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A letter from Andrew Jones to Dr. Hector P. Garcia.
No full textA letter from Andrew Jones, President and Founder of Americans for a Better America, to Dr. Hector P. Garcia regarding an article in the Dallas Morning News
Prehistoric Materialities: becoming material in prehistoric Britain and Ireland
No full textHumans occupy a material environment that is constantly changing. Yet British archaeologists of the twentieth century have overlooked this fact in their search for past systems of order and pattern. Inert materials were treated as distinct from past societies, and as the outcomes of social ideas and processes. As a result materials were variously characterised as stable entities such as artefact categories, styles or symbols in an attempt to comprehend them. In this book Andrew Jones argues that, on the contrary, materials are vital, mutable and creative and archaeologists need to attend to the changing character of materials if they are to understand how past people and materials intersected to produce prehistoric societies. Rather than considering materials and societies as given, he argues that we need to understand how these entities are performed. He discusses various aspects of materials including their scale, colour, fragmentation and assembly in a wide-ranging discussion that covers the pottery, metalwork, rock art, passage tombs, barrows, causewayed enclosures and settlements of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland<br/
Andrew McClure Jones papers, W.0070
No full textAbstract: Patent documents, newspaper clippings, and other papers of Andrew McClure Jones.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains several scrapbook pages pasted with newspaper clippings. Several of the newspaper articles included are written by Jones while others refer to his ministerial trips throughout Alabama, the publication of his book
Colportage Sketches, and the invention and sale of his improved wagon-jack. The collection also includes newspaper clippings of inspirational poems, short stories, and illustrations. The collection also includes family documents, a copy of Jones' patent document for the wagon-jack, and a contract with an agency for selling the wagon-jack.Biographical/Historical Note: Andrew McClure Jones was born in South Carolina on January 5, 1834. A Methodist minister, Jones was licensed to preach in 1854. In December 1859 he enrolled as a student at Southern University. From 1863-1864, Jones served as chaplain to the Fifty-fifth Georgia Regiment. After leaving the army, Jones worked as circuit riding minister, traveling throughout Alabama and preaching at churches in Marion, Havana, Tuskegee, and Phenix City. Jones also distributed Bibles for the American Bible Society; the 1880 census lists him as a Bible agent living in Morgan County. In 1879, Jones patented an improved wagon-jack, which was advertised and sold by the American Patent Agency.He married Lucy Ann Forsyth on November 14, 1866. The couple had two children: a son, Neely Forsyth, and a daughter, Lucy. After Lucy Forsyth's death, Jones married her sister, Fannie Ophelia Forsyth on October 17, 1872. Jones died on July 29, 1890.Source: Keener, J. O.., "A. M. Jones Obituary,"
Alabama Christian Advocate, August 28, 1890, and census records onlin
A Biography of colour: colour, material histories and personhood in the Early Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland
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PrefaceIntroduction: Wonderful things: colour studies in archaeology from Munsell to materiality Andrew Jones and Gavin MacGregor
1. Apotropaism and the temporality of colours: colourful Mesolithic-Neolithic seasons in the Danube Gorges Dusan Boriç2. Colourful prehistories: the problem with the Berlin and Kay colour paradigm John Chapman3. White on blonde: quartz pebbles and the use of quartz at Neolithic monuments in the Isle of Man and beyond Timothy Darvill4. So many shades of rock: colour symbolism and Irish stone axeheads Gabriel Cooney5. The Flashing Blade: copper, colour and luminosity in north Italian Copper Age society Stephen Keates6. Munselling the Mound: the use of soil colour as metaphor in British Bronze Age Funerary ritual Mary-Ann Owoc7. Making monuments out of mountains: the role of colour and texture in the constitution of meaning and identity at Recumbent Stone Circles Gavin MacGregor8. A biography of colour: colour, material histories and personhood in the Early Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland Andrew Jones9. The composition, function and significance of the mineral paints from the Kurgan burial mounds of the South Urals and North Kazakhstan Alexander Tairov and A. F Bushamakin10. Colour and light in a Pompeian house: modern impressions or ancient perceptions Penelope M. Allison11. The colours of light: materiality and chromatic cultures of the Americas Nicholas J. Saunders12. Epilogue: colour and materiality in prehistoric society Chris Scarr
Research Exchange - November 17, 2020 New Directions at MISQ with Andrew Burton-Jones, moderated by Cynthia Beath
No full textAfter recently being named the new Editor in Chief at MIS Quarterly, Dr. Andrew Burton-Jones sit down with Cynthia Beath to discuss new directions at the renowned journal. Burton-Jones will be discussing the journals current vision and impact on IS scholarship and knowledge.
