Madelyn Iris
Biographic Data
| ID | 80304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madelyn Iris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madelyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Iris |
| SIGNATURE | IRIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aging, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s disease: What do refugees from the former Soviet Union think
Since the mid-1970s, approximately 700,000 émigrés from the former Soviet Union (FSU), most of Jewish descent, settled in the United States. Now, 25 or more years post-emigration, they have “aged in place” in the United States, but their values, beliefs, and attitudes about growing old, memory changes, and Alzheimer’s disease remain grounded in their earlier life experiences. Based on findings from a study of the social and cultural factors affec…
The Importance of Investigating Abuser Characteristics in Elder Emotional/Psychological Abuse: Results from Adult Protective Services Data
Abuser weaknesses and strengths as highlighted in the theoretical framework should be further investigated for future prevention and intervention in cases of emotional/psychological abuse
Developing a Faith-Based Caregiver Support Partnership
Caring Together, Living Better (CTLB), a partnership of nonprofit and faith-based organizations, developed a culturally appropriate regional network of supportive caregiver services in the south suburbs of Chicago, IL. This article describes the findings of a mixed-methods evaluation that included network analysis to track network growth and development, tracking of service delivery, assessment of caregiver-related outcomes using standardized pre…
How to construct a case of Alzheimer's disease in three languages: Case-based reasoning in narrative gerontology
This paper explores how people reason about Alzheimer's disease by telling stories about others who have the disease. More specifically, the paper is a cross-linguistic investigation of the narrative and linguistic devices used by African Americans in English, Mexican Americans in Spanish, and refugees/immigrants from the former Soviet Union (to the United States of America) in Russian in their oral productions of such stories. We examine the nar…
Aging Research in Service Settings: Ethnogerontological Work in Practice
Shirley Fiske and Niel Tashima are contributing editors of "Anthropology Works," the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology column in Anthropology News
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
An Interim Story of a Career as an Applied Anthropologist
Every life has a story, constructed out of realities we cannot change, events that form a backdrop, and the choices and decisions we make as we move through time and space. This chapter describes my own life story. My character is grounded in the affects of my birth, the values I was taught as a child, and the paths I was encouraged to pursue. But my emergence as a woman, a wife, and a mother, and as an anthropologist, came out of a desire to pur…
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Ethical Issues and Other Things to Think About
Ethnographic or cultural anthropology field schools often present students and faculty with numerous ethical issues or considerations. Many of these relate to students' behavior when participating in a program that extends beyond the normal classroom setting. For example, there are always concerns about student safety, health, and well-being as well as concerns for the safety, health, and well being of residents and citizens of the host community…
Conclusion: How to Pick a Field School That's Right for You
Choosing to participate in an ethnographic or cultural anthropology field school is an important decision. There are a number of questions to consider when making a choice. These include: Know what is expected of you-what are the outcomes? What is the methodological "thrust" of the program-will you be in sync? What is the length of time of commitment-can you meet it? What is the relationship between the host community and the field school? Are yo…
Fulfilling Community Needs Through Research and Service: The Northwestern University Ethnographic Field School Experience
The Northwestern University Ethnographic Field School (EFS) was started in the early 1970s in order to offer undergraduate and early graduate students an opportunity to explore their affinity for fieldwork and gain firsthand experience with the conduct of original research. Operating on the Navajo Nation in the southwestern United States, this eight-week program combines rigorous training in ethnographic methods with a cultural immersion experien…
Introduction: What Is a Cultural Anthropology Field School and What Is It Good For
A field school experience remains the exception rather than the common experience for most undergraduate and pre-dissertation graduate students in social/cultural anthropology. There are a growing number of programs that describe themselves as anthropology field schools, but fewer that emphasize a research experience and in-depth exposure to ethnographic and other qualitative methods. This bulletin offers detailed descriptions of four types of pr…
Nurses' Perspectives on the Distinctive Aspects of Providing Nursing Care in a Congregational Setting
As the number of parish nurses grow, it is important to understand the unique attributes of providing nursing care in a congregation. Through a focus group and interviews, this qualitative research study explored this question with 17 parish nurses participating in a hospital-sponsored, volunteer health ministry program. Content analysis revealed the nurses felt they had the greatest impact through health promotion and prevention, advocacy, healt…
