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Title: MMO gaming culture: an online gaming family.
Creator: Perez, Michael, Harris, Michael S., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: This study examines the social organization of Gaiscíoch, a large online gaming community that exists within the simulated world of a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG). It provides an ethnographic account of an online gaming community that is open to any player without skill or time commitment requirements, but still maintains high status within the game world. This project identifies eight elements that make this inclusive, friendly, and casual community successful in...
Show moreThis study examines the social organization of Gaiscíoch, a large online gaming community that exists within the simulated world of a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG). It provides an ethnographic account of an online gaming community that is open to any player without skill or time commitment requirements, but still maintains high status within the game world. This project identifies eight elements that make this inclusive, friendly, and casual community successful in virtual worlds that tend to be dominated by communities that have a competitive, strict, and exclusive approach to online gaming (social interaction, code of values, leadership, rank system, events, community building, population size, gameplay). Lastly, this project briefly inquires about the nature of the border between the virtual and the physical and establishes that gamers can be considered pseudo-border-inhabitants that are in control of the community they place adjacent to them in the cyber world.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004399, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004399
Subject Headings: Cyberspace -- Social aspects, Fantasy games -- Social aspects, Internet games -- Social aspects, Role playing -- Social aspects, Video games -- Social aspects
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Title: Long call frequency variation in mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta Palliata).
Creator: Wheeler, James, Broadfield, Douglas C., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The long call frequency of male mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) varies across individuals. In a forest environment where visual contact is impossible at greater distances the long call is utilized for inter-group spacing and for male-male communication. As lower frequencies are capable of traveling longer distances, it is quite possible that there is a correlation between group size and long call frequency. This link lies in the premise that smaller groups have fewer individuals...
Show moreThe long call frequency of male mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) varies across individuals. In a forest environment where visual contact is impossible at greater distances the long call is utilized for inter-group spacing and for male-male communication. As lower frequencies are capable of traveling longer distances, it is quite possible that there is a correlation between group size and long call frequency. This link lies in the premise that smaller groups have fewer individuals thus fewer males, and spread out less over the course of each day while obtaining food resources, thus the distance these males call over their lifespan is generally less than the males in a larger group. This thesis investigates the relationship between group size and long call frequency in mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) on Isla de Ometepé, Nicaragua.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004072
Subject Headings: Howler monkeys -- Habitat -- Nicaragua -- Isla de Ometepé, Howler monkeys -- Migration, Howler monkeys -- Vocalization, Primates -- Speciation
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Title: Identifying disparities in K-12 dance education in the state of Florida: the need for consistency in curricular choice and instructional design.
Creator: Austin, Kathryn, Cameron, Mary, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to identify disparities in the delivery of standards based dance education in the K-12 learning environment in the state of Florida and to give specific attention to curricular choices and instructional design. A mixed-methods approach was used and included a survey of K-12 dance educators in Florida as well as interviews with leaders in dance and arts education in the state. This inquiry identified common areas where curriculum choice and instructional design...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to identify disparities in the delivery of standards based dance education in the K-12 learning environment in the state of Florida and to give specific attention to curricular choices and instructional design. A mixed-methods approach was used and included a survey of K-12 dance educators in Florida as well as interviews with leaders in dance and arts education in the state. This inquiry identified common areas where curriculum choice and instructional design meet the barriers of time, space, place, learner population, expected educational outcomes, and teacher preparation. Each of these areas suggested specific limitations singularly, but when considered together, the effectiveness of K-12 dance programs appeared compromised by disparity and difficult to assess. By centralizing the focus of this inquiry on the realities of the learning environment in K-12 dance education in the state of Florida, the results of this study identified disparities in one state that may inform future research in the broader field of dance education. A set of Core Dance Education Values has been recommended as a guideline to better unify dance teaching goals in light of the research and in support of developing best practices for sustainable K-12 dance programming.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004265, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004265
Subject Headings: Dance -- Study and teaching, Dance for children, Dance in education, Movement education -- Curricula, Movement education -- Study and teaching, Physical education and training -- Curricula
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Title: THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND THE EVERGLADES.
Creator: Amorino, Stephen, Kirsch, Max, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Anthropology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The Miccosukee Tribe of South Florida is a federally recognized Indian tribe who reside on a reservation that lies within the Florida Everglades. As such, like many Indian tribes, their modern political history is entangled with the history of the creation of nearby national parks that were previously their traditional hunting territories. Since the beginning of the era of Everglades restoration and the rise in public policy designed to save the “River of Grass” from pollution, encroaching...
