Source Materials for Historical Research in the Los Angeles Federal Records Center

1971 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-344
Author(s):  
NORMAN E. TUTOROW
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Source Materials

Contextualizing from Within: Perceptions of Physical Disorder in a South Central L.A. African American Mosque

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela J. Prickett
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Disorganization ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Physical Disorder ◽  
Broken Windows ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
South Central ◽  
South Central Los Angeles

Physical disorder is fundamental to how urban sociologists understand the inner workings of a neighborhood. This article takes advantage of ethnographic and historical research to understand how, over time, participants in an urban mosque in South Central Los Angeles develop patterns of meaning–making and decision–making about physical disorder. I examine how specific negative physical conditions on the property came to exist as well as the varied processes by which they changed—both improving and worsening—over the community's long history. Contrary to dominant “social disorganization” and “broken windows” theories that argue disorder is always a destructive force, I find that members saw specific signs of physical disorder as links to their collective past as well as placeholders for a future they hoped to construct. I then analyze how these shared imaginings shaped the ways members responded to physical problems in the present. The strength of this “contextualizing from within” approach is that attention to context and period allows researchers to better theorize why communities may or may not organize to repair physical disorder.

The Schedule of Reserved Occupations, Oral History and Other Methodologies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Chand
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
World War ◽  
Oral Testimony ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Second World ◽  
Source Materials

This chapter begins by discussing important theories of masculinity underlying the arguments in the book, before defining the policy of reservation in Second World War Britain and its implications. The geographical boundaries of the study are also defined here, with the areas understood as being incorporated into ‘Glasgow’ and ‘Clydeside’ discussed. The chapter also defines the notions of ‘lived’ and ‘imagined’ subjectivities, which centrally underpin the arguments made in the book, before considering the methodologies used in conducting the research involved, primarily oral history. The chapter moves on to look at uses of oral testimonies in previous historical research before examining the different kinds of oral testimony used for this study, including those held in existing oral history archives and newly conducted oral history interviews. Finally, the chapter examines other primary source materials used in this research, including cultural materials such as newspapers, novels and films.

Commerce as the Structure and Symbol of Neighborhood Life: Reshaping the Meaning of Community in Venice, California

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Deener
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Coastal Community ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Definition Of

Abbot Kinney Boulevard is a central commercial artery that serves as the structure and symbol of neighborhood life in Venice, a coastal community in Los Angeles. In recent years, the street has become an upscale commercial scene made up of independently owned, small–scale shops and restaurants. New residents and merchants work to preserve this new “anticorporate” commercial culture as an authentic version of community life, labeling its distinct identity as “Brand Venice.” Commerce generates community vitality, but this article raises the question, whose definition of community? The construction of a neighborhood brand has consequences. Building on over 3 years of ethnographic and historical research, this article shows how local actors set Abbot Kinney Boulevard on a course of economic transformation by reshaping the meaning of community in such a way that now excludes long–time, lower–income residents who define the new neighborhood identity as an inauthentic version of Venice community life.

scholarly journals “Who Are These People and Why Are They Saying These Things?”: George Heller and the Growth of Historical Research in Music Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-28
Author(s):  
Melissa L. Grady
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Founding Editor ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Music Research ◽  
Source Materials

This historical investigation explores the life of George N. Heller (1941–2004) and his influence on historical research in music education and music therapy. By means of primary source materials, including preserved presentation resources and outlines, publications, and interviews, this historical investigation explores Heller’s life and career and the influences that informed his work. This study argues that at a time when quantitative methods dominated music research journals, George Heller’s efforts coincided with the progress and acceptance of historical research in music education and music therapy. Through his historical research publications, his encouragement of student research, his mentoring of colleagues, and his position as founding editor of the Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education, George Heller championed historical research at a critical juncture in music education scholarship.

scholarly journals The Discovery of an American Brig: Fieldwork Involving Applied Remote Viewing Including a Comparison with Electronic Remote Sensing

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-92
Author(s):  
Stephan Andrew Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Historic Archaeology ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Remote Viewing

