Lambda Alpha Journal, v.22, 1990-1991
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The Lambda Alpha Journal is published by the Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University. The Lambda Alpha Journal is partially funded by the Wichita State University Student Government Association.
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Item Lambda Alpha Journal, v.22 (complete version)(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991) Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for AnthropologyThis issue of LAJ consists of five articles: AIDS in Africa: an economic perspective by JoAnn Marron; A comparative approach to the taxonomy and phylogeny of Pan by Susan Orsbon; The use of the successive pile sort in an ethnographic study of a shelter for battered women by Penelope A. Wong; Healing through language: linguistic anthropology and the recovery process of codependency by Joseph Keegan; and The phyletic affinity of ramamorphs: an ongoing controversy by Daniel Wescott.Item Aids in Africa: an economic perspective(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991) Marron, JoAnnThe global Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) pandemic has had severe economic ramifications for some countries in Africa. Third World countries have scarce resources to devote to AIDS education or treatment, and they have other health and development concerns which need funding. A large proportion of the labor force is infected with the HIV virus, which will have negative consequences for the economy when these people become ill and are no longer a part of the work force (Sebatier 1987). Many of the urban elite are infected with HIV; these are the people who are considered to be the leaders of the next generation. The stigma and fear attached to AIDS may prevent foreign corporations from investing in Africa and could cause a decline in tourism, which is a major factor in economies of some countries. According to a report by the Panos Institute, an international research and information organization based in London, "The survival of whole industries and national economies may be at stake" (Mallet 1987:53). The countries most seriously affected are those of Central and Eastern Africa, so this paper will mainly address them; however, special concerns of South Africa and parts of West Africa will be mentioned as well.Item A comparative approach to the taxonomy and phylogeny of Pan(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991) Orsbon, SusanItem The use of the successive pile sort in an ethnographic study of a shelter for battered women(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991) Wong, Penelope A.Ethnographic data is often regarded solely as qualitative data. Very often, however, quantitative techniques can serve to illuminate patterns and themes in the ethnographic data which would be ordinarily missed. In this paper a formal data collection technique, the Successive Pile Sort, is introduced. Its application to ethnographic data of battered women and its representation through the quantitative technique of multidimensional scaling is discussed.Item Healing through language: linguistic anthropology and the recovery process of codependency(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991) Keegan, JosephThere are an estimated twenty-eight million Americans today suffering from the disease of chemical dependency. Their behavior, either while under the influence or in a state of deprivation, adversely affects another 75 million, the bulk of whom are family members (Bradshaw 1989: 18). More disheartening is the fact that many are children, who did not have a choice of what family they would like to be born into or raised by. Through their socialization they will learn to lie about their thoughts and feelings, to deny to themselves and others the truth and to protect the family at all costs, which for many will include their physical and emotional well-being (Black 1981 :22-26; English 1988:43; Bradshaw 1989: 18-9). Their parent who is not addicted- (if they have one) most often will also deny to themselves the reality of the situation, hoping against hope that things will change. Frequently, they too are were the child of a chemically dependent person, or grew up in a dysfunctional family themselves (Bradshaw 1988:18-9; Kohr 1988:44). Therapists and other mental health workers have discovered that these victims exhibit thinking, feeling and behavioral patterns that mirror the chemical dependents and are progressive, becoming further entrenched with time (English 1988:43). They call them codependents. The goal of this paper is to illuminate the contemporary views within the therapeutic community on this illness and, in particular, how language (or the lack of it) contributes to the disease and the recovery process.