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- 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
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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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- 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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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Balance of Power and Aggression: An Experiment in Simulation.
- Creator
- Tindell, James O., Vincent, Jack E., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
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There are many theories in the field of international relations that relate the level of aggression in the international system to the distribution of power among nations. Unfortunately, most such propositions are difficult to validate or refute in the real world for which they were formulated. For this reason an experiment was devised which attempted to east two such conflicting positions, "balance of power", and "preponderance of power", into testable form. The experimental paradigm...
Show moreThere are many theories in the field of international relations that relate the level of aggression in the international system to the distribution of power among nations. Unfortunately, most such propositions are difficult to validate or refute in the real world for which they were formulated. For this reason an experiment was devised which attempted to east two such conflicting positions, "balance of power", and "preponderance of power", into testable form. The experimental paradigm employed was a modified version of the two person mixed-motive game developed at the Systems Analysis Corporation, Santa Monica, California. Fifty-four subjects participa ted in the experiment. Twenty-seven subjects were placed into each of three treatment conditions: "balance of power": "moderate-inequality of power"; and "preponderant-inequality of power". In the "balance of power" condition all subjects were allotted twenty shocks. In the "moderate- inequality of power condition" one subject received twenty- five shocks while his dyadic partner received fifteen shocks. In the "preponderant-inequality of power" one subject received thirty shocks while his dyadic partner received ten shocks. All subjects played a total of fifteen games. A count was made of each subjects responses on eight game-play variables which were viewed as indices of cooperative or aggressive behavior. Additional data were also gathered with respect to each subjects sex, academic aptttude and attitudinal attributes. The purpose of the additional data was to identify variables, other than the treatment condition, affecting game behavior. Thus, facilitating future experimentation. The results of this research indicate that balanced situations tend to produce more cooperative non-aggressive behavior, while imbalances of power tend to generate less cooperative and more aggressive behavi.or. In addition, a balanced situation, when compared to the imbalanced situations, was found to increase the likelihood of participants never employing shock capabilities. Both this experiment and a pilot experiment found de-escalation cycles diffficult to instigate and unlikely to develop from natural causes. Finally, attitudinal, sex, and SCAT data did not appear to be meaningful factors in explaining game play. However, post-experiment sample data indiciated these factors must receive continued attention in future research.
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- 1968
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012599
- Subject Headings
- Aggressiveness (Psychology), Balance of power, Psychology--Experiments
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Party Platforms: The Measurement of a Dualism in a Moving Consensus.
- Creator
- Elliott, Eric E., Huckshorn, Robert J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
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The theory of a dualism in a moving consensus, as a covariance in the party's outlook on major governmental issues, is explained in the introduction of the paper. It is illustrated by the most noteworthy example, the convergence in attitudes of both parties on the importance of governmental aid in economic And social areas after the Great Depression. The importance of developing parallel examples of interparty dualism on other issues is presented as the goal of the paper. The utility of the...
Show moreThe theory of a dualism in a moving consensus, as a covariance in the party's outlook on major governmental issues, is explained in the introduction of the paper. It is illustrated by the most noteworthy example, the convergence in attitudes of both parties on the importance of governmental aid in economic And social areas after the Great Depression. The importance of developing parallel examples of interparty dualism on other issues is presented as the goal of the paper. The utility of the party platforms as the most suitable continuous documents available for the measurement of issue covariance is supported by a brief description of their historical background and the political processes involved in their completion . It is proposed that with the party leadership determining the process of their adoption, they are the best indicators of party attitude on major issues. Three platform hypotheses are presented to test the dualism theory. The first hypothesis tests the covariance of subject matter which each party develops in the major issue areas of the platforms, to prove that they are in agreement on the importance of the same problems. The test of the second hypothesis requires the proof of a similar covariance of attitude toward these issues. The third hypothesis is a test to eliminate the factor of being in or out of power as the prime determinant of a party's attitude toward major issues, rather than the dualism in a moving consensus which slowly changes a party's outlook. The background and methodology of content analysis is developed to show its application to the first hypothesis. The coding of the units of content on six major issue areas and their subsequent statistical correlation validated this hypothesis on the covariance of subject matter in the platform8. The technique of the Q-sort is explained as a measurement of party attitudes on the issues of Big Government and Interventionism. Correlation of Q-sort data from both parties on these issues did not support the second hypothesis. The data failed to show a dualism in party attitude similar to that found in subject matter. When the third hypothesis was tested by Q-sorting it was rejected because it indicated that a covariation of attitude toward the two issues is correlated with the parties' change in control of the presidency. It is therefore concluded that the theory of a dualism in a moving consensus does not extend itself to cover the issues tested . Instead it was indicated that the condition of being in or out of power is the main fa ctor in the formation of party attitude on the issues.
