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DECLINE OF BOAT BUILDING IN THE BAHAMA ISLANDS
Title
THE DECLINE OF BOAT BUILDING IN THE BAHAMA ISLANDS.
Creator
GLOVER, WILLIAM GERALD., Florida Atlantic University, Weiss, Gerald, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
An investigation of the decline of traditional boat building in the Bahama Islands was attempted. National and local level analysis indicated that the collapse of the sponging industry in the late 1930's and the introduction of development in the last two decades led to the decline. The consequences of development in the Bahamas, i.e., a changing economy; a complex occupational profile; urban growth and migration to the city; increases in communication, transportation, and public conveniences...
Show moreAn investigation of the decline of traditional boat building in the Bahama Islands was attempted. National and local level analysis indicated that the collapse of the sponging industry in the late 1930's and the introduction of development in the last two decades led to the decline. The consequences of development in the Bahamas, i.e., a changing economy; a complex occupational profile; urban growth and migration to the city; increases in communication, transportation, and public conveniences; government policy changes; fewer participants in traditional festivals and ceremonies; family structure changes; and value shifts, were analyzed for their contribution to the decline of boat building. Lisbon Creek and Man o' War Cay, two traditional centers of boat building, were the foci of local level investigation. The difference in the degree of decline in the communities was attributed to differentials in development and exposure to its consequences.
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Date Issued
1974
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13682
Subject Headings
Anthropology, Cultural
Format
Document (PDF)
(trans)formation of image: Symbolic consumption, self, and society
Title
The (trans)formation of image: Symbolic consumption, self, and society.
Creator
Bauer, Daniel Eric, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology, Harris, Michael S.
Abstract/Description
In the United States tattooing has become popularized. Tattoo studios are now commonplace commercial venues. Tattooing has become a legitimate art form. This research examines the commodification of tattooing in South Florida and the relationship between consumption and identity production. In efforts to express the self and exert control over the body, individuals adorn themselves. In the United States we are increasingly using tattoos as one form of self-expression. However, this expression...
Show moreIn the United States tattooing has become popularized. Tattoo studios are now commonplace commercial venues. Tattooing has become a legitimate art form. This research examines the commodification of tattooing in South Florida and the relationship between consumption and identity production. In efforts to express the self and exert control over the body, individuals adorn themselves. In the United States we are increasingly using tattoos as one form of self-expression. However, this expression is grounded in Western consumerist ideals. It is through consumption of the symbolic commodity of the tattoo that the individual expresses the self and asserts control over the body.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12876
Subject Headings
Anthropology, Cultural, Design and Decorative Arts
Format
Document (PDF)
Gender, power, interpellation and body image: Creating consumer subjectivities in "Mode Magazine"
Title
Gender, power, interpellation and body image: Creating consumer subjectivities in "Mode Magazine".
Creator
Bolla, Danielle D., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description
Images of beauty are social constructs that exist in historical contexts and are subject to change. A correlation may be made between social inequality and how images of beauty are used to maintain the status quo. Mode Magazine is an unique fashion magazine that depicts women of different sizes. This thesis examines how "realistically sized" images of women are represented, and whether representation challenges beauty hegemony. It critically examines both visual and non-visual textual...
Show moreImages of beauty are social constructs that exist in historical contexts and are subject to change. A correlation may be made between social inequality and how images of beauty are used to maintain the status quo. Mode Magazine is an unique fashion magazine that depicts women of different sizes. This thesis examines how "realistically sized" images of women are represented, and whether representation challenges beauty hegemony. It critically examines both visual and non-visual textual representations using Hall's encoding/decoding model to discern potential meanings. It evaluates advertisements and articles for how women are interpellated by the text. It concludes by asserting that although counter-hegemonic elements are present, Mode's message is hegemonic. Mode posits that women can be realistically-sized and beautiful as long as they participate in all other aspects of beauty consumption and culture by purchasing the products and fashions showcased in the magazine.
