Rachel Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5584-5420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A simple and effective method to remove hydrogen sulfide from fluid and gas samples prior to radiocarbon analysis of CO 2 gas and dissolved inorganic carbon
The radiocarbon content of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC: CO 2(aq) , HCO 3 – , CO 3 2– ) and gaseous CO 2 can provide valuable information for the cycling and residence time of carbon in groundwaters, porewaters, hydrocarbon reservoirs, methane seeps, and hydrothermal systems. Fluids and gases from these systems often contain high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) that interferes with critical steps of the analytical procedure, particu…
Intimate Partner Violence and Male Survivors’ Help-Seeking
This study identifies distinct patterns of intimate partner violence (IPV) polyvictimization among male survivors and examines the relationships between these patterns and help-seeking behaviors from various sources. It also explores whether these relationships are moderated by survivors’ race/ethnicity. The study sample included 3,832 male survivors who reported 7,421 perpetrators, drawn from the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violenc…
Intimate Partner Violence Polyvictimization and Female Survivors’ Help-Seeking
High Adherence to Covid-19 Public Health Preventive Measures in Indigenous Communities in the Canadian Northwest Territories
Introduction to the Hau film symposium on The Thirty Boys
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze
In parks and town squares across China in 2023, amateur dance enthusiasts engaged in a nationwide ‘Xinjiang dance’ craze, a phenomenon reflected and amplified on social media. For outside observers this might seem a bizarre development following the Chinese media discourses of terrorism, and the intense securitisation of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region which so recently preceded it, but it aligned neatly with new initiatives across Chinese …
The Impact of Health Geography on Public Health Research, Policy, and Practice in Canada
The link between geography and health means that the places we occupy-where we are born, where we live, where we work, and where we play-have a direct impact on our health, including our experiences of health. A subdiscipline of human geography, health geography studies the relationships between our environments and the impact of factors that operate within those environments on human health. Researchers have focused on the social and physical en…
Medical disaster response
Introduction: On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Republic of Haiti. The human cost was enormous-an estimated 316,000 people were killed, and a further 300,000 were injured. The scope of the disaster was matched by the scope of the response, which remains the largest multinational humanitarian response to date. An extensive scoping review of the relevant literature was undertaken, to identify studies that discussed the civi…
Ethnographies of Islam in China
In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the broader Muslim world—from influential theoretical and political contestations over Muslim women’s status, the popularization of mass …
Ethnographies of Islam in China
Soldier Struck”
The social impact of Allied Forces on the Australian home front is central to research on World War II gender relations but is often overlooked in South Australia. The arrival of 20,000 American servicemen in Adelaide in March 1942 heightened anxiety about immoral female behaviour. This article illuminates the public discourses and state controls implemented in South Australia in response to women’s contact with American servicemen, female alcoho…
Nation, religion and social heat
This article brings together archival and ethnographic research to explore the ways that expressive culture and intangible cultural heritage flow across national borders, how transnational communities in Central Asia engage with discourses and practices of preservation and revitalization, and how local heritage initiatives can respond to the pressures of economic marginalization, migration, Islamization and cultural assimilation. Mäshräp gatherin…
Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is experiencing a crisis of securitization and mass incarceration. In Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam, author Rachel Harris examines the religious practice of a group of Uyghur women in a small village now engulfed in this chaos. Despite their remote location, these village women are mobile and connected, and their religious soundscapes flow out across transnational networks. Harris explores the spiritual and…
A WeeklyMäshräpto Tackle Extremism
This article provides an in-depth study and critique of the nomination and inscription of an item on UNESCO's lists of intangible cultural heritage and the developments following its acceptance. China is now a major partner in UNESCO's heritage projects, but the application and experience of heritage initiatives across China have been highly uneven. I discuss the particular challenges presented in the contested, predominantly Muslim Xinjiang Uygh…
Text and Performance in the Hikmät of Khoja Ahmad Yasawi
In this chapter I discuss an aspect of Uyghur religious practice, which is at the time of writing under severe threat in the Uyghur homeland. I trace the patterns of circulation of sung hikmät, considering the ways that these Turkic language prayers link the Uyghur communities of Xinjiang to other parts of the Turkic speaking world through the circulation of written and published texts. I draw on recent debates on the relationship between orality…
Repression and Quiet Resistance in Xinjiang
[T]he entire Uighur population is now regarded as a problem in need of an aggressive solution
Principles, Approaches, and Methods for Evaluation in Indigenous Contexts
This article describes findings from a scoping review of the grey literature to identify principles, approaches, methods, tools, and frameworks for conducting program evaluation in Indigenous contexts, reported from 2000–2015 in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. It includes consultation with key informants to validate and enrich interpretation of findings. The fifteen guiding principles, and the approaches, methods, tools, an…
