Eliot A Singer
Biographic Data
| ID | 183316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eliot A Singer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eliot A |
| FAMILY NAME | Singer |
| SIGNATURE | SINGER E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-2690-8708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Staying put
Effective evacuations mitigate the harm of environmental disasters. Yet, many people who are able to evacuate remain in place during environmental disasters. The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that require evacuation, such as flooding and wildfires, warrant closer study of why some communities do not evacuate. This study seeks to explore the social phenomenon of non-evacuation through two central questions: Why do so…
Their Beautiful Storycraft
Henry R. Schoolcraft's Algic Researches was the first significant collection of authentic Native American tales. However, it was so flawed that its import has been generally dismissed by scholars, who have shown more interest in critiquing Schoolcraft than in studying the stories themselves. It has long been known some of the manuscripts by William Johnston were in the Schoolcraft papers at the Library of Congress. I have now transcribed these an…
Re-Constructing Restoration
What does it mean to restore the environment? What is restored, according to whom, and at the expense of what? And when or where does restoration end? Restoration activities often presuppose environmental degradation, and posit a historical state that restoration will re-attain, in turn licensing activities that benefit the relatively powerful rather than the relatively weak. Thus, this article critiques a complex set of interlinked ideas and pra…
American Indian Narrative
Traditions of the Arapaho. George Dorsey and Alfred Kroeber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1997. xxx + 487 pp.Traditions of the Caddo. George Dorsey. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1997. xxiv + 133 pp
The narrative functions of food in Afanas’ev’s fairy tales
The Whodunit as Riddle
The Child and the Serpent
The Ramayana and the Malay Shadow Play
Re-Constructing Restoration
What does it mean to restore the environment? What is restored, according to whom, and at the expense of what? And when or where does restoration end? Restoration activities often presuppose environmental degradation, and posit a historical state that restoration will re-attain, in turn licensing activities that benefit the relatively powerful rather than the relatively weak. Thus, this article critiques a complex set of interlinked ideas and pra…
The Whodunit as Riddle
The Ramayana and the Malay Shadow Play
The Child and the Serpent
The Whodunit as Riddle
The narrative functions of food in Afanas’ev’s fairy tales
American Indian Narrative
Traditions of the Arapaho. George Dorsey and Alfred Kroeber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1997. xxx + 487 pp.Traditions of the Caddo. George Dorsey. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1997. xxiv + 133 pp
Re-Constructing Restoration
What does it mean to restore the environment? What is restored, according to whom, and at the expense of what? And when or where does restoration end? Restoration activities often presuppose environmental degradation, and posit a historical state that restoration will re-attain, in turn licensing activities that benefit the relatively powerful rather than the relatively weak. Thus, this article critiques a complex set of interlinked ideas and pra…
Staying put
Effective evacuations mitigate the harm of environmental disasters. Yet, many people who are able to evacuate remain in place during environmental disasters. The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that require evacuation, such as flooding and wildfires, warrant closer study of why some communities do not evacuate. This study seeks to explore the social phenomenon of non-evacuation through two central questions: Why do so…
Their Beautiful Storycraft
Henry R. Schoolcraft's Algic Researches was the first significant collection of authentic Native American tales. However, it was so flawed that its import has been generally dismissed by scholars, who have shown more interest in critiquing Schoolcraft than in studying the stories themselves. It has long been known some of the manuscripts by William Johnston were in the Schoolcraft papers at the Library of Congress. I have now transcribed these an…
Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 works) · Agatha (1 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 works) · American Sports and Literature (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works)