In the fall of 1987 Mobius began fieldwork, under a license from the Bahamian Government, to carry out an archaeological survey in an area of the Grand Bahama Banks encompassing some 579.15 square miles  (1500 sq. km).  This report compares the Remote Viewing, electronic remote sensing, and visual search process used to locate the wreck site of a previously undiscovered armed American merchantman believed to be the Brig Leander, which was found in a sub-section of the License Area known as Consensus Zone C; an area of 11.81 sq. miles (30.59 sq. km) of water.  It concludes that Remote Viewing was the source of information which led to the site’s location, and that electronic remote sensing was not useful in this instance. Leander was under the Command of Captain William Johnson when she sank for unknown reasons near Beaks Cay on  6 April 1834,  while returning from Manzanilla, Cuba to her homeport in Boston, Massachusetts.  In addition to location information, a total of 193 conceptual descriptive concepts concerning the site were proffered by twelve Remote Viewers.  Of this, 148 concepts, or 75% of the total, could be evaluated through direct field observations, or historical research.  An evaluation of this material reveals 84% Correct, 12% Partially Correct, 4% Incorrect.  There is little accuracy variation across the sequence of material from the Los Angeles interviews (84% Corr., 13% Part. Co                                 rr. ,3% Incorr.), to the on-site data (81% Corr., 11% Part. Corr., 8% Incorr.). Approximately 300 notable wrecks went down, not just in the License Area but across the entire Banks, from 1500 to 1876 as determined by a thorough search of historical records and archival material in the U.S., the U.K., Spain and the Bahamas.  To make a conservative assessment of this location occurring by chance, assume the wrecks are evenly distributed not throughout the Banks, but only within the License Area.  That said, we should expect to see 6.12 boats in Consensus Zone C (11.81/579.15 x 300 =6.12). The brig site is 5000 square feet (464.5 sq. m), equaling 0.00018 of a square mile.  Within Consensus Zone C  65,849 sites of this size could be placed, thus yielding a grid of 65,849 cells..  If the probability of selecting this particular cell in the grid by chance exceeds p≥ 0.05 then Remote Viewing can be considered a determinative factor.  The probability of finding this one 5,000 square feet area is then 6.12/65,849 = p 0.00009, which strongly suggests that chance is not an explanation for the location of Leander.History: “The Discovery of an American Brig: Fieldwork Involving Applied Archaeological Remote Viewing,” Parapsychological Association Conference 1988. Also, The Discovery of an American Brig:  Fieldwork Involving Applied Archaeological Remote Viewing, Including a Comparison with Electronic Remote Sensing,” Conference on Underwater Archaeology/Society of Historic Archaeology Annual Meetings.  1989.

Book Reviews

1979 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-194
Author(s):  
M.A. Bakel ◽  
Pieter Hovens ◽  
H.J.M. Claessen ◽  
Mac Marshall ◽  
H.J.M. Claessen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Human Ecology ◽  
Human Biology ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
Theoretical Structure ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Source Materials

- M.A. van Bakel, Pieter Hovens, Indianen van Noord Amerika. Een antropologisch-historische inleiding. Van Gorcum, Assen, 1977. VIII + 125 blz. - H.J.M. Claessen, C.R. Hallpike, Bloodshed and vengeance in the Papuan mountains. The generation of conflict in Tauade society. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. 317 pp. Appendices, figs, tables and index. - H.J.M. Claessen, Mac Marshall, Micronesia 1944-1974; a bibliography of anthropological and related source materials. New Haven: HRAF Press, 1975. 337 pp., James D. Nason (eds.) - G.W. Locher, F.C. Kamma, ‘Dit wonderlijke werk’. Het probleem van de communicatie tussen Oost en West, gebaseerd op de ervaringen in het zendingswerk op Nieuw Guuinea (Irian Jaya) 1855-1972. Een socio-missiologische benadering. Raad voor de Zending der Ned. Herv. Kerk, Oestgeest, 1976, 836 pp., 2 vols. - David S. Moyer, J.G. Oosten, The theoretical structure of the religion of the Netsilik and Iglulik. Meppel, Krips Repro, 1976. 107 pp. - C.H.M. Nooy-Palm, I.W. Kawharu, Maori society; Studies of a changing institution. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977. xiv + 363 pp. - J.G. Oosten, B.J. Terwiel, Boeddhisme in de practijk, Van Gorcum Assen-Amsterdam, 1976. 119 pag. - J.G. Oosten, A.L. Kroeber, Yurok myths, University of Los Angeles Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1976. 488 pag. - L.E. Visser, J.D.M. Platenkamp, J.P. Garlick, Human ecology in the tropics. Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology, Vol. 16. London, Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1977. v-vii, 200 pp., figs., photographs, Indexes on author and subject., R.W.J. Keay (eds.)

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