You’re better out of the way’
On 30 September 1945, there were 323 females registered as enemy aliens in South Australia, of which 48 were German and 246 were Italian. Much literature exists on the wartime internment of male enemy aliens in Australia but there is very little on the experiences of the mothers, wives and daughters they left behind. By using this group of South Australian women as a case study, this article explores how women classed as enemy aliens during World…
Armed with Glamour and Collection Tins
Between 1939 and 1945, more than 500 voluntary organisations operated across South Australia, the largest with a membership of more than 30,000 women. Focusing on the voluntary activities of these South Australian women – which ranged from providing material comforts for servicemen to fundraising as participants in beauty and pin-up competitions – this article reveals that female voluntarism was a highly visible and ubiquitous part of the home fr…
Sodium and potassium excretion in an adult Caribbean population of African descent with a high burden of cardiovascular disease
In this first nationally representative study with objective assessment of sodium and potassium excretion in a Caribbean population in over 20 years, levels of sodium intake were high, and potassium intake was low. Younger age and lower educational level were associated with the highest sodium-to-potassium ratios. These findings provide baseline values for planning future policy interventions for non-communicable disease prevention
Cogs in the Machine
Mobilisation on the Australian ‘home front’ during the Second World War enabled some women to move temporarily into employment usually reserved for men, and to earn significantly higher wages than they were accustomed to, but the benefits of this have been often overstated. Focusing on South Australian women in the city and rural areas who took up the new working opportunities — in munitions factories and the Australian Women’s Land Army in parti…
Islam by smartphone
The official Chinese view of the Uyghur Islamic revival is overwhelmingly dominant. Because of the extraordinary measures taken to shield from international view the actual developments in the region and to silence Uyghur voices, we lack a clear sense of what it is to be a Muslim in contemporary Xinjiang. This article explores debates within Uyghur society about faith, politics and identity as they are revealed through the social media platform W…
Right Here Right Now (RHRN) pilot study
RHRN produced a process for collecting near-real-time data for policy-relevant topics, although obtaining and maintaining representative samples was problematic. Adaptations were identified to inform a more sustainable model of near-real-time data collection and dissemination in the future
Musajan Rozi
Musajan Rozi: The Korla Diaries. 2015. Shanghai Music Conservatory and Tash Music & Archives. Audio tracks from the personal archives of Musajan Rozi, Eziz Chong Axun, and Ablimit Abliz. Mastered by Li Kun. Annotated by Wei Xiao-shi and Ayup Sulayman. Produced by Wei Xiao-shi. 2 books, 672 pages and 121 pages, with notes in Uyghur and Chinese. 27 postcards with colour and b/w photographs and interview excerpts. 5 CDs, 17 tracks (68:10); 16 tracks…
The sound of salvation
Mazarfestivals of the Uyghurs
Mazar in Central Asia are the tombs of Islamic saints, mythical or real, whose protection the Uyghurs (Turkic Muslims of China's northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region) invoke against drought, for a good harvest, for the birth of a son, and so on. Several hundred of these tombs are scattered around the deserts and oases of Xinjiang, mapping out a sacred landscape whose paths Uyghur peasants follow yearly on their pilgrimage journeys around the t…
Wang Luobin
This article discusses the controversy surrounding the feted twentieth-century Chinese composer and folk song collector Wang Luobin. Wang’s relationship with the peoples and music of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region illuminates several aspects of Han-minority relations, in particular the consumption of Otherness and the contesting of identities. The controversy also illuminates problems surrounding the transformation of traditional or folk m…
A WeeklyMäshräpto Tackle Extremism
This article provides an in-depth study and critique of the nomination and inscription of an item on UNESCO's lists of intangible cultural heritage and the developments following its acceptance. China is now a major partner in UNESCO's heritage projects, but the application and experience of heritage initiatives across China have been highly uneven. I discuss the particular challenges presented in the contested, predominantly Muslim Xinjiang Uygh…
The Making of a Musical Canon in Chinese Central Asia
Throughout the course of the twentieth century, as newly formed nations sought ways to develop and formalise their national identity and acquire a range of identifiable national assets, we find new musical canons springing up across the world. But these canons are not arbitrary collections of works imposed on the public by the authorities. Rather they acquire deep resonance and meaning, both as national symbols and as musical repertoires imbued w…
Islam by smartphone
The official Chinese view of the Uyghur Islamic revival is overwhelmingly dominant. Because of the extraordinary measures taken to shield from international view the actual developments in the region and to silence Uyghur voices, we lack a clear sense of what it is to be a Muslim in contemporary Xinjiang. This article explores debates within Uyghur society about faith, politics and identity as they are revealed through the social media platform W…
Reggae on the Silk Road
in this article i take examples of popular music recordings released in the xinjiang uyghur autonomous region during the 1990s and first few years of the 21st century, in order to illustrate the global flows of sounds and meanings which influence uyghur pop. the disseminatory power of "micro media" (cheap cassettes, vcds) facilitates the global movement of both musical sounds and political ideas. i argue, using examples of uyghur reggae and uyghu…
