Ronald L Bishop
Biographic Data
| ID | 138974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald L Bishop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bishop |
| SIGNATURE | BISHOP R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smithsonian Institution |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9401-8524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 766 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
His Work Here Is Done: How Sports Journalists and Commentators Framed Colin Kaepernick’s Possible Return to the National Football League
A frame analysis was conducted of recent coverage by sports journalists of the on-again off-again possibility that Colin Kaepernick might sign a contract to play with a team in the National Football League (NFL). Kaepernick was blacklisted by league and team officials angry at, and hoping to avert public backlash from, Kaepernick’s 2016 decision to kneel during the national anthem to protest systemic police brutality and mass incarceration. The a…
Those were the days? Dimensions of nostalgia in media coverage of the Norman Lear reboots
A narrative analysis was performed on a group of print and online news stories, along with accompanying pictures and videos, from the lead-up to and reviews of the reboots of Norman Lear’s revered series All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and Good Times. Coverage of the reboots furnished a compelling opportunity for media critics, reporters, and the audience to engage in nostalgia for the significance of Lear’s work. The narrative that emerges fr…
Imitation games: The exchange and emulation of fine orange pottery in central Chiapas, Mexico
Not an Ounce of Hollywood Bullshit”: A Narrative Analysis of News Media Coverage of Spotlight’s Oscar Win
A narrative analysis was conducted of news media coverage of the Academy Award-winning movie Spotlight from January 1, 2015, until June 1, 2016, with a focus on how journalists, film critics, and commentators invoked the history of investigative reporting—and of investigative reporting on film—in evaluating Spotlight and the significance of the journalism-related issues it raised. Even as the narrative asks the reader to revisit the “heroic journ…
Political Alliances and Trade Connections Observed in the Ceramic Record of the Classic Period: The Perspective From the Maya Site of Nakum, Guatemala
Recent research carried out at the Maya site of Nakum, located in northeastern Guatemala, has brought about the discovery of a large collection of ceramic artefacts. This substantial assemblage, apart from monochrome ceramics, includes fragments of polychrome vessels that are decorated with elaborate iconographic scenes and painted hieroglyphic texts. Most of them date to the Late Classic period (ca. a.d. 600–800), which represents the peak of th…
Running the Bases Backward: Journalists Mark the Death of Jimmy Piersall
A narrative analysis was performed on obituaries and tributes written to commemorate the career of longtime Major League player and broadcaster Jimmy Piersall, who died in June 2017. Six primary narrative themes were identified: the impact on Piersall of pressure from his father to excel, his role as mentor to other players, celebration of his decision to come forward about his experience with mental illness, the “antics” for which he was so well…
A Good Fooling: Journalism’s Narrative of Surprise Military Homecomings
A narrative analysis was performed on recent media texts regarding the return of members of the US military and staged reunions with their family members. The USA’s current state of permanent war means that it needs more instances of closure. The narrative that emerged from news coverage is a reminder that reunions, while providing closure, are also one of the last bastions of war coverage, even as journalists have ceded control of it to event or…
Sourcing Chihuahuan Polychrome Ceramics: Assessing Medio Period Economic Organization
Traditionally, the wide distribution of distinctive Chihuahuan polychrome ceramics has been interpreted as evidence for the extensive interaction sphere of Casas Grandes, or Paquime. The role of the major center of Paquime in the political and economic system is a crucial question in defining the nature and intensity of interactions in the Casas Grandes region and the extent of intraregional social and political integration. A large-scale, region…
Chemical analysis of Late Classic Maya polychrome pottery paints and pastes from Central Petén, Guatemala
Texas Mission Ceramics: Origins of Manufacture and Distribution during the Eighteenth Century
Instrumental Approaches to Understanding Mesoamerican Economy: Elusive Promises
More than four decades ago, instrumental developments, such as those involving neutron activation and X-ray florescence, began to generate relatively large quantities of data from the analysis of archaeological materials. These data served as the basis for many models of long-distance exchange as a means of explaining the development of cultural complexity. I review aspects of this early history and the how use of compositional data is now more d…
Go out and play, but mean it: Using frame analysis to explore recent news media coverage of the rediscovery of unstructured play
