Tarakkvlkv (Land of Palms)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

The recent history of the Brighton reservation is contained in the settlement patterns of the camps established by the various groups moving onto lands of a hostile government. Collective memory is transferred through oral histories, but the patterns that emerge can be viewed through a broad temporal lens to reveal the sociocultural motivations of the broader population. The location of camps near the periphery of the reservation in the early years speaks to the mistrust of the families concerned about the ease of escape should they find themselves in peril from the U.S. government. Two decades later the clustering of camps near schools, roads, and trading stores demonstrates a transition and connectedness to the non-Seminole world. These years were certainly formative in the history of the Tribe. GIS is the tool the THPO uses to draw together oral history and archaeological information in the telling of these important stories.

Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEOFFREY JONES ◽  
RACHAEL COMUNALE
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Business History ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Sensitive Topics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light

This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of creating and making accessible corporate archives in most countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It also permits a level of nuance that is hard to obtain even if written archives are accessible. Oral histories provide insights into why events did not occur, and why companies have chosen certain industries over others. Oral history can also shed light on hyper-sensitive topics, such corruption, which are rarely formally documented.

The politics of phosphorus-32: A cold war fable based on fact

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN KRIGE
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACT In July 1949, and again in January 1950 the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission shipped useful amounts of the short-lived isotope phosphorus-32 to a sanatorium in Trieste, Italy. They were used to treat a patient who had a particularly malignant kind of brain tumor. This distribution of isotopes abroad for medical and research purposes was hotly contested by Commissioner Lewis Strauss, and led to a bruising confrontation between him and J. Robert Oppenheimer. This paper describes the debates surrounding the foreign isotope program inside the Commission and in the U.S. Congress. In parallel, it presents an imagined, but factually-based story of the impact of isotope therapy on the patient and his doctor in Trieste, a city on the Italian-Yugoslavian border that was at the heart of the cold war struggle for influence between the U.S. and the USSR. It weaves together the history of science, institutional history, diplomatic history, and cultural history into a fable that draws attention to the importance of the peaceful atom for winning hearts and minds for the West. The polemics surrounding the distribution of isotopes to foreign countries may have irreversibly soured relationships between Oppenheimer and Strauss, and played into the scientist's loss of his security clearance. But, as those who supported the program argued, it was an important instrument for projecting a positive image of America among a scientifc elite abroad, and for consolidating its alliance with friendly nations in the early years of the cold war——or so the fable goes.

scholarly journals Recent History of Upgrades to the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. Murphy ◽  
John A. Cramer ◽  
Ryan K. Said
Keyword(s):  
Detection Efficiency ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Central Processor ◽  
Central Processing ◽  
Lightning Detection ◽  
History Of ◽  
Location Algorithm ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThe U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) underwent a complete sensor upgrade in 2013 followed by a central processor upgrade in 2015. These upgrades produced about a factor-of-five improvement in the detection efficiency of cloud lightning flashes and about one additional cloud pulse geo-located per flash. However, they also re-aggravated a historical problem with the tendency to misclassify a population of low-current positive discharges as cloud-to-ground strokes when, in fact, most are probably cloud pulses. Furthermore, less than 0.1% of events were poorly geo-located because the contributing sensor data were either improperly associated or simply under-utilized by the geo-location algorithm. To address these issues, Vaisala developed additional improvements to the central processing system, which became operational on November 7, 2018. This paper describes updates to the NLDN between 2013-2018 and then focuses on the effects of classification algorithm changes and a simple means to normalize classification across upgrades.

The Sentence Is the Story

2018 ◽  
pp. 94-122
Author(s):  
Peggy Kamuf
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Recent History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

This chapter takes up Norman Mailer’s 1979 novel The Executioner’s Song as chronicle of the “modern death penalty” era post-Gregg v. Georgia. Two questions or issues frame my analysis: the relation between narrative structure in general and the death penalty plot; the distinction between execution and suicide. The first issue is explored with the help of narratologists, but especially Walter Benjamin. The second reviews Kant’s argument that “no one can will [capital] punishment” and Derrida’s remarks, contra Kant, on the undecidability of execution and suicide. The chapter concludes with a brief reading of Mailer’s 1964 poem of the same title as his novel and speculates on how these two texts read the recent history of the U.S. death penalty.

