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Annotated Bibliography: Attitudes Toward Animal Research (1998-2013), Erich Yahner

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

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Annotated Bibliography: Attitudes Toward Wildlife And The Environment (1998-2013), Erich Yahner

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Annotated Bibliography: Interaction With Animals (1998-2013), Erich Yahner

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Thumbpicking Tradition Talk (Fa 688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 688. This collection features a video tape recording of "Thumbpicking Tradition Talk" by Bill Lightfoot and Eddie Pennington at Western Kentucky University on April 17, 1996.

Made To Be Played: Traditional Art Of Kentucky Luthiers (Fa 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 689. This collection features information and documentation of the "Made to be Played: Traditional Art of Kentucky Luthiers" museum exhibit which focused on luthiers throughout the state.

Thumbpickers Hall Of Fame - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Fa 687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 687. This collection features information and documentation of the National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame, founded in the birthplace of thumbpicking, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky in 1998.

Coalfield Project - Kentucky (Fa 686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 686. This collection features documentation and oral history interviews with traditional folk artists and craftspeople from the eastern coalfield region of Kentucky.

Commuter Students Using Technology, Mariana Regalado, Maura A. Smale

Publications and Research

• A multi-year qualitative study of undergraduates at six colleges at the City University of New York focused on how, where, and when students accomplished their academic work and how the presence or absence of access to technology helped and hindered them.
• CUNY students have an average commute time of 45–60 minutes each way and typically use public transportation, making commuting a defining feature of undergraduate life at CUNY that offers both opportunities and challenges.
• The study sought to understand how students made time and found space to do their schoolwork outside of class, including their use of technology for coursework. …

Reflections Of A Capacity Builder: An Autoethnographic Perspective Of Capacity Building Methods With A Youth Livelihoods Organization In Vanuatu, Sandra Moore

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Abstract

This autoethnographic narrative explores the author’s capacity building experiences, observances, insights, and reflections over a two year period working with a youth livelihoods nongovernmental organization in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Autoethnographies explore the author’s own personal insight and reflection of their own experiences, which in turn may encourage readers to reflect on their own beliefs and practices. The author will define autoethnography and capacity building, briefly outline the historical context of Vanuatu, discuss the successes and challenges of facilitating capacity building, and reflect on her own values, assumptions, and learning within the social context of an international …

Deafestival (Fa 684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 684. This collection features information and documentation of the Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing's DeaFestival held in various communities around the state.

Paul Sawyier Public Library - Frankfort, Kentucky - Summer Reading Program (Fa 683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 683. This collection features information and documentation of the Paul Sawyier Public Library's summer reading program held from 6 June to 29 July 2011 at the Paul Sawiyer Public Library in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Bill Monroe Homeplace - Rosine, Kentucky - Dedication (Fa 685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 685. This collection features video and audio documentation of the Bill Monroe homeplace dedication ceremony held on 23 August 2001 in Rosine, Kentucky.

Political Influence Associates With Cortisol And Health Among Egalitarian Forager-Farmers, Christopher Von Rueden, Benjamin C. Trumble, Melissa Emery Thompson, Jonathan Stieglitz, Paul L. Hooper, Aaron D. Blackwell, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven

ESI Publications

Background and objectives: Low social status increases risk of disease due, in part, to the psychosocial stress that accompanies feeling subordinate or poor. Previous studies report that chronic stress and chronically elevated cortisol can impair cardiovascular and immune function. We test whether lower status is more benign in small-scale, relatively egalitarian societies, where leaders lack coercive authority and there is minimal material wealth to contest.

Methodology: Among Tsimane’ forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia, we compare informal political influence among men with urinary cortisol, immune activation (innate and acquired), and morbidity as assessed during routine medical exams.

Results: After …

Dog Movie Stars And Dog Breed Popularity: A Case Study In Media Influence On Choice, Stefano Ghirlanda, Alberto Acerbi, Harold A. Herzog

Entertainment Collection

Fashions and fads are important phenomena that influence many individual choices. They are ubiquitous in human societies, and have recently been used as a source of data to test models of cultural dynamics. Although a few statistical regularities have been observed in fashion cycles, their empirical characterization is still incomplete. Here we consider the impact of mass media on popular culture, showing that the release of movies featuring dogs is often associated with an increase in the popularity of featured breeds, for up to 10 years after movie release. We also find that a movie’s impact on breed popularity correlates …

Kentucky State Fair - Louisville, Kentucky (Fa 682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 682. This collection features information and documentation of various Kentucky State Fairs and their respective attractions.

Appalshop's Access To Artistic Excellence Project (Fa 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 681. This collection primarily contains a variety of short films produced by Appalshop's Access to Artistic Excellence Project funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Appalshop's goal in the Access to Artistic Excellence Project is to preserve and present film and audio of master traditional artists and to build strong appreciation for Appalachian culture, art, and traditions.

World Of Our Own: Kentucky Folkways (Fa 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 680. This collection features information about the "World of Our Own: Kentucky Folkways" television program series sponsored and produced by KET (Kentucky Educational Television) which premiered from August 16-19, 1998.

Chinese Moon Festival - Lexington, Kentucky (Fa 679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 679. This collection features documentation of the Chinese Moon Festival held on October 1, 2006 at the Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington, Kentucky.

Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 2857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2857. Typescripts and a few photocopies of a printed newspaper column titled “Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore” written by WKU English professor Gordon Wilson, Sr. This grouping includes columns that were not incorporated into the bound volumes of his work found in the Kentucky Library Research Collections (GR110 .K4 W542)

Drawn To Africa: In Anthropology, Katy Lindquist '14 Finds Her Footing

Colby Magazine

Katy Lindquist ’14 is a Presidential Scholar from Woodland Park, Colo., who majored in anthropology and won the award for outstanding performance in anthropology and the Oak Human Rights Champion prize. Her Colby career included two Jan Plans in southern India with Oak Fellow Fatima Burnad, a summer in Tanzania helping a community organization build a secondary school, another summer in Ethiopia working for a community development organization, and a semester abroad studying post-genocide reconstruction and peace building in Rwanda. She sat down for a Q&A before graduation in May.