Pillars of the Middle Class Community
Introduction: Applied Anthropologists in Aging
The idea for this special section came out of discussions with the editor of this journal and Madelyn Iris who convened a special interest group at the 1997 SfAA meetings in Seattle. Dr. Iris is well-known to practicing anthropologists through her long association with SfAA and with NAPA and in the anthropology of disabilities. With the regular participation of the Association for Aging and Gerontology (AAGE) at SfAA meetings, it seemed timely to…
Approaches to Self-Care in Late Life
The preponderance of research on self-care examines behaviors and attitudes while overlooking individual conceptualizations of this domain. Qualitative analysis of open-ended interviews regarding health beliefs explored ways of taking care of oneself among 50 older people. The dialogue of individuals was categorized into three overall approaches to self-care. Although one approach dominated the narratives of most individuals, participants referre…
Moving Towards Literacy by Making Definitions
Defining can be as simple and natural as the common practice between mother and child, or an erudite exercise pursued by scientists and an area of scrutiny for lexicographers. This paper examines the question of how members of a literate society progress from a natural beginning towards a mastery of increasingly formalized definition-making. We suggest that formal definition-making is one aspect of becoming literate, where literacy is defined as …
Approaches to Self-Care in Late Life
The preponderance of research on self-care examines behaviors and attitudes while overlooking individual conceptualizations of this domain. Qualitative analysis of open-ended interviews regarding health beliefs explored ways of taking care of oneself among 50 older people. The dialogue of individuals was categorized into three overall approaches to self-care. Although one approach dominated the narratives of most individuals, participants referre…
Introduction: What Is a Cultural Anthropology Field School and What Is It Good For
A field school experience remains the exception rather than the common experience for most undergraduate and pre-dissertation graduate students in social/cultural anthropology. There are a growing number of programs that describe themselves as anthropology field schools, but fewer that emphasize a research experience and in-depth exposure to ethnographic and other qualitative methods. This bulletin offers detailed descriptions of four types of pr…
Moving Towards Literacy by Making Definitions
Defining can be as simple and natural as the common practice between mother and child, or an erudite exercise pursued by scientists and an area of scrutiny for lexicographers. This paper examines the question of how members of a literate society progress from a natural beginning towards a mastery of increasingly formalized definition-making. We suggest that formal definition-making is one aspect of becoming literate, where literacy is defined as …
How to construct a case of Alzheimer's disease in three languages: Case-based reasoning in narrative gerontology
This paper explores how people reason about Alzheimer's disease by telling stories about others who have the disease. More specifically, the paper is a cross-linguistic investigation of the narrative and linguistic devices used by African Americans in English, Mexican Americans in Spanish, and refugees/immigrants from the former Soviet Union (to the United States of America) in Russian in their oral productions of such stories. We examine the nar…
Fulfilling Community Needs Through Research and Service: The Northwestern University Ethnographic Field School Experience
The Northwestern University Ethnographic Field School (EFS) was started in the early 1970s in order to offer undergraduate and early graduate students an opportunity to explore their affinity for fieldwork and gain firsthand experience with the conduct of original research. Operating on the Navajo Nation in the southwestern United States, this eight-week program combines rigorous training in ethnographic methods with a cultural immersion experien…
Moving Towards Literacy by Making Definitions
Defining can be as simple and natural as the common practice between mother and child, or an erudite exercise pursued by scientists and an area of scrutiny for lexicographers. This paper examines the question of how members of a literate society progress from a natural beginning towards a mastery of increasingly formalized definition-making. We suggest that formal definition-making is one aspect of becoming literate, where literacy is defined as …
Introduction: Applied Anthropologists in Aging
The idea for this special section came out of discussions with the editor of this journal and Madelyn Iris who convened a special interest group at the 1997 SfAA meetings in Seattle. Dr. Iris is well-known to practicing anthropologists through her long association with SfAA and with NAPA and in the anthropology of disabilities. With the regular participation of the Association for Aging and Gerontology (AAGE) at SfAA meetings, it seemed timely to…
Approaches to Self-Care in Late Life
The preponderance of research on self-care examines behaviors and attitudes while overlooking individual conceptualizations of this domain. Qualitative analysis of open-ended interviews regarding health beliefs explored ways of taking care of oneself among 50 older people. The dialogue of individuals was categorized into three overall approaches to self-care. Although one approach dominated the narratives of most individuals, participants referre…