Music and Cultural Rights
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze
In parks and town squares across China in 2023, amateur dance enthusiasts engaged in a nationwide ‘Xinjiang dance’ craze, a phenomenon reflected and amplified on social media. For outside observers this might seem a bizarre development following the Chinese media discourses of terrorism, and the intense securitisation of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region which so recently preceded it, but it aligned neatly with new initiatives across Chinese …
Nation, religion and social heat
This article brings together archival and ethnographic research to explore the ways that expressive culture and intangible cultural heritage flow across national borders, how transnational communities in Central Asia engage with discourses and practices of preservation and revitalization, and how local heritage initiatives can respond to the pressures of economic marginalization, migration, Islamization and cultural assimilation. Mäshräp gatherin…
Introduction
(2002). Introduction: Ritual music and Communism. British Journal of Ethnomusicology: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-8
Tracks
This paper explores constructs of memory and history through music in the transnational networks maintained by Central Asian Muslim Uyghurs. The paper is based on fieldwork with the Uyghur diaspora in Kazakhstan in 2003, and also direct involvement in the circulation of music on the Uyghur internet: the virtual spaces which host online exchanges between Uyghurs living in the homeland in northwest China and in the diaspora. The paper focuses on th…
Relationship between health beliefs and psychological variables in diabetic patients
The present paper is focused on the relationship between psychological variables and health beliefs in 93 diabetic men. A Diabetes Health Belief Scale was used to assess general health motivation, treatment beneficial, severity, susceptibility, psychological barriers, cues to action, and structural elements. The psychological variables included two measures of locus of control, depression, somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, obsessive—compul…
Cultural differences in body perception during pregnancy
A longitudinal study of body image change during pregnancy was conducted to test what aspects of body perception are sensitive to psychological change. Fifty‐five black and 30 white women who were primiparous, less than 4 months pregnant and at least 17 years old, were interviewed during their first and third trimester as well as 6 weeks post partum. Awareness of one's stomach as measured by the Stomach Focus score of the Body Focus Questionnaire…
New England Words for the Earthworm
worm, there be very many names. This statement is true, at least, in the case of the earthworm which is so commonly used as bait in fishing. In New England the earthworm is referred to by the undiscriminating as the worm, by the fisherman as bait, and by the average New Englander as one of half a dozen dialectal terms: angleworm, angledog, easworm, fishworm, mudworm, or rainworm. These humble and homely terms by their geographic distribution refl…
Personal Correlates of Bureaucratic Orientation
S ummary . This study is concerned with correlates of bureaucratic orientation among 10 to 11‐year‐old boys and girls. 86 children in three primary school classrooms completed the School Environment Preference Schedule (Gordon, 1971a) together with other personality and attitudinal measures. Bureaucratic orientation as measured by SEPS was found to correlate significantly with dogmatism, conservatism, neuroticism, and extraversion. The findings p…
Cultural differences in body perception during pregnancy
A longitudinal study of body image change during pregnancy was conducted to test what aspects of body perception are sensitive to psychological change. Fifty‐five black and 30 white women who were primiparous, less than 4 months pregnant and at least 17 years old, were interviewed during their first and third trimester as well as 6 weeks post partum. Awareness of one's stomach as measured by the Stomach Focus score of the Body Focus Questionnaire…
Effects of Intervention on Teenagers' Physical and Psychological Identity
A study of therapeutic intervention using body experience and imagery showed that 19 high school students receiving such treatment for 1 mo. changed in the expected direction in terms of self-actualization on immediate retest
Differential response of the need to be held
Although the need to be held has been related to depression, anxiety, and sexual behaviour, it remains unclear how the factors of race and marital status relate to the wish for body contact. This study determined whether there were discrete dimensions of the Body Contact Scale and whether black/white and married/unmarried women differed on these factors during their first trimester of pregnancy. Eighty‐five pregnant women completed the Body Conta…
Relationship between Women's Attitudes and Choice of Birth Control
No differences were observed in background measures for 108 mothers among whom the tubal ligation group was significantly more negative on two measures of attitude toward birth control than those whose husbands had had vasectomies and those who had had no intervention. However, women in the tubal ligation group were of the lowest socioeconomic class
Psychotropic Drugs in the Ambulatory Care of Elderly Males
Concern has been expressed regarding the extensive use of psychotropic drugs in ambulatory care. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between age and use of these drugs in terms of differences in personal characteristics, medical histories, use of medical services and symptoms. Male veterans (N = 992), randomly selected from ambulatory care, were divided into five age groups (44 years and younger, 45 through 54, 55 through 64, 65…
Sexual behavior of gynecologic cancer patients
Measurement of Social Support
