David Griffiths
Biographic Data
| ID | 177892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Griffiths |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffiths |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITHS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4162-9804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1902 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Help-seeking for mental health and substance use problems among people in contact with the criminal justice system: A mixed-methods social network analysis
Buckquoy, Orkney: Addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland
An increase in knowledge is usually beneficial but can also highlight misapprehensions of existing data. Such is the case for the Pictish-Norse transition in Northern Scotland in the later first millennium AD. New radiocarbon dates from the key ‘transitional’ settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney, reveal that traits previously published as indicative of incoming Norse influence pre-date the start of the Viking Age, suggesting a greater level of endogeno…
Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico
Open Education and Alternative Digital Credentials in Europe
Learners who learn from OER often cannot have their learning assessed or receive a credential. Open credentials offer a potential solution to this problem, combining badges or micro-credentials with competence frameworks and digital seals. This study identified the current situation of open credentials in post-secondary education in Europe, the main themes of the discourse, and the points of agreement and divergence surrounding them. The data com…
Developing rural Chinese children’s computational thinking through game-based learning and parental involvement
The lack of teachers and equipment is a major obstacle to the implementation of Computational Thinking (CT) in education, particularly for rural schools. Although CT education has been investigated for many years, less attention has been paid to lower primary schools in rural areas. This study contributes to filling this gap by investigating the impact of three different learning approaches on the CT of grade-two primary school students in a rura…
Intersex: Cultural and social perspectives
Intersex has been a topic of much discussion in courses on sex and gender in the academy. Much of this discourse has centred on the nature of intersex and how far it challenges the categories of sex and gender. As Emi Koyama and Lisa Weasel pointed out in 2002, this form of academic appropriation risks diverting attention from important \nsocial justice issues towards trivial or reductive theorising about social construction. Academic enquiries i…
Labor in Livelihood Constellations along Coastal Plains
Coastal plain economies are dependent on seasonal, low-wage labor for tourism, fisheries, construction, and other sectors. Historically, labor in these sectors has come from multiple social and cultural backgrounds: natives, legal and undocumented immigrants, visiting mariners, students, guestworkers, etc. Anti-immigration sentiments around the world have forced undocumented immigrants further underground while increasing demand for legal guestwo…
Working Through the Pandemic: What Crises Tell Us About Economics
Crises tend to expose extremes. Following hurricanes, predatory capitalism and altruism compete with one another as people respond to and recover from the storm. War often exacerbates gender divisi
The value of reproduction: Multiple livelihoods, cultural labor, and immigrants in Iowa and North Carolina
In the US South and Midwest, early immigrant populations consisted primarily of young, Latinos recruited to work in low-wage jobs. After six or seven years, family members from Mexico and Central America began joining early arrivals, changing the character of immigrant interactions with host residents and institutions. While many natives viewed the single men as migrant workers, important for economic services, the arrival of women and children s…
Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West
The Value of Reproductive Labor
Spiritual Violence in the Age of Meaningless Work
David Graeber. 2018. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. New York: Simon & Schuster. 333 pages. “What's this I hear about your TPS reports? Didn't you get the memo?”—the character Michael Bolton, Office Space
Coding with Knots
In this paper we explore new ways to approach understanding of the mysterious Precolumbian quipus, using both visual and sonic interpretations. We base our investigation on the Harvard Quipu Archive, starting with graphical visualisation techniques that give us an overall view so we can compare textile structures and perform basic cryptanalysis. We use listening and sonification in order to filter and compare the different modes of data represent…
Textility of Code: A Catalogue of Errors
