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Tracy, Janet (Fa 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Tracy, Janet (Fa 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 40.  Collection consists of interviews with Artie Emmet Lemaire about his business selling merchandise at flea markets and roadside stands in Bowling Green, Kentucky.  Interviews also include biographcial data about Lemaire.


Schooling Passions: Nation, History, And Language In Contemporary Western India (Book Review), Christopher Bischof 2011 University of Richmond

Schooling Passions: Nation, History, And Language In Contemporary Western India (Book Review), Christopher Bischof

History Faculty Publications

Schooling Passions is an anthropological work that explores the everyday production of local, regional, and national senses of belonging in the elementary schools in the locality of Kolhapur near the southern boundary of the state of Maharashtra, India. Kolhapur was an independent kingdom until 1949 and traces its origin to Shivaji Bhosale, a seventeenth-century hero-warrior who founded the Marathi nation. Equipped with a knowledge of Marathi and significant expertise in nationalism, citizenship, education, and gender, Véronique Benei conducted fieldwork at five schools in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the expectation that education would be less nationalistic there than …


Book Review Of, Paul Shankman. The Trashing Of Margaret Mead: Anatomy Of An Anthropological Controversy, Michele Ruth Gamburd 2011 Portland State University

Book Review Of, Paul Shankman. The Trashing Of Margaret Mead: Anatomy Of An Anthropological Controversy, Michele Ruth Gamburd

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Reviews the book "The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy," by Paul Shankman.


Smith, Corey William, B.1989 (Fa 549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Smith, Corey William, B.1989 (Fa 549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text paper (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 549.  Joke collected from Joe Lohden by his stepson Corey Smith, which was told to Smith during his childhood.  This project was a requirement for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 547.  Paper titled:  "Bowling Lingo," written by Lucas Samuel Fisher about the folk speech of bowlers, gathered in Glasgow, Kentucky, and nationally through an online bowling forum.  This project was a requirement for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Wronski, Genevieve Elissa, B. 1980 (Fa 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Wronski, Genevieve Elissa, B. 1980 (Fa 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 544. Paper titled "The Monkey Walk" written by Genevieve Elissa Wronski in which she documents Brian Greever's ape imitation performed at social parties. Includes colored illustrations and video.


Mortally Morbid Musings, Poh Wah Lee 2011 Singapore Management University

Mortally Morbid Musings, Poh Wah Lee

Social Space

In this final article, Lee Poh Wahcomes to terms with the idea of dying well.


Table Of Contents (V. 23, 2011), 2011 Syracuse University

Table Of Contents (V. 23, 2011)

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

No abstract provided.


A Review Of "Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case For Liberty", Fethi Keles 2011 Syracuse University

A Review Of "Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case For Liberty", Fethi Keles

Anthropology - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Anthropologists And Two Spirit People: Building Bridges And Sharing Knowledge, Sandra Faiman-Silva 2011 Bridgewater State University

Anthropologists And Two Spirit People: Building Bridges And Sharing Knowledge, Sandra Faiman-Silva

Anthropology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Reflections On Reflections: Dialectical Commentaries On Gender And Class In Ntae Production, Donna Chollett 2011 University of Minnesota - Morris

Reflections On Reflections: Dialectical Commentaries On Gender And Class In Ntae Production, Donna Chollett

Anthropology Publications

No abstract provided.


Ua12/2/20 Phi Delta Theta, WKU Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Ua12/2/20 Phi Delta Theta, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Phi Delta Theta and Phi Delta Chi. Series includes membership lists, meeting minutes and correspondence.


Ua12/2/12 Kappa Alpha Psi, WKU Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Ua12/2/12 Kappa Alpha Psi, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Kappa Alpha Psi at Western Kentucky University. Includes charter, bylaws, correspondence and membership lists.


Review Of Liquid Bread, Edited By Wulf Schiefenhövel And Helen Macbeth, Carol A. Leibiger 2011 University of South Dakota

Review Of Liquid Bread, Edited By Wulf Schiefenhövel And Helen Macbeth, Carol A. Leibiger

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Immigrant Women Organize For Justice: A Listening Project, Sandra Catalina Nieto 2011 SIT Graduate Institute

Immigrant Women Organize For Justice: A Listening Project, Sandra Catalina Nieto

Capstone Collection

Over nineteen million immigrant women live in the United States. Each one of those nineteen million women carries with her a powerful history. Immigrant Women Organize for Justice: A Listening Project is an attempt to capture a breath of those histories, in particular the histories of four mujeres luchadoras: immigrant women who are organizing communities surrounding them and devoting much of their life and their work to the lucha (struggle or fight) for a more just and equal society. Immigrant Women Organize for Justice: A Listening Project is a two-part project. The first section is devoted entirely to remembering the …


The Olympics In East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, And Globalism On The Center Stage Of World Sports, William W. Kelly, Susan Brownell 2011 Yale University

The Olympics In East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, And Globalism On The Center Stage Of World Sports, William W. Kelly, Susan Brownell

CEAS Occasional Publication Series

Yale CEAS Occasional Publication Series - Volume 3


Ua12/2/13 Alpha Phi Alpha, WKU Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Ua12/2/13 Alpha Phi Alpha, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Alpha Phi Alpha at Western Kentucky University.


Ua12/2/21 Chi Omega Records, WKU Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Ua12/2/21 Chi Omega Records, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Chi Omega. Series includes membership lists, award applications and correspondence.


Resistance Through Transformation? The Meanings Of Gender Reversals In A Taiwanese Buddhist Monastery, Hillary Crane 2011 Linfield College

Resistance Through Transformation? The Meanings Of Gender Reversals In A Taiwanese Buddhist Monastery, Hillary Crane

Faculty Publications

This chapter demonstrates that Taiwanese Buddhist nuns resist the limitations of traditional Han gender ideologies by drawing on opportunities offered within those traditional gender constructions—opportunities that allow them to define themselves in opposition to the limited female gender characteristics and roles they reject. Crane argues that we should not interpret these nuns' masculine identification simply as resisting dominant Han gender ideologies. Instead, the nuns embrace the traditional, sexist Han ideologies, even to the point of exaggeration—portraying women not only as dangerous to the spiritual cultivation of others, but also of limited spiritual ability. They define the negative characteristics of women …


Extraction From Immersion, Kristina Baines 2011 CUNY Guttman Community College

Extraction From Immersion, Kristina Baines

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


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