Diane E Austin
Biographic Data
| ID | 645136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane E Austin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane E |
| FAMILY NAME | Austin |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTIN D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Taking Anthropology Off Campus
The Great Crew Change?
The oil and gas industry has a history of booms and busts, imbalances in supply and demand, "crewing up" in expansive times, then retrenching and downsizing in bad times. Many in the industry labeled the early twenty-first century workforce turnover as "The Great Crew Change" and expressed concern that the skilled workers being laid off would be supplanted by inexperienced replacements or — given yet another episode of industry volatility — not r…
Enhancing Participatory Evaluation of Land Management through Photo Elicitation and Photovoice
Land management evaluation can be made more relevant and holistic by incorporating local knowledge and perspectives. We examined whether photo elicitation and photovoice could enhance semi-structured interviews in capturing local livestock farmers’ knowledge and perspectives in a participatory evaluation in Mier and Molopo, South Africa. The participants discussed themes including veld condition, land management, and evaluation criteria. Photo el…
Coastal Exploitation, Land Loss, and Hurricanes
Southern Louisiana occupies a dynamic landscape, marked by coastal wetlands interrupted by both natural and human-made levees, and vulnerable to both the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers and major storms coming off the Gulf of Mexico. It is also a region into which, for centuries, exiled and threatened populations have moved and found refuge. Systematic and dramatic changes along the entire reach of the Mississippi River coupled with activities…
Partnerships, Not Projects! Improving the Environment Through Collaborative Research and Action
The knowledge we can obtain through direct experience is often only a fraction of what is necessary for understanding our interactions with the environments upon which we depend. We often know little about the environmental impacts of agricultural practices, water projects, or oil extraction activities that supply what we want and need. Knowledge gaps are exacerbated by technologies that enable the mobility of people and resources. Those who act …
Community-Based Collaborative Team Ethnography
This paper describes an approach for building relationships and achieving effective community-university-agency collaboration that was developed to provide information about the issues faced by individuals and families involved in the exploration and production of oil and gas on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Two university-affiliated ethnographers and a group of local schoolteachers followed the activities of selected workers…
Ghost Dancing the Grand Canyon
Combining rock art studies with ethnohistory, contemporary ethnographic analysis, and the interpretations of people who share the cultural traditions being studied, this paper documents a rock art site in Kanab Creek Canyon that appears to have been the location of a Ghost Dance ceremony performed by Southern Paiute and perhaps Hualapai people in the late 1800s. Using the site as a point of departure, it focuses on the way in which synergistic as…
Cultural Knowledge and the Cognitive Map
Cultural preservation requires that the practices as well as the objects of culture be preserved. Too often, this is overlooked in the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings, and traditional cultural properties. As discussed in the articles in this issue, Native American cultures are recognized for their special ties to specific places. Traditionally, American Indians developed an understanding of their environments through regu…
Cultural Landscapes and Traditional Cultural Properties
American Indian people typically want to provide the fullest protection possible for their cultural resources found beyond the bounds of tribal reservations. Federal and state land managers also want to protect cultural resources, thus complying with cultural resource protection laws. Since the mid-1970s, when Indian concerns began to be formally incorporated into cultural studies, there has been a major gap between what Indian people want to pro…
Sociocultural Impacts of Hazardous Waste Incinerator Proposals
The sociocultural impacts of a major development project begin as soon as the project is announced in a community. Even when a project is never developed, the anticipated impacts of the project lead to real impacts of the proposal as individuals act to support or oppose the proposed project. Here I describe the sociocultural impacts experienced by members of two American Indian tribes due to their consideration of proposals to site hazardous wast…
Coastal Exploitation, Land Loss, and Hurricanes
Southern Louisiana occupies a dynamic landscape, marked by coastal wetlands interrupted by both natural and human-made levees, and vulnerable to both the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers and major storms coming off the Gulf of Mexico. It is also a region into which, for centuries, exiled and threatened populations have moved and found refuge. Systematic and dramatic changes along the entire reach of the Mississippi River coupled with activities…
Cultural Landscapes and Traditional Cultural Properties
American Indian people typically want to provide the fullest protection possible for their cultural resources found beyond the bounds of tribal reservations. Federal and state land managers also want to protect cultural resources, thus complying with cultural resource protection laws. Since the mid-1970s, when Indian concerns began to be formally incorporated into cultural studies, there has been a major gap between what Indian people want to pro…
