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Zora Neale Hurston Author and Anthropologist
No full textLike many artists before her, Zora Neale Hurston received virtually no recognition for her work until after her death. Hurston began her career as an anthropologist, observing and documenting the tension of race relations in the American South. She strove to expose the horrific practice of "paramour rights," wherein white men sexually exploited black women in their employment. But this work and her later fiction, including the now famous Their Eyes Were Watching God, would end up in relative obscurity as her fictional portrayal of African American dialect was criticized as offensive and her political views were often less progressive than those of her contemporaries. With engaging, accessible text, this biography gives readers a fuller picture of this complicated writer and woman.Like many artists before her, Zora Neale Hurston received virtually no recognition for her work until after her death. Hurston began her career as an anthropologist, observing and documenting the tension of race relations in the American South. She strove to expose the horrific practice of "paramour rights," wherein white men sexually exploited black women in their employment. But this work and her later fiction, including the now famous Their Eyes Were Watching God, would end up in relative obscurity as her fictional portrayal of African American dialect was criticized as offensive and her political views were often less progressive than those of her contemporaries. With engaging, accessible text, this biography gives readers a fuller picture of this complicated writer and woman.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Body, time, and the others: African-American anthropology and the rewriting of ethnographic conventions in the ethnographies by Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham
Get PDFThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This research looks at the ethnographies Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938) by Zora Neale Hurston focusing on representations of Time and the anthropologist’s body. Hurston was an African-American anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist who conducted research particularly between the end of the 1920s and the mid-1930s. At first, her fieldwork and writings dealt with African-American communities in Florida and Hoodoo practice in Louisiana, but she consequently expanded her field of anthropological interests to Jamaica and Haiti, which she visited between 1936 and 1937. The temporal and bodily factors in Hurston’s works are taken into consideration as coordinates of differentiation between the ethnographer and the objects of her research. In her ethnographies, the representation of the anthropologist’s body is analysed as an attempt at reducing temporal distance in ethnographical writings paralleled by the performative experience of fieldwork exemplified by Hurston’s storytelling: body, voice, and the dialogic representation of fieldwork relationships do not guarantee a portrayal of the anthropological subject on more egalitarian terms, but cast light on the influence of the anthropologist both in the practice and writing of ethnography. These elements are analysed in reference to the visualistic tradition of American anthropology as ways of organising difference and ascribing the anthropological ‘Others’ to a temporal frame characterised by bodily and cultural features perceived as ‘primitive’ and, therefore, distant from modernity. Representations and definitions of ‘primitiveness’ and ‘modernity’ not only shaped both twentieth-century American anthropology and the modernist arts (Harlem Renaissance), but also were pivotal for the creation of a modern African-American identity in its relation to African history and other black people involved in the African diaspora. In the same years in which Hurston visited Jamaica and Haiti, another African-American woman anthropologist and dancer, Katherine Dunham, conducted fieldwork in the Caribbean and started to look at it as a source of inspiration for the emerging African-American dance as recorded in her ethnographical and autobiographical account Island Possessed (1969). Therefore, Hurston’s and Dunham’s representations of Haiti are examined as points of intersection for the different discourses which both widened and complicated their understanding of what being ‘African’ and ‘American’ could mean.Isambard Research Scholarship from Brunel University and grant from Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust
Zora Neale Hurston -- Anthropologist
No full textAnother side of Florida\u27s most famous African-American author is revealed by a Zora Neale Hurston scholar
Special Section Guest Editorial: Advances in Agro-Hydrological Remote Sensing for Water Resources Conservation
Get PDFThis special section focuses on the use of remote sensing tools in some of these areas, including monitoring the volume and turbidity in lake fresh water resources, retrieving soil organic matter from spectral information with particular attention to abandoned croplands and areas affected by wildfires, and identification and monitoring of natural and agricultural vegetation through emerging techniques such as shallow and deep learning algorithms. These data mining and analysis approaches are particularly promising and include convolutional neural network and the application of back propagation neural network algorithms for soil water content monitoring and the extraction of other canopy information
Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XX
Get PDFThis proceedings volume contains papers presented during the Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology Conference. The Conference was part of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing sponsored by SPIE—The International Society for Optics and Photonics. The Symposium was held at the ESTREL Congress Centre, Berlin, Germany, from 10th to 13th of September 2018. Approximately 40+ oral and 20 poster papers were presented during this year’s conference, covering a broad range of topics in the field of remote sensing applications for environmental science
Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XIV
No full textIntroduction -
This proceedings volume contains papers presented during the conference on Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XIV. The conference was part of the 19th International Symposium on Remote Sensing sponsored by SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. The symposium was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, from 24th to 26th of September 2012.