Andrew Burton-Jones is a Professor of Business Information Systems at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland. He obtained his BCom (Hons) and M. Information Systems from the University of Queensland and his Ph.D. from Georgia State University. Prior to returning to UQ, he was an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. Andrew conducts research on how organizations can use information systems more effectively, how to improve systems analysis and design methods, and how to improve theories and methods in the IS discipline. Recently, much of his work has focused on healthcare contexts. Andrew has taught a variety of courses in the USA, Canada, China, and Australia. He is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems and incoming Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly.
Moderator Cynthia M. Beath is a Professor Emerita of Information Systems at the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin and an AIS Fellow. She received her MBA and PhD degrees from UCLA. She recently published Designed for Digital, a book about how organizations redesign themselves for the digital era, with colleagues at the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT. Her research has been published in MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, and she has served as senior editor for both journals. An active advocate for her professional community, she initiated the field’s first junior faculty consortium, served as chair of a division of the Academy of Management, held a number of positions on the Council of the AIS, and helped found MISQ Executive
Connecting Research with Communities through Performative Social Science
No full textA pioneer in Performative Social Science, Kip Jones makes a case for the potential of arts-based social science to reach audiences and engage communities. Jones contextualises both the use of the arts in Social Science, as well as the utility of Social Science in the Arts and Humanities. The discussion turns next to examples from his own work and what happens when Art talks to Social Science and Social Science responds to Art. The benefits of such interaction and interdisciplinarity are outlined in relation to a recently completed project using multi-methods, which resulted in the production of a professional short film. In conclusion, Performative Social Science is redefined in terms of synthesis that can break down old boundaries, open up channels of communication and empower communities through engagement
Theoretical frameworks for the learning of geometrical reasoning
No full textWith the growth in interest in geometrical ideas it is important to be clear about the nature of geometrical reasoning and how it develops. This paper provides an overview of three theoretical frameworks for the learning of geometrical reasoning: the van Hiele model of thinking in geometry, Fischbein’s theory of figural concepts, and Duval’s cognitive model of geometrical reasoning. Each of these frameworks provides theoretical resources to support research into the development of geometrical reasoning in students and related aspects of visualisation and construction. This overview concludes that much research about the deep process of the development and the learning of visualisation and reasoning is still needed
What is a diffractive digital image?
No full textIn the video introduction to the Blackfoot Digital Library, the Blackfoot Knowledge Holder, the late Narcisse Blood (Blood 2006), perfectly captures the themes we want to discuss in this introduction. He states, ‘New and changing technologies can work against the people or be harnessed and used in their own worldview’. In a statement powerful in its simplicity, Blood outlines the way in which we cannot assume that digital technologies are innocent tools, and we need to remember that these technologies are shaped by particular outlooks and worldviews (see also Cubitt 2014). We can either use these technologies as standardized methods of documentation, or we can unpack these technologies, harness them, and utilize them under a different guise for other purposes. We view this process of repurposing as diffraction. This book has two aims. First, it examines digital imaging through the divergent lenses of archaeology, art practice, and cultural heritage. Second, it looks at the ethics of the deployment of digital images as a form of data (and conversely, data processed to look like photographic images), particularly how digital imaging is shaped through collaboration with Indigenous communities. From the word go, we should point out that these two aims are related. We argue that ethics do not stand apart from either scientific or art practices (see e.g. Lyons and Supernant 2020 in archaeology); we do not practice first and add ethics to our practices at a later stage. Instead, as Karen Barad (2007, 393) points out, our ethics and our ontologies are intra-actively related: ‘intra-actions effect what’s real and what’s possible, as some things come to matter and others are excluded’. Ethics and responsibility compose the very fabric of our encounters: ‘Intra-acting responsibly as part of the world means taking account of the entangled phenomena that are intrinsic to the world’s vitality and being responsive to the possibilities that might help us and it flourish’ (Barad 2007, 396)
From the perception of archaeology to the anthropology of perception: an interview with Tim Ingold
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