Relationship between health beliefs and psychological variables in diabetic patients
The present paper is focused on the relationship between psychological variables and health beliefs in 93 diabetic men. A Diabetes Health Belief Scale was used to assess general health motivation, treatment beneficial, severity, susceptibility, psychological barriers, cues to action, and structural elements. The psychological variables included two measures of locus of control, depression, somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, obsessive—compul…
Introduction
(2002). Introduction: Ritual music and Communism. British Journal of Ethnomusicology: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-8
Mazarfestivals of the Uyghurs
Mazar in Central Asia are the tombs of Islamic saints, mythical or real, whose protection the Uyghurs (Turkic Muslims of China's northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region) invoke against drought, for a good harvest, for the birth of a son, and so on. Several hundred of these tombs are scattered around the deserts and oases of Xinjiang, mapping out a sacred landscape whose paths Uyghur peasants follow yearly on their pilgrimage journeys around the t…
Singing the Village
The Sibe are an immigrant group, Qing dynasty bannermen who made a three-year ‘long march’ from Manchuria in the 18th century to serve as a border garrison in the newly conquered Western Regions of the Qing Chinese empire. They preserved their military structure and a discrete identity in the multi-ethnic region of Xinjiang and are now officially recognised as an ethnic minority nationality under the People's Republic. They are known in China tod…
Wang Luobin
This article discusses the controversy surrounding the feted twentieth-century Chinese composer and folk song collector Wang Luobin. Wang’s relationship with the peoples and music of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region illuminates several aspects of Han-minority relations, in particular the consumption of Otherness and the contesting of identities. The controversy also illuminates problems surrounding the transformation of traditional or folk m…
Reggae on the Silk Road
in this article i take examples of popular music recordings released in the xinjiang uyghur autonomous region during the 1990s and first few years of the 21st century, in order to illustrate the global flows of sounds and meanings which influence uyghur pop. the disseminatory power of "micro media" (cheap cassettes, vcds) facilitates the global movement of both musical sounds and political ideas. i argue, using examples of uyghur reggae and uyghu…
Cassettes, Bazaars, and Saving the Nation
Dietary intake and development of a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire for the Barbados National Cancer Study
Objective To develop a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (QFFQ) for the Barbados National Cancer Study (BNCS) that will permit examination of associations of diet with breast and prostate cancer. Design Population intake data from the year 2000 Barbados Food Consumption and Anthropometric Surveys (BFCAS 2000) were used to derive a list of foods consumed by the population. A 192-item draft QFFQ was developed from this list. Setting Barbado…
Where Rivers and Mountains Sing
Book Review| January 01 2009 Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond, Theodore Levin and Valentina Süzükei. Rachel Harris Rachel Harris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2009) 53 (1): 142–144. https://doi.org/10.2307/25653050 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Music and Cultural Rights
Validation of a quantitative FFQ for the Barbados National Cancer Study
Objective To assess the validity of a 148-item quantitative FFQ (QFFQ) that was developed for the Barbados National Cancer Study (BNCS) to determine dietary intake over 12 months and examine the dietary risk factors. Design A cross-sectional validation study of the QFFQ against 4 d food diaries. Spearman’s rank correlations ( ρ ), intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC) and weighted κ were computed as measures of concordance, adjusting for dai…
A Study of Ayahuasca Use in North America
Eighty-one subjects who used ayahuasca at least once in North America answered a lengthy set of open-ended questions and completed the 81-item After the Spiritual Experience Questionnaire. An additional 50 ayahuasca users were interviewed in person. The data for this study represent ayahuasca experience based on more than 2,267 ceremonies. A comparison group of 46 people attending a Catholic spiritual retreat weekend also completed the After the …
Tracks
This paper explores constructs of memory and history through music in the transnational networks maintained by Central Asian Muslim Uyghurs. The paper is based on fieldwork with the Uyghur diaspora in Kazakhstan in 2003, and also direct involvement in the circulation of music on the Uyghur internet: the virtual spaces which host online exchanges between Uyghurs living in the homeland in northwest China and in the diaspora. The paper focuses on th…
Introduction
The changing Uyghur religious soundscape
Recent studies in the anthropology of Islam have called for a new understanding of the relationship between global forms of Islam and local priorities, new ideologies and everyday religious experience. This article addresses these concerns in the context of Uyghur society in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China where communities are increasingly engaging with transnational currents of Islamic ideology, and increasingly under pressure fr…
The changing Uyghur religious soundscape
Recent studies in the anthropology of Islam have called for a new understanding of the relationship between global forms of Islam and local priorities, new ideologies and everyday religious experience. This article addresses these concerns in the context of Uyghur society in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China where communities are increasingly engaging with transnational currents of Islamic ideology, and increasingly under pressure fr…
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