Lambda Alpha Journal, v.21, 1989-1990
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The Lambda Alpha Journal of Man is published annually by the Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University. The Journal of Man is partially funded by the Wichita State University Student Government Association.
Editor-in-Chief Dr. Lowell D. Holmes
Student editors Kari Manz
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Item Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, v.21. (complete version)(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1990) Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for AnthropologyThis issue of LAJ consists of five articles: "Creativity in Senior Years: The Case of Jazz Trumpter "Doc" Cheatham" / Lowell D. Holmes -- "Hmong Ethnoastronomy" / K.D. Tyree -- "Evidence for Pre-Columbian animal domestication in the New World" / D.L. Johnson and B.K. Swartz -- "Women in Anthropology" / Jan Lister -- "Demographic Affects of Breast Feeding" -- Vincent Holzhall.Item Creativity in senior years: The case of jazz trumpter "Doc" Cheatham(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1990) Holmes, Lowell D.(Lowell Don),1925-2010.Study of creative abilities of old jazz muisician; influence of age on creativity.Item Hmong Ethnoastronomy(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1990) Tyree, K.D.Reasearch in Hmong astronomy completed with the consultations of native speakers.Item Evidence for Pre-Columbian animal domestication in the New World(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1990) Johnson, D.L.; Swartz, B.K.The criteria traditionally used to determine animal domestication were proposed by Galton (1865:134,136) and are: (1) economic usefulness to man; (2) the ability to breed freely under confinement; and (3) the ease by which they are tended (tameness). Of these, captive breeding is crucial and will be used in this study, although usefulness is also i~portant. Tameness is not vital to domestication and may be impossible to prove, as in the case of apiculture, where the animals cannot be safely handled. Here we will discuss seven animals domesticated in the New World before European discovery. The dog, "llama", guinea pig, turkey, Muscovy duck, stingless bee, and the cochineal insect comprise the list of known PreColumbian, New World animal domesticates. We will present and evaluate the evidence, both archaeological and documentary, for domestication of these seven animals, including bone morphology; associated paraphernalia of domestication, such as stone corrals, sacrificial burials, pottery, figurines; and the writtings of European conquerors, explorers, naturalists, missionaries, ethnographers, and the native peoples themselves.Item Women in Anthropology(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1990) Lister, JanetParticipation of women in the development of Anthropology; topics and subhects of feminist Anthropology.