A frame analysis was conducted on newspaper articles, news magazine articles, and the transcripts of broadcast segments on the need for and rediscovery of unstructured play that appeared between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2010. This time frame was selected to coincide with the recent revival of interest in play, both among scholars and the public. The eight frames that emerged from the coverage reveal that the spontaneity in play valued by …
We are the Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music
A través del río del cambio
Se ha dedicado considerable actividad arqueo1ógica a los sucesos que condujeron al despoblamientode los centros dvicos y religiosos del area maya central. Las causas hipotéticas del llamado "colapso" frecuentemente recurren a Ia idea de invasores de la costa del Golfo de México que arrasaron los pueblos asentados sobre el cauce superior del Usumacinta. Los estudios de la composición de las pastas cerámicas por activación neutrónica han concentrad…
Sources and Sourcin
Archaeologists require information about the production and distribution of artifacts to understand better the complexity of human interactions. Frequently carried out as an investigation of trade and exchange, these studies attempt to form groups of compositionally similar artifacts. These groups are then attributed to variously defined “sources” of the materials from which they were made as a step in determining the direction of movement from t…
The first direct evidence of pre-columbian sources of palygorskite for Maya Blue
Locally-made or Imported? Identifying Ceramic Composition Variation in the San Francisco Presidio Jurisdiction
Late Classic (A.D. 600–900) Maya Market Exchange: Analysis of Figurines from the Motul de San José Region, Guatemala
Archaeologists studying ancient state societies often divide political economic models into separate prestige goods and subsistence goods systems. For the Maya during the Late Classic period (ca. A.D. 600–900), scholars have suggested that the elite centrally controlled the production and circulation of prestige goods while local communities and households were responsible for subsistence goods manufacture and exchange, which operated in a largel…
In the Grand Scheme of Things: An Exploration of the Meaning of Genealogical Research
Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction
From a Distance: Marginalization of the Poor in Television Ads for Goodwill Industries
An ideological analysis was performed on 20 television advertisements created in 2001 for Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, an affiliate of Goodwill Industries International, one of the nation's most respected charities. Goodwill's advertising strategy suggests that the donation process shown in the ads is how charity should be viewed: a sanitary experience completely removed from those who benefit from the charitable act and thus different…
The Smithsonian–nist Partnership: The Application of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis to Archaeology
The history and procedures of the Smithsonian–NIST programme in the application of instrumental neutron activation to the study of archaeological materials are reviewed. Statistical processing of the resulting analytical data is a major focus of the programme, with attention called to processes of initial group formation. Specific areas of current research emphasis are presented, which build upon the strength of accumulated databases
It turns out the Armoire is your mother: Narratives of addiction in two cable television organization programs
An ideological analysis was conducted of two cable television programs which offer strategies on how to organize the “stuff” accumulated by individuals: Clean Sweep, which airs on the TLC cable channel, and Clean House, which airs on the Style cable channel. Both programs send in energetic team of experts to help couples identify and dispose of items that they believe (and the couples agree) are negatively impacting their lives. The assumption em…
Methodological Issues in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics
A recent study of Early Formative Mesoamerican pottery by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) yielded surprising results that prompted two critiques in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The INAA study indicated that the Olmec center of San Lorenzo was a major exporter of carved-incised and white pottery and that little if any pottery made elsewhere was consumed at San Lorenzo. The critiques purport to "overturn" the…
Smokescreens in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics
We are glad that Sharer et al. (this issue) have dropped their original claim that the INAA data demonstrate multidirectional movement of Early Formative pottery. Beyond this, however, they offer nothing that might enhance understanding of Early Formative ceramic circulation or inspire new insights into Early Formative cultural evolution in Mesoamerica. Instead, their response contains fresh distortions, replications of mistakes made in their PNA…
Compositional Analysis and "Sources" of Pottery: An Ethnoarcheological Approach
