2,122 research outputs found
Sound of Navajo Country
No full textIn this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music’s connections to the Indigenous politics of language and belonging, examining through the lens of music both the politics of difference and many internal distinctions Diné make among themselves and their fellow Navajo citizens.
As the second largest tribe in the United States, the Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing how cultural intimacy and generational nostalgia play key roles in the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often contradictory, spheres.</p
Supplementary Data for Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A case study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age swords to reconstruct specialized craft networks, PhD. Dissertation
No full textThis dataset includes .csv files of the network matrices, blade profile .bmp images, Fourier transform data, and the data gathered for statistics. Also included is the annotated SAS routine used to analyze the data. The Data were analyzed using SHAPE V1.3, SAS 9.4, and GEPHI 0.8.2. The data is being released with the publication of the dissertation.The data included here are supplemental data associated with the dissertation "Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A case study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age swords to reconstruct specialized craft networks." by Kristina Golubiewski-Davis. The dissertation is an examination of Late Bronze Age sword smiths wherein the author uses shape data as an indication of manufacture choices to reconstruct possible social networks. Included are .csv files of the Network matrices, blade profile .bmp images, Fourier transform data, and the data gathered for statistics. Also included is the annotated SAS routine used to analyze the data. The Data were analyzed using SHAPE V1.3, SAS 9.4, and GEPHI 0.8.2. The data is being released with the publication of the dissertation.Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork GrantHella Mears Summer FellowshipSummer Research Grant in Austrian/Central European Studies, University of Minnesota Center for Austrian StudiesGolubiewski-Davis, Kristina M. (2016). Supplementary Data for Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A case study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age swords to reconstruct specialized craft networks, PhD. Dissertation. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, http://dx.doi.org/10.13020/D6PK5C
Transforming Cities
No full textIn its more than three decades of history, the European Capital of Culture initiative has become an important instrument for cul-tural urban development. The EU cultural policy guidelines apply in all participating countries-but the design varies greatly from location to location. This volume reflects the approaches in 18 countries, inside and outside the EU, that have already hosted one or more Capitals of Culture. It conveys the assessments of scholars from various disciplines, and from those responsible for the programme on how art and culture deal with local and regi-onal forms of transformation
New Skies Above
No full text"© 2018: Xavier Albano, Djamiww, Naomi Sunderland, Vanessa Garrido, Fouad Ibrahim, Rosa Rantanen, Ahmed Zaidan, Nora Al Zubaidi, Raad Obaid Al Zubaidi, Kristina Jacobsen, Klisala Harrison
Recorded by Naomi Sunderland in Turku, Finland
Mixed and mastered by Phil Graham at Electric Monk Music, Sunshine Coast, Australia
Produced by Klisala Harrison, Naomi Sunderland, Kristina Jacobsen and Rosa Rantanen
Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests
No full textThese data underlie the analysis and figures described in "Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests," a 2023 publication by Dahl et al. in Environmental Research Letters.
Each spreadsheet contains a README sheet and a suggested citation. Please reach out to the corresponding author (Kristina Dahl, [email protected]) if you have any questions
Music and Language as Female Spaces of Creativity and Self-Expression in Sardinia: Maria Carta, Dolores Biosa and Franzisca Manca
No full textIn this article, we engage with women’s creativity in musical expression/oral tradition after the Second World War in Sardinia. We analyse three case studies that extend to the present, examining music and poetry, domains which are still today typically dominated by men. In each, we look at the ways in which women creatively navigate their gendered identities through musico-linguistic expressive practices and language reclamation. We take music and poetry as a central part of social praxis, and where praxis is deeply intertwined with gender norms, roles and social expectations. The women artists we focus on are cultural innovators who have chosen music and poetry as a forum for creative expression within a specific canon that, despite the many social changes introduced across Sardinia and Italy since World War Two, continues to be largely dominated by men. The performers we examine range from extremely well-known in Sardinia and abroad, to known in one micro-region of Sardinia. While they have been artistically influential, the scales at which we examine their influence differ greatly. Thus, simply through navigating and existing within these genres, the Sardinian artists examined here – Maria Carta, Dolores Biosa and Franzisca Manca – are expanding the definitions of what it means to be a Sardinian woman, artist, singer, politician and performer
Contesting and Confirming Religious Authority in the Diaspora: Transnational Communication and the Dasam Granth Controversy in the Nordic Countries
No full textKristina Winther Jacobsen & Lone Wriedt Sørensen, Panayia Ematousa I + II: - A Rural Site in South-eastern Cyprus. Approaches to regional studies (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2006)
No full textBook review of Kristina Winther Jacobsen's & Lone Wriedt Sørensen's Panayia Ematousa I + II: - A Rural Site in South-eastern Cyprus. Approaches to regional studies (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2006)
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