W Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7937-3966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 2
Social work has experienced unique tensions related to its professional identity and dual purpose of social reform and individualized treatment. Scholars have represented this dual purpose, epitomized by Jane Addams and Mary Richmond, as indicating irreconcilable differences
The Cultivation Approach to Place-Based Philanthropy: Evaluation Findings from the Clinton Foundation’s Community Health Transformation Initiative
Cultivation is a decentralized approach to place-based philanthropy where the foundation seeks to activate local stakeholders and assist them in translating their ideas into action. Rather than convening a strategic planning process, cultivation presumes that the seeds of high-payoff solutions are already circulating somewhere in the community. The foundation’s role is to support local stakeholders in developing and implementing their own ideas i…
The Spreading of Innovation: State Adoptions of Energy and Climate Change Policy
The American states are engaged in a variety of policy efforts to mitigate climate change and alter energy usage. While a number of studies have considered the reasons for adoption of renewable energy and climate change policies, they typically consider only one policy in isolation. This study examines policy adoption of 14 energy and climate change programs in a pooled event history analysis. Our primary research questions consider average effec…
Radical WAS: The Sense of History in World Art Studies
This essay engages David Hulks' account of World Art Studies as a ‘radical proposal’ for a practice that could replace the ‘New Art History’ developed in the 1970s and 1980s. Suggesting that both a ‘world art history’ that was well established by the 1960s and the New Art History remain preconditions and precursors of World Art Studies, it considers how World Art Studies might relate the ontology of art – questions of ‘defining art’ – to the para…
Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad
In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work. In September 1844, Delia Webster took break from her teaching responsibilities at Lexington Female Academy and accompanied Calvin Fairbank, Methodist preacher from Oberlin College, on Saturdary drive in the country. At the end of their trip, their passengers--Lewis Hayd…
Sigmund Freud's Drawing of the Dream of the Wolves
Journal Article Sigmund Freud's Drawing of the Dream of the Wolves Get access WHITNEY DAVIS WHITNEY DAVIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 70–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/15.2.70 Published: 01 December 1992
Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan. Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, June 1, 1980
Egypt before the Pharaohs
Egypt, Samos, and the Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture
Egypt, Samos, and the Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture
Mineral resources of the Galiuro Wilderness and contiguous further planning areas, Arizona
Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines are making mineral surveys of wilderness and primitive areas.Areas officially designated as "wilderness," "wild," or "canoe" when the act was passed were incorporated into the National Wilderness Preservation System.Areas classed as "primitive" were not included in the Wilderness System, but the act provides that each primitive area be studied for its suitability for incorporation into the Wilderness System.The…
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply]
Craft specialization, a concomitant of evolving social complexity, is regarded as a process of regulating variety in extractive or productive activities. A trial model for the evolution of specialization in pottery production is presented, together with test implications for the archaeological recognition of specialized production. Emphasis is on standardization vs. variability or diversity in decorative, technological, and formal pottery attribu…
Plato on Egyptian Art
Plato on Egyptian Art
On the Argument From Ceramics to History: A Challenge Based on Evidence From Medieval Nubia [and Comments and Reply]
The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…
Dating Prehistoric Rock Drawings in Upper Egypt and Nubia
The Ascension-Myth in the Pyramid Texts
The Origins of Register Composition in Predynastic Egyptian Art
The compositions and arrangements of predynastic art are widely supposed to be chaotic, and the formal ordering of the historic period is often taken to be the major point of separation between predynastic and early dynastic art. A strict division between Egypt's dynastic art and the art of its prehistory is thus frequently accepted. The paper takes issue with this thesis, for it supposes that there is much more of a link between prehistoric and …
Improvement of Communication with the Pacific Coast as an Issue in American Politics, 1783-1864
Improvement of Communication with the Pacific Coast as an Issue in American Politics, 1783–1864. By Robert R. Russel. (Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press, 1948. viii + 332 pp. Maps and index. $3.75.) Get access W. N. Davis, Jr. W. N. Davis, Jr. University of California at Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 36, Issue 2, September 1949, Pages 317–318, https://doi.org/10.2…
Spirality in Knitted Fabrics
Secretary’s Report for 1927
(1927). Secretary’s Report for 1927. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 388-391
Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply]
Craft specialization, a concomitant of evolving social complexity, is regarded as a process of regulating variety in extractive or productive activities. A trial model for the evolution of specialization in pottery production is presented, together with test implications for the archaeological recognition of specialized production. Emphasis is on standardization vs. variability or diversity in decorative, technological, and formal pottery attribu…
The Spreading of Innovation: State Adoptions of Energy and Climate Change Policy
The American states are engaged in a variety of policy efforts to mitigate climate change and alter energy usage. While a number of studies have considered the reasons for adoption of renewable energy and climate change policies, they typically consider only one policy in isolation. This study examines policy adoption of 14 energy and climate change programs in a pooled event history analysis. Our primary research questions consider average effec…
On the Argument From Ceramics to History: A Challenge Based on Evidence From Medieval Nubia [and Comments and Reply]
The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
The Origins of Register Composition in Predynastic Egyptian Art
The compositions and arrangements of predynastic art are widely supposed to be chaotic, and the formal ordering of the historic period is often taken to be the major point of separation between predynastic and early dynastic art. A strict division between Egypt's dynastic art and the art of its prehistory is thus frequently accepted. The paper takes issue with this thesis, for it supposes that there is much more of a link between prehistoric and …
