Susan Kent
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Kent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kent |
| SIGNATURE | KENT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 789 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria
Chronology of Major Events Introduction Pre-and Early Colonial Igbo Life The British View: The Chaos of Igbo Life The Twin Traumas of War and Flu The Nwaobiala of 1925 The Ogu Umunwaanyi The British Suppression of the Women's War 'More Deadly than the Male' What the Women Wrought Conclusion Bibliography
The health of sedentism, sharing and diet and the illnesses of aggregation
Health is a multifaceted and complex condition, as is its absence – illness. The role of morbidity and mortality from pathogens varied through time in fascinating ways. What kind of models are appropriate for past societies? Sharing and health, for example, are interestingly linked in ways usually not recognised by anthropologists. In order to understand the changing patterns of health through time, it is necessary, I suggest, to understand the c…
Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers, and the "Other"
Defining the victorian nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867
Gender in African Prehistory
The Archaeology of Household Activities . Penelope M. Allison
The Archaeological Visibility of Storage: Delineating Storage from Trash Areas
Despite the importance attributed to the study of storage behavior, little research has been conducted to determine whether it is even possible to distinguish storage áreas from refuse áreas. Archaeologists routinely separate storage pits from trash pits, but few have systematically investigated the defining characteristics of each. This study suggests that there is an archaeologically visible signature that can help researchers correctly interpr…
Gender in African prehistory
Cultural Diversity among Twentieth-Century Foragers
Navajo Multi-Household Social Units: Archaeology on Black Mesa, Arizona . Thomas R. Rocek
Setting Boundaries: The Anthropology of Spatial and Social Organization
Cultural Diversity among Twentieth-Century Foragers: An African Perspective
Mistrials and diatribulations: A reply to joan hoff
Joan Hoff's rehearsal of the plagues of poststructuralism in her article, ‘Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis’, women's History Review, 3, pp. 149-168, breaks no new intellectual ground, but for anti-intellectualism, disingenuousness, and sheer incivility, her article stands apart. What she describes is not an accurate portrayal either of the variety of post-modern theory or of the important and thoughtful criticism that has been brough…
Mistrials and diatribulations: A reply to Joan Hoff
Joan Hoff's rehearsal of the plagues of poststructuralism in her article, 'Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis', women's History Review, 3, pp. 149-168, breaks no new intellectual ground, but for anti-intellectualism, disingenuousness, and sheer incivility, her article stands apart. What she describes is not an accurate portrayal either of the variety of post-modern theory or of the important and thoughtful criticism that has been brough…
Emergency Decisions, Cultural-Selection Mechanics, and Group Selection [and Comments and Reply]
Anemia and the transition of nomadic hunter-gatherers to a sedentary life-style: Follow-up study of a Kalahari community
Iron profiles of communities of hunter-gatherers and former hunter-gatherers conducted between 1969 and 1987 at Dobe in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana exhibited pronounced differences during periods of rapid culture change. The loss of good health and particularly the increase in anemia through time was attributed to notable changes in diet, although changes in mobility patterns were considered a secondary cause. In 1988 and 1989, studies were c…
The Anatomy of Architecture. Suzanne Blier
Does Sedentarization Promote Gender Inequality? A Case Study from the Kalahari
Sedentarization has been implicated in the reduction of gender equality in some spheres of formerly nomadicJu/thoansi (!Kung) and Nharo Basarwa (Bushmen) life. Concomitant with the shift to sedentism, both the Ju/hoansi and Nharo have undergone significant economic transformations, and these have been accompanied by changes in attitudes towards gender. Gender equality is examined among the Central Kalahari Basarwa who inhabit Kutse, a sedentary c…
Unstable Households in a Stable Kalahari Community in Botswana
Diachronie research at Kutse, a recently sedentary Kalahari community, demonstrates the dynamic processes inherent during the shift from nomadism to sedentism. Observations indicate that sharing networks, and friendships that structure such networks, organize spatial patterning and camp interaction. Sedentism and aggregation combine to create tensions surrounding sharing that lead to violence and the need for a community-wide sanctioned arbitrato…
Native American Architecture. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton
