Browsing Lambda Alpha Journal by Title
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Observations on a preschooler's first experience with cross-cultural living
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1975) -
On the line in Motor City: narratives of Latina auto worker culture
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2010)Latina auto workers are an unrecognized population within the U.S. auto industry. This study gives voice to them by using personal accounts of their struggles working on an assembly line while raising a family. I discuss ... -
On the teaching of anthropology
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1970) -
Orang and bushbaby social life: Why so similar?
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1981)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 ... -
Over home: Rural African American heritage at Lyles Station consolidated school museum
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2019)In the late 19th century, over twenty African American farming communities existed in the state of Indiana. They were populated by formerly enslaved people and free persons of color who, post-Civil War, were looking to ... -
Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi
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Palaces of Minoan Crete
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2005)Author discusses Minoan palatial forms, their origin, features, and architectural values as the important source of historical and archeological studies. -
Paleo-Indian prehistory of South America
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1979) -
Paleodemography in the Southwest
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1977) -
Paria Plateau survey: arohaeological inventory of Indian ruins, Coconino County, Arizona
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1970) -
The peasant concept: its applicability to rural Southeast Asia
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1978) -
Perceptions of malaria among Western populations and the Wandamba of Eastern Africa: A cross-cultural comparison
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2005)Author describes perceptions of Western and Eatern African (Wandamba) people on malaria, its cause and prevention. -
The personal equation of gardening in the Potsdam area
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1976)This paper examines the following four topics: land use and technology, the production and use of surplus, dependence on and affinity with the land, and the world view of the gardeners. I shall show that many considerations ... -
The phyletic affinity of ramamorphs: an ongoing controversy
(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 ... -
Political discourse and racial politics in Dominican Republic
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2017)Political Discourse and Racial Politics in Dominican Republic Borderlands, the sites and symbols of power, constitute the imaginary somatic and cultural differences that categorize the elite from the poor. Physical barriers ... -
The political organization of the judicial district, and the municipal government of Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1972) -
Politicians and doctors: bloodsuckers all
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1983)Author presents some data on attitudes towards illness, curing, and politics in a multiethnic farming community in rural Tanzania. He discusses the status of mchinjamchinja as it is variably perceived by the inhabitants ... -
A portrait of anthropology as a young discipline
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2000) -
Portrait of the artist as a young chimp
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1975)Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. But when is a line or a group of lines elevated to the realm of art? When is a person who draws these lines called an artist? Does only man have art, or, is art ...