G Wesley Burnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1685787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Wesley Burnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | G Wesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnett |
| SIGNATURE | BURNETT G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2210-747X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An archaeological record of late Holocene activity and colonial impacts in the New England Tableland, New South Wales, Australia
Traces in a Lost Landscape
An overview and report on the Traces in a Lost Landscape: Aboriginal archaeological sites, Dyarubbin/Nepean River Project, which uses geospatial recording and analysis to recover, integrate, and map data from published and unpublished reports on Aboriginal archaeological sites on Dyarubbin/the Nepean River in New South Wales, Australia
"On the Origins of Azraq's "Roman Wall
Anti-leisure in dystopian fiction
Literary utopias, i.e. designs for the theoretically perfect society, have been common in Western literature since Plato's The Republic . A variation on this genre which emerged in the nineteenth century is the anti-utopia, or dystopia, in which an author depicts the worst of all possible societies. Dystopias usually exaggerate contemporary social trends and in doing so, offer serious social criticism. This essay examines the treatment of leisure…
A willing benefactor
Using common historiographie sources—early ethnographic reports—we compare traditional perceptions of wilderness among East Africa's pastoral Nilotes and highland Bantu. Specifically, the hypothesis that Nilotic and Bantu views are substantially the same is investigated and cautiously accepted. Acceptance of the hypothesis, however, does not mean that important differences do not exist in the perception and approach to wilderness among the people…
Conflicting attitudes toward state wildlife conservation programs in Kenya
We present a case study of the social issues of wildlife conservation in Kenya based on field work in and near Nairobi and Tsavo National Parks. Surveys of small‐scale cultivators and pastoralists (157) and local park officials (44) reveal that there are widespread negative feelings and perceptions of local people toward state policies and programs of wildlife conservation. For instance, 84% of the local people reported that there is a bad relati…
Early national park adoption in sub‐Saharan Africa
It is widely supposed that national parks were invented with Yellowstone National Park in 1872, from whence they have diffused around the world. Adoption of parks within Africa can be better understood and traced by considering the original motivations regarding reserve establishment. Historical patterns of national park and reserve adoption in Africa's biogeographic regions are analyzed. Results suggest that parks were adopted early in southern …
Wilderness and the Bantu Mind
Leisure corrupted
Theoretical arguments that leisure is the basis of any culture are available. Yet, scarcity in the literature of serious consideration of leisure in non-Western societies demonstrates that the topic has been neglected. One possible explanation for the failure to achieve progress in cultural comparisons of leisure is the lack of data. At least three approaches permit this type of comparison. This paper focuses on a literary approach by investigati…
Scientific Vocabulary Divergence among Female Primatologists Working in East Africa
Feminist philosophers have argued rhetorically that women scientists view the world differently from their male colleagues, and will therefore conduct their work on the basis of different paradigms. The argument, however, begs empirical support. Here, evidence is offered that female ethologists working in East Africa select substantially different vocabulary to describe their work than do male ethologists publishing in the same sources. Discrimin…
Dominica — geographic isolation and tourism prospects
On the nature of peace in relationship to tourism
Tourism, since it involves the movement of people from country to country and results in frequent economic, social and cultural exchanges, is likely to be a force contributing to world peace. In October 1988, scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields gathered in Vancouver, Canada, to consider this proposition for the first time (D'Amore and Jafari 1988). Their deliberations focused to an exceptional degree on the Third World, where most…
National park and equivalent reserve creation in French and British Africa
Data and previous studies indicate that national park creation has differed between British and French Africa. More national parks have been established in British Africa, although French Africans have been more active in creating national parks since independence. Furthermore, biomes and biogeographical provinces have been treated differently with respect to national park creation in French and British Africa. Most notably, French Africans have …
The Efficacy of Africa's National Parks
In the Arusha Manifesto of 1961, Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere recognized Africa's wildlife and consequently its parks as the rightful heritage of all humankind and pledged the new African states to manage these resources accordingly. Since their independence, the African states have dedicated considerable land to national parks; failure to develop robust economies has resulted in insufficient management of the parks, however. Africans and W…
Ecological redundancy and the research tradition of three Kanyan parks
National parks and equivalent reserves serve science, at least in part, as natural laboratories for original field research. In Kenya systematic research in national parks, developing in association with the new discipline, ethology, dates from the mid‐1950's. The majority of published findings since independence have resulted from research conducted at Nairobi, Tsavo and Amboseli national parks. The areas are highly similar in gross ecological s…
