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Daughter of fortune: Isabel Allende's popularity from a readership perspective
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis is to explore and critically interrogate Isabel Allende’s popularity cross-culturally in Britain and Spain. It analyses readers’ responses to Allende’s works as well as the discourses surrounding her public representation, an approach that is ‘readerly’ but must also take account of production and text. This approach is intended to further the understanding of Allende’s work which so far has always been analysed from a textual perspective. However, the relationship between Allende’s popularity, her texts, public representation and readers has not been yet analysed in detail.This thesis is innovative in other ways too. Methodologically, it approaches readers through the under studied cultural form of the reading group. It also incorporates a comparative dimension by looking at the reception of Allende in two different cultural contexts: the British and Spanish respectively. Finding out about Allende’s popularity has involved asking readers about their reading experiences as well as analysing the production of discourses around her public representation. Paul Ricoeur’s (1984, 1988) perspective on authorial intentions and readers’ responses to texts helps in understanding the intricacies surrounding what is involved in reading any text. It draws attention to Allende’s and her publishers’ authorial strategies, her ‘strategies of persuasion’ and the specificity of the lives and contexts of British and Spanish reading publics. Equally, this ‘readerly’ approach draws on feminist audience research and primarily on the work of Ien Ang and Janice Radway. Their work with viewers and readers respectively is particularly useful in establishing and developing methodological parameters for the study of reading groups. As a whole, this thesis contributes to the understanding of Allende’s cross-cultural popularity by situating readers at the centre
Making history a compulsory school subject - opportunities for memory institutions
No full textIn an article in the Mail & Guardian, Ra’eesa Pather reported that a ministerial task team established by the Department of Basic Education has recommended that history should be a compulsory subject in South African schools from 2023. According to this report, this will apply to children Grades 10 to 12. This development provides the country’s memory institutions with ideal incentives to re-position their collections as valuable tools in the school pedagogy experience and embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution.This article explores archive facilities around the world and demonstrates how these institutions provide educational opportunities to schoolchildren and the youth. Many archival institutions have digitised collections that are relevant to the school curriculum programmes. This provides incentives for attracting new users to view and use the archival collections that are connected to the school syllabus. This article explores different websites and social media pages of archives around the world and similar facilities in South Africa that may assist in strengthening the proposal for history becoming a compulsory school subject.Data was collected by means of searches on websites and social media sites of archives facilities in Australia, Chile, the United Kingdom and the United States. In addition, on-site visits were undertaken to archive facilities and heritage sites in the United States and South Africa
Research ethics to consider when collecting oral histories in wilderness areas such as the Kruger National Park
No full textIn the last half century, oral history has emerged as a historical approach that is being considered by archivists involved with the collection and accessibility of archival collections for researchers and interested members of the public. The approach to ethics by oral historians has emerged from two major fears: the fear of failing as researchers and the fear of failing the narrators and doing harm. Archivists also need to be cognisant of these fears when collecting oral history. Confronting these fears makes it possible to understand the complex questions behind oral historians’ and archivists’ preoccupations and sheds light on how oral history has evolved and expanded as a field. The research objectives of this article are to determine the three principles identified from the Belmont Report that relate and should be applied to the collection of oral histories by archivists and historians from communities and individuals residing and working in and alongside the Kruger National Park. The theoretical framework for this article is the critical race theory to address historical accounts from communities and individuals sidelined by the mainstream media in South Africa. For the purposes of this article, the study was conducted with the Makuleka and Tsonga communities to determine what ethical implications need to be respected when conducting oral history projects with communities.
Contribution: This article will contribute to ethics concerning social sciences and specifically the collection of oral history
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Isabel T. Kelly: Pioneer Great Basin Ethnographer
No full textIsabel Truesdell Kelly (1906–1982) was an indefatigable field worker, often in rigorous situations that would challenge even the most seasoned outdoors person with all of the modern gear of today. She worked in the western United States, many rugged areas of Mexico, and also in Central and South America, as well as Pakistan. Archaeology was her “ rst love,” although she did major ethnographic studies and made many contributions to applied anthropology. Theory was not her strong interest, but deep description was, in whatever she was pursuing. Her employment career was outside of academe, owing in part to the period in which she took her graduate training (late 1920s-early 1930s), as well as to circumstances that led her in her early years to spend most of her life in Mexico. But she remains a seminal gure in anthropology, as a pioneer in several geographic areas (including the Great Basin), and—in spite of what was then a non-traditional career path—as a role model for women
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Memories of Isabel T. Kelly (1906 –1982) and Julian H. Steward (1902 –1972)
