university of texas press espíritu santo de zúñiga a frontier mission in south texas apr 2007

... (Permanence of Paper).library of congress cataloging -in- publication dataWalter, Tamra Lynn. Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga: afrontiermission in South Texas /Tamra Lynn Walter. — 1st ed.p. cm. — (Texas ... Recent linguistic and archaeological research indicates thatthere were several distinct languages (including Coahuilteco, Comecrudo,Cotoname, Tonkawa, Solano, Karankawa, and Aranama) and varying ... 80). espíritu santo de zúñiga espíritu santo de zúñiga 20 Espíritu Santo de Zún˜igasions, as elsewhere, abandonment was a frequent complaint of the Francis-cans ( Jackson and Castillo 1995). Ironically,...

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... of the transformative capacity of racial hier-archies is the case of Chinese and Japanese Americans in California. In thelate 1800s and early 1900s, Asian Americans were arguably the mostdespised ... African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, andChicanas/os and Latinas/os, operated from a largely bipolar racial approachcentered on whites. In other words, the experience of, say, Asian ... depending upon how the lines of difference are drawn. In California, both today and in the past, they are primarily drawn racially.As Omi and Winant have pointed out, race remains a central organizingprinciple...

... Papers of the AmericanAnthropological Association, 2. Washington dc:American Anthropological Association.199 7a Ethnoarchaeology of Subsistence Space and Gender: A Subarctic Dene Case. AmericanAntiquity ... facet of the law allowed a non-Treaty woman to gain Treatystatus by marrying a Treaty man and a Treaty woman to lose her status bymarrying a non-Treaty man. Treaty men kept their status regardless ... Kesyehot’ine, or Poplar House People, are descendants of Dene or Atha-paskan-speaking Chipewyan Indians who moved southward into the UpperChurchill River drainage of north-central Canada during...

... of the University of California First Paperback Printing 1988Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataCerteau, Michel de. The practice of everyday life.Translation of: Arts de faire.1. ... tools and products taken from a language of social operations to set off a display of technical gadgets and thus arrange them, inert, on the margins of a system that itself remains intact.The actual ... rhetoric and everyday practices can be defined as internal manipulations of a system—that of language or that of an established order. "Turns" (or "tropes") inscribe in ordinary...

... is aimed at taking Japan's measure as a democracy. Like all democracies, Japan faces at least two major challenges: first, to provide an efficient and stable government capable of generating ... observance of basic human rights. Indeed, the country has been a major staging area for protests over the fate of dissidents in other Asian nations, such as Korea and Taiwan. The postwar Japanese ... An Ideal Model of Protest, Japanese-Style Although certain types of social protest have gone further than others in achieving popular acceptance, apart from the actual issues at stake in a...

... NBC in 1926, radio broadcasting emerged from its previous domain in the garages andattics of the amateurs and became a truly American social practice. Joining the so-cial upheavals and disturbances ... legal basis of any of his regulatory decisions, was decided in favor of Zenith, and in a period of seven months, more than 200 new stations went on the air, creating intolerableinterference in ... AffiliatesPassage of the Radio Act of 1927 ushered in the era of network dominance, de- spite its framers’ ambivalence about NBC’s emergent chain and its parent RCA’smonopoly in the radio market....

... annually to hearguest speakers, engage in workshops, and increase their own command of the material.NASA has always maintained education and information programs.These include programs that ... one another in a habitat that isn’t all thatbig. They encounter the same people, the same things, the same activ-ities day after day, and unless an individual participates in a demandingand ... dangerous.To leave Earth’s gravity, spacefarers ride atop tons of burning mate-rials, and they perhaps undertake difficult docking maneuvers whenreaching their destinations. Typically, today’s spacefarers...

... anxiety about inter-acting with a machine, making the phonographic apparatus appear more“human.”5The ability of a mechanical recording to break frames helpsit emanate a sense of authentic ... withnotions of race, gender, and class. In chapter 1 I examine the recorded laugh in the mass media, focus-ing on early phonograph recordings and the broadcast laugh track. Ipresent the laugh as an instance ... whispering, laughing andsinging: all this depending on the agility of the director in manipulatingthe keys” (Feaster 2001, 67). Indeed, laughter seems to have become a routine part of Faber’s demonstrations...

... the lines in fine calligraphy or sublime landscape painting, collaborate to create maximum aesthetic effect. Another seminal idea in the organically related vocabulary of classical Confucianism ... overall aim is more general: to increase an understanding and appreciation of other ways of thinking and living in order to better understand and evaluate our own, and thereby to promote an inclusive ... respect tradition may be construed not merely as the lament of reactionary and authoritarian intellectuals, but also as containing the keen insight that much of who and what we are is always linked...