Show moreThe Miccosukee Tribe of South Florida is a federally recognized Indian tribe who reside on a reservation that lies within the Florida Everglades. As such, like many Indian tribes, their modern political history is entangled with the history of the creation of nearby national parks that were previously their traditional hunting territories. Since the beginning of the era of Everglades restoration and the rise in public policy designed to save the “River of Grass” from pollution, encroaching development, and eventual extinction, the Miccosukee have been on the front lines of trying to preserve the area they call home. While the Everglades means many different things to many different people, the Everglades to the Miccosukee Indians are the site and stakes of indigenous sovereignty. I argue that the issue of Everglades preservation is not just a matter of environmental conservation, but also a matter of fundamental human rights. Theoretically, I situate the debate surrounding the Florida Everglades within several theoretical paradigms, including the rights of indigenous peoples, the anthropology of development, and political ecology. I use anthropological research methods such as in-depth interviews with tribal officials and local environmental agencies to gain a complete picture of the current political landscape of the Everglades.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013443
Subject Headings: Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, Everglades (Fla. ), Indigenous rights, Indigenous peoples--Civil rights
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Title: CAPITAL-DOMAINS AND LABOR-DOMAINS: AN EXTENSIVE APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF PEASANT SOCIETY.
Creator: PINDER, RAYMOND E. JR., Florida Atlantic University, Early, John D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The paper attempts to develop a useful typology of peasant societies by focusing on the statal structure in which the peasants are involved. The economic dynamics of agrarian states are considered and on this basis it is determined that there are at least two types-- capital-domains and labor-domains--and therefore at least two types of peasantry. The economic variables that specify the types are employed to account for differences in the political-legal systems of the types. Analysis of...
Show moreThe paper attempts to develop a useful typology of peasant societies by focusing on the statal structure in which the peasants are involved. The economic dynamics of agrarian states are considered and on this basis it is determined that there are at least two types-- capital-domains and labor-domains--and therefore at least two types of peasantry. The economic variables that specify the types are employed to account for differences in the political-legal systems of the types. Analysis of selected ethnographic data is presented. A new, and hopefully more useful, definition of peasantry is presented. The analysis attempts to systematize the melange of theory concerning peasant society. The major works, especially Wolf, are considered. The analysis incorporates a theoretical framework for the study of plantation societies, previously a theoretical no-man's land.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13634
Subject Headings: Peasantry
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Title: Archaeological Investigations on Cat Island, Bahamas.
Creator: MacLaury, James C., Sears, William H., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: In 1966 and 1967 Cat Island, Bahamas was surveyed by field parties from Florida Atlantic University in an attempt to locate archaeological sites. A total of 19 sites were found, all but one were coastal shell middens near tidal deltas or bays. Most of the sites were on the leeward side of the island where ecological conditions for supporting large quantities of shellfish were best. In March, 1968, five of the sites located in the survey were sampled by means of small test pits. The artifact...
Show moreIn 1966 and 1967 Cat Island, Bahamas was surveyed by field parties from Florida Atlantic University in an attempt to locate archaeological sites. A total of 19 sites were found, all but one were coastal shell middens near tidal deltas or bays. Most of the sites were on the leeward side of the island where ecological conditions for supporting large quantities of shellfish were best. In March, 1968, five of the sites located in the survey were sampled by means of small test pits. The artifact assemblage consisted of over 6000 potsherds and a handful of shell and stone implements. Over 99% of the ceramic assemblage consisted of a thick, red, shell-tempered ware similar to that found in recent excavations on San Salvador by Hoffman (1967). The overwhelming amount of the Cat Island shell-tempered ware is plain with a few decorated variants. A shell-tempered series was set up and called the Palmetto series with one type, Palmetto plain, and several decorated variants. Decorative modes consisted of applique, punctation, incision, and mat and grid impressions. The ceramic assemblage also included several residual categories which contained tempering materials not native to the Bahamas. The most prominent of these was a quartz-tempered ware that showed considerable similarity to the Carrier style of northern Haiti. The decorative modes of the Palmetto series showed affiliations with northern Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands during periods IIIb and IV of Rouse's (1964) time scale for the northern Caribbean. The time of occupation was roughly 1000-1500 A.D. The culture of the island was one of fairly permanent, small villages with subsistence based on the exploitation of the marine shellfish resources and manioc agriculture. Burial and other ceremonial practices are not known.
