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Dennis Gaffin

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ID578316
NAMEDennis Gaffin
GIVEN NAMESDennis
FAMILY NAMEGaffin
SIGNATUREGAFFIN D
AFFILIATIONSBuffalo State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS22
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4
  • Birds Through Indigenous Eyes: Native Perspectives on Birds of the Eastern Woodlands

    Dennis Gaffin•BOOK•Birds Through Indigenous Eyes•2024

  • Insular toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, by Joshua Nash

    Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Anthropological Forum•2015

  • Offending and Defending US Rural Place: The Mega-Dump Battle in Western New York

    Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Human Organization•1997

    This research article discusses the legal and cultural dimensions of a proposed solid waste mega-landfill in Farmersville, a rural Western New York community. The author argues that a corporation's and state environmental bureaucracy's development efforts and definitions of space dominate and decontextualize a local community's and region's own understandings and uses of space and land. This results in a colonial process of domination over large-…

  • In Place: Spatial and Social Order in a Faeroe Islands Community

    Mark Nuttall, Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1997•Cited by: 8

  • No Nation Is an Island: Language, Culture, and National Identity in the Faroe Islands

    Open Access•Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1997•Cited by: 4

    No Nation Is an Island: Language, Culture, and National Identity in the Faroe Islands. Tom Nauerby. North Atlantic Monographs, 3. Århus, Denmark: SNAI-North Atlantic Publications; distributed by Arhus University Press, 1996. 237 pp

  • From ?bugging-out? to ?chilling-out: Manipulating emotion and evoking reason in a forensic psychiatric hospital

    Open Access•Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Culture Medicine and Psychiatry•1996

  • The Production of Emotion and Social Control: Taunting, Anger, and the Rukka in the Faeroe Islands

    Open Access•Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Ethos•1995•Cited by: 5•References: 23

  • Landscape, personhood, and culture: Names of places and people in the Faeroe Islands

    Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Ethnos•1993•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    With placenames so ubiquitously affixed, to the landscape and to people of the Faeroe Islands, this research demonstrates the central ecological and cultural roles of geographic names in Faeroese culture. Placenames simultaneously function in the multiple subsistence pursuits, as texts of social organization, and as embodiments of personality and personhood. Place and person merge as villagers' identities come to inhabit the natural landscape and…

  • In Place: Spatial and Social Order in a Faeroe Islands Community

    Mark Nuttall, Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1997•Cited by: 8

  • The Production of Emotion and Social Control: Taunting, Anger, and the Rukka in the Faeroe Islands

    Open Access•Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Ethos•1995•Cited by: 5•References: 23

  • Landscape, personhood, and culture: Names of places and people in the Faeroe Islands

    Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Ethnos•1993•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    With placenames so ubiquitously affixed, to the landscape and to people of the Faeroe Islands, this research demonstrates the central ecological and cultural roles of geographic names in Faeroese culture. Placenames simultaneously function in the multiple subsistence pursuits, as texts of social organization, and as embodiments of personality and personhood. Place and person merge as villagers' identities come to inhabit the natural landscape and…

  • No Nation Is an Island: Language, Culture, and National Identity in the Faroe Islands

    Open Access•Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1997•Cited by: 4

    No Nation Is an Island: Language, Culture, and National Identity in the Faroe Islands. Tom Nauerby. North Atlantic Monographs, 3. Århus, Denmark: SNAI-North Atlantic Publications; distributed by Arhus University Press, 1996. 237 pp

  • Landscape, personhood, and culture: Names of places and people in the Faeroe Islands

    Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Ethnos•1993•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    With placenames so ubiquitously affixed, to the landscape and to people of the Faeroe Islands, this research demonstrates the central ecological and cultural roles of geographic names in Faeroese culture. Placenames simultaneously function in the multiple subsistence pursuits, as texts of social organization, and as embodiments of personality and personhood. Place and person merge as villagers' identities come to inhabit the natural landscape and…

  • The Production of Emotion and Social Control: Taunting, Anger, and the Rukka in the Faeroe Islands

    Open Access•Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Ethos•1995•Cited by: 5•References: 23

  • From ?bugging-out? to ?chilling-out: Manipulating emotion and evoking reason in a forensic psychiatric hospital

    Open Access•Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Culture Medicine and Psychiatry•1996

  • Offending and Defending US Rural Place: The Mega-Dump Battle in Western New York

    Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Human Organization•1997

    This research article discusses the legal and cultural dimensions of a proposed solid waste mega-landfill in Farmersville, a rural Western New York community. The author argues that a corporation's and state environmental bureaucracy's development efforts and definitions of space dominate and decontextualize a local community's and region's own understandings and uses of space and land. This results in a colonial process of domination over large-…

  • In Place: Spatial and Social Order in a Faeroe Islands Community

    Mark Nuttall, Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1997•Cited by: 8

  • No Nation Is an Island: Language, Culture, and National Identity in the Faroe Islands

    Open Access•Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1997•Cited by: 4

    No Nation Is an Island: Language, Culture, and National Identity in the Faroe Islands. Tom Nauerby. North Atlantic Monographs, 3. Århus, Denmark: SNAI-North Atlantic Publications; distributed by Arhus University Press, 1996. 237 pp

  • Insular toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, by Joshua Nash

    Dennis Gaffin•ARTICLE•Anthropological Forum•2015

  • Birds Through Indigenous Eyes: Native Perspectives on Birds of the Eastern Woodlands

    Dennis Gaffin•BOOK•Birds Through Indigenous Eyes•2024

Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Political science (2 works)

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