One of the important assumptions of compositional analysis is that the elemental composition of an artifact reflects the source of the materials used to make it. Thus, pottery from a particular source will be chemically similar to the raw materials from that source. This "commonsense" assumption seems beyond dispute, but the fact that pottery is a mixture of clay, water, and often temper added by the potter, complicates the interpretation of comp…
Missing In Action: Feature Coverage of Women’s Sports in Sports Illustrated
This analysis follows up work in the late 1970s analyzing Sports Illustrated's coverage of women's sports in Olympic years 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976. This article analyzes feature articles in the first issue of each month of Sports Illustrated beginning in 1980, with 72 issues reviewed for total number of articles per issue, sex of athlete featured in each article, number of pages per article, and type of sport covered in each articl…
A simulation approach to the problem of tempering in compositional studies of archaeological ceramics
Methodological Issues in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics
A recent study of Early Formative Mesoamerican pottery by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) yielded surprising results that prompted two critiques in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The INAA study indicated that the Olmec center of San Lorenzo was a major exporter of carved-incised and white pottery and that little if any pottery made elsewhere was consumed at San Lorenzo. The critiques purport to "overturn" the…
More observations on the problem of tempering in compositional studies of archaeological ceramics
From behind the Walls: Boundary Work by News Organizations in Their Coverage of Princess Diana's Death
The untimely death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31 August 1997 gave journalists from mainstream news organizations a prime opportunity to publicly distance themselves from the freelance photographers, or paparazzi, who allegedly chased Diana's car into a Paris tunnel. Journalists went to great lengths in their coverage of the accident to build boundaries between themselves and the paparazzi (and tabloid publications), boundaries damaged in rec…
Out of the Palace Dumps: Ceramic Production and Use at Buenavista Del Cayo
An interdisciplinary approach to Late Classic Maya polychrome-painted ceramics from Buenavista del Cayo and Cahal Pech, Belize allows for preliminary observations relevant to a better understanding of elite pottery production and use in the western Belize Valley. The combination of typological and contextual data from archaeological investigations of ceramics along with art-historical stylistic analyses and ceramic-paste chemical-composition data…
Smokescreens in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics
We are glad that Sharer et al. (this issue) have dropped their original claim that the INAA data demonstrate multidirectional movement of Early Formative pottery. Beyond this, however, they offer nothing that might enhance understanding of Early Formative ceramic circulation or inspire new insights into Early Formative cultural evolution in Mesoamerica. Instead, their response contains fresh distortions, replications of mistakes made in their PNA…
Deciphering the inorganic chemical record of ancient human activity using ICP-MS: A reconnaissance study of late Classic soil floors at Cancuén, Guatemala
Changing Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Petexbatun Region, Guatemala: Reconsidering the Classic Maya Collapse
The typological, modal, and chemical analyses of the pottery from the Petexbatun region of southwestern Peten, Guatemala, are used to establish a regional ceramic chronology and to assess three theories used to explain the Classic Maya collapse of the ninth and tenth centuriesa.d.The three explanations are based on: (1) foreign invasion; (2) commercialization; and (3) internal warfare. Each of these theories suggests different changes in the regi…
The Provincial Organization of Inka Ceramic Production
The Inka empire was supported by goods and services provided by both generalized and specialized labor. To gain insight into how goods were produced and distributed in the imperial economy, 173 sherds from Cuzco, Lake Titicaca, the upper Mantaro Valley, and Tarma were analyzed (INAA) for materials composition. Results show that production and consumption of Inka ceramics were focused within regions, although two plates probably made in Cuzco were…
The Lowland Maya “Protoclassic: A reconsideration of its nature and significance
The term “Protoclassic,” employed regularly but inexplicitly in the literature of lowland Maya archaeology, has become increasingly nebulous and ambiguous in both meaning and usage. This paper reviews the history and use of the term and presents a formal redefinition of the Protoclassic as a ceramic stage based explicitly and exclusively on ceramic criteria. Some suggestions regarding future use of the term also are offered. The paper further add…
The accidental journalist: Shifting professional boundaries in the wake of Leonardo DiCaprio's interview with former President Clinton
