“It’s Only from God That We Ask Forgiveness”

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-95
Author(s):  
Sophie White
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Kin Relations

This analysis focuses on Louison, an enslaved woman belonging to the Ursuline convent in New Orleans, who testified as victim of a violent aggression in 1752. She was stabbed during an incident that escalated when a soldier demanded that she and her companions launder his soiled handkerchief. The depositions in this case laid bare the role of the Company of the Indies and Catholic orders as slaveholders, but also reveals the importance to the enslaved of family and kin relations, as seen when her husband, the convent-hospital’s enslaved apothecary and surgeon’s aide, came to her succor. In her testimony we hear Louison insistently communicating her response to a violent act of aggression, making full use of the opportunities available to her to speak: first, in her religion-inflected words to the soldier during their encounter and, second, in her subsequent retelling of the event to court officials.

Co-operation as a Conditional Strategy among Peers: Influence of Social Ecology and Kin Relations

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. LaFreniere
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relations ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Conditional Strategy ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Kin Relations ◽  
Sources Of Variation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Developmental Significance ◽  
The Relationship

The goal of this study is to analyse sources of variation, residing within the individual or within the relationship, in the ability to balance co-operative and competitive behaviours in a dyadic context. The ability to balance these two tendencies can be considered fundamental to successful adaptation within a social unit because co-operation may be essential in raising offspring, competing with other groups or in generating resources, whereas egoistic behaviour may protect the individual from exploitation or otherwise enhance reproductive success. Research is reviewed on the influence of social structures and relationships on co-operation in peer groups, and the origin and developmental significance of individual differences in co-operative abilities. Finally, a research programme investigating the conjunction of kin and peer relations is described, emphasising the role of affective synchrony, behavioural contingency, and reciprocity in shaping and sustaining co-operative behaviour as a conditional strategy.

Comparison of the Effects of Apo(a) Kringle IV-10 and Plasminogen Kringles on the Interactions of Lipoprotein(a) with Regulatory Molecules

1999 ◽  
Vol 81 (03) ◽  
pp. 428-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Green ◽  
Philip LoGrasso ◽  
Brian Boettcher ◽  
Edwin Madison ◽  
Linda Curtiss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Extracellular Matrix ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Binding Sites ◽  
American Heart Association ◽  
American Heart ◽  
Heart Association ◽  
Binding Activity ◽  
Protease Domain ◽  
Lipoprotein A

SummaryLipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is associated with atherosclerosis and with disease processes involving thrombosis. Lp(a) contains apoprotein (a) [apo(a)], which has a sequence highly homologous to plasminogen. Hence, Lp(a) binds directly to extracellular matrix, cellular plasminogen receptors and fibrin(ogen) and competes for the binding of plasminogen to these regulatory surfaces. These interactions may contribute to the proatherothrombogenic consequences of high Lp(a) levels. These interactions are mediated by lysine binding sites (LBS). Therefore, we examined the role of apo(a) kringle IV-10 [the only apo(a) kringle demonstrated to exhibit lysine binding activity in the intact lipoprotein] in the interaction of Lp(a) with these regulatory molecules. We have compared directly apo(a) KIV-10 with plasminogen K4 to examine whether these highly structurally homologous kringle modules are also functionally homologous. Futhermore, because the plasminogen K5-protease domain (K5-PD) binds directly to fibrin, we have also examined the ability of this plasminogen fragment to inhibit the interaction of Lp(a) with these regulatory molecules and with extracellular matrix. Apo(a) KIV-10 competed effectively for the binding of 125I-Lp(a) to these surfaces but was less effective than either intact Lp(a), plasminogen K4 or plasminogen. Plasminogen K5-PD was a better competitor than apo(a) KIV-10 for 125I-Lp(a) binding to the representative extra-cellular matrix, Matrigel, and to plasmin-treated fibrinogen. In contrast, plasminogen K5-PD did not compete for the interaction of Lp(a) with cells, although it effectively competed for plasminogen binding. These results suggest that Lp(a) recognizes sites in all of the regulatory molecules that are also recognized by apo(a) KIV-10 and that Lp(a) recognizes sites in extracellular matrix and in plasmin-modified fibrinogen that also are recognized by plasminogen K5-PD. Thus, the interaction of Lp(a) with cells is clearly distinct from that with extracellular matrix and with plasmin-treated fibrinogen and the recognition sites within Lp(a) and plasminogen for these regulatory molecules are not identical.Portions of this manuscript were presented at the 69th Meeting of the American Heart Association, New Orleans, LA 1996.

