67 research outputs found
Francis Lee Utley (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. This item consists of oral history interviews with folklorist Francis Lee Utley conducted in 1973 by Patrick B. Mullen and Richard Reuss for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project. This collection consists of 2 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in. Originally recorded on July 19, 1973 by Patrick B. Mullen on a 7-inch reel, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track at an unidentified location; and on November 3, 1973 by Patrick B. Mullen and by Richard Reuss at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in Nashville, Tennessee on a Sony audiocassette. Sound recordings are first generation copies on two sound tape reels, 7 in. Biography/History note: Francis Lee Utley was born May 25, 1907 in Watertown, Wisconsin, and died March 8, 1974. He was a folklorist, medievalist, linguist, educator, and author who earned his M.A. in 1934 and Ph.D. in 1936 in literature at Harvard University. He taught at Ohio State University and the University of California at Berkeley, and was president of the American Folklore Society from 1951-1952
Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull\u3c/i\u3e By Robert M. Utley
No full textIn the past decade biography as a field within American history has made a strong comeback, and Robert M. Utley\u27s study of the Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux) leader Sitting Bull is an excellent contribution to the field. Writing the life story of an Indian leader who died more than one hundred years ago is difficult at best. For example, even the birth date of the subject is open to question. Nevertheless, the author has written a thorough, balanced, and informed book. In it Sitting Bull emerges as a rational person living within his culture, having recognizable goals, and experiencing both success and failure. Utley\u27s narrative rests solidly on what is known or can be reconstructed about nineteenth-century Hunkpapa society
A first study of the structure of the virtual photon at HERA
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The Cloverdale fair: A historical and contemporary analysis
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The Cloverdale fair: A historical and contemporary analysis
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ECONOMICS OF ALTERNATIVE STOCKING DENSITIES FOR DIRECT-SEEDED CENTRAL MICHIGAN ALFALFA PASTURES
No full textA framework which permits estimation of economically optimal stocking rates for alternative economic parameters and alfalfa forage availability was developed and applied to a controlled grazing experiment conducted with Holstein steers (243 kg) placed on direct seeded alfalfa pastures in Central Michigan. Responses of ADG to alternative levels of forage availability per standard livestock unit (FA) were summarized by a quadratic function and the associated gains/ha were calculated. The ADG decreased as standard stocking rate (SSR; SLU/ha) increased except for the combination of the lowest observed SSR and highest FA, where ADG was curvilinear as SSR increased. The trend for gain/ha was curvilinear for all FA. The SSR which maximized gain/ha increased with FA and was greater than that which maximized ADG. Net returns to fixed resources(NRFR)/ha ($/ha)were calculated for alternative SSR and the economically optimal SSR were identified under various levels of herbage mass (kg/d). The SSR's which maximized NRFR were between the SSR's which maximized ADG and gain/ha. The magnitude of the sale price discount for heavier weight calves (slide) influenced the economically optimal SSR and the sensitivity of net return to SSR. The economically optimal SSR increased as slide increased because animals stocked under higher SSR weighed less off pasture and therefore received less price discount.Crop Production/Industries,
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Nine Hundred Miles on the Butterfield Trail
No full text“Remember, boys, nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail!” said John Butterfield to his drivers. Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a high point in the westward movement. A. C. Greene offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and romantic Trail, which stretches 2800 miles from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast. “A fine mix of past and present to appeal to scholar and lay reader alike.”—Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bul
Magical realism and the marvelous real: a literary and cutural analysis
No full textDefinitions of the term “magical realism” generally relate to global works of art and literature. Various Latin American authors and artists have employed this magical realism to depict and denote the particular realities of the Americas, as opposed to First World or European ones. In his prologue to El reino de este mundo, Cuban author Alejo Carpentier explains the unique and marvelous nature of Latin America with the original term “lo real maravilloso,” or the marvelous real, which, according to Carpentier, exists specifically in these lands of African, indigenous, and European mestizaje. Whereas magical realism might divorce itself from a particular geopolitical space, the marvelous real cannot. The following study will explore the differences and commonalities between these two terms, as well as their application to several literary works, in an effort to demonstrate the unique and marvelous characteristics of Latin American literature
Joy Harjo’s Map to Healing in Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Ceremony
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/a8cd7bf9-634d-4a28-8de9-9e3ca723ddf0/thumb/128.jpgJoy Harjo (1951–present) was the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and the author of nine books of poetry and two memoirs. She is also an accomplished saxophonist and has released numerous albums as solo projects and with her band, Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice. In this thesis, I explore Joy Harjo’s lesser-known one-woman performance, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Ceremony, which originally premiered in 2009 and was published in 2019. I demonstrate how in Wings of Night Sky Harjo uses theatre to provide a map to healing for her audience. As traditional ceremonies engender healing through a relationship with sacred places and performances of storytelling, song, and dance, I examine how Harjo blends ceremonial practices with her own personal, ancestral, and community stories to create a postmodern healing ceremony.In my first chapter, I investigate Rabbit’s crucial role as a boundary- crossing trickster-transformer in Wings of Night Sky. To examine the narrative and performance traditions of trickster figures, I engage with Gerald Vizenor’s discourse of survivance and Christy Stanlake’s platial theories. I argue that through the trickster narrative, “Rabbit is Up to Tricks,” Harjo imbues the performance with fluidity and transformation that allows for the protagonist of the play, Redbird Monahwee, to navigate through time as well as earthly, spiritual, and cosmic landscapes.In my second chapter, I trace Harjo’s path to healing through Redbird’s narrative as she embarks on a journey to mend the lost pieces of her soul. Redbird’s healing ceremony in Wings of Night Sky is necessitated to heal her sacred bonds to her home(land) and Mvskoke identity that were injured by acts of colonial and domestic violence. In this chapter, I draw on Stanlake’s platial theories and Spiderwoman Theater’s process of storyweaving to discuss how reclaiming domestic, colonized, and spiritual places is vital for Redbird’s healing in Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Ceremony
The Commanders: Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West
No full textStudents of American military history tend to focus on the nation’s large-scale, conventional conflicts between peer forces on set-piece battlefields. This focus ignores the salient fact that in the nation’s two hundred forty-plus years, her land forces have spent most of their time and resources in low-intensity conflict: counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, or peacekeeping. That cognitive dissonance makes Robert M. Utley’s new book an interesting and useful contribution. Utley, a former Chief Historian of the National Park Service and author of more than twenty books, is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the American West. In The Commanders, Utley shifts his lens to a collective biography of seven officers who served as major generals for the Union cause in the Civil War, and who went on to serve as commanding generals in the American West after the war. Thus, their careers bridged both the nation’s defining conflict and the “small wars” against Native American tribes west of the Mississippi River. After an opening chapter that serves as a concise overview of the post-Civil War United States Army, seven chapters take up each general’s antebellum background, Civil War service, and role in the wars of the American West. A concluding chapter draws some general conclusions and assesses the commanders as a peer group
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