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COVID-19 has heightened tensions between and exposed threats to core values of emergency medicine (open access)

COVID-19 has heightened tensions between and exposed threats to core values of emergency medicine

The authors of the article conducted a collaborative ethnography at a tertiary care center during the acute phase of the response to the threat of COVID-19. they found that COVID-19 exacerbated pre-existing tensions and threats to the core values of emergency medicine.
Date: September 10, 2022
Creator: Purdy, Eve; Forster, Gillian; Manlove, Hayley; McDonough, Laura; Powell, Meredith; Wood, Krista et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Doing our work better, together: a relationship-based approach to defining the quality improvement agenda in trauma care (open access)

Doing our work better, together: a relationship-based approach to defining the quality improvement agenda in trauma care

Article presents a study conducted at Gold Coast University Hospital that aimed to define and improve relational aspects of trauma care and facilitate co-creation of targeted interventions designed to improve team relationships and performance.
Date: February 10, 2020
Creator: Henry, Doug; Purdy, Eve Isabelle; McLean, Darren; Alexander, Charlotte; Scott, Matthew; Donohue, Andrew et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience (open access)

Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience

Article proposes the concept of "perverse adaptation", where one actor or institution's adaptation to climate change in fact produces aftershocks and secondary impacts upon other groups.
Date: January 4, 2019
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
System: The UNT Digital Library
Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience (open access)

Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience

This article proposes the concept of "perverse adaptation", where one actor or institution's adaptation to climate change in fact produces aftershocks and secondary impacts upon other groups. Drawing on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research in northern Arizona regarding artificial snowmaking at a ski resort on a sacred mountain, the author elucidates resort supporters' and others' attempts to frame snowmaking as a sustainable adaptation to drought (and, implicitly, climate change) while counterpoising these framings with narratives from local activists as well as Diné (Navajo) individuals.
Date: January 3, 2019
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law (open access)

Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law

This article demonstrates instances in which sacred site law was construed so narrowly as to a priori preclude indigenous ways of knowing, particularly in regards to the nature of land, use of sacred objects, and pollution.
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
System: The UNT Digital Library
Problems of HIV/AIDS infected women in Manipur: agenda for policy change (open access)

Problems of HIV/AIDS infected women in Manipur: agenda for policy change

This article explores the problems of HIV/AIDS infected women in Manipur, India.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Singh, M. Romesh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bringing User-Centered Design to the Field of Language Archives (open access)

Bringing User-Centered Design to the Field of Language Archives

This article describes findings from a workshop that initiated a dialogue between the fields of user-centered design (UCD) and language archives.
Date: November 16, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
System: The UNT Digital Library
Star Trek and the Non-Binary Gender Individual (open access)

Star Trek and the Non-Binary Gender Individual

Paper investigates the symbolic function of non-binary individuals in Star Trek, positing that characters with easily gendered qualities are portrayed as more benevolent and relatable, while more ambiguous characters are portrayed as more dangerous.
Date: 2016
Creator: Kajihara, Meghan
System: The UNT Digital Library
“We Need an Even Bigger One”: Disasters of Inequality in Postquake Kathmandu Valley (open access)

“We Need an Even Bigger One”: Disasters of Inequality in Postquake Kathmandu Valley

This article reflects on the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal.
Date: October 14, 2015
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using a Partial Sum Method and GPS Tracking Data to Identify Area Restricted Search by Artisanal Fishers at Moored Fish Aggregating Devices in the Commonwealth of Dominica (open access)

Using a Partial Sum Method and GPS Tracking Data to Identify Area Restricted Search by Artisanal Fishers at Moored Fish Aggregating Devices in the Commonwealth of Dominica

This article reports on research to identify area-restricted search foraging behavior at fish aggregating device (FAD) patches.
Date: February 3, 2015
Creator: Alvard, Michael; Carlson, David & McGaffey, Ethan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using a Partial Sum Method and GPS Tracking Data to Identify Area Restricted Search by Artisanal Fishers at Moored Fish Aggregating Devices in the Commonwealth of Dominica (open access)

Using a Partial Sum Method and GPS Tracking Data to Identify Area Restricted Search by Artisanal Fishers at Moored Fish Aggregating Devices in the Commonwealth of Dominica