This article presents a series of informal experiments in software and weaving, most of which were conducted as part of the Weaving Codes, Coding Weaves project. Different aspects of weaving, including plain weave, a four-shaft loom, tablet weaving and warp-weighted weaving are simulated, in order to gain greater understanding of the craft from the perspective of computer science. The production rules of L-Systems are employed to begin to explore…
Losing Labor: Coffee, Migration, and Economic Change in Veracruz, Mexico
Based on research in four communities in Veracruz, Mexico, this article traces the cultural biography of economic change from an economy based primarily on coffee production to one based on migration, bamboo furniture manufacturing, and other livelihoods. In line with other studies, the declining importance of coffee in peasant livelihoods came about with the withdrawal of state support and neoliberal policies that encouraged a shift from quality…
Migration, Labor Scarcity, and Deforestation in Honduran Cattle Country
Large scale labor migration from Olancho, Honduras to the United States, accelerated after 1998, when Hurricane Mitch devastated the region and resulted in the United States offering Temporary Protective Status (TPS) to affected Hondurans. As growing numbers left for the United States, the loss of productive youth to migration and the development of new local economic opportunities combined to create shortages of labor available for traditional u…
Medieval Coastal Sand Inundation in Britain and Ireland
HISTORICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL data indicate that many of the coastal dune formations of Britain and Ireland underwent significant accretion in the medieval and post-medieval periods. The changes wrought by sand-blows to settlement and agriculture were far-reaching, and in some cases devastating. Contemporary attempts to stave off their effects were in many cases the prelude to settlement shift and abandonment. The desertion of s…
Queer Theory for Lichens
An article published in The Quarterly Review of Biology in December 2012 ended with the sentence: "We are all lichens." The article discusses symbiosis in organisms such as lichens as well as in humans, to argue that humans cannot be thought of as individuals by any biological criteria. In this article I follow this argument and offer a brief naturalcultural history of lichens to illustrate their argument and the work of biologist Lynn Margulis o…
Elevating form and elevating modulation
The device known as, among other terms, truck-driver modulation, arranger's modulation and pump-up modulation is an important procedure for popular music, and one that merits a place in the harmony textbook. Emerging from a discussion of nomenclature, this paper proposes the terms of its title, which distinguishes between modulation as part of the overall form of a track, and modulation as a technical device. Four models are presented for the mod…
Britons in Berlin
In Search of Vikings: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England
Enduring Whims and Public Anthropology
You might come here Sunday on a whim."
A Fresh Defense: A Cultural Biography of Quality in Puerto Rican Fishing
Puerto Rican artisanal fishers, like artisanal food producers around the world, emphasize the quality of their products to compete with industrial food producer-distributors. In this article, we trace the cultural biographies of three important fish species, focusing on their roles in creating social relationships and, through this process, creating value and political alliances to contest fisheries laws. We argue that fishers move strategically …
"David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar
In 1838, William Ellis of the LMS published a History of Madagascar considered a key primary source for nineteenth-century Malagasy history. Four years later, David Griffiths, longest serving member of the Madagascar Mission, published Hanes Madagascar (History of Madagascar) in Welsh. Campbell's study explores the intriguing relationship between these works and their authors. It analyses the role of Griffiths; presents evidence that much of Elli…
The Birth of a Borough. An Archaeological Study of Anglo-Saxon Stafford, by M artin C arver
"The Birth of a Borough. An Archaeological Study of Anglo-Saxon Stafford, by Martin Carver." Archaeological Journal, 168(1), pp. 426–427
The Moral Economy of Tobacco
Even faced with overwhelming evidence that tobacco threatens human health, along with economic developments undermining their status as independent producers, North Carolina tobacco farmers view tobacco production in ways congruent with a moral economy. A shift from independent to contract production of tobacco and the dismantling of government price supports have challenged this moral economy, converting tobacco producers into a quasi-working cl…
Fragmentation and Consolidation: The Contrasting Cases of Somali and Kurdish Refugees in London