Telling Feminist Histories

2019 ◽  
pp. 8-39
Author(s):  
Margaretta Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
Inaugural Meeting ◽  
Origin Stories ◽  
Asian Descent ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

The chapter traces the WLM’s compelling, contested and elusive political genealogies, recalling their socialist, radical, black, liberal, national or revisionist versions and fierce debates over strategy, tactics, structure, leadership and resources. It deploys feminist oral histories to re-tell movement ‘origin stories’ (women-led activism within the Hull fishing community and at Ford’s, Dagenham) but principally to parallel the first WLM conference at Ruskin College, Oxford (1970) with the inaugural meeting of the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent in Brixton, London (1979). The chapter recounts the ‘feminist composure’ required in remembering, and considers oral history’s significance as a medium of memories, subjectivities and feelings. It looks at how these approaches to movement history highlight the challenges of managing relationships and differences, and the thorny question of feminist identity. It ends with Beatrix Campbell’s oral history recollections of co-authoring Sweet Freedom, the first full-length history of the UK WLM. 149 words

Studying the History of Those Who Would Rather Forget: Oral History and the Experience of Slavery

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 209-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin A. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of

Research on oral history tends to be concerned with two very different types of sources. I would refer to them as oral traditions and oral data. Oral traditions are formally preserved, not always as narratives, but in some fixed form. They can, for example, be passed on as songs, as drum names, or as proverbs. They are part of the collective memory of the group and get passed on from generation to generation. They serve a legitimating function and must of necessity be analyzed in terms of who and what they legitimate. There is also a large body of data at any time which individuals hold in memory, data about individual experience, data that consist essentially of things that people have seen and experienced. It is not preserved in any formal way because it is not deliberately structured for legitimation or communication. Popular writers in western countries have tapped this rather rich treasure trove in recent years to write about the Depression, two World Wars, and the Spanish Civil War among other things. Oral tradition is limited in what it passes on, and once the transition from generation to generation is made, the amount of data is forever circumscribed.Oral data are largely concerned with people describing things they experienced. They are valid primarily during the lifetime of those being interrogated. They are absolutely essential for the reconstruction of the history of peoples without history, those low down in any social order who have little to legitimate.

scholarly journals Prospective Social Studies Teachers’ Evaluations of Their Own Oral History Experiences Related to Turkey’s Recent History

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Hülya Çelik
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Social Studies Teachers ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Studies Teacher ◽  
Phenomenological Research Design ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Faculty Of Education

This study examined how prospective social studies teachers evaluate their experiences conducting oral histories regarding Turkey’s recent history. The research was completed in a course called History of the Republic of Turkey in the Faculty of Education at Sakarya University. Thirty-four social studies teacher candidates participated in the study. Based on a phenomenological research design (a qualitative research method), the data were obtained via semi-structured interviews consisting of 5 questions developed for this study. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. The prospective social studies teachers reported that their experiences completing oral histories related to recent Turkish history positively affected their views of the study of history and that their oral history experiences exposed them to diverse perspectives. The primary difficulties they encountered conducting their oral histories concerned the source persons they did oral histories. They also reported that they would like to practice oral history in their future social studies classes.

scholarly journals “These Trees Have Stories to Tell”: Linking Dënesǫ́łıné Oral History of Caribou Use with Trample Scar Frequency on Black Spruce Roots at Ɂedacho Kué

ARCTIC ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-305
Author(s):  
Kelsey L. Dokis-Jansen ◽  
Brenda L. Parlee ◽  
Łutsël K’e Dëne First Nation ◽  
David S. Hik ◽  
Benoit Gendreau-Berthiaume ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Rangifer Tarandus ◽  
Black Spruce ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Barren Ground ◽  
History Of

For thousands of years Ɂedacho Kué (Artillery Lake, Northwest Territories) has been a key water crossing site for barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus). Human disturbance of barren-ground caribou habitat in northern Canada has emerged as an important focus of study in the last decade; particularly in the Bathurst range of the Northwest Territories where caribou populations have declined by more than 95% since the 1980s. Guided by local Indigenous leaders and Elders, a collaborative research project was developed with the Dënesǫ́łıné people of Łutsël K’e Dëne First Nation (2012 – 14). This paper describes linkages between knowledge derived from Dënesǫ́łıné oral history and quantitative dendroecological analysis of trample scars on black spruce (Picea mariana) root samples collected at Ɂedacho Kué to provide a better understanding of caribou use at this location. Findings from oral histories and dendroecology analysis were consistent with one another and with previous dendroecology study in the region, although some discrepancies were detected in data from 1995 – 2006 that require further study to elucidate. Key findings include relatively low caribou use at Ɂedacho Kué during the 1930s and late 1960s, with use increasing into the 1970s and peaking in the late 1980s, as well as Elder and hunter reports of no caribou in some years between 2005 and 2012. This work addresses a gap in scientific data about barren-ground caribou movements at Ɂedacho Kué prior to satellite collar use in 1996 and corroborates previously documented oral histories about the enduring value of Ɂedacho Kué as critical habitat to barren-ground caribou. Given the drastic decline of the Bathurst caribou over the last two decades, more research is needed to understand movements and their relationship to population dynamics. In this context, the research approach described in this paper could be used as an example of how to meaningfully bring together place-based Indigenous knowledge and science in addressing an urgent issue of Arctic sustainability. 

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