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- 1968
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012586
- Subject Headings
- Political parties--United States, Popular fronts, Political psychology
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Party Competition as a Function of Demographic Variables.
- Creator
- Corbett, A. M., Huckshorn, Robert J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
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The general hypothesis is that variation in party competition can be accounted for in terms of socio-economic diversity. Since this general hypothesis is not amenable to direct testing, eleven lowerlevel hypotheses concerning the relationship between party competition and variation in socio-economic structure were used. The county was the unit of analysis. Party competition was measured for two levelsthe presidential and the gubernatorial--for each county. Party competition was defined at...
Show moreThe general hypothesis is that variation in party competition can be accounted for in terms of socio-economic diversity. Since this general hypothesis is not amenable to direct testing, eleven lowerlevel hypotheses concerning the relationship between party competition and variation in socio-economic structure were used. The county was the unit of analysis. Party competition was measured for two levelsthe presidential and the gubernatorial--for each county. Party competition was defined at each level in teras of the percentage of the vote which a county gave to the candidate who failed to carry the county. For the presidential levelf an average was taken for the 1956 and 1960 elections. Por the gubernatorial level, an average was taken for the elections between 1956 and 1960. The higher is the average, the higher is party competition for the county. Measured thusly, party competition was predicted to vary directly with: (1) per cent urban; (2) median income for the county; (3) median number of years of education of those twenty-five years of age or older; (4) the degree of income variation for the county; (5) the degree of variation in number of years of school completed by those twenty-five years of age or older in the county; (6) the degree of dispersion among the major occupational categories within the county; (7) population density per square mile; (8) the per cent of the labor force engaged in white-collar occupations; (9) the per cent Negro of the county population. Party competition was predicted to vary inversely with (l) the extent to which urbanism in a county deviated from fifty per cent ; and , (2) the extent to which the per cent employed in white-collar occupations deviated from fifty per cent. Multiple correlation and regression analysiB was used to teat the hypotheses. A selected sample was used, consisting of the counties of two sets of states. The Homogeneous Set consisted of the counties of Maine, New Hampshire, Wyoming, and North Dakota. The Heterogeneous Set consisted of the counties of New Jersey and Ohio. Also, these two sets were combined to form a Combined Set. The multiple correlation coefficients indicated that party competition could be accounted for in terms of socio-economic diversity to a significant degree at the presidential level but not at the gubernatorial level for each of the sets. However, many of the relationships were not in the predicted direction, indicating that party competition will not necessarily increase with all types of socio-economic diversity. A surprising finding was that the relationships between party competition and the independent variables were often reversed for the two ballot levels . It was suggested that perhaps two party systems are operating in these states at the different ballot levels. The most consistent finding was the negative relationship-contrary to the predicted positive relationship--between party competition and the median educational level of a county. Several others of the independent variables were found to have some tmportance, but there were many inconsistencies in the findings between the ballot levels and, to a lesser extent, between the sets of counties. The results auagest that the simple linear model which vas used might need complicating; the relationships may be more complex than can be accommodated by a linear model.
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- 1968
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012585
- Subject Headings
- Political parties--United States, Geopolitics, Demography--United States
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Population Perspective in Osteology: A Case Study.
- Creator
- Lane, Rebecca A., Sublett, Audrey J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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Samples from two Southeastern populations classified as a "Koger's Island type" are re-examined using non-metrical osteological data. A populationist viewpoint is adopted and the data is analyzed statistically. This paper;diecusses the method and some problems inherent in its utilization. It is concluded that the two samples do not belong to the same breeding population. Anthropological implications of the method are briefly discussed.
