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Articles 1 - 30 of 48
Full-Text Articles in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Alphabetic Imperialism?: A Cross-Cultural Glimpse Into The Evolution Of Writing, Curtiss Hoffman
Alphabetic Imperialism?: A Cross-Cultural Glimpse Into The Evolution Of Writing, Curtiss Hoffman
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Flooded: The Excesses Of Geography, Gender, And Capitalism In Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, Cynthia Dobbs
Flooded: The Excesses Of Geography, Gender, And Capitalism In Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, Cynthia Dobbs
Cynthia Dobbs
No abstract provided.
The State Goes Home: Local Hyper-Vigilance Of Children And The Global Retreat From Social Reproduction, Cindi Katz
The State Goes Home: Local Hyper-Vigilance Of Children And The Global Retreat From Social Reproduction, Cindi Katz
Publications and Research
In an early scene in The Terminator, the Cyborgian Arnold Schwarzenegger walks into an L.A. gun shop and asks to see the wares. The shopkeeper lays out Uzis, submachine guns, rocket launchers, and other sophisticated means of overkill, nervously understating, "Any one of these will suit you for home defense purposes." The situation is likewise in the growing child protection industry. In keeping with the shopkeeper's sly comment, these businesses feast on an all-pervasive culture of fear, while creating a mockery, alibi, and distraction out of what they are really about - to remake the home as a citadel through …
An Ethnographic Study Of Participants' Perceptions Of Character Education Including Students, Parents, Teachers, Club Sponsors, Administrators, And Community Support People, Lily Odessa Hogan Stoppleworth
An Ethnographic Study Of Participants' Perceptions Of Character Education Including Students, Parents, Teachers, Club Sponsors, Administrators, And Community Support People, Lily Odessa Hogan Stoppleworth
Doctoral Dissertations
This qualitative study examined character education within one educational setting. The researcher created a holistic, narrative description of the extent, quality, and impact of character education at one North Louisiana high school. An emergent design was utilized to examine inductively participants' perceptions of character education initiatives within this single, educational site.
The research questions in this study were: (a) How do participants (students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members) define character education, and what do they perceive its value to be? (b) How do participants perceive character education in relation to values? (c) How is character education viewed by the …
Darkness In Anthropology, Peter Van Arsdale
Darkness In Anthropology, Peter Van Arsdale
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An essay covering Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. 417 pp. and related documents.
Maine Folklife, Vol. 7, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 7, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
The accounts of wars recorded in history books tend to focus on the names and dates of battles, the decisions of political leaders and the heroics of charismatic military commanders. Those facts are important, of course, but they only tell part of the story.
The Maine Folklife Center at The University of Maine, in collaboration with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, is doing its part to make sure the rest of the story is recorded. The Maine Folklife Center has begun to organize an extensive oral history project that will preserve the war stories of veterans …
Environment As Master Narrative: Discourse And Identity In Environmental Conflicts (Special Issue Introduction), Krista Harper
Environment As Master Narrative: Discourse And Identity In Environmental Conflicts (Special Issue Introduction), Krista Harper
Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series
Although postmodern philosophers proclaimed the death of the master narrative of enlightenment (Lyotard 1984), the environment has become a quintessentially global narrative. Throughout the world, people are imagining the environment as an object threatened by human action. Environmentalism proposes to organize and mobilize human action in order to protect the endangered environment (Milton 1995). Sociologist Klaus Eder posits that ecology has become a “masterframe,” transforming the field of political debate (Eder 1996). The articles assembled in this special issue investigate the rise of the environment as a master narrative organizing political practices.
Chernobyl Stories And Anthropological Shock In Hungary, Krista Harper
Chernobyl Stories And Anthropological Shock In Hungary, Krista Harper
Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series
The Budapest Chernobyl Day commemoration generated a creative outpouring of stories about parental responsibilities, scientific knowledge, environmental risks, and public participation. I examine the stories and performances elicited by the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1996. In these “Chernobyl stories,” activists criticized scientific and state paternalism while engaging in alternative practices of citizenship. The decade between the catastrophic explosion and its commemoration coincides with the development of the Hungarian environmental movement and the transformation from state socialism. Chernobyl Day 1996 consequently became an opportunity for activists to reflect upon how the meaning of citizenship and public …
Chernobyl Stories And Anthropological Shock In Hungary, Krista Harper
Chernobyl Stories And Anthropological Shock In Hungary, Krista Harper
Krista M. Harper
The Budapest Chernobyl Day commemoration generated a creative outpouring of stories about parental responsibilities, scientific knowledge, environmental risks, and public participation. I examine the stories and performances elicited by the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1996. In these “Chernobyl stories,” activists criticized scientific and state paternalism while engaging in alternative practices of citizenship. The decade between the catastrophic explosion and its commemoration coincides with the development of the Hungarian environmental movement and the transformation from state socialism. Chernobyl Day 1996 consequently became an opportunity for activists to reflect upon how the meaning of citizenship and public …
Coffee Breaks And Coffee Connections: The Lived Experience Of A Commodity In Tanzanian And European Worlds, Brad Weiss
Coffee Breaks And Coffee Connections: The Lived Experience Of A Commodity In Tanzanian And European Worlds, Brad Weiss
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
These volumes comprise the most extensive guide to past and current research on the topic of consumption ever created. Ranging from the classic discussions of a century and more ago to the latest evidence for the diversity of consumption as it is actually practiced, this set is an essential foundation for one of the most rapidly growing areas of contemporary academic study.