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Date Issued: 1968
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012592
Subject Headings: Excavations (Archaeology)--Bahamas--Cat Island, Bahamas--Antiquities, Cat Island (Bahamas)--Antiquities
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Title: Aspects of urban design in an ancient Maya center: El Pilar, Belize.
Creator: Wernecke, Daniel Clark., Florida Atlantic University, Kennedy, William J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: Research on Maya centers have focused on monogenic descriptions assuming a uniqueness of design rather than looking at Maya centers as systems encompassing multiple functions as well as an innate strategy of urban design. The analysis of Maya architecture, in particular, has often become a pseudonym for the study of individual structure's chronology rather than an examination of structures using architectural theory and method. Using data from the site of El Pilar, this thesis examines the...
Show moreResearch on Maya centers have focused on monogenic descriptions assuming a uniqueness of design rather than looking at Maya centers as systems encompassing multiple functions as well as an innate strategy of urban design. The analysis of Maya architecture, in particular, has often become a pseudonym for the study of individual structure's chronology rather than an examination of structures using architectural theory and method. Using data from the site of El Pilar, this thesis examines the restricted ways in which Maya urban centers have been architecturally analyzed in the past and will incorporate those methods, into the wider scope of architectural theory to propose a holistic analysis of one center. This analysis places ancient Maya regional centers, such as El Pilar, in a broader comparative context, one that readily enables comparisons between other regional Maya centers as well as the cities of other world cultures.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15097
Subject Headings: Anthropology, Archaeology
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Anthropology and public education through museology.
Creator: Wilkov, Marjorie Ruth., Florida Atlantic University, Weiss, Gerald, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: An inspection of the museum world and the place of anthropology within it provides an historical perspective taking into consideration museum personnel as well as the housing of collections. The chronological emergence and development of museums will be discussed. Museums as an early training ground for curators and educators in anthropology will be mentioned. Tracking through time will include a description of curatorial tasks of some of the more famous early curators, and their incipient...
Show moreAn inspection of the museum world and the place of anthropology within it provides an historical perspective taking into consideration museum personnel as well as the housing of collections. The chronological emergence and development of museums will be discussed. Museums as an early training ground for curators and educators in anthropology will be mentioned. Tracking through time will include a description of curatorial tasks of some of the more famous early curators, and their incipient roles both in the maintenance, presentation and conservation of museum collections and in museum education. A consideration of the world of museology will provide in addition an updated look at the workings of present-day museum personnel and their techniques, in particular as related to anthropology. Different but related questionnaires were sent to Museum Administrators and Museum Educators, respectively, at museums around the country. Results of the data-gathering and recommendations for improvements in museum education policies will be included in the third and fourth chapters.
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Date Issued: 1989
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14503
Subject Headings: Museum techniques, Anthropological museums and collections
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: AN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE RED DESERT, SOUTH-CENTRAL WYOMING, UTILIZING DATA OBTAINED FROM THE WAMSUTTER BLOCK AREA SURVEY.
Creator: SILVIA, DIANE ELIZABETH., Florida Atlantic University, Kennedy, William J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this research project is to determine if any correlation exists between ecological factors and the settlement patterns exhibited within Townships 18 and 19 North, Range 93 West, of the Wamsutter Block Area Survey, Carbon County, Wyoming. The Wamsutter project area, located in a region known as the Red Desert, lies mostly in the Great Divide Basin and extends slightly into the Washakie Basin of south-central Wyoming. The environmental effect on cultural adaptations may be...
Show moreThe purpose of this research project is to determine if any correlation exists between ecological factors and the settlement patterns exhibited within Townships 18 and 19 North, Range 93 West, of the Wamsutter Block Area Survey, Carbon County, Wyoming. The Wamsutter project area, located in a region known as the Red Desert, lies mostly in the Great Divide Basin and extends slightly into the Washakie Basin of south-central Wyoming. The environmental effect on cultural adaptations may be reflected in the archaeological remains. Prior to the Wamsutter survey project, this area was the subject of several surveys by various institutions. The previous surveys were limited compared with the massive and intensive undertaking of this project. It is hoped that through this investigation the utility of the large data base generated by contract archaeology will be demonstrated.