- Date Issued
- 1969
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012591
- Subject Headings
- Anthropometry, Physical anthropology
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Analysis of Variance in Party Loyalty: The Eighty-seventh Congress.
- Creator
- Lane, Cecil C., Huckshorn, Robert J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
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This is a study of the impact of constituency pressures on the United States House of Representatives in the Eighty-seventh Congress. It is an attempt to measure by quantitative methods the relative effectiveness of pressures on congress from the various types of constituencies normaily associated with one party or another. Political pressure is defined here as a force which brings about distinctive patterns of voting behavior on the part of the representatives. whether the force is applied...
Show moreThis is a study of the impact of constituency pressures on the United States House of Representatives in the Eighty-seventh Congress. It is an attempt to measure by quantitative methods the relative effectiveness of pressures on congress from the various types of constituencies normaily associated with one party or another. Political pressure is defined here as a force which brings about distinctive patterns of voting behavior on the part of the representatives. whether the force is applied through conventional forms of coercion or through the appeal of loyalties and ideologies. The two sources of pressure which are the major concern of this research are the representative's party affiliation and his constituency. The former is held constant while the latter is permitted to vary in order to observe more closely the differing impact of certain constituency pressures on members of the Democratic and Republican parties. The dependent variable in this study is party loyalty which is the per cent of the times a congressman voted with his party on a set of one hundred and fifteen party unity roll-calls. These roll-calls are those on which a majority of one party opposes a majority of the other party. The independent variables are gross measures of broad demographic, socio-economic, and political characteristics of congressional districts. The theory is that these factors reflect significant differences between the Democrats and Republicans with regard to electoral centers of support. Consequently, it is hypothesized that variations in a congressman's constituency would be related to variations in legislative voting behavior as measured by party unity roll-calls . The step-wise multiple regression technique is the means of testing the major proposal. It indicates that a proportion of the variance in party loyalty can be explained by variation in constituency. But the proportion explained for the Democrats (34.7%) is much greater than that for the Republicans (11. 8%). The threshold concept is proposed as an explanation for this. It is also suggested that new research is needed to clarify the types of constituencies most likely to associate with the two major parties. Thus, the theory that constituency pressures can explain, to some extent, legislative voting behavior has been tentatively validated. However, the findings indicate that a more complex, multi-variate, theory of legislative behavior is needed before accurate predictions can be made. Therefore, the constituency model must be expanded to include other factors such as psychological and institutional ones.
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- 1969
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012590
- Subject Headings
- Political parties--United States, Party discipline
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE DEMA-DEITY MYTHOLOGEM IN ABORIGINAL SOUTH AMERICA.
- Creator
- WELKE, ROBERT JAMES., Florida Atlantic University, Weiss, Gerald, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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Jensen proposes that each cultural level is characterized by its own mythic theme, That of the horticultural level is "dema-deity mythologem," in which useful plants sprang forth from a slaughtered deity. This proposition is tested against the data from South American tribes. These are screened for presence of horticulture, and for the presence or absence of the theme. Data thus derived is analyzed statistically. The hypothesis is not supported. However, the "dema-deity" concept is a...
Show moreJensen proposes that each cultural level is characterized by its own mythic theme, That of the horticultural level is "dema-deity mythologem," in which useful plants sprang forth from a slaughtered deity. This proposition is tested against the data from South American tribes. These are screened for presence of horticulture, and for the presence or absence of the theme. Data thus derived is analyzed statistically. The hypothesis is not supported. However, the "dema-deity" concept is a widespread variant of a more generalized "extraction" mythologem, which in turn can be subsumed under the destruction-creation unity with its eventual climactic disintegration into polar opposites.
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- 1969
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13475
- Subject Headings
- Indian mythology--South America, Indians of South America--Religion
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A DESCRIPTIVE PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SPANISH SPOKEN IN THE PROVINCE OF HAVANA, CUBA.