Based upon fieldwork conducted amongst Somalis and Kurds in London, this paper examines the origin and role of community associations in both groups with a focus on the differential capacity of the groups to utilize public space. The contrast between the Somalis and Kurds is initially drawn in terms of Kunz's typology of refugee groups which emphasizes their relation to the political conflict in the country of origin. In the current research grou…
Integrative Paradigms, Marginal Reality: Refugee Community Organisations and Dispersal in Britain
In Britain, the dispersal system for asylum-seekers, introduced in April 2000, has been widely criticised for its negative impacts, upon both asylum-seekers and the regions to which they were dispersed. This article addresses the effects of dispersal on refugee community organisations (RCOs) through two principal aims, the first of which is to outline the effects of dispersal upon RCOs in selected fieldwork locations. Three themes are examined: t…
The Value of Reproductive Labor
A Fresh Defense: A Cultural Biography of Quality in Puerto Rican Fishing
Puerto Rican artisanal fishers, like artisanal food producers around the world, emphasize the quality of their products to compete with industrial food producer-distributors. In this article, we trace the cultural biographies of three important fish species, focusing on their roles in creating social relationships and, through this process, creating value and political alliances to contest fisheries laws. We argue that fishers move strategically …
"David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar
In 1838, William Ellis of the LMS published a History of Madagascar considered a key primary source for nineteenth-century Malagasy history. Four years later, David Griffiths, longest serving member of the Madagascar Mission, published Hanes Madagascar (History of Madagascar) in Welsh. Campbell's study explores the intriguing relationship between these works and their authors. It analyses the role of Griffiths; presents evidence that much of Elli…
Unions without Borders: Organizing and Enlightening Immigrant Farm Workers
Farm workers pose special problems for union organizing due to their legal status, their high rates of turnover, their employment through subcontracts, and the temporary and seasonal dimensions of farm work. Yet by organizing farm workers, unions have developed and refined strategies that point to methods of meeting the challenges of contemporary work environments in and out of agriculture. This includes organizing workers across fragmented space…
The value of reproduction: Multiple livelihoods, cultural labor, and immigrants in Iowa and North Carolina
In the US South and Midwest, early immigrant populations consisted primarily of young, Latinos recruited to work in low-wage jobs. After six or seven years, family members from Mexico and Central America began joining early arrivals, changing the character of immigrant interactions with host residents and institutions. While many natives viewed the single men as migrant workers, important for economic services, the arrival of women and children s…
Injury and therapy: Proletarianization in Puerto Rico's fisheries
Peasant fishers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean typically combine fishing with wage labor to varying degrees. Certain scholars have interpreted this as a reflection of incomplete incorporation into capitalist spheres of influence, where contradictions emerge as groups attempt to maintain economic and cultural autonomy while being subordinated to capitalist relations of production. In this article we investigate the conceptual and polit…
Queer Theory for Lichens
An article published in The Quarterly Review of Biology in December 2012 ended with the sentence: "We are all lichens." The article discusses symbiosis in organisms such as lichens as well as in humans, to argue that humans cannot be thought of as individuals by any biological criteria. In this article I follow this argument and offer a brief naturalcultural history of lichens to illustrate their argument and the work of biologist Lynn Margulis o…
Distress Arising from the end of a Guide Dog Partnership
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (GDBA) wished to evaluate its service to Guide Dog Owners (GDOs) undergoing a transition between guide dog partners. Therefore, a survey was carried out that was designed to gain an understanding of the end of a guide dog partnership from the owner's point of view.Participants included 75 GDOs whose previous partnership had ended within the past year. Emotional distress was measured by the Goldberg General…
Elevating form and elevating modulation
The device known as, among other terms, truck-driver modulation, arranger's modulation and pump-up modulation is an important procedure for popular music, and one that merits a place in the harmony textbook. Emerging from a discussion of nomenclature, this paper proposes the terms of its title, which distinguishes between modulation as part of the overall form of a track, and modulation as a technical device. Four models are presented for the mod…
Enduring Whims and Public Anthropology
You might come here Sunday on a whim."
