Sean Gleason
Biographic Data
| ID | 247592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Gleason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Gleason |
| SIGNATURE | GLEASON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3432-7127 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Yuuyaraq today, Yuuyaraq tomorrow
The following article illustrates the impact of contemporary coastline change on Yup’ik subsistence practices known collectively as Yuuyaraq. We draw from an extensive archive (n = 490) of historic maps, aerial photographs, and surveying reports collected and digitized over the course of on-site visits to Quinhagak, AK from 2018-2021. In addition, our research team conducted numerous recorded (n = 7) and unrecorded (n = 42) interviews with commun…
Nalaquq (“it is found”)
In 2007, the Yup’ik village of Quinhagak contacted archaeologists after locals found precontact artifacts on a nearby beach. This collaboration led to the subsequent excavation of Nunalleq, an important ancestral site threatened by climate change. Since then, an international research team has partnered with Yup’ik leadership in Quinhagak to address the larger impact of climate change. In turn, this article introduces Nalaquq—our framework for co…
Nuna Nalluyuituq (The Land Remembers)
The following article outlines a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to remote sensing in Southwest Alaska's Yukon‐Kuskokwim (Y‐K) Delta that combines ethnographic inquiry and remote sensing to monitor, detect and preserve cultural resources for Alaskan Native communities. Because distinctive vegetation differences are readily visible on cultural sites during the summer months, the analysis of multispectral imagery obtained from remote sens…
Knowledge is like food”
Yup’ik Elder John Smith (Hooper Bay) recounts wise words (qanruyutet) about growing up during a time of rapid change in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta. His oral histories include instructions (alerquutet), prohibitions (inerquutet), and cautionary tales (neq’ayarat) regarding Yup’ik subsistence practices known collectively as Yuuyaraq. Taken together, these oral histories, represent a genre of performance sometimes overlooked in contemporary sch…
Appalachian Affects
This essay-based on fieldwork with off-grid homebuilders in the Mid-Ohio River Valley-recognizes ethnography as a more-than-human ecology of habit, rhythm, and affect. I begin by describing some of the materials, species, and affects I encountered during this fieldwork to show how Appalachian history, geography, and habit influenced my performance of sensory ethnography. From these anecdotes, field notes, and vignettes, I theorize ethnographic fi…
The Great Migration of Whys
Nunalleq is a pre-contact Yup'ik village (1350–1660 CE) massacred during a centuries-long conflict known today as the Bow and Arrow Wars. As global temperatures fell during the Little Ice Age (1300–1800 CE), conflict intensified along the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta as food raids and village burnings became commonplace among warring Yup'ik communities. The following essay considers the events of Nunalleq alongside a new era of migration as Yup'ik prepa…
Technology and the Not-so-Stable Body
Will virtual worlds one day be perceptually similar to everyday life? Could virtual reality (VR) provide a platform for individuals to dialogue about pressing social or political issues? From the Ready Player One and Matrix franchises, to the science fiction of Isaac Asimov, the communicative and political implications of hybrid human/machine virtual worlds have been heavily theorized. Yet, fundamental questions remain as to whether or not VR cou…
We kill our own
Drawing from fieldwork conducted over several months at a small Appalachian goat farm, experimental prose is coupled with affect-based critiques of human exceptionalism to uncover the rhythmic and vibrant relations of human/nonhuman interdependence (Gruen 5). Taking seriously the posthuman call to reimagine animal, human, and material relations, we envision farming as a rhythmic and affect-laden atmosphere of habit, co-constitution, and vibrant m…
Personal versus impersonal passive in Latin infinitival clauses
This paper deals with the historical origins of the Classical Latin alternation between the personal passive NcI and the impersonal passive + AcI constructions. Starting from the observation by Maraldi (1983) that this alternation is not found prior to Cicero in the first century BC, the claim is that a combination of external and internal linguistic factors lie behind its emergence in the language. The external factor is the existence of an iden…
Nuna Nalluyuituq (The Land Remembers)
The following article outlines a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to remote sensing in Southwest Alaska's Yukon‐Kuskokwim (Y‐K) Delta that combines ethnographic inquiry and remote sensing to monitor, detect and preserve cultural resources for Alaskan Native communities. Because distinctive vegetation differences are readily visible on cultural sites during the summer months, the analysis of multispectral imagery obtained from remote sens…
Knowledge is like food”
Yup’ik Elder John Smith (Hooper Bay) recounts wise words (qanruyutet) about growing up during a time of rapid change in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta. His oral histories include instructions (alerquutet), prohibitions (inerquutet), and cautionary tales (neq’ayarat) regarding Yup’ik subsistence practices known collectively as Yuuyaraq. Taken together, these oral histories, represent a genre of performance sometimes overlooked in contemporary sch…