- Creator
- BERTOT, LILLIAN, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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The present study offers a series of observations based on extensive research into the phonology of the Spanish spoken in the province of Havana, Cuba. The phonemes for the province are determined, and special attention is given to allophonic variants peculiar to and/or characteristic of Havana. The allophonic variants are described in detail on articulatory and distributional criteria. There is a great deal of emphasis placed on the description of consonants. The vowels are also discussed....
Show moreThe present study offers a series of observations based on extensive research into the phonology of the Spanish spoken in the province of Havana, Cuba. The phonemes for the province are determined, and special attention is given to allophonic variants peculiar to and/or characteristic of Havana. The allophonic variants are described in detail on articulatory and distributional criteria. There is a great deal of emphasis placed on the description of consonants. The vowels are also discussed. There is no reference to suprasegmental phonological data. After the phonological studied is completed, the differences in the speech of socioeconomic groups are explained.
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- 1969
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13440
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Intra-legislative Communications in a Newly Emergent Two-party System: The Case of Education and the Florida House of Representatives, 1967.
- Creator
- Callan, Dennis M., Gatlin, Douglas S., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
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This research attempts to delineate the communications patterns within the Florida House of Representatives of 1967 in its deliberations concerning the issue of education. To accomplish this goal, a questionnaire was personally administered or mailed to all 119 members of the House. A return rate of 51.3% (61) was attained. The bulk of the questionnaire items were of a sociometric nature. To map the communications of the House, ten specific hypotheses were tested. These hypotheses concerned...
Show moreThis research attempts to delineate the communications patterns within the Florida House of Representatives of 1967 in its deliberations concerning the issue of education. To accomplish this goal, a questionnaire was personally administered or mailed to all 119 members of the House. A return rate of 51.3% (61) was attained. The bulk of the questionnaire items were of a sociometric nature. To map the communications of the House, ten specific hypotheses were tested. These hypotheses concerned the relative importance of particular types of legislative actors and groups in the communications patterns of both parties. Administrative officials were also included in the analysis. The rationale for these hypotheses concerned the variables of age and/or size of the respective parties and were based upon the history of Florida politics. All ten hypotheses were based upon the contention that, as in other organizations and decision-making groups, in a legislative body there would exist a "practiced" communications pattern distinctly different from the "formal" organizational pattern. The pattern which emerged from the analysis revealed that members of both parties relied upon a small number of education experts or specialists for information, regardless of the experts' formal positions. The Democrats did not consider their party leadership to be an important information source while the Republican caucus --and through the caucus, the leadership--was a strong source of voting cues. With the exceptions of Dade and Pinellas counties, intra-delegation communications did not appear important in either party. While Democrats did not rely upon any Republicans for information, the Republicans did rely upon some Democrats (the experts}. No geographical splits were apparent in Democratic communications. The Pinellas Republicans were somewhat isolated from east coast Republicans in the information flow. The communications pattern between House members and administrative officials focused upon cabinet members. Republican Governor Kirk was most generally listed as an information source by Republicans while the Democrats relied for information upon Superintendent of Public Instruction Christian. Legislative staffs were identified as information sources by members of both parties.
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- 1969
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012584
- Subject Headings
- Education--Florida--Politics and government, Florida--Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Content Analysis of State Political Party Newspapers.
- Creator
- Jednak, Robert Eddy, Huckshorn, Robert J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
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The history of the development of the party newspapers is reviewed in the first chapter. The goal of the research was to attempt to discover the uses and goals of state political party newspapers. Five propositions were proposed which would accomplish this aim. The first proposition was to discover the extent to which the state party paper is used to extend the publicity of the state chairman. The second proposition was to discover to what extent the party newspaper is used as a tool in...