The conference is dedicated to providing rapid dissemination of scientific and technical information, and attracted scientists and professionals from throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. More than 30 oral and 30 poster presentations were given, covering a broad range of topics in the field of remote sensing applications in environmental science.
The program was organized according to major themes, with 10 sessions on Agriculture: Leaf Area Index, Crop monitoring (2), Vegetation; Ecosystems: Water Bodies; Hydrology: Hydrology, Snow, Energy Balance, Thermal Remote Sensing, Water Content. The poster presentations also had good representation from the three major themes. The presentations described both fundamental and applications-based research activities from modelling, to laboratory and field experiments, to operational applications.
We extend our thanks to the Session chairs (Francesco Vuolo, Institute of Surveying, Remote Sensing and Land Information – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, and John H. Prueger, Agricultural Research Service – United States Department of Agriculture).
The oral program also included four invited presentations: John H. Prueger of United States Department of Agriculture (USA) gave a presentation on the subject “Sources of uncertainty for eddy covariance measurements over heterogeneous surfaces in a semi-arid region: impact to remote sensing”; Giuseppe Ciraolo of Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy) gave a presentation on the subject “Mapping evapotranspiration on vineyards: a comparison between Penman-Monteith and Energy Balance approaches for operational purposes”; Massimo Menenti of Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands) gave a presentation on the subject “Hyperspectral imaging: do information content, land cover classification, sensitivity analysis and inverse modeling of spectral reflectance lead to the same set of optimal spectral bands?”; Shahid Habib of NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA) gave a presentation on the subject “Overview of USAID-World Bank-NASA collaboration to address water management issues in the MENA region”.
We also thank the presenters for their efforts and to the participants for their insightful questions and discussions. Special thanks are also due to the host city for the excellent venue, to Joel Shields the Proceedings Coordinator, to Alex Pulchart Rusova the Program Coordinator and to the SPIE organizational staff for their support prior to, during, and after the symposium. We look forward to an even more successful and exciting conference in 2013 in Dresden (Germany).
The Chairs and Editors
Christopher Neale
Antonino Maltes
The Undiscovered Zora Neale Hurston
No full textIn this 1997 report, one of the biographers of Florida novelist Zora Neale Hurston revealed some newly-discovered works by the author
Zora Neale Hurston in the Turpentine Camps
No full textHarlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston collected music and oral histories in turpentine camps where working conditions were some of the harshest
Introduction
Get PDFThis is the substantive introduction to 'Writing Talk: interviews with writers about the creative process'. It investigates the role of writer-interview in further examining aspects of the writing process. It including the following sections: 'On these writers'; 'The virtue of interview'; 'On the creative process'; 'Uncertainty and the necessity of not knowing'; 'Image before word'; 'The author is dead, but what of the writer?' This introduction is written by the book's editor and interviewer. The interviewed writers are: Alan Ayckbourn, Iain Banks, Helen Blakeman, Louis de Bernières, Sarah Butler, Andrew Cowan, Jenny Diski, Patricia Duncker, David Edgar, Tanika Gupta, Richard Holmes, Hanif Kureishi, Bryony Lavery, Toby Litt, Kareem Mortimer, Michèle Roberts, Jane Rogers, Willy Russell and Sally Wainwright
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