Lambda Alpha Journal, v.22, 1990-1991

 

<p>The <i>Lambda Alpha Journal </i>is published by the Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University. The <i>Lambda Alpha Journal</i> is partially funded by the Wichita State University Student Government Association.</p> <p><u>Editor-in-Chief</u> Dr. Lowell D. Holmes<br> <u>Associate Editor </u> Dr. Peer Moore-Jansen </p> <p><u>Student Editor</u> Kari Manz <br> <u>Production Editor</u> Scott P. Nicholson </p>

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  • Lambda Alpha Journal, v.22 (complete version) 

    Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991)
    This 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 ...

  • Aids in Africa: an economic perspective 

    Marron, JoAnn (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991)
    The 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 ...

  • A comparative approach to the taxonomy and phylogeny of Pan 

    Orsbon, Susan (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991)

  • The use of the successive pile sort in an ethnographic study of a shelter for battered women 

    Wong, Penelope A. (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991)
    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 ...

  • Healing through language: linguistic anthropology and the recovery process of codependency 

    Keegan, Joseph (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991)
    There 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 ...

  • The phyletic affinity of ramamorphs: an ongoing controversy 

    Wescott, Daniel J. (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1991)
    The status of Miocene ramamorphs has been the cause of continuous debate sine the early 19OOs. Both cladistic and molecular data has been applied to answer some of the questions that arise. However, both approaches present ...