Ethnographic Research (Investigation Type)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate explanations of the distribution of ethnic groups and languages in Amazonia. The evidence, however, suggests a much more fluid relationship among geography, language use, ethnic identity, and genetics. In Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia, leading linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and archaeologists...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James M. Roscoe.

An ethnohistoric overview of the Mattole tribe extending from the pre-European contact period to Mattole-White relationships post-1965.

DOCUMENT Full-Text T.J. Ferguson. Roger Anyon.

Report detailing two days of fieldwork with Apache consultants on the S.R. 260 - Payson to Heber project.

DOCUMENT Citation Only James P. Barker.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text T.J. Ferguson.

This report was commissioned by the Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Regional Office, to summarize ethnographic evidence relating to the cultural affiliation of the Uinta and Great Salt Lake variants of the Fremont archaeological culture in northern Utah. During previous consultation with the Bureau of Reclamation, nine tribes claimed cultural affiliation with, or ownership of, Northern Fremont human remains and cultural items. These tribes include the Northwestern Band of the Shoshoni...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T.J. Ferguson.

This report was commissioned by the Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Regional Office, to summarize ethnographic evidence relating to the cultural affiliation of the Uinta and Great Salt Lake variants of the Fremont archaeological culture in northern Utah. The report is intended to be used in conjunction with a companion document, entitled Annotated Bibliography for Ethnographic Study of Cultural Affiliation of the Uinta and Great Salt Lake Variants of Fremont in Utah...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Bouchard. D. I. D. Kennedy.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Randall Schalk. David Yesner.

The objective of this study is the development of an archaeological research design and a plan for segmenting Olympic National Park into research/management units. In addition, the project involved an archaeological reconnaissance in one of the management units. The results of this study are intended to provide a dynamic and long-term framework for archaeological research, compliance, and management by NPS. Adaptive Management, currently being used in a variety of environmental management...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick J. O'Keefe. Lyndel V. Prott.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicole van Zyl.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project proposes a legal historical ethnography of the liberal legal institution of parole as a site to explore the assimilation of colonial subjectivities into post-apartheid governance and social relations. It poses the question of how the institution mediates between the universalist liberal aspirations of law, and continued racial oppression and hierarchy in post-apartheid South...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Enright.

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IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photograph of a faunal artifact collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed Brookville Reservoir area in Franklin and Union Counties, Indiana.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse W. Fewkes. J. G. Owens.

The first chapter of the document provides insight into the ceremonies and rituals of Ancestral Puebloan Indians of the Tusayan Pueblos. It relates the dynamics of the rituals and ceremonies in terms of preparation and performance and significance. There are detailed sketches of sacred items used in the ceremonies along with many photographs of the ceremonies and rituals in progress. Also included are translations to English provided. The second chapter of the document regards ceremonies...

PROJECT B. K. Swartz. US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

The purpose of the research conducted primarily at sites 12G9 and 12G10 was to document the activities of the Battle of the Mississinewa and the related role of the Miami and Delaware villages along the Mississinewa Reservoir in Grant and Wabash counties. Upon the passing of budget item H.E.B. 1102, the principal investigator, B.K. Swartz Jr., initiated research with a field school from Ball State University in 1975. A second field school in relation to this investigation was conducted in 1976....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bandelier Adolph.

A look at Adolph Bandelier's work done on the American Southwest.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sharon A. Waechter.

This report describes the results of data recovery excavations at CA-HUM-182 on the Humboldt County coast in the spring and summer of 1987. The excavation was carried out by students and faculty from Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College, with the aid of volunteers and staff archaeologists from the Bureau of Land Management. A total of 113 artifacts were recovered, along with large quantities of shellfish remains and smaller amounts of terrestrial and marine faunal bone. Areas...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann B. Stahl.

A final project report on 1994 investigations at Makala Kataa, 1995 excavations at Kuulo Kataa, and ethnographic study of contemporary potting in the Banda area, Ghana. The report was submitted to the National Science Foundation (Grant SBR 9410726) and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sharon A. Waechter.

In her 1981 report on five coastal prehistoric sites at the mouth of the Matto1e River in southwestern Humboldt County, archaeologist Valerie Levulett made several recommendations for the protection and preservation of these sites (1981:378-380). Attempts to carry out these recommendations by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is responsible for administering these sites and other resources within the King Range National Conservation Area. The Arcata Resource Area Manager requested in 1989...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Elliott.

In 1983, Ball State University submitted a draft proposal to the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for a Department of the Interior Survey and Planning Grant. The proposal requested funds to formulate an ethnohistoric study unit for the Miami Indian occupation of the Upper Wabash drainage in central Indiana. The proposed project was to be carried out by William R. Wepler in four stages: study unit construction, background research,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Maria Bonome Pederneiras Barbosa.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. More than ever, the problem of cultural borders is a prominent theme in political and social debates around the world. The perception of culture as an object has effects on the emergent cultural conservation and restoration policies, as well as generating disputes concerning their authenticity and origin. Contributing to this debate, this research project explores the question of "culture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward T. Denig.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Stuart J. Fiedel. David R. Yesner. Marcel Kornfeld. Michael B. Collins. Steven R. Kuehn. Richard J. Dent. Kandace D. Hollenbach. Lucinda McWeeney.

This volume is a collection of chapters which presents data on Paleoindian subsistence from excavated faunal remains and preserved floral remains.

DOCUMENT Full-Text E. Mara Green.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My book, The Fragility of Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal, draws on 23 months of fieldwork to explore what it means to live in a world where language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, roughly 5000 deaf persons - those involved in deaf schools and organizations - learn Nepali Sign Language (NSL). Most deaf persons, however, use "natural sign," an NSL term that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas A. Birk. Jeffrey J. Richner.

This volume reports on work conducted by the National Park Service (NPS) and the Institute for Minnesota Archaeology (IMA) in 2001-2002 to extend knowledge of historic fur trade resources and activities within the area of Voyageurs National Park (VOYA). The project involved terrestrial and underwater archaeological investigations, archival research, artifact analysis, and informant interviews. Douglas Birk, Senior Archaeologist/Historian of the IMA in Minneapolis Minnesota, and Jeffrey J....

PROJECT Uploaded by: Dana Bardolph

This project examines the relationship between gender, author, and editorship in conference presentations and publications as a lens to examine current disciplinary sociopolitics and the relative contributions of men and women to archaeological research. This project has been both broad in scope, encompassing the field of American archaeology at large, as well as regionally focused on researchers in the southeastern United States. Archived data include data spreadsheets of publication data and...