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Oral History Interview with Nicholas Evans-Cato, April 30, 2007
No full textInterview of Nicholas Evans-Cato, conducted by Andrew Martinez in Providence, RI on April 30, 2007 for European Honors Program (EHP) documentation. Evans-Cato speaks of his experience as a visiting critic for the European Honors Program (EHP) in Rome and how his teaching style in Rome compares to teaching Foundation Studies at RISD. Evans-Cato also recalls attending the EHP as a Painting student at RISD and tells stories about his time there. Along with this, Evans-Cato discusses how Rome and the EHP program have changed over the years and how he feels about the current direction the program is taking.
Recorded by Peter O\u27Neill and Andrew Martinez for European Honors Program documentation. Made possible in part through a gift from William Whelan and family in memory of John Whelan, RISD Class of 1937.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/archives_oralhistories/1030/thumbnail.jp
Nicholas de Grandmaison receiving Order of Canada.
No full textBlack-and-white photograph of Nicholas de Grandmaison receiving the Order of Canada from Governor General Roland Michener. Nicholas is wearing his glasses and is dressed in a tuxedo with tails. He is shaking hands with Governor General Michener. A row of men dressed in tuxedos and holding papers are seated behind Nicholas. A chair on a dais is partially visible behind the Governor General. To the right of the Governor General stands a man dressed in a tuxedo with tails looking at a programme and another man walking towards the row of seated men. There are two large draped windows on the wall behind the two men. Stamped in blue ink on the back of the photograph is a notation to "Please credit John Evans Photography" that includes contact information. Title supplied by cataloguer
The web of words and the web of life: Reconnecting language documentation with ethnobiology
No full textThere are many reasons to see linguistics and biology as connected sister fields. Both draw their inspiration from the stunning diversity in their respective worlds, developing evolutionary accounts of change and diversification, and the dialogue between historical linguistics and evolutionary biology has been going on since the famous correspondence between Darwin and Schleicher. in the 1860s. A substantial part of any language is devoted to the description of biological phenomena, so that we cannot give a complete account of how any language functions without examining how it represents these in its vocabulary, grammar and phraseology. And, in an era when there is increasing appreciation of how much small-scale speech communities know about the natural world that have yet to be ‘discovered’ by mainstream biology, the study of little-documented languages is a natural key to unlocking the full dimensions of Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
Despite the natural affinity between these two fields, the potential for fruitful collaboration has waned in recent decades. Compared to the heyday of interaction from the 1960s to the early 1980s, when studies of ethnobiological terminology flourished under the aegis of Berlin and his colleagues, representative journals like Ethnobiology now contained negligible amounts of linguistic material. A possible explanation for this is that the Berlinian paradigm for the ethnobiology/linguistics connection became so focussed on its own ‘taxonomocentric’ set of questions – about universals of folk taxonomic structure, and about the relations of linguistic categories at various levels to those found in the natural world – that a whole series of other research questions were put aside. In this talk I will resuscitate a number of these, illustrating my argument with examples drawn from fieldwork in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.
These include:
(a) the use of non-morphological criteria in constructing categories, including similaries of sound (bird calls), behaviour (bird nesting patterns), gait (kangaroos and wallabies) and cosociality (some bird sps)
(b) ecological relations, including habitat, diet, succession
(c) behaviour, including cache defence, mating, migration and nesting
(d) utility for humans, including food, medicine, material for manufacture, but also as information signalling (e.g. birds, insects, ‘calendar flowers’), route guides and fire management
The above topics are organised by type of information, but while discussing them I will also investigate the linguistic dimension of how this is encoded, including the use of gait verbs, reduplication, various types of derivational morphology in nouns, and ‘sign metonymies’ signalled by gender alternations. By examining the coevolution of human knowledge about the natural world, and the linguistic means for expressing it, I will show that the two fields of linguistics and ethnobiology are ripe for reengagement across a broad range of questions. As McClatchey (2012:297) has put it: "The ethnobiologists and other scientists are waiting for the linguists to call." Introduced by Nicholas Thieberge
Country Life in Nicholas Evans Fiction
No full textDaigas Gailītes bakalaura darbā “Lauku dzīve Nikolasa Evansa daiļradē” tiek apskatīti dažādi Amerikas rietumu aspekti, īpaši pievēršoties Montanas štata izpētei, trijos Nikolasa Evansa darbos – “Zirgu vārdotājs”, “Vilku lokā” un “Lēkt liesmās”. Unikālā un episkā, spilgtas tēlainības apvītā maniere, kādā Nikolass Evanss ataino savvaļas dabu un fermeru apdzīvotu lauku apvidu, ir vērtīgs izpētes materiāls. Bakalaura darba pamatā ir dažāda veida teorētiskie materiāli un trīs Nikolasa Evansa literārie darbi, uz kuru bāzes veidota patstāvīga darba analīze. Teksta analīze atspoguļo Evansa apbrīnojamo spēju attēlot Amerikas rietumu ainavas milzīgo dažādību, un dabas un cilvēka dzīves savstarpējo mijiedarbību.The Bachelor Paper of Daiga Gailīte „Country Life in Nicholas Evans Fiction” deals with the investigation of the various aspects of the American West, particularly the state of Montana, in the three novels of Nicholas Evans - The Horse Whisperer, The Loop and The Smoke Jumper. Due to the epic and unique way how Evans depicts two settings of the American West the wilderness and the civilized countryside area peopled by ranchers, and his ability to create an intense imagery, the literary material is beneficial for the study. The Bachelor Paper has been performed on the grounds of the investigation of various theoretical sources and the three novels of Nicholas Evans, proceeding the analysis of the text. The textual analysis revealed Evans’s masterful depiction of the landscape of the American West and human being coexisting by its side
An introduction to The Horse Whisperer
No full textAn introduction to The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evan
Australian Languages
No full textLinguist Nicholas Evans on indigenous languages in Australia, their kinship systems and the problem of monolingualis
dictionaria/nen: Nen Dictionary
No full textEvans, Nicholas. 2019. Nen dictionary. Dictionaria 8. 1-5005 (Available online at https://dictionaria.clld.org/contributions/nen
[The St. Nicholas Hotel]
No full textA group of men stand in front of the St. Nicholas Hotel. A colophon at the lower right designates this picture as a photographic souvenir from Minerals Wells, taken by Dan W. Evans.
The building had a varied history. It was first (in 1904) an unnamed two-and-one-half-story sanitarium, then re-named the St. Nicholas Hotel, and then later it became the Delaware Hotel. It was located at N. Oak and NE 3rd Street. The building was eventually consumed by fire on October of 1907.
The back of photograph has a T and P Railway logotype and this information about the Jericho Fine Photo Company: "Mountain and Donkey Groups, View Souvenirs and Scenery of Min-Wells, Kodak Supplies and Finishing, Button and Stamp Photos a Specialty. Dan W. Evans Prop. Min Wells, Tex.
dictionaria/nen: Nen Dictionary
No full text<p>Evans, Nicholas. 2019. Nen dictionary. Dictionaria 8. 1-5005 (Available online at <a href="https://matthew.clld.org/dictionaria/contributions/nen">https://dictionaria.clld.org/contributions/nen</a>)</p>
Interview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City
Full text linkInterview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American Cit
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