Archeology Division
Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space
Disease and Demography in the Americas
Diet, Demography, and Disease: Changing Perspectives on Anemia
Models of abandonment and material culture frequencies
Introduction What is the relationship between camp abandonment, mobility (actual and planned), material culture, and the archaeological record? Archaeologists have used artifact frequencies as one indicator of length of occupation and mode of abandonment. However, in order to understand the relationship between mobility, abandonment, and artifact frequencies, it is necessary to examine the factors influencing the accumulation of material culture …
Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply]
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]
The Influence of Sedentism and Aggregation on Porotic Hyperostosis and Anaemia: A Case Study
Porotic hyperostosis and iron deficiency anaemia are often thought to be the direct result of a low iron diet, and by implication, a diet low in meat. A case study using the prehistoric Anasazi from the North American Southwest, however, shows diet to be virtually inconsequential in the rise in frequency of porotic hyperostosis and chronic iron deficiency anaemia. Instead, it is shown that the effects of sedentism and aggregation result in an inc…
The Current Forager Controversy: Real versus Ideal Views of Hunter-Gatherers
Une recherche de terrain effectuee parmi les Basarwa (Bushmen ou San) sedentarises depuis peu indique que les groupes de chasseurs-collecteurs du Kalahari sont caracterises par une variabilite plus grande que ce qui est communement admis. Les debats (culture autonome et distincte contre sous-classe) ont ete deformes par des orientations theoriques tendancieuses ainsi que des generalisations non-fondees. Alors qu'il est impossible de distinguer ce…
Analyzing activity areas: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Use of Space
Sharing in an Egalitarian Kalahari Community
On a souvent vu dans le partage, phenomene caracteristique des societes de chasseurs-collecteurs, un mecanissme permettant d'attenuer les aleas de la chasse et d'assurer une repartition plus equitable du gibier. On ajoute a ce point de vue economiciste l'aspect d'equilibre dans le maintien de reseaux sociaux que le partage assure avant tout. A partir d'etudes portant sur les relations homme-femme et sur le partage du gibier, le partage au sein d'…
Cultural Diversity among Twentieth-Century Foragers: An African Perspective
Studying Variability in the Archaeological Record: An Ethnoarchaeological Model for Distinguishing Mobility Patterns
Presentation et discussion d'un modele ethnographique de mobilite applicable aux donnees prehistoriques. Le modele permet de distinguer les courtes occupations saisonnieres des occupations sedentaires annuelles dans 5 sites pueblos du Mesa Verde
Emergency Decisions, Cultural-Selection Mechanics, and Group Selection [and Comments and Reply]
Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space: An Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Study
1. Activity areas and architecture: an interdisciplinary view of the relationship between use of space and domestic built environments Susan Kent 2. Systems of activities and systems of settings Amos Rapoport 3. Domestic space and the tenacity of tradition among some Betsileo of Madagascar Susan Kus and Victor Raharijaona 4. The built environment and consumer decisions Richard R. Wilk 5. Behavioural conventions and archaeology: methods for the an…
The Archaeological Visibility of Storage: Delineating Storage from Trash Areas
Despite the importance attributed to the study of storage behavior, little research has been conducted to determine whether it is even possible to distinguish storage áreas from refuse áreas. Archaeologists routinely separate storage pits from trash pits, but few have systematically investigated the defining characteristics of each. This study suggests that there is an archaeologically visible signature that can help researchers correctly interpr…
Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers, and the "Other"
Variability in Faunal Assemblages: The Influence of Hunting Skill, Sharing, Dogs, and Mode of Cooking on Faunal Remains at a Sedentary Kalahari Community
Does Sedentarization Promote Gender Inequality? A Case Study from the Kalahari
Sedentarization has been implicated in the reduction of gender equality in some spheres of formerly nomadicJu/thoansi (!Kung) and Nharo Basarwa (Bushmen) life. Concomitant with the shift to sedentism, both the Ju/hoansi and Nharo have undergone significant economic transformations, and these have been accompanied by changes in attitudes towards gender. Gender equality is examined among the Central Kalahari Basarwa who inhabit Kutse, a sedentary c…
And Justice for All: The Development of Political Centralization Among Newly Sedentary Foragers
Farmers as hunters: The Implications of Sedentism
Cultural Diversity among Twentieth-Century Foragers
Unstable Households in a Stable Kalahari Community in Botswana