Gnostic and Countercultural Elements in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Hoodoo in America”

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 310-327
Author(s):  
Margarita Simon Guillory
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Secret Knowledge

Over the last decade, religious studies scholars have given attention to Zora Neale Hurston’s “Hoodoo in America.” These works, however, have not considered the important role of gnosis in hoodoo. This article acts to extend this literature by examining how Hurston employs secret knowledge to advance a particular understanding of hoodoo. Specifically, I argue that Hurston’s ethnographic study of New Orleans hoodoo captures a system of African-derived magical practices that is characterized by both gnostic and countercultural elements. These elements in turn reveal an intricate relationship between gnosis, human agency, and material culture that finds expression in the complex ritual system of New Orleans hoodoo.

scholarly journals From Cousin Joe to the Comoros: Orthography and the Politics of Choice in Africa and African America

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
The Other ◽  
Orthographic Representation ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
African America ◽  
Comoro Islands

This paper explores issues of orthographic representation in two different projects, in two different locations, and draws some general conclusions about the role of an outsider linguistic anthropologist in working with individuals and their data. One project involved helping Cousin Joe, a blues singer from New Orleans, to edit his autobiography for publication. The other project involved developing a bilingual, bidirectional, Shinzwani-English dictionary for the Comoro Islands. Each project required an awareness of-and sensitivity to-the cultural and political implications of orthographic decisions.

scholarly journals The Vital Role of a Federally Qualified Community Health Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-6
Author(s):  
Jason Halperin ◽  
Katherine Conner ◽  
Christian Telleria ◽  
Bruce Agins ◽  
Isolde Butler
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Health Center ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Community Health Center ◽  
Vital Role

Housekeeper

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-123
Author(s):  
Alexandra J. Finley
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
French Caribbean ◽  
Boarding House ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sexual Labor

Chapter four focuses on enslaved women's work in the household through the history of Lucy Ann Cheatham. Cheatham was born enslaved in Virginia and purchased in the domestic slave trade by trader John Hagan of New Orleans, Louisiana. Hagan forced Cheatham to be his enslaved concubine. She bore him several children and acted as his housekeeper. In his will, Hagan disguised the reasons for Cheatham's financial inheritance by describing her as his caregiver. Hagan's language, evocative of the role of ménagères in the French Caribbean, speaks to the number of roles that Cheatham played in his household, and the tendency of enslavers to conflate emotional labor with domestic and sexual labor. After Hagan's death, Cheatham took her domestic labor to the marketplace as a boarding house operator. The chapter also speaks to the strength of Cheatham's connections with family and female friends, and how maintaining those ties can be seen as an act of resistance.

It's Good Enough for Me: The Role of Religion in School Choice in Post-Katrina New Orleans

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda M. Cambre ◽  
Tammie M. Causey-Konaté ◽  
Tamara B. Warner
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Role Of Religion

Introduction

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-167 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Great Earthquake ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Major Earthquake ◽  
Earth's Crust ◽  
The Many

This Focus is the outcome of a Symposium planned in 2004 by Theo D'haen and Karl Fuchs and held in association with the Annual Meeting of the Academia Europaea in September 2005 in Potsdam, 250 years after the Great Earthquake of 1755.That ‘Great Event’ was not only recorded as a physical disaster, but it had a profound effect on life in Europe not directly concerned with the local devastation. In the Focus you will find recorded the impression it made on Voltaire and the influence it had on the development of Kant's thinking, on Wesley's sermons and even on poetry in distant Holland.What could not be foreseen was how timely this Focus would be, since 2004–5 was a period of great disasters due to tsunamis in Sumatra and Mumbai, a major earthquake in Kashmir-Pakistan, and the hurricane flooding in New Orleans and other parts of the American Gulf coast.The accusations of incompetence of local authorities, central government and politicians follow the same pattern as 250 years ago! What is rather different is the perceived role of the Almighty; but, after all, the 1755 episode occurred on All Saints Day, a Sunday when the many who were in church at the time of the eruption, were among the most prominent casualties.What is quite different is the realization due to the insight of Alfred Wegener, that the earth's crust is not continuous, but split into plates, some twelve in number, that are unstable where their edges are in contact – the areas of earthquakes.

Cleaning up New Orleans: The impact of a missing population on disaster debris removal

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Cook, BA
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Removal Process ◽  
Debris Removal ◽  
Rebuilding Effort ◽  
Disaster Debris ◽  
The Impact

Public participation in a disaster debris removal process is an important component to any large-scale rebuilding effort. How, then, does such an effort progress when nearly two-thirds of the affected community’s population does not come back to participate? The City of New Orleans faced just such a situation after Hurricane Katrina and the catastrophic flooding that followed. The debris removal task is the largest in US history, and very few residents returned to participate in the cleanup. This article provides a further understanding of the impact that New Orleans’ missing population had on the city’s cleanup process. This article asserts that without this city’s residents (or first filters), the enormous debris removal effort in New Orleans was further slowed and complicated. The first two sections provide background and context, identifying the size and scope of the disaster, the low residential return rate, and the role of public participation in previous large-scale debris removal efforts. The next three sections focus on the disaster debris itself, identifying specific ways in which the missing population further complicated New Orleans’ cleanup efforts with regard to (a) the duration of the debris removal process, (b) the volume of debris, and (c) the contamination of debris.The final section considers various measures that emergency planners and managers can take to facilitate “participatory repopulation,” thus mitigating the complications of a missing population.

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