The contents are highly inter-disciplinary, with approaches ranging from anthropology and media studies, to geography and business studies. Each discipline provides its own theories, perspectives and methodologies for studying this topic. These volumes also make use of the …
Aids In Jamaica: The Grim Reality Of Hiv/Aids In Rural Jamaica, Diana Fox
Aids In Jamaica: The Grim Reality Of Hiv/Aids In Rural Jamaica, Diana Fox
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Change Among Bedouins: An Exploratory Study In El-Hammam, Egypt, Neveen Gorgy Dawoud Azmy
Change Among Bedouins: An Exploratory Study In El-Hammam, Egypt, Neveen Gorgy Dawoud Azmy
Archived Theses and Dissertations
This research was triggered by an interest in examining the changes that took place in Bedouin communities, especially when it comes in the framework of a development process. The existing writings on this topic are divided into two camps: one maintains that change within Bedouin communities was very minimal, and to a great extent inconsequential, whereas, the other argues that changes therein were quite considerable. This thesis, through examining the local Awlad 'Ali community of elHammam, holds the latter view. Thus, the research traces the recent changes in their area and compares and contrasts the changes that their society has …
Maine Folklife, Vol. 7, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 7, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
The city of Bangor will be the next stop for the National Folk Festival! Sandy Ives and Pauleena MacDougall are serving on the local planning committee for the festival, and Pauleena will also chair the Material Culture committee and aid the Festival's Executive Director, Bob Libby. The National Folk Festival was brought to Bangor through the hard work of Donna Fitchner, Executive Director of the Bangor Convention & Visitors Bureau, in coordination with the city of Bangor and Eastern Maine Development Corporation. Senator Susan Collins and humorist Tim Sample will serve as Honorary Co-chairs for the event.
The city hopes …
Profiling Racial Profiles: Challenges From Political Discourse, Ibpp Editor
Profiling Racial Profiles: Challenges From Political Discourse, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes problems in evaluating the validity and appropriateness of racial profiles based on reactance with political discourse on such profiles.
The Nature Of Nature: South Floridian Children And Their "Environmental Experience", Kristina Baines
The Nature Of Nature: South Floridian Children And Their "Environmental Experience", Kristina Baines
Publications and Research
To investigate how schoolchildren in south Florida think about their natural environment, children were observed participating in several school-organized environmental field trips. Their attitudes about, interactions with and knowledge concerning various aspects of their natural environment were observed. This study explores how these children interpret natural phenomena using their cultural tools and focuses on the interpretation of commonly-observed responses to nature. Responses discussed include: the blurring of lines between the natural and non-natural, separation and binary thinking, and fear and aggression. Reference is made throughout the study to various theoretical frameworks, including cultural-ecological perspectives, ideas from structural anthropology and other …
Confounding The Goals Of Management: Response Of The Maine Lobster Industry To A Trap Limit, James Acheson
Confounding The Goals Of Management: Response Of The Maine Lobster Industry To A Trap Limit, James Acheson
Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship
The behavior of fishermen is often far more complicated than assumed by fisheries managers. Those concerned with the Maine lobster (i.e., American lobster Homarus americanus, hereafter "lobster") fishery have long favored a cap on the number of traps each license holder can use. Fishermen favor trap limits primarily to cut costs and limit congestion, and managers believe such limits will help reduce fishing effort. Yet when trap limits were imposed by the legislature and the lobster zone councils between 1995 and 1998, the number of traps fished in Maine waters increased greatly. A survey of half the lobster license holders …
MusḥẠF As An Object, Natalia Kasprzak
MusḥẠF As An Object, Natalia Kasprzak
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Fort Clark Archeology Project, 2000-2001 Historical Archeological Investigations., William J. Hunt Jr.
The Fort Clark Archeology Project, 2000-2001 Historical Archeological Investigations., William J. Hunt Jr.
Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications
Historical archeological work during the summers of 2000 and 2001 has been directed toward development and installation of a series of interpretive panels relating to the history, archeology, and peoples living at Fort Clark. In anticipation of this, investigations in 2000 included small scale testing and large scale geophysical surveys at the village and both trading posts. Fieldwork in 2001 was more focused and utilized geophysical survey data from both years to guide a multi-university field school excavation at Fort Clark. Excavation goals were to clarify the structural history and evolution of the post, discern functional change in one portion …
Archaeology And The Public: Exploring Popular Misconceptions, Tamara Rakestraw, Amy Reynolds
Archaeology And The Public: Exploring Popular Misconceptions, Tamara Rakestraw, Amy Reynolds
Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal
To understand how the public views archaeology and uncover the sources of their perceptions, this paper summarizes the interviews of 58 Fayetteville area high school and college students from the Fall (2000). Using standard ethnographic techniques, including prepared questionnaires and open-ended conversation, we identified several trends in the public's perceptions of archaeology and have developed some hypotheses to account for them. As the Society for American Archaeology has only recently begun to understand, to better educate the general public about archaeology it is important to identify and understand the sources of these misconceptions. For more than a century, Hollywood, book …
Universal Human Rights And Cultural Diversity, Hilde Hey
Universal Human Rights And Cultural Diversity, Hilde Hey
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of Human Rights: New Perspectives, New Realities, edited by Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 259pp.
The debate as to whether human rights should be considered universal or culturally relative has come a long way. In 1947, when the Commission on Human Rights considered proposals for formulating a declaration on basic human rights, the American Anthropological Association submitted a statement expressing concern about the universality of the proposed declaration. The association’s main argument was that ideas about rights and wrongs and good and evil that exist in one society are incompatible with the ideas …
Aurora Volume 88, Anne Wadsworth (Editor)
Aurora Volume 88, Anne Wadsworth (Editor)
Aurora-yearbook
College formerly located at Olivet, Illinois and known as Olivet University (1912-1923) Olivet College (1923-1939), Olivet Nazarene College (1940-1986), and Olivet Nazarene University (1986-Present).
The Image Of Paul Robeson:Role Model For The Student And Athlete, Keith Harrison
The Image Of Paul Robeson:Role Model For The Student And Athlete, Keith Harrison
Dr. C. Keith Harrison
No abstract provided.
Rights Of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Status Of The Family, Justin Schwartz
Rights Of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Status Of The Family, Justin Schwartz
Justin Schwartz
Is the family subject to principles of justice? In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls includes the (monogamous) family along with the market and the government as among the "basic institutions of society" to which principles of justice apply. Justice, he famously insists, is primary in politics as truth is in science: the only excuse for tolerating injustice is that no lesser injustice is possible. The point of the present paper is that Rawls doesn't actually mean this. When it comes to the family, and in particular its impact on fair equal opportunity (the first part of the the Difference …
Sucatas Do Mundo: Noções De Contaminação E De Abjeção Em Uma Instituição De Portadores De Aids, Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
Sucatas Do Mundo: Noções De Contaminação E De Abjeção Em Uma Instituição De Portadores De Aids, Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
No abstract provided.
Living Homeland And Speaking With The Dead: Crimean Tatars In Uzbekistan, Greta Uehling
Living Homeland And Speaking With The Dead: Crimean Tatars In Uzbekistan, Greta Uehling
Greta Uehling
No abstract provided.
Salt Omnibus 2001, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Omnibus 2001, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
SALT Omnibus 2001.
Contents
- 4 The Song of Objects The art of collecting threads together portraits of four highly individual collectors from Maine.
- 18 Baked Beans in a Pot Almost a million cans of baked beans leave B & M’s Portland plant every week. A photo essay depicts the day-to-day life of the “family” of bean factory workers.
- 26 Bush Piloting in Maine Pilots share their stories of a time when the only means of transportation in northwestern Maine meant navigating by landmarks to fly anything and anyone in and out of the bush.
- 38 Reinventing Eve Two religious leaders …
The Political Economy Of 'Gambling On Gambling' By States And Tribes: A Critical Comparative Perspective, Sandra Faiman-Silva
The Political Economy Of 'Gambling On Gambling' By States And Tribes: A Critical Comparative Perspective, Sandra Faiman-Silva
Anthropology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Cultural Constraints On Children’S Play, David F. Lancy
Cultural Constraints On Children’S Play, David F. Lancy
David Lancy
No abstract provided.
Shenandoah Valley Earthenware As Symbols Of Identity, Sunyoon Park
Shenandoah Valley Earthenware As Symbols Of Identity, Sunyoon Park
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Play Patterns And Gender, Carolyn P. Edwards, Lisa Knoche, Asiye Kumru
Play Patterns And Gender, Carolyn P. Edwards, Lisa Knoche, Asiye Kumru
Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications
This cross-cultural analysis examines the gendered patterns of play seen in children worldwide. Play is a culturally universal activity through which children explore themselves and their environment, test out and practice different social roles, and learn to interact with other children and adults. Early in life, children identify themselves as a “girl” or a “boy,” and this basic self-categorization lays a foundation for their developing beliefs about with whom, what, how, and where they will play. Children play an active role in their own and their peers’ “gender socialization” (the process by which they come to acquire the knowledge, values, …