ABC asked actor Leonardo DiCaprio to interview former President Bill Clinton on the environment as part of an Earth Day special that aired on the network in April 2000. In this textual analysis, I apply Thomas Gieryn's work on professional boundary building and Erving Goffman's theories on front‐ and back‐stage behavior to explore the controversy caused by DiCaprio's interview. Journalists at first criticized ABC News for asking an actor to do a …
Plumbate Origins and Development
The question of spatial and temporal origins for Plumbate ware is addressed with archaeological evidence from the eastern Soconusco region of the Pacific slope, and evidence from a recent stylistic and compositional study (the latter by neutron-activation analysis). This evidence confirms the Pacific coastal-origins hypothesis proposed by Shepard (1948), suggesting specifically that the first Plumbate, designated 'Guayabal Plumbate,' was produced…
Reconstructing Ceramic Production from Ceramic Compositional Data: An Example from Guatemala
In order for ceramic compositional analysis to yield more than tentative attribution of ceramics to broad source areas, models of ceramic resource procurement and production will have to incorporate some of the acknowledged complexities of real-world ceramic production. In this paper, we discuss some experiments using artificially-mixed data sets derived from raw materials collected in contemporary pottery-making communities. These experiments su…
Late Classic (A.D. 600–900) Maya Market Exchange: Analysis of Figurines from the Motul de San José Region, Guatemala
Archaeologists studying ancient state societies often divide political economic models into separate prestige goods and subsistence goods systems. For the Maya during the Late Classic period (ca. A.D. 600–900), scholars have suggested that the elite centrally controlled the production and circulation of prestige goods while local communities and households were responsible for subsistence goods manufacture and exchange, which operated in a largel…
A Reexamination of the Compositional Affiliations of Formative Period Whiteware from Highland Guatemala
An earlier study (Rice 1977, 1978a) purportedly found compositional similarity between raw materials used by modern potters in the northern Valley of Guatemala and Formative period whiteware ceramics from sites in the valley, particularly the major highland center of Kaminaljuyu. The compositional similarity suggested that Formative whiteware was manufactured in the northern valley, and this inference in turn underpinned a model of the developmen…
News Media, Heal Thyselves: Sourcing Patterns in News Stories about News Media Performance
The past decade has seen a marked increase in the amount of coverage afforded the “media angle” in major news stories. But where do journalists turn to find support for stories they write about themselves? It is hypothesized that certain sources do recur in these stories. A series of LEXIS-NEXIS searches was performed between April and October 1998 for news stories and broadcast news transcripts from 1990 to the present that focused either on new…
Sensitivity, Precision, and Accuracy: Their Roles in Ceramic Compositional Data Bases
Differences in analytical sensitivity, precision, and accuracy exist among techniques and laboratories involved in the chemical analysis of archaeological ceramics. Large differences in these analytical parameters become significant in the formulation of data bases where comparability of the data is being sought. Small differences become significant when comparing pottery produced from clay resources located within a discrete geological environme…
An Assessment of the Acid-Extraction Approach to Compositional Characterization of Archaeological Ceramics
We criticize the acid-extraction approach to chemical characterization of ceramics previously advocated in this journal by Burton and Simon (1993). The instrumental technique used by Burton and Simon (inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy [ICP]) is a highly precise chemical characterization technique, but noise introduced by characterizing acid extracts from sherds nullifies the usefulness of the resulting elemental concentration data …
Neutron Activation of Dogoszhi Style Ceramics: Production and Exchange in the Chacoan Regional System
Neutron activation analysis was carried out on 60 Dogoszhi style black-on-white ceramic vessels from three prehistoric Chacoan sites in the northern U.S. Southwest. Cylinder vessels and bowls from Pueblo Bonito and Pueblo del Arroyo, two large towns located in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, exhibited a high degree of compositional homogeneity. However, bowls from the community associated with the outlying town of Allentown were compositionally differe…
The first direct evidence of pre-columbian sources of palygorskite for Maya Blue
In the Grand Scheme of Things: An Exploration of the Meaning of Genealogical Research
Notes on Maya Codex-Style Ceramics from Nakbe, Peten, Guatemala
Maya codex-style ceramics are among the most highly sought antiquities for collectors because of the fine art and extraordinary mythological scenes depicted on the pottery; yet the source of these ceramics has remained elusive. Recent archaeological explorations by the Regional Archaeological Investigation of the North Peten, Guatemala (RAINPEG) project at the site of Nakbe, Peten, have discovered codex-style ceramics in archaeological context. T…