The Cultivation Approach to Place-Based Philanthropy: Evaluation Findings from the Clinton Foundation’s Community Health Transformation Initiative
Cultivation is a decentralized approach to place-based philanthropy where the foundation seeks to activate local stakeholders and assist them in translating their ideas into action. Rather than convening a strategic planning process, cultivation presumes that the seeds of high-payoff solutions are already circulating somewhere in the community. The foundation’s role is to support local stakeholders in developing and implementing their own ideas i…
Radical WAS: The Sense of History in World Art Studies
This essay engages David Hulks' account of World Art Studies as a ‘radical proposal’ for a practice that could replace the ‘New Art History’ developed in the 1970s and 1980s. Suggesting that both a ‘world art history’ that was well established by the 1960s and the New Art History remain preconditions and precursors of World Art Studies, it considers how World Art Studies might relate the ontology of art – questions of ‘defining art’ – to the para…
Sigmund Freud's Drawing of the Dream of the Wolves
Journal Article Sigmund Freud's Drawing of the Dream of the Wolves Get access WHITNEY DAVIS WHITNEY DAVIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 70–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/15.2.70 Published: 01 December 1992
Dating Prehistoric Rock Drawings in Upper Egypt and Nubia
Secretary’s Report for 1927
(1927). Secretary’s Report for 1927. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 388-391
Spirality in Knitted Fabrics
Improvement of Communication with the Pacific Coast as an Issue in American Politics, 1783-1864
Improvement of Communication with the Pacific Coast as an Issue in American Politics, 1783–1864. By Robert R. Russel. (Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press, 1948. viii + 332 pp. Maps and index. $3.75.) Get access W. N. Davis, Jr. W. N. Davis, Jr. University of California at Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 36, Issue 2, September 1949, Pages 317–318, https://doi.org/10.2…
The Origins of Register Composition in Predynastic Egyptian Art
The compositions and arrangements of predynastic art are widely supposed to be chaotic, and the formal ordering of the historic period is often taken to be the major point of separation between predynastic and early dynastic art. A strict division between Egypt's dynastic art and the art of its prehistory is thus frequently accepted. The paper takes issue with this thesis, for it supposes that there is much more of a link between prehistoric and …
The Ascension-Myth in the Pyramid Texts
Dating Prehistoric Rock Drawings in Upper Egypt and Nubia
Plato on Egyptian Art
Plato on Egyptian Art
On the Argument From Ceramics to History: A Challenge Based on Evidence From Medieval Nubia [and Comments and Reply]
The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…
Egypt, Samos, and the Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture
Egypt, Samos, and the Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture
Mineral resources of the Galiuro Wilderness and contiguous further planning areas, Arizona
Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines are making mineral surveys of wilderness and primitive areas.Areas officially designated as "wilderness," "wild," or "canoe" when the act was passed were incorporated into the National Wilderness Preservation System.Areas classed as "primitive" were not included in the Wilderness System, but the act provides that each primitive area be studied for its suitability for incorporation into the Wilderness System.The…
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply]
Craft specialization, a concomitant of evolving social complexity, is regarded as a process of regulating variety in extractive or productive activities. A trial model for the evolution of specialization in pottery production is presented, together with test implications for the archaeological recognition of specialized production. Emphasis is on standardization vs. variability or diversity in decorative, technological, and formal pottery attribu…
Egypt before the Pharaohs
Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan. Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, June 1, 1980
Sigmund Freud's Drawing of the Dream of the Wolves
Journal Article Sigmund Freud's Drawing of the Dream of the Wolves Get access WHITNEY DAVIS WHITNEY DAVIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 70–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/15.2.70 Published: 01 December 1992
Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad
In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work. In September 1844, Delia Webster took break from her teaching responsibilities at Lexington Female Academy and accompanied Calvin Fairbank, Methodist preacher from Oberlin College, on Saturdary drive in the country. At the end of their trip, their passengers--Lewis Hayd…
Radical WAS: The Sense of History in World Art Studies
This essay engages David Hulks' account of World Art Studies as a ‘radical proposal’ for a practice that could replace the ‘New Art History’ developed in the 1970s and 1980s. Suggesting that both a ‘world art history’ that was well established by the 1960s and the New Art History remain preconditions and precursors of World Art Studies, it considers how World Art Studies might relate the ontology of art – questions of ‘defining art’ – to the para…
The Spreading of Innovation: State Adoptions of Energy and Climate Change Policy
The American states are engaged in a variety of policy efforts to mitigate climate change and alter energy usage. While a number of studies have considered the reasons for adoption of renewable energy and climate change policies, they typically consider only one policy in isolation. This study examines policy adoption of 14 energy and climate change programs in a pooled event history analysis. Our primary research questions consider average effec…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 2
Social work has experienced unique tensions related to its professional identity and dual purpose of social reform and individualized treatment. Scholars have represented this dual purpose, epitomized by Jane Addams and Mary Richmond, as indicating irreconcilable differences
The Cultivation Approach to Place-Based Philanthropy: Evaluation Findings from the Clinton Foundation’s Community Health Transformation Initiative
Cultivation is a decentralized approach to place-based philanthropy where the foundation seeks to activate local stakeholders and assist them in translating their ideas into action. Rather than convening a strategic planning process, cultivation presumes that the seeds of high-payoff solutions are already circulating somewhere in the community. The foundation’s role is to support local stakeholders in developing and implementing their own ideas i…
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