Alan Howard

Biographic Data

ID3601665
NAMEAlan Howard
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMEHoward
SIGNATUREHOWARD A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Hawaii System
ORCID0009-0003-7273-6906
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS61
TOTAL CITATIONS117
AUTHOR COUNT58
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX7

  • John Eccles’s Collection of Songs (1704) and John Walsh’s Publishing Model in the Early Eighteenth Century

    Open AccessAlan HowardARTICLEJournal of Musicology2023

    Reviewing Eric Harbeson’s edition of John Eccles’s Judgment of Paris (1702)—part of the ongoing Works of John Eccles published by A-R Editions—Bryan White recently called for a careful appraisal of the composer’s anthology A Collection of Songs for One Two and Three Voices (1704) in order to understand better its relationship with other sources. This article takes up White’s challenge through close analysis of the 1704 Songs, focusing on the song…

  • Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in the Pacific

    Michèle D Dominy, Juliana Flinn et al.BOOKCultural Identity and Ethnicity…2022

  • Henry Purcell (attrib.), Oh that my Grief was Throughly Weigh’d Rebecca Herissone

    Open AccessAlan HowardARTICLEMusic and Letters2022

    productive members of the nation state.In some cases, such rituals encouraged charitable giving to schools to assist the less fortunate, as well as the threat of unscripted resistance to roles assigned to the participants by adult mentors.

  • Developments in Polynesian Ethnology

    Alan Howard, Robert BorofskyBOOKDevelopments in Polynesian…2019

  • Developments in Polynesian Ethnology

    S Alan Howard, Alan Howard et al.BOOKDevelopments in Polynesian…2019

  • Diaspora No More? The Role of Facebook in the Development of a Global Rotuman Community

    Alan HowardARTICLEDiaspora A Journal of Transnational…2019References: 14

    This article is the product of nearly sixty years of ethnographic research among people from the island of Rotuma in the South Pacific, during which time the population has developed into a distinctive ethnic group that has scattered around the world. The processes by which a relatively isolated island-bound people transformed to a culturally conscious diasporic population are documented. Of special concern are the ways in which the Internet has …

  • Amphiregulin modifies the Minnesota Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease Risk Score

    Open AccessGodwin R Murunga, Shernan G Holtan et al.ARTICLEBlood Advances2018

    Key Points High-circulating AREG (≥33 pg/mL) reclassifies additional patients into HR categories and further refines the Minnesota aGVHD risk score. Patients with aGVHD and AREG ≥33 pg/mL have lower rates of steroid response, higher NRM, and poorer OS.

  • The Culture of Graves on Rotuma

    Jan Rensel, Alan HowardARTICLEJournal of the Polynesian Society2016Cited by: 1References: 2

    In this article we look at graves on Rotuma, a volcanic island in the South Pacific, from a cultural and historical perspective. We argue that graves reflect attitudes towards death and ancestors, towards hierarchy and social position; that the location of graves involves spatial conceptions; that grave goods reflect notions of material value; and that grave visitations are indicative of the nature of social relationships between various categori…

  • Ethnography in the Digital Age

    Open AccessAlan Howard, Alexander MawyerOTHEREmerging Trends in the Social and…2015

    This essay explores the ways in which ethnography, both as a methodology and a product of research, has adapted to the rapid growth of digital technology and the new venues for research that it has spawned. On the one hand, digital technology affords social scientists new means of recording, storing, and analyzing data. On the other hand, digital media have been responsible for the creation of new venues for research, mostly on the Internet in th…

  • Compositional Strategies in Purcell’s Second Three-Part Fantazia

    Open AccessAlan HowardARTICLEMusic Theory Online2015

    This article examines the sources of Purcell’s second three-part fantazia for evidence pertaining to Purcell’s creative process, both in the autograph and other sources and in the details of the music they preserve. This method, combining paleography and analytical interpretation in light of contemporaneous sources, is proposed as a means of analysis for this repertoire with a demonstrable basis in historically relevant theoretical literature

  • Rotumans in Australia and New Zealand

    Jan Rensel, Alan HowardARTICLEJournal of New Zealand & Pacific…2014

    As members of the Fiji polity, people from the isolated island of Rotuma have been able to move freely about the archipelago, leading to stepwise-migration internationally, with Australia and New Zealand as primary destinations. Rotuman men engaged in the pearl-diving industry in the Torres Strait in the late nineteenth century, who married local women, were among the first documented migrants to Australia. Following World War II, a steady stream…

  • Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England

    Rebecca Herissone, Alan Howard et al.BOOKConcepts of Creativity in…2013

    The first genuinely interdisciplinary study of creativity in early modern England In the seventeenth century, the concept of creativity was far removed from most of the fundamental ideas about the creative act - notions of human imagination, inspiration, originality and genius - that developed in the eighteenthand nineteenth centuries. Instead, in this period, students learned their crafts by copying and imitating past masters and did not conscio…

  • Ethnicity, nationality, and the rights of indigeneity

    Alan Howard, Jan RenselARTICLESocial Identities2012References: 3

    On 13 July 2000, Interim Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase presented to the Great Council of Chiefs in Fiji a document titled ‘Blueprint for the protection of Fijian & Rotuman rights and interests, and the advancement of their development,’ a set of proposals that covered ‘issues which have been of great concern to Fijians and Rotumans regarding the security of their rights and interests as the indigenous communities in Fiji, and also the advancemen…

  • Traditionality and Cancer Screening Practices Among American Indian Women in Vermont

    Mary K Canales, William Rakowski et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2007

    The study purpose was to examine the relationship between cancer screening and traditionality, using a culturally specific survey instrument. American Indian (AI) women were randomly selected from the Vermont Breast Cancer Surveillance System (VBCSS), a statewide mammography database. The 13 items that assessed traditionality examined identity, cultural beliefs, customs, and health practices. The sample of 115 was predominately married, educated,…

  • Composition as an Act of Performance

    Open AccessAlan HowardARTICLEJournal of the Royal Musical…2007References: 3

    Since God so tender a regard is one of a small number of ‘domestic sacred’ pieces Purcell entered into his manuscript scorebook, London, British Library, Add. MS 30930. Its particular interest lies in its construction over a ground bass, and the range of artificial devices Purcell employs in its setting. Its background in seventeenth-century psalm settings, and its likely performance circumstances, allowed Purcell to turn these features to rhetor…

  • The Making of the Film the Land Has Eyes

    Open AccessAlan HowardARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2006References: 2

    The Land Has Eyes is a full-length feature film set on the Polynesian island of Rotuma in the South Pacific. The film was written and directed by Vilsoni Hereniko, who was born and raised on the island, and coproduced by his wife, Jeannette Paulson Hereniko. It is the first film to be nominated for an academy award by the Republic of Fiji. This paper documents the issues involved in making the film, including the logistic and cultural problems co…

  • Unity of Heart

    Open AccessAlan HowardARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2002

    Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in. Polynesian Atoll Society. Keith Chambers and Anne Chambers. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2001. xx. 283 pp

  • Taylor [Domville], Silas

    Jack Westrup, J A Westrup et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind

    Robert Wolfgramm, Jeannette Mageo et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research1998

  • Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind

    Mary Patterson, Jeannette Mageo et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1998Cited by: 1

  • Hanson's review of woven gods

    Open AccessAlan HowardARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1997References: 2

  • Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind

    Erika Bourguignon, Jeannette Mageo et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1997

  • Martyrs, progress and political ambition

    Alan Howard, Eric KjellgrenARTICLEJournal of Pacific History1994References: 2

    (1994). Martyrs, progress and political ambition: Re‐examining Rotuma's ‘Religious Wars'. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 131-152

  • Problem Cyanobacterial Blooms

    Alan Howard, A D HowardARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…1994

    Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) have become an issue of increasing concern to water-resource managers in recent years. Cyanobacterial blooms form when a large population migrates to the lake surface. Vertical migration is controlled by the physiological response of the cyanobacteria to changes in hydro-environmental conditions. The mechanics of bloom formation are considered in detail. Additionally cyanobacteria move across a water-body by entra…

  • History in Polynesia; Changing perspectives and current issues

    Open AccessAlan HowardARTICLEBijdragen tot de taal- land- en…1993

    In Polynesia, as elsewhere, historical approaches in anthropology have come into vogue again after a hiatus during which functional, structural and cognitive studies predominated.1 The new historiographies have brought with them new problems and dilemmas, which I will try to identify. In particular, I would like to draw attention to issues of discourse, that is, the language including underlying assumptions in which historical approaches have bee…