The Smithsonian–nist Partnership: The Application of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis to Archaeology
The history and procedures of the Smithsonian–NIST programme in the application of instrumental neutron activation to the study of archaeological materials are reviewed. Statistical processing of the resulting analytical data is a major focus of the programme, with attention called to processes of initial group formation. Specific areas of current research emphasis are presented, which build upon the strength of accumulated databases
Archaeology: Exchange Systems in Prehistory . Timothy K. Earle and Jonathan E. Ericson , eds
Ceramic Compositional Analysis in Archaeological Perspective
El Bálsamo Residential Investigations: A Pilot Project and Research Issues
A simulation approach to the problem of tempering in compositional studies of archaeological ceramics
The Formation of Ceramic Analytical Groups: Hopi Pottery Production and Exchange, A.C. 1300–1600
The formation of ceramic analytical groups based on compositional, technological, and stylistic analyses enables us to begin modeling the conditions of production and exchange that affected Hopi potters between A.C. 1300 and 1600. The present study indicates that intervillage and intravillage production units can be isolated for pueblos located on adjacent mesas in NE Arizona. Exchange of vessels between sites on and off the Hopi mesas suggests d…
The Formation of Ceramic Analytical Groups: Hopi Pottery Production and Exchange, A. C. 1300-1600
Ronald L. Bishop, Veletta Canouts, Suzanne P. De Atley, , C. W. Aikins, The Formation of Ceramic Analytical Groups: Hopi Pottery Production and Exchange, A. C. 1300-1600, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 317-337
Reconstructing Ceramic Production from Ceramic Compositional Data: An Example from Guatemala
In order for ceramic compositional analysis to yield more than tentative attribution of ceramics to broad source areas, models of ceramic resource procurement and production will have to incorporate some of the acknowledged complexities of real-world ceramic production. In this paper, we discuss some experiments using artificially-mixed data sets derived from raw materials collected in contemporary pottery-making communities. These experiments su…
Plumbate Origins and Development
The question of spatial and temporal origins for Plumbate ware is addressed with archaeological evidence from the eastern Soconusco region of the Pacific slope, and evidence from a recent stylistic and compositional study (the latter by neutron-activation analysis). This evidence confirms the Pacific coastal-origins hypothesis proposed by Shepard (1948), suggesting specifically that the first Plumbate, designated 'Guayabal Plumbate,' was produced…
Compositional Data Analysis in Archaeology
As compositional analysis has become more routine in archaeological investigations, deficiencies in the numerical techniques used for data reduction and summary have become more apparent. A brief overview of techniques commonly used in the analysis of compositional data is presented as well as an example illustrating how data modeling (as opposed to data summary) can facilitate both the recognition of relevant data structure and inferences from d…
More observations on the problem of tempering in compositional studies of archaeological ceramics
A Reexamination of the Compositional Affiliations of Formative Period Whiteware from Highland Guatemala
An earlier study (Rice 1977, 1978a) purportedly found compositional similarity between raw materials used by modern potters in the northern Valley of Guatemala and Formative period whiteware ceramics from sites in the valley, particularly the major highland center of Kaminaljuyu. The compositional similarity suggested that Formative whiteware was manufactured in the northern valley, and this inference in turn underpinned a model of the developmen…
Neutron Activation of Dogoszhi Style Ceramics: Production and Exchange in the Chacoan Regional System
Neutron activation analysis was carried out on 60 Dogoszhi style black-on-white ceramic vessels from three prehistoric Chacoan sites in the northern U.S. Southwest. Cylinder vessels and bowls from Pueblo Bonito and Pueblo del Arroyo, two large towns located in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, exhibited a high degree of compositional homogeneity. However, bowls from the community associated with the outlying town of Allentown were compositionally differe…
The Provincial Organization of Inka Ceramic Production
The Inka empire was supported by goods and services provided by both generalized and specialized labor. To gain insight into how goods were produced and distributed in the imperial economy, 173 sherds from Cuzco, Lake Titicaca, the upper Mantaro Valley, and Tarma were analyzed (INAA) for materials composition. Results show that production and consumption of Inka ceramics were focused within regions, although two plates probably made in Cuzco were…
Sensitivity, Precision, and Accuracy: Their Roles in Ceramic Compositional Data Bases
Differences in analytical sensitivity, precision, and accuracy exist among techniques and laboratories involved in the chemical analysis of archaeological ceramics. Large differences in these analytical parameters become significant in the formulation of data bases where comparability of the data is being sought. Small differences become significant when comparing pottery produced from clay resources located within a discrete geological environme…
