The 21st Annual South Carolina Archaeology Month, 2012 University of South Carolina - Columbia
The 21st Annual South Carolina Archaeology Month, James D. Spirek, Christopher F. Amer, Nena Powell Rice
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Legacy - November 2012, 2012 University of South Carolina
Legacy - November 2012, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina
SCIAA Newsletter - Legacy & PastWatch
Contents:
Chris Amer Retires.....p. 1
Director's Note.....p. 2
The Archaeology of Civil War Naval Operations in Charleston Harbor, 1861-1865.....p. 4
USC Archaeologist Helps Dig a Dugout Canoe Near Daufuskie Island.....p. 10
2012 Underwater Archaeology Field Training Course.....p. 12
Halfway to Mörön: Shedding New Light on Paleolithic Landscapes of Northern Mongolia.....p. 14
Study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Puts the University of South Carolina Topper Site in Middle of Comet Controversy.....p. 18
ART/SCIAA Donors Update August 2011-October 2012.....p. 22
The 21st Annual South Carolina Archaeology Month.....p. 24
History Of Anthropology At Washington University, St. Louis, 1905-2012, 2012 Washington University in St. Louis
History Of Anthropology At Washington University, St. Louis, 1905-2012, David L. Browman
Books and Monographs
This is a history of the development of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis as researched and recorded by Professor David L. Browman. His research includes the development of anthropology as a department, profiles of faculty and other noteworthy individuals involved in anthropology at the university and in St. Louis, a list of department chairs and faculty affiliated with the department, and personal recollections.
Halfway To Mörön: Shedding New Light On Paleolithic Landscapes Of Northern Mongolia, 2012 University of South Carolina - Columbia
Halfway To Mörön: Shedding New Light On Paleolithic Landscapes Of Northern Mongolia, J. Christopher Gillam, Sergei A. Gladyshev, Andrei V. Tabarev, B. Gunchinsuren, John W. Olsen
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
How Do Latino Groups Fare In A Changing Economy? Occupation In Latino Groups In The Greater New York City Area, 1980-2009, 2012 Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
How Do Latino Groups Fare In A Changing Economy? Occupation In Latino Groups In The Greater New York City Area, 1980-2009, Stephen Ruszczyk
Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
Introduction: This study examines demographic and socioeconomic factors of racial/ethnic groups in New York City between 1980 and 2009 – particularly the Latino population.
Methods: Data on Latinos and other racial/ethnic groups were obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, reorganized for public use by the Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, IPUMSusa. Cases in the dataset were weighted and analyzed to produce population estimates.
Results: Trends from 1990 continued in 2000, with numbers of Puerto Ricans in production dropping to only 14% of that group. More than a fifth of Puerto Ricans worked in management and professional …
Co-Creating Heritage Landscapes: A Topographical Inquiry Of Urban Historic Centers In Late Socialist Cuba, 2012 University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Co-Creating Heritage Landscapes: A Topographical Inquiry Of Urban Historic Centers In Late Socialist Cuba, Matthew Hill, Maki Tanaka
Matthew J. Hill
No abstract provided.