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Date Issued: 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14103
Subject Headings: Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Wyoming
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: EXPLOITATION OF VERTEBRATE FAUNA BY HOPEWELL POPULATIONS IN OHIO AND ILLINOIS.
Creator: NAGEL, DIANE DENISE SIMMONS., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: Through a study of representative sites in Ohio and Illinos a reconstruction of Hopewellian exploitation of available vertebrate fauna is presented. Written accounts of faunal remains and symbolic representations (e.g., effigy pipes) from mound and village sites are examined to determine the manner of exploitation in the sacred and secular spheres. While faunal utilization is somewhat uniform in Ohio and Illinois, there is a more noticeable overlap of finds from mound and village loci in the...
Show moreThrough a study of representative sites in Ohio and Illinos a reconstruction of Hopewellian exploitation of available vertebrate fauna is presented. Written accounts of faunal remains and symbolic representations (e.g., effigy pipes) from mound and village sites are examined to determine the manner of exploitation in the sacred and secular spheres. While faunal utilization is somewhat uniform in Ohio and Illinois, there is a more noticeable overlap of finds from mound and village loci in the latter region, indicating that the sacred-secular distincion was less explicit there. For both areas a totomeic clan system is considered as a plausible explanation for the use of chosen vertebrates in a symbolic fashion. By presenting such hypotheses, this study illustrates that a close scrutiny of faunal debris can provide information not only on subsistence, but also on the political, religious, and ideological aspects of a society.
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Date Issued: 1980
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14019
Subject Headings: Hopewell culture
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Title: EXCAVATION OF A SUBMERGED SUB-TAINO SITE IN PUERTO RICO.
Creator: VEGA, JESUS E., Florida Atlantic University, Kennedy, William J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: Due to eustatic changes of sea level, tectonic activity, isostatic and compactional depression, and erosion, a considerable number of archaeological land sites are now underwater. East of San Juan, Puerto Rico, underwater archaeological excavation at Isla Verde site revealed a coastal settlement inhabited circa A.D. 800 by Arawak Neo-Indians. Classified in the Ostiones phase by its ceramic ware, the site preceded the Talno chiefdoms encountered by European explorers at the close of the...
Show moreDue to eustatic changes of sea level, tectonic activity, isostatic and compactional depression, and erosion, a considerable number of archaeological land sites are now underwater. East of San Juan, Puerto Rico, underwater archaeological excavation at Isla Verde site revealed a coastal settlement inhabited circa A.D. 800 by Arawak Neo-Indians. Classified in the Ostiones phase by its ceramic ware, the site preceded the Talno chiefdoms encountered by European explorers at the close of the fifteenth century. Built near the ocean, in a once secluded area surrounded by two lagoons and a mangrove belt, Isla Verde site was characterized by coastal and maritime adaptations such as shellfish collecting and the hunting of manatees and turtles. Cultivation of root crops was also part of the subsistence pattern. The site was submerged as a result of erosion produced by wave patterns diffracted by offshore reef patches. The archaeological potential and limitations of the site were evaluated, in conjunction with the recent geologic history of the area.
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Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14084
Subject Headings: Indians of the West Indies--Puerto Rico--Antiquities, Underwater archaeology--Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico--Antiquities
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Title: THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM IN THE WESTERN WORLD.
Creator: LAMBERT, PETER., Florida Atlantic University, Early, John D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the evolution of religious symbol systems. It proposes that religion as a cognitive system has evolved through the processes of differentiation and abstraction. Furthermore, it demonstrates that this evolution has occurred not through a cumulative process but through major paradigmatic shifts that rejected the previous traditions. These propositions are applied to the religious history of Western civilization. The study deals with the religions of the ancient Near East,...
Show moreThis thesis examines the evolution of religious symbol systems. It proposes that religion as a cognitive system has evolved through the processes of differentiation and abstraction. Furthermore, it demonstrates that this evolution has occurred not through a cumulative process but through major paradigmatic shifts that rejected the previous traditions. These propositions are applied to the religious history of Western civilization. The study deals with the religions of the ancient Near East, the religion of Israel, classical Christianity, and the Christianity of the modern "radical" theologians. The validity of the theories set forth are tested not in the exotic setting of most ethnological literature but in the familiar and well-documented world of Western religions.