No full textIn this issue, we step back far enough in time to outstrip living memory, but do so to symbolize a period when Great Basin anthropology took the form that would make the region internationally known for both ethnographic richness and for theoretical contributions to ethnology. The works of Isabel T. Kelly and Julian H. Steward are known to all who work in the region, and here we remember them as examples of an earlier time in Great Basin anthropology. We have the good fortune to have contributions by two scholars with deep insights into Kelly and Steward gained from personal connections, from reading their correspondence, from interviews, and from intimacy with their scholarly works. Catherine S. Fowler has explored elements of Kelly’s biography before (Fowler 2012; Fowler and Van Kemper 2008), and is perhaps the scholar most familiar with Kelly’s original works, since she is in the nal stages of publishing Kelly’s Southern Paiute ethnographic notes for the Las Vegas area (Fowler and Garey-Sage 2016). Virginia Kerns has written two outstanding books that show different views of Steward, based on his notes, interviews with those who knew him, and the perspectives of the indigenous people he interviewed (Kerns 2003, 2010)
El Tlacuache Núm. 62 (2002). 62 Año 2 (2002) octubre. El Tlacuache
No full text- De cuevas y ofrendas por Isabel Garza Gómez. - Nuestro patrimonio desconocido por Teresita Loera y Anaite Monterforte. - El Yauhtli por Margarita Avilés y Macrina Fuentes
Maria Isabel Silveira\'s diaries (1880-1965): trace and inscription of a restrained voice
No full textA dissertação aborda a gênese dos diários de Maria Isabel Silveira (1880-1965), autora de Isabel quis Valdomiro (1962), casada com o escritor e político Valdomiro Silveira (1873-1941), cujo acervo pessoal foi doado ao Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da Universidade de São Paulo (IEB-USP), em 2006. Em meio aos documentos do arquivo, atualmente sob a guarda da instituição, destaca-se o conjunto de 62 cadernos que pertenceram a Maria Isabel, entre os quais 44 volumes (1925-1965) que acolheram a sua escrita diarística, como registro do cotidiano de sua família, especialmente de seus filhos e, posteriormente, de seu dia a dia, considerando suas leituras literárias. O trabalho focaliza os diários, colocando em pauta a questão da escrita feminina e o memorialismo de mulheres. Maria Isabel Silveira, com rigor e disciplina, escreveu sobre si e, consequentemente, sobre sua época. A transcrição fidedigna e a análise do primeiro diário, correspondente a 1925, iluminam a posição social, a ideologia dominante e os papeis esperados de uma mulher de sua classe social - a burguesia que emerge na virada do século XIX para o XX, em cidades como São Paulo e Santos, marcadas pela crescente urbanização e pelos novos hábitos de consumo.The dissertation addresses the genesis of the diaries of Maria Isabel Silveira (1880-1965), author of Isabel quis Valdomiro (1962), married to the writer and politician Valdomiro Silveira (1873-1941), whose personal collection was donated to the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros at Universidade de São Paulo (IEB-USP), in 2006. Among the documents in the archive, currently kept in that institution, is a set of 62 notebooks that belonged to Maria Isabel, including 44 volumes (1925-1965) that contain her diary writing, as a record of her family\'s daily life, especially of her children and, later, of her daily life, considering her literary readings. The work focuses on diaries, putting in focus the issue of female writing and women\'s memorialism. Maria Isabel Silveira, with rigor and discipline, wrote about herself and, consequently, about her time. The word-for-word transcription and analysis of the first diary, corresponding to 1925, illuminate the social position, the dominant ideology, and the roles expected of a woman of her social class - the bourgeoisie that emerges at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, in cities such as São Paulo and Santos, marked by growing urbanization and new consumption habits
El Tlacuache Núm. 36 (2002). 36 Año 2 (2002) marzo. El Tlacuache
No full text- El recuerdo de 8 de Marzo por Barbara Konieczna. - Usos y costumbres en torno a la mujer maya: pasado y presente por Arqueólogas: Beatriz Palavicini Beltrán y Silvia Garza Tarazona. - Mujeres: ayer y hoy por Isabel Garza Gómez
El Tlacuache Núm. 66 (2002) Primera parte. 66 Primera Parte. Año 2 (2002) noviembre. El Tlacuache
No full text- De enfermedades y remedios por Isabel Garza Gómez.- Nuestro patrimonio desconocido por Teresita Loera y Anaite Monterforte. - El Yauhtli por Margarita Avilés y Macrina Fuentes. - Lo que el viento no se llevó por Ezequiel Castillo
A high-resolution geospatial surveillance-response system for malaria elimination in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
No full textA high-resolution surveillance-response system has been developed within a geographic information system (GIS) to support malaria elimination in the Pacific. This paper examines the application of a GIS-based spatial decision support system (SDSS) to automatically locate and map the distribution of confirmed malaria cases, rapidly classify active transmission foci, and guide targeted responses in elimination zones.; Customized SDSS-based surveillance-response systems were developed in the three elimination provinces of Isabel and Temotu, Solomon Islands and Tafea, Vanuatu. Confirmed malaria cases were reported to provincial malaria offices upon diagnosis and updated into the respective SDSS as part of routine operations throughout 2011. Cases were automatically mapped by household within the SDSS using existing geographical reconnaissance (GR) data. GIS queries were integrated into the SDSS-framework to automatically classify and map transmission foci based on the spatiotemporal distribution of cases, highlight current areas of interest (AOI) regions to conduct foci-specific targeted response, and extract supporting household and population data. GIS simulations were run to detect AOIs triggered throughout 2011 in each elimination province and conduct a sensitivity analysis to calculate the proportion of positive cases, households and population highlighted in AOI regions of a varying geographic radius.; A total of 183 confirmed cases were reported and mapped using the SDSS throughout 2011 and used to describe transmission within a target population of 90,354. Automatic AOI regions were also generated within each provincial SDSS identifying geographic areas to conduct response. 82.5% of confirmed cases were automatically geo-referenced and mapped at the household level, with 100% of remaining cases geo-referenced at a village level. Data from the AOI analysis indicated different stages of progress in each province, highlighting operational implications with regards to strategies for implementing surveillance-response in consideration of the spatiotemporal nature of cases as well as logistical and financial constraints of the respective programmes.; Geospatial systems developed to guide Pacific Island malaria elimination demonstrate the application of a high resolution SDSS-based approach to support key elements of surveillance-response including understanding epidemiological variation within target areas, implementing appropriate foci-specific targeted response, and consideration of logistical constraints and costs
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