Diss. Univ. Flensburg, 2008.

An electronic (HTML) thesis on late University of British Columbia professor Wilson Duff, an anthropologist central to the construction of Northwest Coast art in the 1960s and 1970s. It brings together textual fragments (historic and contemporary, archival, interview transcripts) within a framework which attempts to balance truth (original authorial intent and the context and academic debates of that period) with the impossibility of truth (the notion of partial, situated truths and critical, presentist re-readings of Duffs work some twenty-five years later). The narrative structure is simultaneously linear and pure hypertext, depending on the reader's choices. No two paths will be the same.

An electronic (HTML) thesis on late University of British Columbia professor Wilson Duff, an anthropologist central to the construction of Northwest Coast art in the 1960s and 1970s. It brings together textual fragments (historic and contemporary, archival, interview transcripts) within a framework which attempts to balance truth (original authorial intent and the context and academic debates of that period) with the impossibility of truth (the notion of partial, situated truths and critical, presentist re-readings of Duffs work some twenty-five years later). The narrative structure is simultaneously linear and pure hypertext, depending on the reader's choices. No two paths will be the same. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

Zugl.: Flensburg, Univ., Diss., 2008

Deadwood, characterized as both downed woody material (DWM) and standing and dead stems, i.e., snags, is a significant component of terrestrial forest ecosystems. Deadwood amount and structure may influence potential wildfire hazard by altering combustible DWM mass and creating fuel structures that increase fire intensity and spread. Deadwood is also critical to carbon storage and nutrient cycling and may vary based upon the size classes of individual deadwood pieces. Lastly, deadwood structural variability has been found to positively affect species richness in bees, salamanders, birds, and small mammals, such as shrews and woodland mice. However, in the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont, there are no accessible tools to rapidly estimate deadwood of long unmanaged second growth forests to help inform future management decisions. Management agencies within this region, such as the National Park Service, may benefit from a greater understanding of the potential factors that influence deadwood accumulation, retention, and decomposition. Therefore, a project was funded by the National Park Service to investigate deadwood dynamics at Prince William Forest Park (PRWI). From May to August 2023, a deadwood inventory was conducted using planar intercepts nested within fixed radius plots along the gradient of forest cover types, aspect, elevation, and soil orders found within PRWI. Forest cover type was significant in the generalized linear model for percent dead basal area, total DWM, fine woody material, litter, and duff mass. The Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana) forest cover type had the highest percent dead basal area and total DWM mass per hectare. Elevation, aspect, and soil order were not significantly related to percent dead basal area, total DWM, 1,000 hr, fine woody material, litter, and duff mass. Data from this study may serve as a baseline for similar second growth forests of the mid-Atlantic Piedmont. / Master of Science / Visitors to Prince William Forest Park (PRWI) in eastern Virginia have voiced concern about forest health within PRWI. The perception of a high number of standing and dead stems, or snags, and a high number of decaying logs, branches, and twigs on the ground has been a focal point for visitors. Some perceive the dead material on the ground as a potential source of fuel for wildfires. Others perceive the potential hazard to humans along trails and vistas if snags were to fall. However, snags and downed woody material, known as deadwood, are critical components of forests because they store carbon and nutrients long-term and may provide habitat and resources for many wildlife species. Many other heavily used recreation locations in the eastern US face similar deadwood and forest health challenges. To respond to this, we assessed deadwood in PRWI to determine how it may be distributed differently across the variety of landscape features that are present within the park. We found the amount of total downed and dead material on the forest floor increased as the percentage of trees that were standing and dead increased. The amount of dead material on the ground was greatest for the Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana) forest community type, whereby PRWI's stands have reached their life expectancy. Prince William Forest Park's managers and those elsewhere at similar locations throughout the eastern US may benefit from this information as they seek to evaluate the status of their resources, manage those resources, and provide thoughtful messaging to the public regarding the significance and maintenance of deadwood as an ecosystem resource.

One of the most important questions facing legal philosophers concerns the legitimacy of state institutions of legal punishment which visit citizens who have broken the law with condemnation and hard treatment. The purpose of this thesis is to attempt to answer the question of how we ought to respond to criminal offenders whose guilt has been established. The Canadian approach to criminal sentencing is evaluated, as are prominent restorative justice sentencing models. A novel composite-aims restorative justice model of responding to convicted offenders is introduced and the model’s aims and limits are specified. The thesis attempts to establish that a composite-aims model which encompasses certain restorative justice values and processes can provide a desirable framework for responding to convicted offenders. The implication for Canadian criminal justice policy is that the practice of applying punitive sanctions that are proportional to the moral gravity of the criminal offence should be abandoned in favour of a model based on securing censure, amends, crime control and reformation.

This feminist analysis addresses Lindsey Collen’s intertextual use of myth in The Rape of Sita and how her reformation of the parodied texts becomes a resistance to patriarchy. Collen’s examination of possible counteractions against patriarchy is analysed and it is determined whether or not she posits writing, especially demythologization, as the best resistance to patriarchal discourse. Also, her assertion that transformation and a unity of the sexes are needed to bring about equality is studied. The methodology used is qualitative and inductive. The sources are examined and interpreted through close-reading strategies which reveal the complexities of the text and the way in which Collen subverts myth. Classical and Hindu myths and other texts, such as T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, are re-read and re-examined to investigate to what extent they have challenged or championed patriarchal ideology, through which it is hoped that a greater understanding of the way in which mythology contributes to attitudes to rape is gained. Three other texts dealing with rape are also studied, in order to better place Collen’s novel in context of the genre. Primarily, feminist criticism, particularly with an African feminist viewpoint, is used. However, because a conflation of post-colonial and postmodern approaches is embedded within feminism, these concepts are dealt with also. Theorists drawn upon include Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Mircea Eliade and Margaret Atwood. / Dissertation (MA (English))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / English / MA / unrestricted