Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, v.13, 1981

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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. Wayne L. Parris

Student editor: Linda Richardson

Student editorial staff: Robert Blasing, Judie Brown

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    Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, v.13 (complete version)
    (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1981) Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology
    This issue consists of three articles: Pre-European Cultural Relationships between the Plains and Southwest Regions by Robert Blasing; Puberty Rites for the Sinhalese Female by Deemathie W. de Silva; and Orang and Bushbaby Social Life: Why so Similar? by Jerry Neil Smith.
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    Pre-European cultural relationships between the Plains and Southwest regions.
    (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1981) Blasing, Robert
    Paper discusses Plains-Southwest interactions and relationships. Utilizing both archeological and ethnographic evidence, author provides useful information ranging from the Paleo-Indian to the Historic Period for Plains-Southwest contact. Positing migration, either group or individually, trade, diffusion by simple contact, warfare and competition and population pressure as causal factors, author delineates available evidence and general trends and changes through time. He concludes that "the boundary between the Southwest and the Plains would seem to have been both cultural and geographic" which resulted in a dichotomy between the Plains and the Southwest.
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    Puberty rites for the Sinhalese female
    (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1981) De Silva, Deemathie W.
    Article presents a description and analysis of the female puberty rite in Sri Lanka. An integral part of the Sinhalese cultural system, this rite de passage provides a socio-psychological mechanism for integration of females into their adult roles. Author points out that "the rite is conducive to an easy access to the psychological preparation for the biological realitites of femaleness" and provides the girl with a stable female identity.
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    Orang and bushbaby social life: Why so similar?
    (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1981) Smith, Jerry Neil
    Article is a comparative study of the behavior of the bushbaby and the orang-utan. Both the galago, a prosimian, and the orang , a great ape, exhibit a "solitary" pattern or social structure. Smith correlates similarities between these two primates and points out that such comparative analysis has not been utilized previously. He further posits new questions which could be followed in field research in this area.
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