Pillars of the Middle Class Community
Nurses' Perspectives on the Distinctive Aspects of Providing Nursing Care in a Congregational Setting
As the number of parish nurses grow, it is important to understand the unique attributes of providing nursing care in a congregation. Through a focus group and interviews, this qualitative research study explored this question with 17 parish nurses participating in a hospital-sponsored, volunteer health ministry program. Content analysis revealed the nurses felt they had the greatest impact through health promotion and prevention, advocacy, healt…
Ethical Issues and Other Things to Think About
Ethnographic or cultural anthropology field schools often present students and faculty with numerous ethical issues or considerations. Many of these relate to students' behavior when participating in a program that extends beyond the normal classroom setting. For example, there are always concerns about student safety, health, and well-being as well as concerns for the safety, health, and well being of residents and citizens of the host community…
Conclusion: How to Pick a Field School That's Right for You
Choosing to participate in an ethnographic or cultural anthropology field school is an important decision. There are a number of questions to consider when making a choice. These include: Know what is expected of you-what are the outcomes? What is the methodological "thrust" of the program-will you be in sync? What is the length of time of commitment-can you meet it? What is the relationship between the host community and the field school? Are yo…
Fulfilling Community Needs Through Research and Service: The Northwestern University Ethnographic Field School Experience
The Northwestern University Ethnographic Field School (EFS) was started in the early 1970s in order to offer undergraduate and early graduate students an opportunity to explore their affinity for fieldwork and gain firsthand experience with the conduct of original research. Operating on the Navajo Nation in the southwestern United States, this eight-week program combines rigorous training in ethnographic methods with a cultural immersion experien…
Introduction: What Is a Cultural Anthropology Field School and What Is It Good For
A field school experience remains the exception rather than the common experience for most undergraduate and pre-dissertation graduate students in social/cultural anthropology. There are a growing number of programs that describe themselves as anthropology field schools, but fewer that emphasize a research experience and in-depth exposure to ethnographic and other qualitative methods. This bulletin offers detailed descriptions of four types of pr…
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
An Interim Story of a Career as an Applied Anthropologist
Every life has a story, constructed out of realities we cannot change, events that form a backdrop, and the choices and decisions we make as we move through time and space. This chapter describes my own life story. My character is grounded in the affects of my birth, the values I was taught as a child, and the paths I was encouraged to pursue. But my emergence as a woman, a wife, and a mother, and as an anthropologist, came out of a desire to pur…
Aging Research in Service Settings: Ethnogerontological Work in Practice
Shirley Fiske and Niel Tashima are contributing editors of "Anthropology Works," the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology column in Anthropology News
Developing a Faith-Based Caregiver Support Partnership
Caring Together, Living Better (CTLB), a partnership of nonprofit and faith-based organizations, developed a culturally appropriate regional network of supportive caregiver services in the south suburbs of Chicago, IL. This article describes the findings of a mixed-methods evaluation that included network analysis to track network growth and development, tracking of service delivery, assessment of caregiver-related outcomes using standardized pre…
How to construct a case of Alzheimer's disease in three languages: Case-based reasoning in narrative gerontology
This paper explores how people reason about Alzheimer's disease by telling stories about others who have the disease. More specifically, the paper is a cross-linguistic investigation of the narrative and linguistic devices used by African Americans in English, Mexican Americans in Spanish, and refugees/immigrants from the former Soviet Union (to the United States of America) in Russian in their oral productions of such stories. We examine the nar…
Aging, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s disease: What do refugees from the former Soviet Union think
Since the mid-1970s, approximately 700,000 émigrés from the former Soviet Union (FSU), most of Jewish descent, settled in the United States. Now, 25 or more years post-emigration, they have “aged in place” in the United States, but their values, beliefs, and attitudes about growing old, memory changes, and Alzheimer’s disease remain grounded in their earlier life experiences. Based on findings from a study of the social and cultural factors affec…
The Importance of Investigating Abuser Characteristics in Elder Emotional/Psychological Abuse: Results from Adult Protective Services Data
Abuser weaknesses and strengths as highlighted in the theoretical framework should be further investigated for future prevention and intervention in cases of emotional/psychological abuse
Sociology (14 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)