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Reinterpreting Yajña as Vedic Sacrifice (open access)

Reinterpreting Yajña as Vedic Sacrifice

In this article, the author endeavors to problematize the term "sacrifice," which is often used to translate the word yajna in Indological writings.
Date: 2011
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renunciation and Non-Renunciation in Indian Films (open access)

Renunciation and Non-Renunciation in Indian Films

Article discussing the renunciation and non-renunciation in Indian films. The author reviews several films to analyze the portrayal of ascetics and householders.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Biodivinity and Biodiversity: The Limits to Religious Environmentalism (open access)

[Review] Biodivinity and Biodiversity: The Limits to Religious Environmentalism

This article reviews the book "Biodivinity and Biodiversity: The Limits to Religious Environmentalism," by Emma Tomalin, a book about religion and ecology.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition (open access)

[Review] Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition

This article reviews the book "Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition," by Bhaskar Sarkar. The book examines the political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Swadhyaya's Dharmic Ecology (open access)

Swadhyaya's Dharmic Ecology

Article discussing an essay by the author titled "Dharmic Ecology: Perspectives from the Swadhyaya Practitioners," discussing the Swadhyayis and their Vrksamandiras, or tree-temples, and dharmic ecology.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ten Key Hindu Environmental Teachings (open access)

Ten Key Hindu Environmental Teachings

This article discusses diverse theologies in Hinduism and describes ten important Hindu teachings on the environment.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Changing Use of Health Care Services by Unmarried Older Women, 1969 to 1975: Final Report to the NRTA-AARP Andrus Foundation (open access)

The Changing Use of Health Care Services by Unmarried Older Women, 1969 to 1975: Final Report to the NRTA-AARP Andrus Foundation

Final report to the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA)- American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Andrus Foundation. This reports on a research study of the changing use of health care services by unmarried older women from 1969 to 1975.
Date: March 12, 1982
Creator: Martin, Cora A. & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal by Mark Pickett (open access)

Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal by Mark Pickett

This article reviews the book "Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal" by Mark Pickett.
Date: June 21, 2018
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Refugees of Shangri-La by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter (open access)

Review of Refugees of Shangri-La by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter

This article reviews the documentary film "Refugees of Shangri-La" by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter.
Date: June 6, 2018
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Review
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Undergraduate Research and the Latino/a Chicano/a Oral History Project (open access)

Undergraduate Research and the Latino/a Chicano/a Oral History Project

Introduction to the special section on anthropology in the 2006 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2006
Creator: Nuñez-Janes, Mariela
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Undergraduate Student Research in Anthropology (open access)

Undergraduate Student Research in Anthropology

Introduction to the special section for undergraduate research in anthropology in the 2007 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2007
Creator: Nuñez-Janes, Mariela
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Do I Look Illegal? Undocumented Latino/a Students and the Challenges of Life in the Shadows

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Unauthorized Immigration. This presentation discusses illegal immigration and the challenges for undocumented Latino/a students.
Date: April 13, 2011
Creator: Nuñez-Janes, Mariela & Chapa, Shaun
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
IamWe: Digital Storytelling, Personal Journeys, and Praxis (open access)

IamWe: Digital Storytelling, Personal Journeys, and Praxis

This chapter discusses the practice of digital storytelling as it relates to personal growth among high school youth who were part of the IamWe program.
Date: 2017
Creator: Nuñez-Janes, Mariela & Franco, David Oliveira, Jr.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas (open access)

Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas

Introduction to the proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology as featured in the 2007 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2007
Creator: Rios, L. Danyel & Dessouky, Shimaa Y.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cultural Memory and Heirloom Seeds: The Foundation of Local Food Systems

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. This presentation discusses heirloom seeds and covers information about the Foundation of Local Food Systems.
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Veteto, James R.
Object Type: Presentation
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Studying Distance Students: Methods, Findings, Actions (open access)

Studying Distance Students: Methods, Findings, Actions

This paper discusses the needs of distance learners.
Date: April 20, 2012
Creator: Wahl, Diane; Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & Henry, Lisa
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Caution and Consensus in American Business Meetings (open access)

Caution and Consensus in American Business Meetings

This article focuses on the ways in which cautiousness is exercised to achieve consensus in American business meetings.
Date: 2000
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

User-Centered Design

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses user-centered design for language archives.
Date: November 11, 2017
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library