Concepts of leisure in Western thought
National parks in the third world and associated national characteristics
For 102 third world countries, presence and absence of national parks is used as the dependent or classification variable in a discriminant analysis. Eleven variables suggestive of diverse tropical savanna habitats contribute to a single canonical discriminant function. Socioeconomic variables are poor contributors to the function. Seventy‐nine of the countries are properly classified in their group by the canonical discriminant function. Misclas…
Fact and judgment in the search for a social carrying capacity
An analogy drawn twenty years ago between biological carrying capacity and the effects of user density on visitor satisfaction in natural areas has elicited voluminous publication; yet, review of this literature demonstrates that the analogy has failed to provide management with a rationale for allocating use. A technical/computational solution for determining use levels requires a high degree of concurrence on social values and on scientific fac…
Borderlands Sourcebook
Wilderness, Economics and Policy
Borderlands Sourcebook
Conflicting attitudes toward state wildlife conservation programs in Kenya
We present a case study of the social issues of wildlife conservation in Kenya based on field work in and near Nairobi and Tsavo National Parks. Surveys of small‐scale cultivators and pastoralists (157) and local park officials (44) reveal that there are widespread negative feelings and perceptions of local people toward state policies and programs of wildlife conservation. For instance, 84% of the local people reported that there is a bad relati…
Wilderness and the Bantu Mind
The Efficacy of Africa's National Parks
In the Arusha Manifesto of 1961, Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere recognized Africa's wildlife and consequently its parks as the rightful heritage of all humankind and pledged the new African states to manage these resources accordingly. Since their independence, the African states have dedicated considerable land to national parks; failure to develop robust economies has resulted in insufficient management of the parks, however. Africans and W…
Anti-leisure in dystopian fiction
Literary utopias, i.e. designs for the theoretically perfect society, have been common in Western literature since Plato's The Republic . A variation on this genre which emerged in the nineteenth century is the anti-utopia, or dystopia, in which an author depicts the worst of all possible societies. Dystopias usually exaggerate contemporary social trends and in doing so, offer serious social criticism. This essay examines the treatment of leisure…
Leisure corrupted
Theoretical arguments that leisure is the basis of any culture are available. Yet, scarcity in the literature of serious consideration of leisure in non-Western societies demonstrates that the topic has been neglected. One possible explanation for the failure to achieve progress in cultural comparisons of leisure is the lack of data. At least three approaches permit this type of comparison. This paper focuses on a literary approach by investigati…
Fact and judgment in the search for a social carrying capacity
An analogy drawn twenty years ago between biological carrying capacity and the effects of user density on visitor satisfaction in natural areas has elicited voluminous publication; yet, review of this literature demonstrates that the analogy has failed to provide management with a rationale for allocating use. A technical/computational solution for determining use levels requires a high degree of concurrence on social values and on scientific fac…
Traces in a Lost Landscape
An overview and report on the Traces in a Lost Landscape: Aboriginal archaeological sites, Dyarubbin/Nepean River Project, which uses geospatial recording and analysis to recover, integrate, and map data from published and unpublished reports on Aboriginal archaeological sites on Dyarubbin/the Nepean River in New South Wales, Australia
A willing benefactor
Using common historiographie sources—early ethnographic reports—we compare traditional perceptions of wilderness among East Africa's pastoral Nilotes and highland Bantu. Specifically, the hypothesis that Nilotic and Bantu views are substantially the same is investigated and cautiously accepted. Acceptance of the hypothesis, however, does not mean that important differences do not exist in the perception and approach to wilderness among the people…
National park and equivalent reserve creation in French and British Africa
Data and previous studies indicate that national park creation has differed between British and French Africa. More national parks have been established in British Africa, although French Africans have been more active in creating national parks since independence. Furthermore, biomes and biogeographical provinces have been treated differently with respect to national park creation in French and British Africa. Most notably, French Africans have …
Wilderness, Economics and Policy
Fact and judgment in the search for a social carrying capacity
An analogy drawn twenty years ago between biological carrying capacity and the effects of user density on visitor satisfaction in natural areas has elicited voluminous publication; yet, review of this literature demonstrates that the analogy has failed to provide management with a rationale for allocating use. A technical/computational solution for determining use levels requires a high degree of concurrence on social values and on scientific fac…
Borderlands Sourcebook
National parks in the third world and associated national characteristics
For 102 third world countries, presence and absence of national parks is used as the dependent or classification variable in a discriminant analysis. Eleven variables suggestive of diverse tropical savanna habitats contribute to a single canonical discriminant function. Socioeconomic variables are poor contributors to the function. Seventy‐nine of the countries are properly classified in their group by the canonical discriminant function. Misclas…