Show moreThe history of the development of the party newspapers is reviewed in the first chapter. The goal of the research was to attempt to discover the uses and goals of state political party newspapers. Five propositions were proposed which would accomplish this aim. The first proposition was to discover the extent to which the state party paper is used to extend the publicity of the state chairman. The second proposition was to discover to what extent the party newspaper is used as a tool in finance and fund-raising appeals. The third proposition attempted to reveal to what extent the state paper is used to extend the publicity of the incumbent governor. Proposition IV sought to ascertain whether or not a party not holding the governor's office openly criticized the state opposition party, while the incumbent party merely spoke of its own accomplishments while neglecting the opposition. The fifth, and final, proposition attempted to ascertain whether less populous state Republican party papers were more apt to relate themselves to the national Republican party and administration. The research method of content analysis was discussed and the methodology used in this study was explained. The scores for nine content categories were compiled and the findings from a one-issue analysis of sixty-two papers confirmed Propositions I-IV. The fifth proposition was disproven. A time analysis of six selected papers was performed and these findings confirmed the findings of the one-issue analysis. Furthermore, this analysis proved the existence of patterns of column-inch space allocations in a state party newspaper.
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- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012589
- Subject Headings
- Political parties--United States, Newspapers
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- Document (PDF)
- 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
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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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- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13427
- Subject Headings
- Port Howe (Bahamas)--Economic conditions, Port Howe (Bahamas)--Social conditions
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- Document (PDF)
- 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
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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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- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012595
- Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Alabama, Perry Site (Ala)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Patterns of Black Leadership in a Southern Community: 1946-1970.
- Creator
- Robinson, Trinette W., DeGrove, John M., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
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Many approaches to the study of leadership have been limited to trait studies and patterns of race relations, neglecting on the whole the intra-group approach. Leadership may be present in a subcommunity or in an associational group when no political structure or formal decision-making position exists. When the political culture dictates the non-existence of an unassimilated minority group which comprises less than one-third of the voting population, a member of that group has less than a...
Show moreMany approaches to the study of leadership have been limited to trait studies and patterns of race relations, neglecting on the whole the intra-group approach. Leadership may be present in a subcommunity or in an associational group when no political structure or formal decision-making position exists. When the political culture dictates the non-existence of an unassimilated minority group which comprises less than one-third of the voting population, a member of that group has less than a remote chance of achieving electoral status. In that case, sub-community institutional forces (churches, schools, businesses, clubs) may give rise to a form of leadership which responds to the unmet needs and demands of the community. The emergent leadership becomes a function of the group and only after group needs and objectives are defined (articulated) do traits become important as they propel the individual into position. It is, therefore, necessary, if not sufficient, that the group perceive its leaders to be leaders.
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- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012594
- Subject Headings
- African American leadership--Florida--West Palm Beach
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Predicting Municipal Expenditures.
- Creator
- Bozeman, Barry L., Vincent, Jack E., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
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The present research examines the proportions of the general expenditures of the nation's largest cities allocated for various functions of government. It is the intent of the research to determine whether the difference in proportions allocated to these functions may be predicted in terms of demographic and socio-economic attributes of the cities. Essentially, the research will be concerned with determining the degree of correlation between the dependent variables (the allocations) and the...
Show moreThe present research examines the proportions of the general expenditures of the nation's largest cities allocated for various functions of government. It is the intent of the research to determine whether the difference in proportions allocated to these functions may be predicted in terms of demographic and socio-economic attributes of the cities. Essentially, the research will be concerned with determining the degree of correlation between the dependent variables (the allocations) and the independent variables (the attributes) and explaining as much of the variance in the subject's spending patterns as is possible.
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- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012583
- Subject Headings
- Municipal finance--United States
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- TERTIARY HOMINOIDEA FROM INDIA AND PAKISTAN; A BIOMETRIC AND TAXONOMIC STUDY.
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- HANSINGER, MICHAEL J., Florida Atlantic University, Pilbeam, David B., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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This study continues earlier Yale work on Mio/Pliocene hominoid fossils from south of the Himalayas. The objective was to determine the number of species present. Samples consist of dental fragments, hence biometric analysis was used, in comparisons with other Hominoidea, fossil and recent, from the Yale Peabody Museum. Conclusions were that two species, Dryopithecus (Sivapithecus) sivalensis and indicus, were sampled. Statistical comparisons inferred that sivalensis was derived from African...