Toward An Agenda For Placing Migrant Hometown Associations (Htas) In Migration Policy-Making Discourse In Ghana, 2012 University of Ghana
Toward An Agenda For Placing Migrant Hometown Associations (Htas) In Migration Policy-Making Discourse In Ghana, Thomas Antwi Bosiakoh
Dr Thomas ANTWI BOSIAKOH
Migrant hometown associations (HTAs) are arguably the most recognizable migrant institutions in migration destination countries. As institutions for the welfare of migrants and for the development of migrant home and destination countries, migrant HTAs have engaged the attention of migration scholars for a number of reasons. Their activities straddle across different spheres of endeavours, including adjustment and integration, development, promotion of peaceful co-existence, socio-cultural empowerment, and resolution of conflicts, among others. These activities of migrant HTAs are important in achieving co-development and therefore require policy focus. While it is important to commend Ghana for initiating a process for migration policy …
A Celtic Invocation: Cétnad Naíse, 2012 California Lutheran University
A Celtic Invocation: Cétnad Naíse, Ernst F. Tonsing
e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies
Very little has been written about the baffling text of the Celtic invocation, the Cétnad nAíse, for the reason that it is abstruse, and the allusions in it resist sure explication. Despite the obstacles to interpreting the Cétnad nAíse, however, a close examination of the poem can yield some clues as to its sources, purpose, and, perhaps, authorship. To do this, the lines of the prayer will be treated in three groups: the four "invocations," the "petitions," and the "I am" sayings. It can be concluded that, contrary to some analysts, the content of the poem is derived …
University Scholar Series: Jan English-Lueck, 2012 San Jose State University
University Scholar Series: Jan English-Lueck, Jan English-Lueck
University Scholar Series
Unique and Medically Diverse Health Culture in the Silicon Valley
On October 24, 2012 Dr. Jan English-Lueck spoke in the University Scholar Series hosted by Provost Ellen Junn at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Dr. Jan English-Lueck is the associate dean of the College of Social Sciences and a distinguished anthropologist. She has written ethnographies detailing the lives of California's alternative healers and China's scientists. She is also the author of several books on Silicon Valley that explore how working in Silicon Valley shapes our communities, families, and bodies.
Digitalcommons@Umaine For Faculty, 2012 University of Maine
Digitalcommons@Umaine For Faculty, Kimberly J. Sawtelle
Kimberly J. Sawtelle
DigitalCommons@UMaine, the university's Institutional Repository (IR), offers a free alternative to faculty to disseminate research, scholarship, and creative activity as required by many departmental missions and federal granting agencies. The IR benefits faculty by increasing global exposure to research, scholarship, and creative output. This presentation features an overview of DigitalCommons@UMaine, a brief introduction to the program's essential tools, and concepts for uploading material.
A Critical Examination Of The Relationship Between The Use Of Gatekeepers, Trust, And Organisation Knowledge-Sharing, 2012 Nottingham Trent University
A Critical Examination Of The Relationship Between The Use Of Gatekeepers, Trust, And Organisation Knowledge-Sharing, Deogratias Harorimana Dr
Dr Deogratias Harorimana
This thesis critically examines the relationship between gatekeepers, trust, and an organisation’s knowledge sharing. The research applied mixed methods with the case study approach. In this research the concept ‘gatekeeper’ is widely used to represent a class of those who are part of a knowledge management strategy; they collect information and knowledge and contextualise this before they can share it with the rest of the members of the organisation’s knowledge networks - within the formal and informal organisation. In this study, it was found that there was a strong relationship between the openness of a given firm, as regards its …
White Snake, Black Snake Folk Narrative Meets Master Narrative In Qing Dynasty Sichuanese Cross-Stitch Medallions, 2012 Southern Illinois University
White Snake, Black Snake Folk Narrative Meets Master Narrative In Qing Dynasty Sichuanese Cross-Stitch Medallions, Cory Willmott
Cory A. Willmott
The cross-stitch medallion in figure 1 was collected by my grandmother, Katherine Willmott, in the early 1920s when she was a missionary in Renshow, Sichuan Province, West China. Many years after I inherited it, I learned that it depicts a folk narrative called “White Snake; Black Snake” that was traditionally performed both on stage in the legitimate theaters and in Chinese shadow puppet dramas (Highbaugh n/d:6).
The story may be summarized as follows: There were two female snakes, White Snake and Black Snake, who were inseparable friends. They both changed into beautiful young women. White Snake got married and bore …
Babette's Feast And The Goodness Of God, 2012 St. John's College (Lasallian)
Babette's Feast And The Goodness Of God, Thomas J. Curry
Journal of Religion & Film
This article attempts to answer the preeminent question Babette’s Feast invites viewers to consider: Why does Babette choose to expend everything she has to make her feast? Of the critical studies made of the film, few have considered analytically crucial the catastrophic backstory of Babette, the violence of which is implied and offscreen. Appreciation of the singularity of Babette’s own personhood and the darker aspects of her experience, and not only how she might act as a figure of Christ, are key to understanding the motivating force behind her meal and its transformative effect: That through the feast Babette lays …
Launching The Search For The Wreck Of Hms Colibri, 2012 University of South Carolina - Columbia
Launching The Search For The Wreck Of Hms Colibri, James D. Spirek
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Faculty In The Mist: Ethnographic Study Of Faculty Research Practices, 2012 Colby College
Faculty In The Mist: Ethnographic Study Of Faculty Research Practices, Marilyn R. Pukkila, Ellen L. Freeman
Faculty Scholarship
A report on ethnographic research on college faculty research and teaching methods, with their use of information resources, library services, technology, and academic IT support.