Ghost Dancing the Grand Canyon
Combining rock art studies with ethnohistory, contemporary ethnographic analysis, and the interpretations of people who share the cultural traditions being studied, this paper documents a rock art site in Kanab Creek Canyon that appears to have been the location of a Ghost Dance ceremony performed by Southern Paiute and perhaps Hualapai people in the late 1800s. Using the site as a point of departure, it focuses on the way in which synergistic as…
Enhancing Participatory Evaluation of Land Management through Photo Elicitation and Photovoice
Land management evaluation can be made more relevant and holistic by incorporating local knowledge and perspectives. We examined whether photo elicitation and photovoice could enhance semi-structured interviews in capturing local livestock farmers’ knowledge and perspectives in a participatory evaluation in Mier and Molopo, South Africa. The participants discussed themes including veld condition, land management, and evaluation criteria. Photo el…
Sociocultural Impacts of Hazardous Waste Incinerator Proposals
The sociocultural impacts of a major development project begin as soon as the project is announced in a community. Even when a project is never developed, the anticipated impacts of the project lead to real impacts of the proposal as individuals act to support or oppose the proposed project. Here I describe the sociocultural impacts experienced by members of two American Indian tribes due to their consideration of proposals to site hazardous wast…
Cultural Landscapes and Traditional Cultural Properties
American Indian people typically want to provide the fullest protection possible for their cultural resources found beyond the bounds of tribal reservations. Federal and state land managers also want to protect cultural resources, thus complying with cultural resource protection laws. Since the mid-1970s, when Indian concerns began to be formally incorporated into cultural studies, there has been a major gap between what Indian people want to pro…
Cultural Knowledge and the Cognitive Map
Cultural preservation requires that the practices as well as the objects of culture be preserved. Too often, this is overlooked in the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings, and traditional cultural properties. As discussed in the articles in this issue, Native American cultures are recognized for their special ties to specific places. Traditionally, American Indians developed an understanding of their environments through regu…
Ghost Dancing the Grand Canyon
Combining rock art studies with ethnohistory, contemporary ethnographic analysis, and the interpretations of people who share the cultural traditions being studied, this paper documents a rock art site in Kanab Creek Canyon that appears to have been the location of a Ghost Dance ceremony performed by Southern Paiute and perhaps Hualapai people in the late 1800s. Using the site as a point of departure, it focuses on the way in which synergistic as…
Community-Based Collaborative Team Ethnography
This paper describes an approach for building relationships and achieving effective community-university-agency collaboration that was developed to provide information about the issues faced by individuals and families involved in the exploration and production of oil and gas on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Two university-affiliated ethnographers and a group of local schoolteachers followed the activities of selected workers…
Partnerships, Not Projects! Improving the Environment Through Collaborative Research and Action
The knowledge we can obtain through direct experience is often only a fraction of what is necessary for understanding our interactions with the environments upon which we depend. We often know little about the environmental impacts of agricultural practices, water projects, or oil extraction activities that supply what we want and need. Knowledge gaps are exacerbated by technologies that enable the mobility of people and resources. Those who act …
Coastal Exploitation, Land Loss, and Hurricanes
Southern Louisiana occupies a dynamic landscape, marked by coastal wetlands interrupted by both natural and human-made levees, and vulnerable to both the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers and major storms coming off the Gulf of Mexico. It is also a region into which, for centuries, exiled and threatened populations have moved and found refuge. Systematic and dramatic changes along the entire reach of the Mississippi River coupled with activities…
Enhancing Participatory Evaluation of Land Management through Photo Elicitation and Photovoice
Land management evaluation can be made more relevant and holistic by incorporating local knowledge and perspectives. We examined whether photo elicitation and photovoice could enhance semi-structured interviews in capturing local livestock farmers’ knowledge and perspectives in a participatory evaluation in Mier and Molopo, South Africa. The participants discussed themes including veld condition, land management, and evaluation criteria. Photo el…
The Great Crew Change?
The oil and gas industry has a history of booms and busts, imbalances in supply and demand, "crewing up" in expansive times, then retrenching and downsizing in bad times. Many in the industry labeled the early twenty-first century workforce turnover as "The Great Crew Change" and expressed concern that the skilled workers being laid off would be supplanted by inexperienced replacements or — given yet another episode of industry volatility — not r…
Taking Anthropology Off Campus
Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Cartography (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works)