Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, v.18, 1986-1987
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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 Editor : Kathy Nail
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Item Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, v.18 (complete version)(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1987) Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for AnthropologyThis issue of LAJ consists of six articles: Indochinese refugee experiences from 1975 - 1983: preliminary biographical information by David Ryniker; Prehistoric fishing methods of the Northern Great Plains region by Douglas McDonald; Word borrowing and word play among Ngawbere (Panama) by Keith V. Bletzer; The importance of the jaguar and the cayman in South American iconography, religion, cosmology by Paul Musilli; Agriculture as a sacrament: a new approach to the cycle of rice in south India by Manual Moreno; and The Midwestern Early Archaic and the Maumee River archaeological survey by James A. Mohow.Item Indochinese refugee experiences from 1975 - 1983: preliminary biographical information.(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1987) Ryniker, DavidAn investigation of the experiences of Indochinese refugees was undertaken, using primarily biographical material from ten Indochinese refugees. The preliminary information presented covers four areas: experience of civil war and communist victory; the actual process of becoming a refugee; life in the refugee camps; and life in the United States. Results indicating that the experiences of the refugees varied in these areas according to the country of origin and ethnic group are discussed.Item Prehistoric fishing methods of the Northern Great Plains region(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1987) McDonald, DouglasUsing information derived from archaeological sites, and from ethnographic and ethnohistoric accounts, author discusses fishing methods of prehistoric fishermen.Item Word borrowing and word play among Ngawbere (Panama).(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1987) Bletzer, Keith V.The present paper is concerned with the phenomenon of word borrowing among Ngawbere (speakers of Ngawbere). More specifically, the paper emphasizes the phoneticization as well as the semanticization of loan words into ngawbere from Spanish and English. Whereas the process of phoneticization is constrained by phonological transformations (nasalization, voicing, de-voicing), the process of semanticization that occurs in word borrowing is abetted by sociocultural processes. Three examples of word borrowing and two examples of word play are presented.Item The importance of the jaguar and the cayman in South American iconography, religion, cosmology(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1987) Musilli, PaulAuthor argues that the jaguar is more important -- at least more visible as South American mythical animal. However, the cayman and jaguar both occupy an important place in world literature in both ancient and present South American cosmology, iconography, and religion.