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Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14079
Subject Headings: Symbolism, Religion
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Title: Determination of race and sex from the crania of a skeletal collection in Dade County, Florida.
Creator: Groh, Maria C. Ruiz., Florida Atlantic University, Iscan, M. Yasar, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The skeletal collection in Dade County, Florida contains 414 cases, however, only 63 have adult crania of suitable condition for morphometric analysis. This study first presents the results produced by FORDISC 1.0, an interactive forensic computer program used to determine race and sex from cranial measurements. Secondly, it presents conclusions drawn from a craniometric comparison of black and white individuals of both sexes from the Dade sample to those from the turn of the century Terry...
Show moreThe skeletal collection in Dade County, Florida contains 414 cases, however, only 63 have adult crania of suitable condition for morphometric analysis. This study first presents the results produced by FORDISC 1.0, an interactive forensic computer program used to determine race and sex from cranial measurements. Secondly, it presents conclusions drawn from a craniometric comparison of black and white individuals of both sexes from the Dade sample to those from the turn of the century Terry and Hamann-Todd collections and Ayers and associate's modem forensic sample. FORDISC achieved a 70 percent accuracy rate in the determination of race. In the determination of sex, FORDISC correctly sexed 69 percent of the sample. The results of the population comparisons suggest changes in cranial morphology over time, such as a significant increase in basion-bregma height in white males, white females, and black females. These changes have serious implications in the identification of unknown individuals, as physical anthropologists must update their criteria to determine race and sex in accordance with these variations.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15041
Subject Headings: Craniometry, Craniology--Florida--Dade County, Dead--Identification
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Title: Disease and population ecology in southeast Florida.
Creator: Winland, Kenneth John., Florida Atlantic University, Iscan, M. Yasar, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The Highland Beach Skeletal Collection (recovered from site 8PB11, dating between AD 600-1200) represents one of the largest skeletal collections in Florida, with over 120 individuals. This study presents an analysis of the pathological conditions as evidenced by the hard tissue remains, as well as demographic models of this population in relation to other archaeological aboriginal groups in central and south Florida. Paleodemographic reconstructions indicate that the Highland Beach...
Show moreThe Highland Beach Skeletal Collection (recovered from site 8PB11, dating between AD 600-1200) represents one of the largest skeletal collections in Florida, with over 120 individuals. This study presents an analysis of the pathological conditions as evidenced by the hard tissue remains, as well as demographic models of this population in relation to other archaeological aboriginal groups in central and south Florida. Paleodemographic reconstructions indicate that the Highland Beach population were foragers, with high life expectancy and low infant mortality. Paleopathological analysis reveals the presence of several infectious conditions, as well as degenerative and hematologic conditions. The incidence of treponematosis in this group is perhaps one of the highest in pre-contact Florida and the southeast.
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Date Issued: 1993
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14933
Subject Headings: Paleopathology--Florida, Indians of North America--Diseases, Indians of North America--Florida--Health and hygiene
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Title: ECONOMY AND FAMILY STRUCTURE, PORT HOWE, CAT ISLAND, BRITISH WEST INDIES.
Creator: LANGBEIN, MARY VIRGINIA H., Florida Atlantic University, Early, John D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The village of Port Howe on Cat Island (Bahamas, BWI), is a small community which earns most of its living by slash-bum horticulture. The economy is not self-contained, and horticulture does not produce surplus sufficient to pay for the imports. A few government salaries and relief payments make up the difference, together with the help sent by citizens who go to work in Nassau or the mainland. The economic activities of Port Howe are inefficient in many respects, the most important being: 1....