Diachronie research at Kutse, a recently sedentary Kalahari community, demonstrates the dynamic processes inherent during the shift from nomadism to sedentism. Observations indicate that sharing networks, and friendships that structure such networks, organize spatial patterning and camp interaction. Sedentism and aggregation combine to create tensions surrounding sharing that lead to violence and the need for a community-wide sanctioned arbitrato…
Setting Boundaries: The Anthropology of Spatial and Social Organization
The Effects of Television Viewing: A Cross-cultural Perspective
Kalahari Violence in Perspective
Cause and Effect of Dental Health, Diet, and Status among Foragers
Academic Courses for Nonacademic Anthropologists
Gender in African Prehistory
Excavations at a Small Mesa Verde Pueblo II Anasazi Site in Southwestern Colorado
Excavations at Gnatsville, a small Anasazi Pueblo site located in the Mesa Verde region of southwestern Colorado, provide insights concerning the diversity of Pueblo II sites and mobility patterns. Analyses indicate Gnatsville was occupied year round and that the inhabitants exploited a wide range of economic resources and practiced a mix of subsistence strategies that complemented one another
News and Short Contributions
Ian A. Todd, Jeff Freeman, Edward B. Jelks, Susan Kent, Priscilla Murray, Claudia Chang, Brian F. Byrd, Fekri A. Hassan, News and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 367-390
A Recent Navajo Pottery Manufacturing Site, Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, New Mexico
A site originally reported as an Anasazi sherd scatter is interpreted, upon excavation and analysis, as an historic Navajo pottery manufacturing site
The differential acceptance of culture change: An archaeological test case
Woman the Gatherer
Essays by Dahlberg, McGrew, Zihlman, Estioko-Griffin and Griffin, Berndt, Turnbull, and Sharp. Refreshing and challenging.--Richard E. Leakey An indispensable contribution.--Ashley Montagu
The Development of Political Organization in Native North America: 1979 Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society. Elisabeth Tooker
The Differentiation of Navajo Culture, Behavior, and Material Culture: A Comparative Study in Culture Change
Academic Courses for Nonacademic Anthropologists
Analyzing activity areas: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Use of Space
Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 10: Southwest . Alfonso Ortiz
Playing with Form: Children Draw in Six Cultures. Alexander Alland, Jr
The Tsimshian and Their Neighbors of the North Pacific Coast . Jay Miller , Carol M. Eastman
Nomads and the outside World . A. M. Khazanov
The Galaz Ruin: A Prehistoric Mimbres Village in Southwestern New Mexico . Roger Anyon , Steven A. LeBlanc
Prehistoric Political Dynamics: A Case Study from the American Southwest . Kent G. Lightfoot
The Effects of Television Viewing: A Cross-cultural Perspective
Analyzing Activity Areas: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Use of Space
New Dates for Old Pots: A Comment on Cortez Black-on-White
The traditional end date for the Pueblo II ceramic type, Cortez Black-on-white, may be as much as 50 years too early. Several independent dates from a recently excavated Mesa Verde Anasazi site in Colorado—5MT 1786—suggest a modified end date of a.d. 1050 for this ceramic. This revision is significant to type-dependent survey and excavation temporal interpretations, particularly in cultural resource management and for sites with only limited test…
The Influence of Sedentism and Aggregation on Porotic Hyperostosis and Anaemia: A Case Study
Porotic hyperostosis and iron deficiency anaemia are often thought to be the direct result of a low iron diet, and by implication, a diet low in meat. A case study using the prehistoric Anasazi from the North American Southwest, however, shows diet to be virtually inconsequential in the rise in frequency of porotic hyperostosis and chronic iron deficiency anaemia. Instead, it is shown that the effects of sedentism and aggregation result in an inc…
A History of the Navajos: The Reservation Years
Journal Article A History of the Navajos: The Reservation Years. By Garrick Bailey and Roberta Glenn Bailey. (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1986. xx + 360 pp. $30.00.) Get access Susan Kent Susan Kent Old Dominion University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Page 510, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900067 Published: 01 September 1987
Prehistoric Adaptation in the American Southwest . Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson
Farmers as hunters: The Implications of Sedentism
And Justice for All: The Development of Political Centralization Among Newly Sedentary Foragers
A question of inference: Interpretations of site abandonment behavior from survey data
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]
Dietary and prophylactic iron supplements: Helpful or harmful
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