Building a Latino-engaged Action-research Collaborative: A Challenging University-community Encounter
This article discusses the experience of the Nuevo South Action-Research Collaborative, a university-community collaborative involving an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students from East Carolina University and Latino community organizations. The article describes the collaborative formation process and places it within the context of the southeast as a new destination for Latino immigration. The collaborative formation process is discus…
Refugee community organisations and dispersalNetworks, resources and social capital: Networks, Resources And Social Capital
This book is distinctive in combining theoretical discussion on the role of networks, resources, and social capital with fieldwork evidence and interviews with members of Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs), non-governmental organisations, and statutory authorities. It critically examines the impact of dispersal and current legislative change on refugee communities and RCOs, explores the integrative role of RCOs, assesses the race-relations fr…
Lasting Firsts
Changes taking place in the rural South create opportunities for remembering that encourage pride and power among the downtrodden and dispossessed. Comparing the cultural context of the murder of an African American schoolteacher in 1921 and the suffering that led to the murder of a Mayan farmworker in 1992, this essay explores the question of how celebrations and struggles of everyday existence fit within local histories inspired by martyrdom an…
Considering the Source: Testimony versus Data in Regulations Surrounding Gulf and South Atlantic Trap Fisheries
The source of a problem influences the source of information we use to address the problem. However, the source of information we use can also influence our conceptualization of the problem. Just such a paradox faces fishermen in the Gulf and South Atlantic trap fisheries. Competition and conflict among commercial trap fishermen, other types of fishermen (e.g., longliners and divers), recreational fishermen, and environmentalists occur throughout…
Labor in Livelihood Constellations along Coastal Plains
Coastal plain economies are dependent on seasonal, low-wage labor for tourism, fisheries, construction, and other sectors. Historically, labor in these sectors has come from multiple social and cultural backgrounds: natives, legal and undocumented immigrants, visiting mariners, students, guestworkers, etc. Anti-immigration sentiments around the world have forced undocumented immigrants further underground while increasing demand for legal guestwo…
Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West
Losing Labor: Coffee, Migration, and Economic Change in Veracruz, Mexico
Based on research in four communities in Veracruz, Mexico, this article traces the cultural biography of economic change from an economy based primarily on coffee production to one based on migration, bamboo furniture manufacturing, and other livelihoods. In line with other studies, the declining importance of coffee in peasant livelihoods came about with the withdrawal of state support and neoliberal policies that encouraged a shift from quality…
Immigrants Fleeing a Dying Industry: Applying Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedures to the Study of Tobacco Farmworkers
Recent assaults on the tobacco industry have led to a decline in tobacco production across North Carolina, the largest tobacco producing state in the nation. Although a great deal of attention has been focused on tobacco farmers, considerably less work has been aimed at determining the effects of these changes on tobacco farmworkers, many of whom are Latinos. In this article, I discuss Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedures used to estimate the…
Strategic and service management ‐ the Kirklees experiment
1992). Strategic and service management ‐ the Kirklees experiment. Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 240-248
Working Through the Pandemic: What Crises Tell Us About Economics
Crises tend to expose extremes. Following hurricanes, predatory capitalism and altruism compete with one another as people respond to and recover from the storm. War often exacerbates gender divisi
The role of interdisciplinary science in the study of ancient pottery
In the context of the modern world, the term ceramics suggests a very versatile group of materials capable of being designed to have particular physical and chemical properties and to fulfil a wide range of functions, functions that traditionally have often been fulfilled by other types of material.1 While suitably designed ceramics may hold the key to overcoming many of humankind's future technological problems, it is interesting to reflect on h…
Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History
Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History. Bonnie J. McCay. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. 246 pp
Forage conditions on the northern border of the Great basin, being a report upon investigations made during July and August, 1901, in the region between Winnemucca, Nevada, and Ontario, Oregon
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Aux Origines du socialisme français: Pierre Leroux et ses premiers écrits (1824-1830) , by Jean-Jacques Goblot
Three tributaries of 'The River
Naturally, in appealing to so many consumers, pop music admits of little formal complexity. Whatever a song's concern, it occurs stringently within the demotic constraints of verse, chorus, middle eight and their like. So often is the familiar blast of Bob Dylan's harmonica an end in itself that he is able to contradict this expectation by withholding the true final verse. Describing Handel's practice within the formal convention of recitative an…
Catherine's Charters: A Question of Motivation
Optical petrology in the field
