ScholarWorks@Towson: Recent submissions
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Beethoven's hair
(2018-05)[From paper] The “Guevara” lock of Beethoven’s Hair is an immense historical discovery that yields insight into the life and death of one of the greatest composers of all time, especially the period of suffering during ... -
Black women: the forgotten trailblazers
(2018-05)[From paper] The 1960s and 1970s were decades of large-scale upheaval and change in the United States. Several social movements brought about this change, two of the most prominent being the Civil Rights Movement and the ... -
A Cloud of Witnesses: External Mediation in Frodo’s Journey to Rivendell and Beyond
(The Mythopoeic Society, 2018)Applies Rene Girard’s mimetic theory to a study of Frodo’s motivations and role models in the early phases of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien’s incorporation of extensive background material deepens our understanding of his ... -
Black representation on campus
(2017-12)[From paper] In 1966, civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael gave a speech at UC Berkeley where he used the phrase “Black Power” to describe an ideology of racial pride and black autonomy. The phrase “Black Power” had been ... -
The use of simulation techniques to investigate the effects of conductive hearing loss on the auditory brainstem response
(2018-11-06)A click-evoked Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) was recorded on 28 normal hearing adult participants to determine the effects of different degrees of conductive hearing loss on the response properties of the ABR. Participants ... -
Do the wrongfully convicted face employment discrimination similar to actual offenders?
(2018-09-14)While the number of exonerations in the United States continues to increase, little research has examined the challenges underlying exonerees’ reintegration into society. Given that exonerees are stigmatized similarly to ... -
An exploration of leadership within the Church of Scientology
(2018-11-02)This analysis builds on existing scholarly work that has analyzed the Church of Scientology through the lens of public relations and expanded on how these practices have lent themselves to perpetuating the Church's leadership ... -
Introduction
(Modern Language Association, 2007)The articles collected for this issue of Critical Arts provide a number of different entrées into the practice of media anthropology while remaining true to the origins of this particular journal by providing a space where ... -
Introduction: the stakes of whiteness studies
(Wiley Blackwell, 2009-04)An introduction to a series of essays about racism and whiteness in the U.S. Included are information on anthropology's contribution to critical whiteness studies, the complexity by which whiteness in its various manifestations ... -
Conference review: AnthropologyCon 2017
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)AnthropologyCon 2017 transpired across multiple sites at the annual American Anthropology Association meeting in Washington, DC. The first event included a workshop on “Anthropology of/through Games” on Thursday afternoon, ... -
Divergent and similar experiences of 'gating' in South Africa: Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town
(Springer Nature, 2008)The last 20 years has witnessed an explosion not only in the growth of private residential territories throughout the world, but also in the literature addressing them. The majority of research is centred on experiences ... -
Picturing addition: book review of Righteous dopefiend
(Wiley Blackwell, 2009)Book review for Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg, published by University of California Press in 2009. -
Race, space and place in suburban Durban: an ethnographic assessment of gated community environments and residents
(Springer, 2006)This paper explores gated community culture and development in the suburbs of North Durban in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Using perspectives from the anthropology of space and place as a theoretical and ... -
Baltimore steel stories
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-11)The article offers information on the efforts to chronicle the economic and personal changes people have endured in Baltimore, Maryland, to make sense of their lives and represent the contradictions of capitalism which ... -
Multimodality: an invitation
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Push it along: on not making an ethnographic film in Baltimore
(American Anthropological Association, 2017-06-09)Perhaps the most demonized group following the uprising that occurred after the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore were the youth of the city. As ethnographers working in the same neighborhoods where the Baltimore Uprising ... -
Investigating transdiagnostic and interpersonal applications of the contrast avoidance model through path analysis
(2016-11-03)The current study aimed to evaluate the role of emotional contrast avoidance (CA; Newman & Llera, 2011) in relationships between insecure attachment and outcomes of psychopathological symptoms and interpersonal problems ... -
Anaerobic abiotic reduction of dichloroacetamide safeners: effects of manganese oxides and agrochemical co-formulants
(2015-09-18)Safeners are added to herbicide formulations to protect crops from toxic effects of active herbicides. Evidence suggests that as dichloroacetamide safeners transform, they can become more biologically active. Dichloroacetamide ... -
Does the timing of divorce matter? Parental divorce, interparental conflict, and young adult well-being
(2014-09-12)The present study compared participants from intact families to those from families where parental divorce occurred before the participant was 18 years old and families where the divorce occurred after the participant was ... -
Multiple minority stress: the role of proximal and distal stress on mental health outcomes among lesbian, gay and bisexual people of color
(2017-10-19)There is minimal research addressing the mental health outcomes of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people of color (LGB-POC). Meyer's (2003; 2015) minority stress theory posits that the manifestation of depression and anxiety ...