Los Beneficios De La Educación Cultural Para La Rehabilitación, 2012 SIT Graduate Institute - Study Abroad
Los Beneficios De La Educación Cultural Para La Rehabilitación, Samantha Thoma
Spain: Language, Community, and Social Change
In Fall of 2012, during my participation in the Spain: Language, Community and Social Change program, I volunteered at El Centro de Inserción Social “Matilde Canto Fernandez”, a center for inmates in the advanced stages of their reintegration. It is located in the center of urban Granada in order to make the reintegration into the social life of Granada easier. The center plays a residential role and offers intervention and treatment of activities, and social work.
The initial idea for my service was to conduct a “Cine-fórum” in which I would show a movie and lead a discussion where …
The Contact Period Of Central Peten, Guatemala In Color, 2012 Queens College of the City University of New York
The Contact Period Of Central Peten, Guatemala In Color, Timothy W. Pugh, Leslie G. Cecil
Faculty Publications
When Bernal Díaz del Castillo passed by Nojpeten with Hernán Cortés in 1525, he remarked upon the Itza capital’s brilliant whiteness, even from a great distance (Jones 1998:69). However had he stood in the central plaza, he would have discerned that the sun’s reflection eclipsed artifacts and architecture of a variety of colors. The archaeological record is frequently similarly whitewashed by our focus upon form, weight, and distribution. Nevertheless, color helped imbue the Contact period (AD 1525-1697) world of the Maya of the Petén lakes region of Guatemala with significance. This paper investigates the colors of ritual paraphernalia encountered in …
Deadly Powers: Animal Predators And The Mythic Imagination By Paul A. Trout, 2012 Boise State University
Deadly Powers: Animal Predators And The Mythic Imagination By Paul A. Trout, Lizzy A. Walker
Lizzy A. Walker
Paul Trout's book on animal predators and myth is well researched and presented in such a way that it is informative and entertaining. He illustrates his assertions with numerous examples of myths from ancient cultures. The content is also meant to make the reader "uncomfortable" with the idea that humans did not start out at the top of the food chain. When applicable, Trout likens myths to some modern tales of terror where humanity must face its fear of the predator in various forms, such as in modern horror and science fiction films.
Cenotes As Conceptual Boundary Markers At The Ancient Maya Site Of T’Isil, Quintana Roo, México, 2012 Trinity University
Cenotes As Conceptual Boundary Markers At The Ancient Maya Site Of T’Isil, Quintana Roo, México, Scott L. Fedick, Jennifer P. Mathews, K. Sorensen
Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research
Ancient Maya communities, from small village sites to urban centers, have long posed problems to archaeologists in attempting to define the boundaries or limits of settlement. These ancient communities tend to be relatively dispersed, with settlement densities dropping toward the periphery, but lacking any clear boundary. At a limited number of sites, the Maya constructed walled enclosures or earthworks, which scholars have generally interpreted as defensive projects, often hastily built to protect the central districts of larger administrative centers during times of warfare (e.g., Demarest et al. 1997; Inomata 1997; Kurjack and Andrews 1976; Puleston and Callender 1967; Webster 2000; …
Hawaiian Presence At Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, 2012 Portland State University
Hawaiian Presence At Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Douglas C. Wilson
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Fort Vancouver, as the colonial "Capital" of the Pacific Northwest in the 1820s-1840s, supported a multiethnic village of 600-1,000 occupants. A number of the villagers were Hawaiian men who worked in the agricultural fields and sawmills of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) operations. Identification of Hawaiian residences and activities has been an important element of studies of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Vancouver, Washington, since the 1960s.
Kauanui calls for a "broad research agenda that accounts for Hawaiian movements in their respective contexts of conditions, periods, reasons, and desires, to allow us to better account for Hawaiian presence on the …