Show moreThe village of Port Howe on Cat Island (Bahamas, BWI), is a small community which earns most of its living by slash-bum horticulture. The economy is not self-contained, and horticulture does not produce surplus sufficient to pay for the imports. A few government salaries and relief payments make up the difference, together with the help sent by citizens who go to work in Nassau or the mainland. The economic activities of Port Howe are inefficient in many respects, the most important being: 1. The people do little fishing. They buy canned fish from Nassau. 2. They raise no poultry for eggs or meat, but do without or buy eggs and chickens. 3. They have horses, but use them little, preferring expensive motor transportation. 4. They raise goats and sheep, but waste the wool, hides and milk, valuing only the meat. 5. They keep no dairy cattle, no beef cattle. 6. They have no kitchen garden the year round, but a few vegetables for two months of the year. 7. They do no canning, preserving, smoking of hams and bacon. 8. They do not sew, although they have a severe problem of getting clothing. Inefficiency in the face of extreme poverty poses the question: why? It is the thesis of this paper that this aspect of the economic activities of Port Howe can be explained as the interplay of three factors: the geological structure of the islands, the history of the Bahamas, and the African heritage of the people. It is shown that the skills acquired under slavery tend to be dropped or retained under emancipation, according to whether they were rooted in the African heritage. It is further shown that skills thus rooted tend more strongly to be retained if they are backed up by favorable traits of the geological structure and/or the historical background. Thus, goat herding, although it is manifestly uneconomic, is universally practiced. It is rooted in African tradition, compatible with the geologically dictated practice of horticulture, and has also the sanction of having been carried on throughout the period of slavery. Salt-water fishing and the use of horses, on the other hand, are not practiced today, although they were a part of the plantation economy. But they have no African roots, are rendered difficult by the structure of the islands, and were not emphasized during the plantation era as part of the life of the slaves. Cattle culture also is rendered difficult by the nature of the island, and is probably not rooted in African economy. Although it was an important part of plantation life, it has been abandoned. Some other practices associated with the plantation culture are of late origin, having only developed after the abandonment of the island plantations by their owners. Canning and home sewing by machine were patently no part of life in Africa, and the isolation of island life obviously tends to retard the assimilation of new inventions. The family structure is also shown to be African in its origins, somewhat influenced by the economics and traditions of our culture, but this influence is softened by the nature of the island and the economics of horticulture which it requires. The formation of the matrifocal family, which often takes place in West Africa, was given added impetus by the slavery institution, which stripped the male of his status-giving religious functions, while also down-grading his economic importance. The island structure intensified this trend, by requiring horticulture which can be carried on by women and children, and by making it necessary for him to leave the family home to make much of a cash contribution. Thus the institution of the matrifocal family flourishes, even though it originally rooted in African polygyny, which is illegal in the Bahamas.
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Date Issued: 1970
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13427
Subject Headings: Port Howe (Bahamas)--Economic conditions, Port Howe (Bahamas)--Social conditions
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: CULTURE CHRONOLOGY OF THE WESTERN GEORGIA PIEDMONT.
Creator: JOHNSON, KENNETH WYNNE., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: Surface collections from 244 prehistoric sites on the Fortson and O'Hara Transmission Lines in the western Georgia Piedmont were analyzed. An attempt to define the Old Quartz Industry led to a review of Middle Archaic Morrow Mountain in the Southeastern United States. The Old Quartz Industry was not an integral cultural unit, but an industry involving utilization of locally available lithic resources. The industry was not limited to any one culture or culture period, but reached a peak in the...
Show moreSurface collections from 244 prehistoric sites on the Fortson and O'Hara Transmission Lines in the western Georgia Piedmont were analyzed. An attempt to define the Old Quartz Industry led to a review of Middle Archaic Morrow Mountain in the Southeastern United States. The Old Quartz Industry was not an integral cultural unit, but an industry involving utilization of locally available lithic resources. The industry was not limited to any one culture or culture period, but reached a peak in the Middle Archaic period. Percentages of local versus exotic materials are highest for the Middle Archaic period in western Georgia. Sites of this period are also more abundant than those of other periods. The data suggests decreasing inter-regional mobility in the Middle Archaic period in the Southern Piedmont. Hypotheses for further testing included attainment of primary forest efficiency or increasing dependance on horticulture in the Middle Archaic period, leading up to the establishment of settled villages.
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Date Issued: 1980
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14018
Subject Headings: Piedmonts (Geology)--Georgia
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AMONG REGIONAL MANIFESTATIONS OF HOPEWELL: A CULTURAL-ECOLOGICAL APPROACH.
Creator: WILLIAMS, WILLIAM STANLEY JR., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: Four regional manifestations of Hopewell were selected on the basis of readily available evidence. These regional manifestations were compared to note their similarities and differences. Similarities were readily explained by commonality of participation in the Hopewell Cult. Differences were explained in terms of the type of environment to which each regional manifestation was subjected. These differences in complexity led to a definition of Hopewell more consistent with the evidence at hand...