Notes on Maya Codex-Style Ceramics from Nakbe, Peten, Guatemala
Maya codex-style ceramics are among the most highly sought antiquities for collectors because of the fine art and extraordinary mythological scenes depicted on the pottery; yet the source of these ceramics has remained elusive. Recent archaeological explorations by the Regional Archaeological Investigation of the North Peten, Guatemala (RAINPEG) project at the site of Nakbe, Peten, have discovered codex-style ceramics in archaeological context. T…
Compositional Analysis and "Sources" of Pottery: An Ethnoarcheological Approach
One of the important assumptions of compositional analysis is that the elemental composition of an artifact reflects the source of the materials used to make it. Thus, pottery from a particular source will be chemically similar to the raw materials from that source. This "commonsense" assumption seems beyond dispute, but the fact that pottery is a mixture of clay, water, and often temper added by the potter, complicates the interpretation of comp…
The Ceramic Legacy of Anna O. Shepard
The Production and Distribution of Classic Mimbres Black-on-White Pottery
Because the most abundant and finest quality Classic Mimbres Black-on-white ceramics are associated with large pueblos located in the Mimbres Valley, archaeologists have subscribed to a center-periphery model of exchange to explain the occurrence of these ceramics outside of the 'heartland.' Recent instrumental neutron-activation analysis based on 117 samples from six sites and supported by petrographic analyses demonstrates that separable produc…
An Assessment of the Acid-Extraction Approach to Compositional Characterization of Archaeological Ceramics
We criticize the acid-extraction approach to chemical characterization of ceramics previously advocated in this journal by Burton and Simon (1993). The instrumental technique used by Burton and Simon (inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy [ICP]) is a highly precise chemical characterization technique, but noise introduced by characterizing acid extracts from sherds nullifies the usefulness of the resulting elemental concentration data …
Changing Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Petexbatun Region, Guatemala: Reconsidering the Classic Maya Collapse
The typological, modal, and chemical analyses of the pottery from the Petexbatun region of southwestern Peten, Guatemala, are used to establish a regional ceramic chronology and to assess three theories used to explain the Classic Maya collapse of the ninth and tenth centuriesa.d.The three explanations are based on: (1) foreign invasion; (2) commercialization; and (3) internal warfare. Each of these theories suggests different changes in the regi…
The Lowland Maya “Protoclassic: A reconsideration of its nature and significance
The term “Protoclassic,” employed regularly but inexplicitly in the literature of lowland Maya archaeology, has become increasingly nebulous and ambiguous in both meaning and usage. This paper reviews the history and use of the term and presents a formal redefinition of the Protoclassic as a ceramic stage based explicitly and exclusively on ceramic criteria. Some suggestions regarding future use of the term also are offered. The paper further add…
From behind the Walls: Boundary Work by News Organizations in Their Coverage of Princess Diana's Death
The untimely death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31 August 1997 gave journalists from mainstream news organizations a prime opportunity to publicly distance themselves from the freelance photographers, or paparazzi, who allegedly chased Diana's car into a Paris tunnel. Journalists went to great lengths in their coverage of the accident to build boundaries between themselves and the paparazzi (and tabloid publications), boundaries damaged in rec…
What Price History? Functions of Narrative in Television Collectibles Shows
Dans cet article, l'A. realise une analyse de texte sur les programmes televises qui ont pour sujet principal des objets trouves ou ceux de collectionneurs. Il tente de nous expliquer, au travers d'exemples concrets d'emissions sur les chaines televisees de Boston, le role de la narration ( c'est-a-dire des actions symboliques commes les mots qui ont du sens pour ceux qui les expriment ) qui cree et change le sens des objets ramenes par les perso…
Ceramic Technology and Social Boundaries: Cultural Practices in Kalinga Clay Selection and Use
More Than Meets the Eye: An Exploration of Literature Related to the Mass Media’s Role in Encouraging Changes in Body Image
Until recently, there has been little research on the mediated messages that may help fuel Americans’ obsession with losing weight. This chapter is an interdisciplinary look at the impact of the mass media on body image. Bringing together work from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and sociology, this review explores seminal body-image research and then looks critically at communication research that tries to link consumption of media message…
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