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Date Issued
2001
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12827
Subject Headings
Anthropology, Cultural, Women's Studies, Mass Communications
Format
Document (PDF)
Population decline in the peasant communities: A case in northern Japan in the 18th century
Title
Population decline in the peasant communities: A case in northern Japan in the 18th century.
Creator
Arai, Rika, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
The peasant population of feudal Japan has been regarded as stagnant based on low fertility and offsetting mortality, an exception to the classic model of demographic transition. However, the rate of population change among Tokugawa peasants varied temporally and regionally. The Tohoku region in northern Japan experienced a total population decline in the eighteenth century while southwestern regions saw a continual growth supported by high fertility. The population decline in eastern Tohoku...
Show moreThe peasant population of feudal Japan has been regarded as stagnant based on low fertility and offsetting mortality, an exception to the classic model of demographic transition. However, the rate of population change among Tokugawa peasants varied temporally and regionally. The Tohoku region in northern Japan experienced a total population decline in the eighteenth century while southwestern regions saw a continual growth supported by high fertility. The population decline in eastern Tohoku was not simply the result of the unfavorable environment or scarcity of land but was also influenced by the unique family structure that essentially determined the distribution of village resources. Facing population pressure, the dozoku groups required a systematic control of reproduction for the survival of their own group. This was accomplished through the regulation of marriage and creation of branch families, urging temporary out-migration, and possibly infanticide.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15301
Subject Headings
Anthropology, Cultural, History, Asia, Australia and Oceania, Geography, Sociology, Demography
Format
Document (PDF)
identidad racial y cultural en la obra de Alicia Yanez Cossio
Title
La identidad racial y cultural en la obra de Alicia Yanez Cossio.
Creator
Baez, Marcela A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description
Alicia Yanez Cossio, an established novelist and short story writer from Ecuador, reflects on the most serious social problems in her country. She is especially concerned with the Ecuadorian people's identity. In her works she describes how the Church and State, which promote and maintain a patriarchal social structure, have perpetuated the devaluation of women that began with the conquest. This study analyzes how women confront and define their gender as well as their race in two novels:...
Show moreAlicia Yanez Cossio, an established novelist and short story writer from Ecuador, reflects on the most serious social problems in her country. She is especially concerned with the Ecuadorian people's identity. In her works she describes how the Church and State, which promote and maintain a patriarchal social structure, have perpetuated the devaluation of women that began with the conquest. This study analyzes how women confront and define their gender as well as their race in two novels: Bruna, soroche y los tios (1972) and La cofradia del mullo del vestido de la Virgen Pipona (2002). As she traces Ecuadorian history, Yanez Cossio draws paralellisms between the loss of identity and gender, and focuses on the repercussions this has had in the lives of Ecuadorian women. Through the characters she offers possible solutions. This thesis analyzes the writer's perspective of the identity problem in this South American country and the fight of its people, most specifically women, to recover their identity by recognizing their indigenous roots and their gender, in a social environment that denies either are significant or relevant.
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Date Issued
2005
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13200
Subject Headings
Literature, Latin American, Anthropology, Cultural, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Format
Document (PDF)
Gifts from home: Material culture and American immigrant women in the 20th century
Title
Gifts from home: Material culture and American immigrant women in the 20th century.
Creator
Thur, Victoria L., Florida Atlantic University, Norman, Sandra
Abstract/Description
This thesis will explore material culture by focusing on textiles and needlework of American immigrant women in the twentieth-century. It will feature three textiles: the Fishman bris dress from Britain, traditional Ukrainian embroidery, and refugee Hmong story cloths. Material culture is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates a wide variety of sources, theories, and interpretations. Social history incorporates voices and sources that have been disregarded in the mainstream narrative....