Show moreThis study continues earlier Yale work on Mio/Pliocene hominoid fossils from south of the Himalayas. The objective was to determine the number of species present. Samples consist of dental fragments, hence biometric analysis was used, in comparisons with other Hominoidea, fossil and recent, from the Yale Peabody Museum. Conclusions were that two species, Dryopithecus (Sivapithecus) sivalensis and indicus, were sampled. Statistical comparisons inferred that sivalensis was derived from African groups similar to Q. (Proconsul) pyanzae, and indicus from groups similar to Q. (f.) major. Variability within these species suggested sampling a variety of demes, similar to macaques of the same areas. An indicus size increase through time was documented, foreshadowing speciation into Gigantopithecus. For sivalensis, dental similarities to Pongo were noted. A criterion for sexing fossils of Ramapithecus punjabicus was proposed. Tooth area and body weights were correlated for pongids, for estimating live weights from fossil teeth.
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- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13418
- Subject Headings
- Primates, Fossil, Paleontology--India--Tertiary, Paleontology--Pakistan--Tertiary
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Escalation - De-escalation: And Balance of Power.
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- Schwerin, Edward W., Vincent, Jack E., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
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This experiment was an extension of the SMH, and Vincent-Tindell games. The major purpose was to investigate the effects of two different ratios of shock on escalation-de-escalation ancl other aspects of aggressive-cooperative behavior. In one condition (inequality) one player began game play with 6 shocks, the other player began with 18 shocks. In the other condition (equality) both players began game play with 13 shocks apiece. Players were allowed to purchase additional shocks or surrender...
Show moreThis experiment was an extension of the SMH, and Vincent-Tindell games. The major purpose was to investigate the effects of two different ratios of shock on escalation-de-escalation ancl other aspects of aggressive-cooperative behavior. In one condition (inequality) one player began game play with 6 shocks, the other player began with 18 shocks. In the other condition (equality) both players began game play with 13 shocks apiece. Players were allowed to purchase additional shocks or surrender any number of shocks. Forty-nine game play variables were generated, representing indices of aggressive or cooperative behavior. The relationships of these variables to additional independent variables such as game plan, grade point average, and attitudinal scores were also examined. The findings of this experiment indicate that the balanced (equality) conditions tend to generate more purchasing behavior and a higher overall level of aggression. The unbalanced (inequality) condition however, generated more extreme forms of behavior. Those with 18 shocks were generally more aggressive than all other players, and those with 6 shocks (inequality) were generally more cooperative than all other players. These findings conflicted with the results of the previous Tindell-Vincent game, but it seems that the addition of the purchasing option radically altered the effects of treatment condition. Sex was found to be a good predictor of game behavior. females were generally more cooperative and less active than males. Game plan and, to a lesser extent, attitude scores had predictive value for several responses, but grade point average, as expected, was a poor predictor of game behavior.
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- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012598
- Subject Headings
- Political science--Research, Balance of power
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE CHAIRMEN OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION: THEIR CONCEPT OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
- Creator
- DUL, KATHLEEN., Florida Atlantic University, Thomas, Robert D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this research is to investigate the concepts of representation and the public interest. The specific focus is on the Chairmen of the Federal Communications Commission from 1934 to the present. The basic proposition states that when the Chairman was favorable to the broadcast industry, he would espouse a Self- Regulatory philosophy in which government regulation of the industry was at a minimum. Two types of data were used: socioeconomic data and the Chairmen's statements...
Show moreThe purpose of this research is to investigate the concepts of representation and the public interest. The specific focus is on the Chairmen of the Federal Communications Commission from 1934 to the present. The basic proposition states that when the Chairman was favorable to the broadcast industry, he would espouse a Self- Regulatory philosophy in which government regulation of the industry was at a minimum. Two types of data were used: socioeconomic data and the Chairmen's statements concerning the public interest. The Chairmen ' s perceptions of the public interest were categorized in terms of their philosophical orientations and the extent of government control they deemed necessary to implement their philosophies . The two types of data were studied in order to obtain a profile of the Chairmen and to examine their perceptions of the public interest as they related to their socio- economic data. The study concluded that the Chairmen's legal training (82 per cent are lawyers) accounted for an attitude of medition and conciliation which carried over into the way they represented the public interest. While most Chairmen espouse a Self-Regulatory philosophy, the more recent Chairmen perceive the need for a stronger government with positive rule-making powers to regulate industry.