Ecological redundancy and the research tradition of three Kanyan parks
National parks and equivalent reserves serve science, at least in part, as natural laboratories for original field research. In Kenya systematic research in national parks, developing in association with the new discipline, ethology, dates from the mid‐1950's. The majority of published findings since independence have resulted from research conducted at Nairobi, Tsavo and Amboseli national parks. The areas are highly similar in gross ecological s…
Concepts of leisure in Western thought
The Efficacy of Africa's National Parks
In the Arusha Manifesto of 1961, Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere recognized Africa's wildlife and consequently its parks as the rightful heritage of all humankind and pledged the new African states to manage these resources accordingly. Since their independence, the African states have dedicated considerable land to national parks; failure to develop robust economies has resulted in insufficient management of the parks, however. Africans and W…
On the nature of peace in relationship to tourism
Tourism, since it involves the movement of people from country to country and results in frequent economic, social and cultural exchanges, is likely to be a force contributing to world peace. In October 1988, scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields gathered in Vancouver, Canada, to consider this proposition for the first time (D'Amore and Jafari 1988). Their deliberations focused to an exceptional degree on the Third World, where most…
National park and equivalent reserve creation in French and British Africa
Data and previous studies indicate that national park creation has differed between British and French Africa. More national parks have been established in British Africa, although French Africans have been more active in creating national parks since independence. Furthermore, biomes and biogeographical provinces have been treated differently with respect to national park creation in French and British Africa. Most notably, French Africans have …
Scientific Vocabulary Divergence among Female Primatologists Working in East Africa
Feminist philosophers have argued rhetorically that women scientists view the world differently from their male colleagues, and will therefore conduct their work on the basis of different paradigms. The argument, however, begs empirical support. Here, evidence is offered that female ethologists working in East Africa select substantially different vocabulary to describe their work than do male ethologists publishing in the same sources. Discrimin…
Dominica — geographic isolation and tourism prospects
Leisure corrupted
Theoretical arguments that leisure is the basis of any culture are available. Yet, scarcity in the literature of serious consideration of leisure in non-Western societies demonstrates that the topic has been neglected. One possible explanation for the failure to achieve progress in cultural comparisons of leisure is the lack of data. At least three approaches permit this type of comparison. This paper focuses on a literary approach by investigati…
Early national park adoption in sub‐Saharan Africa
It is widely supposed that national parks were invented with Yellowstone National Park in 1872, from whence they have diffused around the world. Adoption of parks within Africa can be better understood and traced by considering the original motivations regarding reserve establishment. Historical patterns of national park and reserve adoption in Africa's biogeographic regions are analyzed. Results suggest that parks were adopted early in southern …
Wilderness and the Bantu Mind
Conflicting attitudes toward state wildlife conservation programs in Kenya
We present a case study of the social issues of wildlife conservation in Kenya based on field work in and near Nairobi and Tsavo National Parks. Surveys of small‐scale cultivators and pastoralists (157) and local park officials (44) reveal that there are widespread negative feelings and perceptions of local people toward state policies and programs of wildlife conservation. For instance, 84% of the local people reported that there is a bad relati…
A willing benefactor
Using common historiographie sources—early ethnographic reports—we compare traditional perceptions of wilderness among East Africa's pastoral Nilotes and highland Bantu. Specifically, the hypothesis that Nilotic and Bantu views are substantially the same is investigated and cautiously accepted. Acceptance of the hypothesis, however, does not mean that important differences do not exist in the perception and approach to wilderness among the people…
Anti-leisure in dystopian fiction
Literary utopias, i.e. designs for the theoretically perfect society, have been common in Western literature since Plato's The Republic . A variation on this genre which emerged in the nineteenth century is the anti-utopia, or dystopia, in which an author depicts the worst of all possible societies. Dystopias usually exaggerate contemporary social trends and in doing so, offer serious social criticism. This essay examines the treatment of leisure…
"On the Origins of Azraq's "Roman Wall
Traces in a Lost Landscape
An overview and report on the Traces in a Lost Landscape: Aboriginal archaeological sites, Dyarubbin/Nepean River Project, which uses geospatial recording and analysis to recover, integrate, and map data from published and unpublished reports on Aboriginal archaeological sites on Dyarubbin/the Nepean River in New South Wales, Australia
An archaeological record of late Holocene activity and colonial impacts in the New England Tableland, New South Wales, Australia
Geography (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works)