Dee Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3771145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dee Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dee |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0400-479X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ruwayda
Ruwayda was first identified as an archaeological site in the 1970s and was excavated between 2009 and 2014. Despite a paucity of documentary evidence, this large settlement, which extends over an area of more than 90 hectares, contains a number of features indicative of an urban settlement including two mosques, a series of warehouses, a large multi-period fort, large courtyard houses interspersed with smaller, less substantial structures and a …
Representations of Nature on the Mongolian Steppe
Extensive land degradation across the Mongolian steppe has prompted a variety of multinational and multidisciplinary research projects over recent years. The situation provides an important opportunity to investigate and illuminate some of the international, national, and local dimensions of scientific practice that critically condition the production of environmental knowledge. In this article I juxtapose the competing knowledge bases and assump…
Alcohol indulgence in a Mongolian community of China
Alcohol Indulgence in a Mongolian Community of ChinaRecent ethnographic fieldwork in a pastoral region of Inner Mongolia indicates that alcohol use and abuse plays a more significant role in contemporary Chinese social process than has previously been disclosed in either domestic or foreign scholarship.By reporting and reflecting upon the practices, purposes, and consequences of habitual indulgence by male Mongolian herders in a particular settin…
Nature and Society
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and l…
The Desert Discourse of Modern China
A broad consensus of knowledgeable opinion considers land degradation to be widespread and severe throughout North China. In particular, the phenomenon of desert expansion, especially as it occurs across the vast arid rangelands of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, has generated a great deal of anxiety. Official reports from China routinely assert alarming figures: over the past decade, once-fertile grassland has been lost to moving sand at a rate of …
Grazing the body
In this article I document changing patterns of exposure to chronic cold stress and to accidental injury and death from hypothermia in a modernizing pastoral society on degraded Chinese grasslands in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia. Conventions of local culture interact with the environment and with multiple social factors structured by a global political economy to increase susceptibility to these health risks among select male herders i…
Patchwork, Pastoralists, and Perception
Grassland Enclosures
Since decollectivization, Chinese government policies have promoted household enclosures as the best solution to maximize pastoral productivity and control desert expansion in grassland areas. Recent fieldwork from Inner Mongolia contradicts this optimism. Data and participant-observation reveal that enclosures, as implemented through village level social context, actually compound grazing problems for most residents and the wider ecosystem. Expa…
The Barbed Walls of China
Ethnic mongol herders in north china have traditionally enjoyed a distinctive cultural landscape. In contrast to the way dense population and intensive agriculture strictly regimented land-use practices among Han Chinese, dispersed settlement and mobile stock-herding permitted Mongol society to operate and evolve under much different spatial and ecological horizons. Such deep-rooted orientations still resist facile alignment with alien standards …
The Barbed Walls of China
Ethnic mongol herders in north china have traditionally enjoyed a distinctive cultural landscape. In contrast to the way dense population and intensive agriculture strictly regimented land-use practices among Han Chinese, dispersed settlement and mobile stock-herding permitted Mongol society to operate and evolve under much different spatial and ecological horizons. Such deep-rooted orientations still resist facile alignment with alien standards …
Representations of Nature on the Mongolian Steppe
Extensive land degradation across the Mongolian steppe has prompted a variety of multinational and multidisciplinary research projects over recent years. The situation provides an important opportunity to investigate and illuminate some of the international, national, and local dimensions of scientific practice that critically condition the production of environmental knowledge. In this article I juxtapose the competing knowledge bases and assump…
The Desert Discourse of Modern China
A broad consensus of knowledgeable opinion considers land degradation to be widespread and severe throughout North China. In particular, the phenomenon of desert expansion, especially as it occurs across the vast arid rangelands of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, has generated a great deal of anxiety. Official reports from China routinely assert alarming figures: over the past decade, once-fertile grassland has been lost to moving sand at a rate of …
Grazing the body
In this article I document changing patterns of exposure to chronic cold stress and to accidental injury and death from hypothermia in a modernizing pastoral society on degraded Chinese grasslands in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia. Conventions of local culture interact with the environment and with multiple social factors structured by a global political economy to increase susceptibility to these health risks among select male herders i…
Nature and Society
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and l…
Patchwork, Pastoralists, and Perception
Alcohol indulgence in a Mongolian community of China
Alcohol Indulgence in a Mongolian Community of ChinaRecent ethnographic fieldwork in a pastoral region of Inner Mongolia indicates that alcohol use and abuse plays a more significant role in contemporary Chinese social process than has previously been disclosed in either domestic or foreign scholarship.By reporting and reflecting upon the practices, purposes, and consequences of habitual indulgence by male Mongolian herders in a particular settin…
Grassland Enclosures
Since decollectivization, Chinese government policies have promoted household enclosures as the best solution to maximize pastoral productivity and control desert expansion in grassland areas. Recent fieldwork from Inner Mongolia contradicts this optimism. Data and participant-observation reveal that enclosures, as implemented through village level social context, actually compound grazing problems for most residents and the wider ecosystem. Expa…
The Barbed Walls of China
Ethnic mongol herders in north china have traditionally enjoyed a distinctive cultural landscape. In contrast to the way dense population and intensive agriculture strictly regimented land-use practices among Han Chinese, dispersed settlement and mobile stock-herding permitted Mongol society to operate and evolve under much different spatial and ecological horizons. Such deep-rooted orientations still resist facile alignment with alien standards …
The Desert Discourse of Modern China
A broad consensus of knowledgeable opinion considers land degradation to be widespread and severe throughout North China. In particular, the phenomenon of desert expansion, especially as it occurs across the vast arid rangelands of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, has generated a great deal of anxiety. Official reports from China routinely assert alarming figures: over the past decade, once-fertile grassland has been lost to moving sand at a rate of …
Grazing the body
In this article I document changing patterns of exposure to chronic cold stress and to accidental injury and death from hypothermia in a modernizing pastoral society on degraded Chinese grasslands in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia. Conventions of local culture interact with the environment and with multiple social factors structured by a global political economy to increase susceptibility to these health risks among select male herders i…
Patchwork, Pastoralists, and Perception
Alcohol indulgence in a Mongolian community of China
Alcohol Indulgence in a Mongolian Community of ChinaRecent ethnographic fieldwork in a pastoral region of Inner Mongolia indicates that alcohol use and abuse plays a more significant role in contemporary Chinese social process than has previously been disclosed in either domestic or foreign scholarship.By reporting and reflecting upon the practices, purposes, and consequences of habitual indulgence by male Mongolian herders in a particular settin…
Nature and Society
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and l…
Representations of Nature on the Mongolian Steppe
Extensive land degradation across the Mongolian steppe has prompted a variety of multinational and multidisciplinary research projects over recent years. The situation provides an important opportunity to investigate and illuminate some of the international, national, and local dimensions of scientific practice that critically condition the production of environmental knowledge. In this article I juxtapose the competing knowledge bases and assump…
Ruwayda
Ruwayda was first identified as an archaeological site in the 1970s and was excavated between 2009 and 2014. Despite a paucity of documentary evidence, this large settlement, which extends over an area of more than 90 hectares, contains a number of features indicative of an urban settlement including two mosques, a series of warehouses, a large multi-period fort, large courtyard houses interspersed with smaller, less substantial structures and a …
China (6 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)