David W Norman
Biographic Data
| ID | 326875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Norman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Norman |
| SIGNATURE | NORMAN D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Indian Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5081-5385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Oil in the Archive
My essay considers a grease bowl created by a Haida artist that was removed from its community shortly before bans on potlatch ceremonies disrupted political and ceremonial life across the Northwest Coast. Even though the bowl has resided in museum collections for over a century, it remains saturated in oil—an echo of the labor it performed during feasts in its home community of Skidegate, Haida Gwaii. By focusing on how this bowl remembers its a…
Primary Colors for the Fourth World
This essay examines the anti-colonial conditions under which two artists gravitated toward radically reduced form. In 1977, Synnøve Persen (b. 1950) designed a tricolor screen print that inspired an iconic flag. The flag was hoisted at barricades along the Áltá river where water defenders blockaded the site of a planned hydroelectric dam and demanded recognition for the Sámi people’s ancestral rights to their homelands, and in 2017, it reappeared…
A Monochrome at Ukkusissaq
In 1988, the Greenlandic Inuk and Danish artist Pia Arke and her Danish partner, Michael Petersen, painted two monochrome squares: one atop a mountain overlooking the capital of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), another in central Copenhagen. The earthworks are anomalous to both artists' oeuvres, yet in this essay, I propose that their iterative structure and enigmatic form provide a lens through which to reassess the development of Arke's early care…
Summertime Politics
WhileHome Rulenegotiations between Kalaallit Nunaat and Denmark were underway, the Aasivik summer festivals, founded in 1976, proposed an alternative model of collective politics. Borrowing its name from a term for historical gathering sites, the modern Aasivik movement hosted debates on a wide range of topics, bringing political activity into settlements and camps. Although Aasivik's influence on Kalaallit Nunaat's political history has been wid…
Invisible enemies
A host of clandestine threats flooded the post-war period’s cultural imaginary, from the activities of cold war espionage to imperceptible environmental damage like radiation. As Pamela M. Lee and Melissa S. Ragain both document, albeit from different angles, such new invisible enemies radically disrupted visual conventions. And in this charged context where the stability of visual signs could no longer be taken for granted, a variety of institut…
Mixed Signals
Willingness to pay to improve domestic water supply in rural areas of Central Tanzania
This analysis estimates willingness to pay to improve community-based rural water utilities in the Dodoma and Singida Regions of Central Tanzania, using Multinomial Logit functions. An estimate of willingness to pay provides an indication of the demand for improved services and potential for them being sustainable. Surveys were conducted in a total of 30 villages in the two regions. In the Dodoma Region, about 14% of respondents indicated that th…
Stratégies de développement agricole
Agricultural Change in Tropical Africa
Traditional African Farming Systems in Eastern Nigeria
Rationalising mixed cropping under indigenous conditions
In spite of the prevalence of mixed cropping throughout the developing world little effort has been expended on its investigation particularly under indigenous conditions. This paper attempts to partially rectify this with empirical data collected at the farmer's level in part of northern Nigeria. Mixed cropping is shown in this area of limited rainfall to be under indigenous technological conditions a rational strategy both in terms of profit ma…
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Rationalising mixed cropping under indigenous conditions
In spite of the prevalence of mixed cropping throughout the developing world little effort has been expended on its investigation particularly under indigenous conditions. This paper attempts to partially rectify this with empirical data collected at the farmer's level in part of northern Nigeria. Mixed cropping is shown in this area of limited rainfall to be under indigenous technological conditions a rational strategy both in terms of profit ma…
Traditional African Farming Systems in Eastern Nigeria
Agricultural Change in Tropical Africa
Stratégies de développement agricole
Willingness to pay to improve domestic water supply in rural areas of Central Tanzania
This analysis estimates willingness to pay to improve community-based rural water utilities in the Dodoma and Singida Regions of Central Tanzania, using Multinomial Logit functions. An estimate of willingness to pay provides an indication of the demand for improved services and potential for them being sustainable. Surveys were conducted in a total of 30 villages in the two regions. In the Dodoma Region, about 14% of respondents indicated that th…
Mixed Signals
Invisible enemies
A host of clandestine threats flooded the post-war period’s cultural imaginary, from the activities of cold war espionage to imperceptible environmental damage like radiation. As Pamela M. Lee and Melissa S. Ragain both document, albeit from different angles, such new invisible enemies radically disrupted visual conventions. And in this charged context where the stability of visual signs could no longer be taken for granted, a variety of institut…
Primary Colors for the Fourth World
This essay examines the anti-colonial conditions under which two artists gravitated toward radically reduced form. In 1977, Synnøve Persen (b. 1950) designed a tricolor screen print that inspired an iconic flag. The flag was hoisted at barricades along the Áltá river where water defenders blockaded the site of a planned hydroelectric dam and demanded recognition for the Sámi people’s ancestral rights to their homelands, and in 2017, it reappeared…
A Monochrome at Ukkusissaq
In 1988, the Greenlandic Inuk and Danish artist Pia Arke and her Danish partner, Michael Petersen, painted two monochrome squares: one atop a mountain overlooking the capital of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), another in central Copenhagen. The earthworks are anomalous to both artists' oeuvres, yet in this essay, I propose that their iterative structure and enigmatic form provide a lens through which to reassess the development of Arke's early care…
Summertime Politics
WhileHome Rulenegotiations between Kalaallit Nunaat and Denmark were underway, the Aasivik summer festivals, founded in 1976, proposed an alternative model of collective politics. Borrowing its name from a term for historical gathering sites, the modern Aasivik movement hosted debates on a wide range of topics, bringing political activity into settlements and camps. Although Aasivik's influence on Kalaallit Nunaat's political history has been wid…
Oil in the Archive
My essay considers a grease bowl created by a Haida artist that was removed from its community shortly before bans on potlatch ceremonies disrupted political and ceremonial life across the Northwest Coast. Even though the bowl has resided in museum collections for over a century, it remains saturated in oil—an echo of the labor it performed during feasts in its home community of Skidegate, Haida Gwaii. By focusing on how this bowl remembers its a…
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