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Book Review Forum On Derek Freeman's Margaret Mead And Samoa: The Making And Unmaking Of An Anthropological Myth, Fay Ala‘Ilima, Tuaopepe Felix S. Wendt, Nancy Mcdowell

Pacific Studies

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Sione Lātūkefu's Review Of John Garrett's To Live Among The Stars: Christian Origins In Oceania, Sione Lātūkefu

Pacific Studies

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (1987): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

Using Wiseman Documentaries For Social Problems Courses, Patrick G. Donnelly

Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Faculty Publications

This report describes the use of seven films produced by Frederick Wiseman in a lower course in Modern Social Problems. The goals of the project were: to increase the student awareness and understanding of the day-to-day operations of several basic institutions in American society; to offer a creative and interesting undergraduate course; and to enliven cIass discussion. Since this was a course in social problems, faculty and students focused on the problematic features of the institutions portrayed in the films and on the social problems these institutions are designed to handle.

Ua94/6/1 Scrapbook, Bryant Medley

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Bryant Medley during his freshman year at WKU. Includes event invitations and broadsides, awards, newspaper clippings regarding social life at WKU in 1983-1984.

Rethinking Ritual, Peter Mclaren

Education Faculty Articles and Research

Recent works by students of contemporary ritual (or "ritologists," as Ronald Grimes calls them) supports the notion that ritual is an important variable not just in tribal culture but also in modern industrial culture. I'm referring to studies that have been undertaken by such ardent ritual exegetes as Roy Rappaport, Barbara Myerhoff, Ronald Grimes, Robert Bocock, Sally Falk Moore, and Richard Schechner. Grimes has begun the important work of consolidating research on ritual; he has taken a field of scholarship which was doggedly parochial and helped to expand it into a protoscience of its own. (1) The work of these …

Michael C. Howard's Review Of Nicolas Peterson's Aboriginal Land Rights: A Handbook, Michael C. Howard

Pacific Studies

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Cultures In Collision: Hawai‘I And England, 1778, Haunani-Kay Trask

Pacific Studies

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Book Review Forum On Bradd Shore's Sala‘Ilua: A Samoan Mystery, Thelma S. Baker, James R. Bindon, Jacob Wainwright, Bradd Shore

Pacific Studies

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Valerio Valeri's Review Of Richard Feinberg's Anuta: Social Structure Of A Polynesian Island, Valerio Valeri

Pacific Studies

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Stephen Levine's Review Of William L. Rodman And Dorothy Ayers Counts' Middlemen And Brokers In Oceania, Stephen Levine

Pacific Studies

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A Study Of The Relationship Of Socioeconomic Status & Student Perceptions Of School Effectiveness To Academic Achievement Of Engineering Students, Geronimo Mendoza Meraz

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study was to examine the relative contribution of socioeconomic status and student perceptions of school effectiveness to academic achievement in engineering students. The variables representing the general factor of socioeconomic status were 1) father’s occupation, 2) father’s schooling, 3) mother’s schooling, 4) family income, and 5) family’s community population. The variables representing student perceptions of school effectiveness were: 1) help seeking factor, 2) professional preparation factor, 3) experience factor, 4) outside classroom activity factor, 5) personal encouragement factor, and 6) delivery factor.

A question was developed for this specific study and was completed by 110 senior …

Peter W. Black's Review Of Glenn Petersen's One Man Cannot Rule A Thousand: Fission In A Ponapean Chiefdom, Peter W. Black

Pacific Studies

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Approaches To Problems Of Field Ethics In Oceania, Mervyn Mclean

Pacific Studies

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Fitz John Porter Poole's Review Of Michael Allen's Vanuatu: Politics, Economics And Ritual In Island Melanesia, Fitz John Porter Poole

Pacific Studies

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Niko Besnier's Review Of Richard A. Benton's The Flight Of The Amokura: Oceanic Languages And Formal Education In The South Pacific, Niko Besnier

Pacific Studies

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Carlyle S. Smith's Review Of J. Douglas Porteous's The Modernization Of Easter Island, Carlyle S. Smith

Pacific Studies

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Comment On David Guillet's "Toward A Cultural Ecology Of Mountains: The Central Andes And The Himalayas Compared", Thomas Love

Faculty Publications

Thomas Love comments on David Guillet's essay "Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalayas Compared."

The Origins Of The Occupational Safety And Health Act Of 1970, Patrick G. Donnelly

Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Faculty Publications

This paper analyzes the emergence of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and finds previous explanations of its origin inadequate. I trace the roots of this law to the protests of rank-and-file workers across the United States at a time when the support of these workers was particularly important to the two main political parties. The protest was directed not only at those employers who operated unsafe and unhealthy workplaces, but also at union officials who paid little or no attention to safety and health issues in negotiating new contracts.

Annette B. Weiner's Review Of Hal B. Levine And Marlene Wolfzahn Levine's Urbanization In Papua New Guinea, A Study Of Ambivalent Townsmen, Annette B. Weiner

Pacific Studies

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Henry P. Lundsgaarde's Review Of Mac Marshall's Siblingship In Oceania: Studies In The Meaning Of Kin Relations, Henry P. Lundsgaarde

Pacific Studies

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Bruce Knapman's Review Of H. C. Brookfield's Population-Environment Relations In Tropical Islands: The Case Of Eastern Fiji, Bruce Knapman

Pacific Studies

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The In-Charge Complex And Tobian Political Culture, Peter W. Black

Pacific Studies

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Key Elements In The Evolving Political Culture Of The Federated States Of Micronesia, Daniel T. Hughes, Stanley K. Laughlin Jr.

Pacific Studies

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Savage Island Or Savage History? An Interpretation Of Early European Contact With Niue, Sue Mclachlan

Pacific Studies

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Alan Rumsey's Review Of Aslaug Falkenburg And Johannes Falkenburg's The Affinal Relationship System Of The Australian Aborigines In The Port Keats District, Alan Rumsey

Pacific Studies

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Gordon Pi'ianai'a'S Review Of Wayne S. Wooden's What Price Paradise? Changing Social Patterns In Hawaii, Gordon Pi'ianai'a

Pacific Studies

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Assimilation Of Korean-Americans In Vancouver, Washington, Dennis Chaseong Park

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This paper is a study in the assimilation of Korean-Americans in Vancouver, Washington. The objectives of the study are to: 1. Evaluate the applicability of the concept of the "melting pot"; 2. Locate the factors that affect this process; and 3. Measure the degree of assimilation in orientation to American life. Generally speaking, one's ethnic loyalty and self-identity affect his lifestyle and choice of reference group.

The data were gathered with the use of a questionnaire with open-ended questions. Informants were asked to state their feelings on many topics such as language fluency, preference for traditional Korean foods, knowledge of …

The Culture Of Bulaq As Viewed By Its Children, Iness Maurice Louca

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Adaptation To A Unique Environment: El Jebelya Of Saint Catherine, Iman Youssef Bastawisi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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