Appalachian Affects
This essay-based on fieldwork with off-grid homebuilders in the Mid-Ohio River Valley-recognizes ethnography as a more-than-human ecology of habit, rhythm, and affect. I begin by describing some of the materials, species, and affects I encountered during this fieldwork to show how Appalachian history, geography, and habit influenced my performance of sensory ethnography. From these anecdotes, field notes, and vignettes, I theorize ethnographic fi…
We kill our own
Drawing from fieldwork conducted over several months at a small Appalachian goat farm, experimental prose is coupled with affect-based critiques of human exceptionalism to uncover the rhythmic and vibrant relations of human/nonhuman interdependence (Gruen 5). Taking seriously the posthuman call to reimagine animal, human, and material relations, we envision farming as a rhythmic and affect-laden atmosphere of habit, co-constitution, and vibrant m…
Technology and the Not-so-Stable Body
Will virtual worlds one day be perceptually similar to everyday life? Could virtual reality (VR) provide a platform for individuals to dialogue about pressing social or political issues? From the Ready Player One and Matrix franchises, to the science fiction of Isaac Asimov, the communicative and political implications of hybrid human/machine virtual worlds have been heavily theorized. Yet, fundamental questions remain as to whether or not VR cou…
We kill our own
Drawing from fieldwork conducted over several months at a small Appalachian goat farm, experimental prose is coupled with affect-based critiques of human exceptionalism to uncover the rhythmic and vibrant relations of human/nonhuman interdependence (Gruen 5). Taking seriously the posthuman call to reimagine animal, human, and material relations, we envision farming as a rhythmic and affect-laden atmosphere of habit, co-constitution, and vibrant m…
Personal versus impersonal passive in Latin infinitival clauses
This paper deals with the historical origins of the Classical Latin alternation between the personal passive NcI and the impersonal passive + AcI constructions. Starting from the observation by Maraldi (1983) that this alternation is not found prior to Cicero in the first century BC, the claim is that a combination of external and internal linguistic factors lie behind its emergence in the language. The external factor is the existence of an iden…
The Great Migration of Whys
Nunalleq is a pre-contact Yup'ik village (1350–1660 CE) massacred during a centuries-long conflict known today as the Bow and Arrow Wars. As global temperatures fell during the Little Ice Age (1300–1800 CE), conflict intensified along the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta as food raids and village burnings became commonplace among warring Yup'ik communities. The following essay considers the events of Nunalleq alongside a new era of migration as Yup'ik prepa…
Appalachian Affects
This essay-based on fieldwork with off-grid homebuilders in the Mid-Ohio River Valley-recognizes ethnography as a more-than-human ecology of habit, rhythm, and affect. I begin by describing some of the materials, species, and affects I encountered during this fieldwork to show how Appalachian history, geography, and habit influenced my performance of sensory ethnography. From these anecdotes, field notes, and vignettes, I theorize ethnographic fi…
Nuna Nalluyuituq (The Land Remembers)
The following article outlines a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to remote sensing in Southwest Alaska's Yukon‐Kuskokwim (Y‐K) Delta that combines ethnographic inquiry and remote sensing to monitor, detect and preserve cultural resources for Alaskan Native communities. Because distinctive vegetation differences are readily visible on cultural sites during the summer months, the analysis of multispectral imagery obtained from remote sens…
Knowledge is like food”
Yup’ik Elder John Smith (Hooper Bay) recounts wise words (qanruyutet) about growing up during a time of rapid change in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta. His oral histories include instructions (alerquutet), prohibitions (inerquutet), and cautionary tales (neq’ayarat) regarding Yup’ik subsistence practices known collectively as Yuuyaraq. Taken together, these oral histories, represent a genre of performance sometimes overlooked in contemporary sch…
Yuuyaraq today, Yuuyaraq tomorrow
The following article illustrates the impact of contemporary coastline change on Yup’ik subsistence practices known collectively as Yuuyaraq. We draw from an extensive archive (n = 490) of historic maps, aerial photographs, and surveying reports collected and digitized over the course of on-site visits to Quinhagak, AK from 2018-2021. In addition, our research team conducted numerous recorded (n = 7) and unrecorded (n = 42) interviews with commun…
Nalaquq (“it is found”)
In 2007, the Yup’ik village of Quinhagak contacted archaeologists after locals found precontact artifacts on a nearby beach. This collaboration led to the subsequent excavation of Nunalleq, an important ancestral site threatened by climate change. Since then, an international research team has partnered with Yup’ik leadership in Quinhagak to address the larger impact of climate change. In turn, this article introduces Nalaquq—our framework for co…
Ecology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works)