This paper proposes that studies of the technology, provenance and weathering of ceramics and stone used by ancient man would often benefit from the use of optical petrology in the field, and describes prototype equipment and materials suitable for making thin sections of ceramics and stone in the field
Considering the Source: Testimony versus Data in Regulations Surrounding Gulf and South Atlantic Trap Fisheries
The source of a problem influences the source of information we use to address the problem. However, the source of information we use can also influence our conceptualization of the problem. Just such a paradox faces fishermen in the Gulf and South Atlantic trap fisheries. Competition and conflict among commercial trap fishermen, other types of fishermen (e.g., longliners and divers), recreational fishermen, and environmentalists occur throughout…
Strategic and service management ‐ the Kirklees experiment
1992). Strategic and service management ‐ the Kirklees experiment. Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 240-248
Injury and therapy: Proletarianization in Puerto Rico's fisheries
Peasant fishers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean typically combine fishing with wage labor to varying degrees. Certain scholars have interpreted this as a reflection of incomplete incorporation into capitalist spheres of influence, where contradictions emerge as groups attempt to maintain economic and cultural autonomy while being subordinated to capitalist relations of production. In this article we investigate the conceptual and polit…
Populism in the Western United States, 1890-1900: Volume 1
Journal Article Populism in the Western United States, 1890–1900: Volume 1 and Populism in the Western United States, 1890–1900: Volume 2 Get access Populism in the Western United States, 1890–1900: Volume 1. By Griffiths David B.. (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. xi + 433 pp. Notes. $89.95.)Populism in the Western United States, 1890–1900: Volume 2. By Griffiths David B.. (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. 436–783 pp. Notes, biblio…
Jones's Minimal: Low-Wage Labor in the United States
Names of Death
Human victimizations‐whether taking the form of civil war, terrorism, or domestic violence‐often force those seeking refuge into neighborhoods characterized by high crime rates, poverty, and ethnic diversity, leading to culture shock and crises of identity. The author recalls such a context after describing the responses of families of murder victims to a serial killer's sentence, drawing parallels with the difficulties the Q'anjob'al Maya face w…
Distress Arising from the end of a Guide Dog Partnership
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (GDBA) wished to evaluate its service to Guide Dog Owners (GDOs) undergoing a transition between guide dog partners. Therefore, a survey was carried out that was designed to gain an understanding of the end of a guide dog partnership from the owner's point of view.Participants included 75 GDOs whose previous partnership had ended within the past year. Emotional distress was measured by the Goldberg General…
Any Way You Cut It: Meat Processing and Small-Town America
Somali refugees in Tower Hamlets: Clanship and new identities
Recent research in London's East End (El‐Solh 1991, 1993) has stressed the role of clanship as the main basis of social relations amongst Somalis living in Tower Hamlets. This claim can be seen to be problematic on several counts. Clanship is typically analysed as a traditional feature of social structure, an objective system of social relations and kinship obligations which are often divisive in nature. A particular focus here is the way in whic…
Lasting Firsts
Changes taking place in the rural South create opportunities for remembering that encourage pride and power among the downtrodden and dispossessed. Comparing the cultural context of the murder of an African American schoolteacher in 1921 and the suffering that led to the murder of a Mayan farmworker in 1992, this essay explores the question of how celebrations and struggles of everyday existence fit within local histories inspired by martyrdom an…
The role of interdisciplinary science in the study of ancient pottery
In the context of the modern world, the term ceramics suggests a very versatile group of materials capable of being designed to have particular physical and chemical properties and to fulfil a wide range of functions, functions that traditionally have often been fulfilled by other types of material.1 While suitably designed ceramics may hold the key to overcoming many of humankind's future technological problems, it is interesting to reflect on h…
Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History
Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History. Bonnie J. McCay. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. 246 pp
Fragmentation and Consolidation: The Contrasting Cases of Somali and Kurdish Refugees in London
Based upon fieldwork conducted amongst Somalis and Kurds in London, this paper examines the origin and role of community associations in both groups with a focus on the differential capacity of the groups to utilize public space. The contrast between the Somalis and Kurds is initially drawn in terms of Kunz's typology of refugee groups which emphasizes their relation to the political conflict in the country of origin. In the current research grou…
Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora (Nuruddin Farah)
Journal Article BOOK REVIEWS Get access Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora. By Nuruddin Farah. London: Continum, 2000. 256 pp. £45/$74.95, ISBN 0 304 70701 5 hb; £18.99/$24.95, ISBN 0 304 70702 3 pb. David Griffiths David Griffiths The Open UniversityBristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2000, Pages 434–435, https://doi.org/10.109…
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