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Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources (open access)

Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources

This paper presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
Date: December 16, 2010
Creator: Henry, Lisa; Antonovic, Annette; Buete, Sherri; Deardorff, Philip; DoCarmo, Tania; Gutierrez, Paula et al.
Object Type: Paper
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics (open access)

Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics

Article discussing the absence of a formal category of environmental ethics in Jainism and Jainism's historical relationship to environmental ethics.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Language Archiving: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

This NSF-funded workshop initiated a research trajectory that brings the fields of language archives and user-centered design (UCD) into dialogue, with the goal of improving users’ experiences with language archives and making them more accessible and useful to diverse user groups. The workshop documented perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research. This slide deck accompanied the presentation by Gary Holton on language archiving.
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Holton, Gary
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Notes on the Reality of Archaeological Data: Two Zooarchaeological Case Studies from the Northern Rio Grande Region of New Mexico

Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing two zooarchaeological case studies from the Northern Rio Grande region of New Mexico.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Dombrosky, Jonathan & Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of attendees listening to Christina Wasson lead a project discussion during the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Wasson is standing behind a podium in the far left side of the image. The audience is seated in rows of chairs and around three rectangular tables which are all arranged in in a semi-circle facing the speaker; the tables are covered in green tablecloths with the UNT Department of Linguistics logo on them.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of Christina Wasson standing behind a podium (at left) while leading a project discussion during the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Three rectangular tables covered in green UNT tablecloths are arranged in a semi-circle facing the front of the room; audience members are seated around the table and in additional rows of chairs behind them. The entrance to the UNT Press office is visible in the background through a glass wall at the side of the room.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of Christina Wasson standing behind a podium during her presentation "User-Centered Design" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Behind her, there is a brick wall and a screen mounted on the left side of the image displaying the title slide of the presentation.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of Christina Wasson speaking to attendees from behind a podium. Members of the audience are visible, seated at rectangular tables arranged in a semi-circle facing the speaker and covered in green UNT tablecloths. This is during the presentation "User-Centered Design" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Anthropology 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (open access)

Preface to the Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Anthropology 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates

Introduction to the proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Anthropology 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates, featured in the 2010 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2010
Creator: Davenport, Beverly Ann & Franco, David Oliveira, Jr.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sacredness and Ski Resorts: Being Human and Being in Conflict (open access)

Sacredness and Ski Resorts: Being Human and Being in Conflict

This paper situates anti-snowmaking sentiments in Navajo concepts of sacredness.
Date: 2012
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library