A Nez Perce Ethnographic Observation of Archaeological Significance

1966 ◽  
Vol 31 (3Part1) ◽  
pp. 436-437
Author(s):  
Deward E. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Nez Perce ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Vision Quest

AbstractStone piling among the Nez Perces was an integral part of the vision quest. Recent ethnographic observations indicate that, although it served several purposes, one of the most important was to encourage particular types of visions.

(Super) vision quest

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine L. Muller
Keyword(s):  
Vision Quest

Megaloads and Mobilization

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Corrie Grosse
Keyword(s):  
Oil Sands ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Nez Perce ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Canadian Province ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Heavy Crude ◽  
Ways Of Life

From 2011 to 2014 fossil fuel corporations trucked tar sands processing machinery along rural Idaho highways. The machinery was bound for the world's largest deposits of tar or oil sands, a heavy crude oil substance called bitumen, located in the western Canadian province of Alberta. These loads of machinery, what became known as megaloads, encountered much resistance. Throughout Idaho and the surrounding region, a network organized opposition. Neighbors, grassroots organizations, nonprofits, and the Nez Perce and other tribes all collaborated. They held information sessions, protested, waged legal battles, monitored the loads, and blockaded highways. What oil companies hoped would be a cost-effective solution for transporting their megaloads became a David versus Goliath, Coyote versus the Monster—to reference the Nez Perce creation story—struggle to protect rural and indigenous ways of life and sovereignty, and the planet.

scholarly journals ‘The good English’: The ideological construction of the target language in adult ESOL

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Kelsey Swift
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Alternate Conceptions ◽  
Linguistic System ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Ideological Construction

Abstract This project problematizes hegemonic conceptions of language by looking at the construction of ‘English’ in a nonprofit, community-based adult ESOL program in New York. I use ethnographic observation and interviews to uncover the discursive and pedagogical practices that uphold these hegemonic conceptions in this context. I find that the structural conditions of the program perpetuate a conception of ‘English’ shaped by linguistic racism and classism, despite the program's progressive ideals. Linguistic authority is centralized through the presentation of a closed linguistic system and a focus on replication of templatic language. This allows for the drawing of linguistic borders by pathologizing forms traditionally associated with racialized varieties of English, pointing to the persistence of raciolinguistic ideologies. Nevertheless, students destabilize these dominant ideas, revealing a disconnect between mainstream understandings of language and the way adult immigrant learners actually use language, and pointing to possibilities for alternate conceptions and pedagogies. (Language ideology, raciolinguistics, Standard English, adult ESOL)

Conjugal Relations and Stepchildren’s Well-being: Exploring the Experiences of Remarried Women in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 1033-1054
Author(s):  
Tanzina Choudhury ◽  
Sumena Sultana ◽  
Suzanne Clisby
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life History ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged ◽  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Ethnographic Observation

Drawing on qualitative research in Sylhet, Bangladesh, this article explores the patterns of conjugal relations of remarried women who have children from previous marriage(s). We are primarily concerned here with the potential impacts of remarriage for women and children’s well-being. Regardless of gendered identity, it continues to be the case that the majority of Bangladeshi people are married only once. However, remarriage and polygamy are not uncommon, and this tends to be particularly the case among people living in poverty. This study is based on ethnographic observation and life history interviews with 12 remarried women from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. Drawing on this data, we argue that remarriage can render custodian mothers’ lives more difficult through the complex negotiation between the needs and desires of their new husbands versus the well-being of their children. The sociocultural structure of Bangladesh continues to be framed by specifically located patriarchy. In this context, women’s remarriage challenges normative conjugal relations, and the resulting intrafamilial negotiations can adversely affect both mothers’ and children’s well-being.

Using digital technology for collective ethnographic observation: an experiment on ‘coming home’

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Cordelois
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Functional Coupling ◽  
Home Automation ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Collaborative Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

In this article, we use digital technologies (the Subcam and Webdiver) to capture, share and analyze collectively specific user experience. We examine the transition between ‘outside’ and ‘inside’ when people come home, and the steps needed to build the ‘being-at-home’ feeling. Understanding what ‘being at home’ means for the subject is part of our larger project of analyzing the impact of home automation. We provide a model which describes the relation between the home and its inhabitant as instrumental ‘functional coupling’, which, when achieved, provides the ‘at home’ feeling. This article illustrates how digital tools can make the ethnographic approach a collaborative analysis of human experience.

Tales of the Nez Perce

1986 ◽  
Vol 99 (393) ◽  
pp. 322
Author(s):  
Alan G. Marshall ◽  
Donald M. Hines
Keyword(s):  
Nez Perce
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