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Maine Folklife, Vol. 10, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 10, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
Four thousand years ago, Archaic period peoples hunted swordfish in the Gulf of Maine. In addition to fauna remains, archaeologists have recovered stone representations of the distinctive sword-shaped bill, suggesting that these animals had a cultural significance that went beyond their dietary value. What archaeologists don't know is precisely where and how the fish were taken. In our own time, swordfish rarely come inshore. Commercial operators, both harpooners and long-liners, fish the eastern side of Brown's and George's Banks and points farther along the continental shelf. Even if hunters of the Archaic period could travel that distance, it would have …
Maine Folklife, Vol. 10, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 10, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
The Northeast Archives is proud to announce that we have completed reprocessing and preservation work on two major collections, the Aroostook County Collection and the Maine State Federated Labor Council Collection. Our graduate assistants made preservation master and CD copies of each tape and expanded the descriptions of the tape contents to better assist researchers in finding the information they need. This work has been supported by grants from the Maine Historical Records Advisory Board.
Care, Intimacy And Same-Sex Partnership In The 21st Century, Barry D. Adam
Care, Intimacy And Same-Sex Partnership In The 21st Century, Barry D. Adam
Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology Publications
The paper addresses the emergence of same sex relationships as a public policy issue in contemporary society. Historical and cross-cultural evidence shows how same-sex relationships have been an integral part of the kinship system, household economies, and iconography of many societies, and that desire and relationship are produced in diverse ways at the confluence of kinship, gender, and life stage expectations circulating in different societies. Recent history of the advanced, industrial societies is characterised by sharp shifts in the conceptualization of same sex relationship, from sin, sickness, and crime to a patchwork of “relationship recognition” forms in just a few …