Show moreFour regional manifestations of Hopewell were selected on the basis of readily available evidence. These regional manifestations were compared to note their similarities and differences. Similarities were readily explained by commonality of participation in the Hopewell Cult. Differences were explained in terms of the type of environment to which each regional manifestation was subjected. These differences in complexity led to a definition of Hopewell more consistent with the evidence at hand, and were the result of the use of the Cultural Ecological approach as an explanatory model. Cultural ecology, through the use of theories provided by Steward and others, gives us tools by which culture and culture change can be studied and perhaps general laws can be developed. The most important factor of cultural ecology is the relationship of technology and environment. The above regional manifestations were studied in terms of technology and environment and their relationship forms the basis for the evidence in the thesis.
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Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13745
Subject Headings: Hopewell culture, Human ecology
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Title: A CERAMIC CHRONOLOGY FOR THE BISCAYNE BAY REGION OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDA.
Creator: MCGREGOR, ARCHIE JAMES., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: A chronology for the region surrounding Biscayne Bay in Southeast Florida is presented using all suitably reported ceramic material and the quantitative seriation method. The intention is to go beyond the present chronology of distinct ceramic periods to one that more clearly presents the development of the prehistoric ceramic continuum of the region. Exploration is made of the possibility of establishing ceramic areas as bases for future work toward the development of culture areas in...
Show moreA chronology for the region surrounding Biscayne Bay in Southeast Florida is presented using all suitably reported ceramic material and the quantitative seriation method. The intention is to go beyond the present chronology of distinct ceramic periods to one that more clearly presents the development of the prehistoric ceramic continuum of the region. Exploration is made of the possibility of establishing ceramic areas as bases for future work toward the development of culture areas in Southern Florida prehistory. To this end, comparative seriation material from the Everglades and Gold Coast regions is discussed.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13667
Subject Headings: Anthropology, Archaeology
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Title: Double trouble: A cross-cultural, comparative study of blind women.
Creator: Irving, Mary., Florida Atlantic University, Harris, Michael S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: In highly industrialized as well as in developing countries, blind women constitute one of the poorest segments of the population. This thesis explores societies' attitudes towards blind women who are doubly disadvantaged, because of their disability and their gender. In many developing countries this dual discrimination affects women's access to prevention, treatment, education, rehabilitation, and employment. Disabled women are deprived of women's traditional roles of wife, home maker, and...
Show moreIn highly industrialized as well as in developing countries, blind women constitute one of the poorest segments of the population. This thesis explores societies' attitudes towards blind women who are doubly disadvantaged, because of their disability and their gender. In many developing countries this dual discrimination affects women's access to prevention, treatment, education, rehabilitation, and employment. Disabled women are deprived of women's traditional roles of wife, home maker, and mother. This thesis also explores the cross-cultural network of local, national, and regional self-help committees blind women have begun to assemble in response to the worldwide interest in the rights of women and the disabled. The women who are active in these organizations recognize that in order to improve the status of blind women they will have to find ways to overcome the prejudices against the disabled in mainstream groups, and become an integral component of broader movements.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15091
Subject Headings: Blind women, Women with disabilities--Attitudes, People with visual disabilities, Women--Social conditions, Women--Developing countries--Social conditions
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Title: Micro-evolution in a Prehistoric Alabama Population.
Creator: Romfh, John Howard, Sublett, Audrey J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: Three skeletal samples from the Lu 25, Perry Site, were selected on the basis of Archaeological evidence. These individuals were observed for the presence or absence of seventy-eight cranial and postcranial discrete traits. The frequency of occurrence for each trait was determined for males, females and combined sexes in each sample. These incidences were used as the basis for statistical comparison to determine biological distance. The teeth of the individuals were also analyzed for caries...
Show moreThree skeletal samples from the Lu 25, Perry Site, were selected on the basis of Archaeological evidence. These individuals were observed for the presence or absence of seventy-eight cranial and postcranial discrete traits. The frequency of occurrence for each trait was determined for males, females and combined sexes in each sample. These incidences were used as the basis for statistical comparison to determine biological distance. The teeth of the individuals were also analyzed for caries and abcesses. All evidence indicates one evolving populati on from a hunting and gathering to an agricultural economy.
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Date Issued: 1970
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012595
Subject Headings: Ethnology--Alabama, Perry Site (Ala)
Format: Document (PDF)

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