Barbara Joans
Biographic Data
| ID | 739238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Joans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Joans |
| SIGNATURE | JOANS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Merritt College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Girls Who Went Away
Anthropology Goes to Court
Anthropologists enter the field for many reasons. There are, for some, the promise of adventure, the mystique of the foreign and the lure of unlimited cultural possibilities. There is, for others, the desire to study and eventually try to help the poor, the dispossessed and the oppressed of the world. There is, for still others, the need to take on an academic discipline that offers intellectually challenging ideas and a way of frequently putting…
Association for Senior Anthropologists
Schedule Respect for the Association
Students Are the Life's Blood of Our Field
Infighting in San Francisco
Eighteen years ago I represented six Bannock-Shoshoni women in court. I was their expert witness and convinced the presiding judge that the women had not committed fraud, had not lied to the social service departments and had not taken rent money on bad faith. They had misunderstood the language and the directions given to them by the Pocatello, Idaho agencies, an essentially cultural misunderstanding. We went to court and won all six of our case…
Problems in Pocatello
In November, 1978, the Pocatello Social Service Agency accused six older Bannock-Shoshoni women from the Fort Hall reservation of withholding financial information while receiving supplemental security income (SSI). The women were charged with fraud and ordered to repay the SSI payments. With the help of an Idaho legal aid office, the women contested the agency ruling on repayment. Legal Aid contended that the women were misinformed of SSI rules …
Report on National Women's Studies Association Conference
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Report on National Women's Studies Association Conference
Problems in Pocatello
In November, 1978, the Pocatello Social Service Agency accused six older Bannock-Shoshoni women from the Fort Hall reservation of withholding financial information while receiving supplemental security income (SSI). The women were charged with fraud and ordered to repay the SSI payments. With the help of an Idaho legal aid office, the women contested the agency ruling on repayment. Legal Aid contended that the women were misinformed of SSI rules …
Infighting in San Francisco
Eighteen years ago I represented six Bannock-Shoshoni women in court. I was their expert witness and convinced the presiding judge that the women had not committed fraud, had not lied to the social service departments and had not taken rent money on bad faith. They had misunderstood the language and the directions given to them by the Pocatello, Idaho agencies, an essentially cultural misunderstanding. We went to court and won all six of our case…
Schedule Respect for the Association
Students Are the Life's Blood of Our Field
Anthropology Goes to Court
Anthropologists enter the field for many reasons. There are, for some, the promise of adventure, the mystique of the foreign and the lure of unlimited cultural possibilities. There is, for others, the desire to study and eventually try to help the poor, the dispossessed and the oppressed of the world. There is, for still others, the need to take on an academic discipline that offers intellectually challenging ideas and a way of frequently putting…
Association for Senior Anthropologists
The Girls Who Went Away
Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Citation (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Library science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (2 works) · History (2 works)