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- 1971
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13465
- Subject Headings
- United States--Federal Communications Commission--History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- REVOLUTIONARY BLACK POETRY, 1960-1970.
- Creator
- BORNSTEIN, RITA, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis examines the work of young black poets of the sixties--LeRoi Jones, Don L. Lee, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and others-- who have played a significant role in the cultural revolution which has accompanied the contemporary black struggle for liberation. It establishes the framework of the black cultural revolution, and explores its rationale and the emerging new black aesthetic. It traces the roots and examines the themes and techniques of the poetry itself. Finally, the...
Show moreThis thesis examines the work of young black poets of the sixties--LeRoi Jones, Don L. Lee, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and others-- who have played a significant role in the cultural revolution which has accompanied the contemporary black struggle for liberation. It establishes the framework of the black cultural revolution, and explores its rationale and the emerging new black aesthetic. It traces the roots and examines the themes and techniques of the poetry itself. Finally, the response of establishment critics to this poetry is examined along with the new black criticism which is developing as an adjunct to the new black aesthetic.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1971
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13445
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Modern
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- TOWARD THE HUMAN EQUATION: THE ROMANTIC IDEALIST IN THE PLAYS OF ROBERT E. SHERWOOD.
- Creator
- AVANT, ROBERT JOSEPH, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Four plays by Robert E. Sherwood--The Road to Rome, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight, and There Shall Be No Night--have protagonists who may be identified by the term "romantic idealist." They are "romantic" in that they are typically dissatisfied v1ith the present, nostalgic for the glory of the past, chivalrous in matters of the heart, irrational in their behavior, and intuitive in their judgments. Like the Byronic hero, they are capable of intense feeling. They are "idealistic" in...
Show moreFour plays by Robert E. Sherwood--The Road to Rome, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight, and There Shall Be No Night--have protagonists who may be identified by the term "romantic idealist." They are "romantic" in that they are typically dissatisfied v1ith the present, nostalgic for the glory of the past, chivalrous in matters of the heart, irrational in their behavior, and intuitive in their judgments. Like the Byronic hero, they are capable of intense feeling. They are "idealistic" in that they hold to noble beliefs of a transcendent nature--honor, truth, freedom. Within Sherwood's plays there is a movement toward ever purer manifestations of idealism, culminating in the idealistically pure (but dramatically simplistic) characterization of Dr. Valkonen in There Shall Be No Night.
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- 1971
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13441
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- LEGAL POWERS OF STATE CHAIRMEN: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF PARTY BY-LAWS AND STATE ELECTION LAWS.
- Creator
- DAVIS, DAVID MIDGLEY., Florida Atlantic University, Huckshorn, Robert J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this project was to determine the legal powers and duties of state political party chairmen, as enumerated in party by-laws and state election laws. The thesis is divided into six chapters, the most extensive of which contains empirical tests of twenty-six hypotheses pertaining to eleven groups of items organized from 235 judge-evaluated items. The groups are: Qualifications, method of election and term of office; Appointive powers; Removal powers; Vacancy-filling powers;...
Show moreThe purpose of this project was to determine the legal powers and duties of state political party chairmen, as enumerated in party by-laws and state election laws. The thesis is divided into six chapters, the most extensive of which contains empirical tests of twenty-six hypotheses pertaining to eleven groups of items organized from 235 judge-evaluated items. The groups are: Qualifications, method of election and term of office; Appointive powers; Removal powers; Vacancy-filling powers; Voting; and Functions of the chairman vis-a-vis the state committee, executive committee, subcommittees, local committees, state conventions, local conventions and elections. There are also chapters which analyze the 235 evaluated items, the effectiveness of the by-laws and election laws, and the relationship be tween the party scores and selected political and demographic variables. The final chapter recapitulates the major findings and conclusions. Ten appendices contain data utilized in the study.
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- 1971
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13448
- Subject Headings
- Political parties--Florida, Florida--Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)