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Body, time, and the others: African-American anthropology and the rewriting of ethnographic conventions in the ethnographies by Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham
No full textThis 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
Triadogigantocypris donzei Neale 1976
No full textTriadogigantocypris donzei (Neale 1976) Fig. 3 C–E Cypridina ? n. sp. A Donze 1965: 100, 101, pl. 3: figs. 71–74. Pseudophilomedes sp. Grékoff & Magné 1966: 179, pl. 1: figs. 6 a–f. Cypridina, Donze 1971: 651 –661 (pers. comm. Donze (5 / 8 / 2006) through JeanPaul Colin). Philomedes donzei Neale 1976: 9 –12, textfigs. 1–3. Triadogigantocypris donzei (Neale 1976).— Kornicker & Sohn 2000: 28. Holotype University of Hull, collection number HU. 152.C. 1, carapace. Type Locality. Chabrières, AlpesHauteProvince, France: approx. lat. 44 °02’N, 6 ° 16 ’E. From the basal Valanginian (Vocontian Trough). Material Specimens not examined herein. Diagnosis Carapace oval in lateral view; female carapace more rounded than that of male. Posterior margin of female with slight projection at midheight; posterior margin of male with acuminate posterior. Carapace with rostrum; ventral margin of rostrum forms obtuse angle with anterior edge of valve ventral to rostrum. Muscle scars consisting of main cluster of 4 oblique scars with 1 scar longer than others, anteroventral to fan of 5 scars, and anterior to 2 short scars. Length of holotype 1.117 mm. Comparisons Carapace differs from that of M. hollandica in having a different arrangement of central adductor muscle scars, and in having a posterior taper at midheight.Published as part of Kornicker, Louis S., Van, Barry W. M., Bakel, Fraaije, René H. B. & Jagt, John W. M., 2006, Revision of Mesozoic Myodocopina (Ostracoda) and a new genus and species, Mesoleberis hollandica, from the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium and The Netherlands, pp. 15-54 in Zootaxa 1246 on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17293
"Front Matter: Volume 9637", Proc. SPIE 9637, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XVI
No full textThis proceedings volume includes papers presented during the conference on Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology. The conference was part of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing sponsored by SPIE. The symposium was held at the Centre de Congrès Pierre Baudis, Toulouse, France, 21- 24 September 2015.
The conference is dedicated to providing rapid dissemination of scientific and technical information, and attracts scientists and professionals from throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Approximately 34 oral and 25 poster presentations were given this year, 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: natural resources monitoring; hyperspectral, spectroscopy and fluorescence; UAV and high spatial resolution imagery; image classification; agricultural applications; evaportranspiration and energy balance (covered in two sessions); hydrology and irrigation; vegetation and carbon monitoring; vegetation modelling; and snow and ice hydrology.
The poster presentations also followed the above-mentioned themes, discussing both fundamental and applications-based research activities, including modelling, laboratory and field experiments, and operational applications.
We extend our gratitude to Dr. Alasdair Mac Arthur (NERC/NCEO Field Spectroscopy Facility, GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) for giving the invited presentation, A critique of field spectroscopy and the challenges and opportunities it presents for remote sensing for agriculture, ecosystems, and hydrology; and Dr. Rasmus M. Houborg (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) for giving the invited presentation, Application of a regularized model inversion system (REGFLEC) to multi-temporal RapidEye imagery for retrieving vegetation characteristics. Our appreciation and gratitude goes also to 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 and to all of the SPIE organizational staff for their support prior to, during, and after the symposium. We look forward to an even more successful conference in 2016
Who's counting? : Marilyn Waring on sex, lies, and global economics
No full textIDRC supported a project development for this film; project number is uncertainDirector and editor: T. NashProducer: K. MartinHost and narrator: M. WaringExecutive producers: C. Neale and D. HaigBased on M. Waring's book: If women counte
Perceived justice in email service recovery
No full textThis study adds to the limited research of service recovery in an online environment, drawing on data from Australia. It is perhaps the first non-US study of email service recovery as well as the first to apply a theoretical perspective - perceived justice - to email service recovery. The results of three annual studies resemble US results and support extending perceived justice to service recovery via email. The distributive elements of replying and offering compensation, the procedural element of answering completely, and the interactional element of thanking the customer showed significant positive relationships with customer satisfaction, positive word-of-mouth and repurchase intent. Perhaps most importantly for practitioners, the results of a stepwise regression showed that incorporating the simple phrase "thank-you" in the email reply was a strong predictor of successful email service recovery. Finally, this study found that response time might be less critical than previously thought
Expansion of the Pesticide Decision Support Tool: pesticide active ingredients used on bananas and mixed horticultural crops
No full textThe Pesticide Decision Support Tool (PDST) was developed to help farmers, agronomists and resellers select pesticide active ingredients (PAIs) that pose a lower ecological risk in receiving waters (Neale & Warne, 2023; Warne et al., 2023). The first version of the PDST primarily included 47 PAIs applied to sugarcane (Warne et al., 2023), while the second version of the PDST included a further 48 PAIs applied to rotation crops grown with sugarcane (soybean, mung bean, corn and rice) (Neale & Warne, 2023). The current (third) version includes an additional 35 PAIs, mainly applied to bananas and other mixed horticultural crops, to further expand the scope of the PDST.Full Tex
Erratum to: Effect of moderate red wine intake on cardiac prognosis after recent acute myocardial infarction of subjects with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Diabetic Medicine, (2006), 23, 9, (974-981), 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2006.01886.x)
No full textIn an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola.In an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola
Satellite-based cover management factor assessment for soil water erosion in the Alps
No full textSoil water erosion is one of the challenges that the European Union should deal with in the next years, due to its significant impacts on agriculture and natural hazards. In this work, a RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation)-like model has been applied to estimate soil water erosion in a Northern Italian Alpine basin (Val Camonica) by combining meteorological forcing with topography, soil properties and land cover. In the traditional formulation, land cover classes are assigned categorized cover management factor (Cfactor) value retrieved from existing literature (C-Land Cover formulation). However, Earth observation data have been proven effective in tuning the protective effect of vegetation on soil erosion dynamics. Thus, this method has been compared with two approaches (C-Satellite and C-Land Cover+Satellite) based on satellite-derived NDVI values to discretize C-factor values at a pixel scale. The C-Satellite formulation is based on an exponential law for correlating observed NDVI and C-factor values, irrespective of land cover classes. The C-Land Cover+Satellite method is based on the integration of land cover classification with NDVI maps. NDVI values have been retrieved from Landsat-5 TM, Landsat-7 ETM+ and Landsat-8 OLI time series imaged from 2000 to 2017. Results of the application of the RUSLE-like proposed approach to estimate soil water erosion in an Italian alpine basin, have shown that integrating satellite-derived spectral information within the land-cover based C-factor estimate can generate a more reliable soil loss estimate related to seasonal and long-term land cover changes
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