Show moreThis thesis will explore material culture by focusing on textiles and needlework of American immigrant women in the twentieth-century. It will feature three textiles: the Fishman bris dress from Britain, traditional Ukrainian embroidery, and refugee Hmong story cloths. Material culture is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates a wide variety of sources, theories, and interpretations. Social history incorporates voices and sources that have been disregarded in the mainstream narrative. Without scholarship in material culture, these sources would be lost forever. Textiles and their study allow for a wider and more inclusive interpretation of the American experience as immigrant and female. Most immigrant women do not hand down traditional primary documents. The everyday object allows historians to pursue historical imagination through material culture. Material culture scholarship and various sub-fields, allow these voices to be included in the canon of the American historical experience.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13402
Subject Headings
Material culture--Semiotic models, Symbolic anthropology, Symbolic interactionism, United States--Emigration and immigration, Women immigrants--United States
Format
Document (PDF)
Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition: Insights from Jōmon Paleodemography
Title
Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition: Insights from Jōmon Paleodemography.
Creator
Noxon, Corey, Brown, Clifford T., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
A paleodemographic analysis was conducted using skeletal data from Jōmon period sites in Japan. 15P5 ratios were produced as proxy birth rate values for sites throughout the Jōmon period. Previous studies based on numbers of residential sites indicated a substantial population increase in the Kantō and Chūbu regions in central Japan, climaxing during the Middle Jōmon period, followed by an equally dramatic population decrease, somewhat resembling changes that occurred during a Neolithic...
Show moreA paleodemographic analysis was conducted using skeletal data from Jōmon period sites in Japan. 15P5 ratios were produced as proxy birth rate values for sites throughout the Jōmon period. Previous studies based on numbers of residential sites indicated a substantial population increase in the Kantō and Chūbu regions in central Japan, climaxing during the Middle Jōmon period, followed by an equally dramatic population decrease, somewhat resembling changes that occurred during a Neolithic Demographic Transition (NDT). The Jōmon are viewed as a relatively sedentary, non-agricultural group, and provided an opportunity to attempt to separate the factors of sedentism and agriculture as they relate to the NDT. Skeletal data showed fairly stable trends in birth rates, instead of the expected increase and decrease in values. This discrepancy calls into question the validity of previous studies. The stable population levels suggest that sedentism alone was not the primary driver of the NDT.
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Date Issued
2017
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004895, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004895
Subject Headings
Neolithic period--Japan., Japan--Antiquities., Japan--History--To 645., Demography--History--To 1500., Human remains (Archaeology), Demographic anthropology., Paleolithic period--Japan., Jōmon culture--Japan., Hunting and gathering societies--Japan., Pottery, Jōmon.
Format
Document (PDF)
Before and after NAGPRA
Title
Before and after NAGPRA: the effect of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act on archaeological practices in the United States.
Creator
Ray, Laura., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was approved by Congress on November 16, 1990 after years of American Indian lobbying due to the unfair treatment of American Indian remains. Since the enactment of NAGPRA there have been multiple complaints from the archaeological community that the way in which they conduct their jobs has been severely limited by the implementation of NAGPRA. In this study I compare data from the Secretary's Report to Congress questionnaire...
Show moreThe Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was approved by Congress on November 16, 1990 after years of American Indian lobbying due to the unfair treatment of American Indian remains. Since the enactment of NAGPRA there have been multiple complaints from the archaeological community that the way in which they conduct their jobs has been severely limited by the implementation of NAGPRA. In this study I compare data from the Secretary's Report to Congress questionnaire, conducted by the National Park Service's Federal Archaeology Program, to determine whether NAGPRA has caused an increase or decrease in the amount of archaeological administrative, laboratory, and fieldwork completed between 1985 and 2005. The comparison shows that there was a significant increase in specific archaeological practices in the years following the implementation of NAGPRA. Looking at the changes in work patterns of archaeologists allows us to assess the success of NAGPRA and it provides empirical evidence to evaluate the claims made by parties affected by the act.
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Date Issued
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/209997
Subject Headings
Archaeology, Moral and ethical aspects, Indians of North America, Antiquities, Law and legislation, Cultural property, Repatriation, Philosophy, Cultural property, Government policy, Anthropological ethics
Format
Document (PDF)