Identity Of Chronic Pain Conditions, Gabriela Harris

Annual Undergraduate Conference on Health and Society

This paper examines the necessary identity reconstruction for chronic pain patients through the use of illness narratives. The biographical interruption of a chronic illness, partnered with the patients’ inability to discuss embodiment and pain wholly (because language failures to capture the essence of pain and suffering) creates a devastating chasm between the world of the healthy and the world of the sick. Psychosomatic pain, and illnesses without diagnosis, are all the more divisive conditions, because these factors rob the patient further, disallowing them from constructing even an illness identity. Utilizing published patient interviews, sociological and anthropological texts, as well as …

Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Program Expansion And Steward Retention: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending March 31, 2012, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

• Team completed three steward refresher courses
• One basic stewardship class produced 22 new volunteers
• Letter prepared for volunteers’ signature to transfer personal information to State