This article explores research to identify area-restricted search foraging behavior at fish aggregating device (FAD) patches. Movement data were collected from GPS devices placed on foraging trips originating in the artisanal fishing village of Desa Ikan (pseudonym), on the east coast of the Caribbean island nation of the Commonwealth Dominica. The goal of the research is to understand how property rights are emerging after the introduction of fish aggregating device (FAD) technology at the site in 1999.
Date: February 3, 2015
Creator: Alvard, Michael; Carlson, David & McGaffey, Ethan
System: The UNT Digital Library
"No More Cakes and Ale?" Discovering Ethical Gray Areas in a Design Anthropology Class (open access)

"No More Cakes and Ale?" Discovering Ethical Gray Areas in a Design Anthropology Class

This article examines how ethics were learned in a design anthropology class.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Aiken, Jo & Schlieder, Victoria
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two Reflections on the Symbolic Position of Business Anthology (open access)

Two Reflections on the Symbolic Position of Business Anthology

This article provides comments and reflection on the symbolic position of business anthropology with mainstream anthropology.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wasson, Christina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Down deep in the holler: chasing seeds and stories in southern Appalachia (open access)

Down deep in the holler: chasing seeds and stories in southern Appalachia

This article is the third in a series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field" and is a personal reflection by the researcher on his experience and involvement in kinship and friendship networks while conducting agrobiodiversity research in southern Appalachia, USA.
Date: September 27, 2013
Creator: Veteto, James R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prestigious Houses or Provisional Homes? The ghar as a Symbol of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism (open access)

Prestigious Houses or Provisional Homes? The ghar as a Symbol of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism

This article considers an alternative formulation of urban planning generated by three-plus decades of economic and governmental liberalization.
Date: July 16, 2012
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Star Trek and “The Other”: Race, Gender and the Cultural Imagination (open access)

Star Trek and “The Other”: Race, Gender and the Cultural Imagination

Paper examines the portrayal of the Other as an indicator of change in the cultural imagination in Star Trek.
Date: 2012
Creator: Resendiz, Ramon
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Was Damaged?: Taking Sacred Ecology into Account in Environmental Impact Assessment (open access)

What Was Damaged?: Taking Sacred Ecology into Account in Environmental Impact Assessment

This article argues that any analysis of environmental impacts on indigenous communities must also consider the ways in which changes in environmental quality have harmed indigenous ways of sacredly connecting to the environment.
Date: 2012
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dharmic Method to Save the Planet (open access)

The Dharmic Method to Save the Planet

This article discusses environmentalism and ways in which dharmic methods can help save the planet. While most Americans are familiar with the terms such as "yoga" and "Bollywood," Indian perspectives toward the ecology seem to be largely unknown.
Date: May 12, 2011
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
System: The UNT Digital Library
Migration and Healing in a Latino/a Context (open access)

Migration and Healing in a Latino/a Context

Paper examines the history and belief systems of Latin American folk healers in the United States.
Date: 2011
Creator: Diaz, Martha Nuño
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Anthropology’s 2011 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (open access)

Preface to the Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Anthropology’s 2011 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates

Preface to the proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Anthropology’s 2011 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates, as presented in the 2011 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2011
Creator: Gorby, Megan & Davenport, Beverly Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sabbath: How Orthodox Jews Create Sacred Space (open access)

The Sabbath: How Orthodox Jews Create Sacred Space

Paper examines the ritual and cultural significance of the Sabbath to Orthodox Jews.
Date: 2011
Creator: Hernandez, Carlos
System: The UNT Digital Library
YouTube Commentary: Social Interaction in Online Publics (open access)

YouTube Commentary: Social Interaction in Online Publics

Paper explores how conversation, particularly interpretation of meaning and tone, occurs in online communities, specifically in Youtube comments.
Date: 2011
Creator: Lanius, Candice
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irony and the 'yoga wars' (open access)

Irony and the 'yoga wars'

Article discussing the debated topic of whether yoga is a Hindu or Secular practice and the potential causes and impacts of how and why this subject is being debated.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cosmic Dance of Obama-Raja on Newsweek (open access)

The Cosmic Dance of Obama-Raja on Newsweek

Article discussing an image that appears on the front cover of Newsweek magazine depicting President Barack Obama.
Date: November 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
System: The UNT Digital Library