Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 285-296).

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acase@tulane.edu / This dissertation combines ethnohistory and ethnography to produce a unified description of Makushi ecology, economy, socio-politics, and cosmology in the past and present. It is based upon ethnographic data obtained through fieldwork with the Makushi in Surama Village, Guyana, and upon ethnohistorical data obtained through archival research. This dissertation seeks to examine the past and present of the Makushi in order to elucidate a cultural logic that continues and perdures in their society and in their relations with the outside world. As described in this dissertation, Makushi cultural logic posits an inward and directed movement of outside elements (people, material goods, and knowledge) into Makushi society and a subsequent incorporation of these elements for individual and collective purposes of renewal and transformation. This cultural logic posits a basic distinction between inside and outside and locates mediating entities at the boundaries between these domains. A focus on Amazonian encounters with alterity recurs throughout Amazonian ethnology. Anthropologists have highlighted the ways in which Amazonian societies encounter and incorporate outside elements, whether affines, war captives, material goods, or names and other symbolic items, for various purposes related to the reproduction of internal social relations, the marking of self-identity through contrastive alterity, and the transformation of self towards alterity. Using the theoretical frameworks of historical ecology and Amerindian perspectivism, this dissertation contributes to the literature by showing how the Makushi have sought outsiders in the past (missionaries) and present (tourists and consultants) and have incorporated their material goods and knowledge. In the nineteenth century, this is seen in the rise of syncretic religions with goals of material abundance and self-transformation. In the present, it is seen in Makushi attempts at transformation through interactions with tourists and consultants. In both cases, one finds a cultural logic that links Makushi relations with outsiders to ecological, economic, socio-political, and cosmological relations. This dissertation argues that such relations between inside and outside domains lie at the perduring heart of Makushi identity. / 1 / James Andrew Whitaker

Diss. Ph. D.--Cave Hill--University of the West Indies, 1998. / Bibliogr. p. 308-323. Index.

Efforts to diversify the colonial economy in Guyana after 1966 were unsuccessful. With the oil shock of 1973, and falling commodity prices after 1975, the economy became unstable. This instability is expressed in large balance of payments deficits, deficit financing, lower export levels and a rise in inflation. Policies to restore economic stability involved the implementation of stabilisation and structural adjustment programmes between 1977-84, with the participation of the IMF and World Bank. The objective is to investigate factors affecting economic stabilisation of both domestic prices and the balance of payments Emphasis is placed on the study of aggregate supply, which examines . the behaviour of exports and inflation. These two factors are linked to the balance of payments. The assumption is made that exports are influenced by supply variables, such as domestic output, international prices, labour costs and movements in the exchange rate. The analysis of exports reveals that their response is delayed and inelastic to changes in price and other factors. This is consistent with estimates for primary commodity exports from small low income countries. The partial adjustment/adaptive expectations model provides satisfactory evidence for the behaviour of commodity exports, except in the case of sugar. For sugar an export supply function is estimated. The analysis of inflation reveals that external influences are more dominant than domestic factors in the inflationary process. The results suggest that the supply response for all commodities is slow in the short run, but may be faster in the long run. This implies that the implementation of appropriate stabilisation policies may be able to improve the deficit in the balance of payments, but that lags may exist in the adjustment process. The constraining factors would be increased labour costs in the export sector and higher import prices for industrial inputs.

The intent of this thesis is to set out new data relating to the climate of the savanna in the Rupununi district of Guyana, and to comment thereon with reference to the causes and continuing existence of that savanna. To indicate the significance of the data and the pertinence of the comments it will be necessary to review recent discussion of the nature and causes of savanna in general. [...]

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Denna uppsats undersöker hur fyra dagstidningar i Guyana rapporterar om klimatförändringar och vilka förutsättningar som finns för att göra det. Guyana är ett fattigt och inför klimatförändringar särskilt sårbart land, särskilt när det kommer till stigande havsnivåer och intensifierade stormar. Landets kust är till stor del belägen under havsnivån, vid vilken 90 procent av landets befolkning bor. Studien består av intervjuer med sju tidningsjournalister och fyra nyhetschefer på de fyra största dagstidningarna i Guyana. Studien innehåller även en kvantitativ innehållsanalys av tidningarnas artiklar relaterade till klimatförändringar under tio månader 2014. Resultaten visar att klimatrapporteringens fokus ligger på politiska frågor och politiker, som anses vara den primära informationskällan i frågan. Nyheterna är ofta drivna av specifika händelser, och kontinuerlig och fördjupad rapportering av ämnet anses vara ovanlig. Det tycks vara den allmänna uppfattningen bland intervjupersonerna att rapporteringen om klimatfrågan i de guyanska tidningarna generellt är väldigt sparsam. Majoriteten av intervjupersonerna upplever att tillgången till lokalt förankrade experter eller forskning eller självständiga organisationer som arbetar med frågan är bristfällig. Flera journalister anser att man saknar tillräcklig kunskap för att kunna rapportera om klimatförändringar på ett önskvärt sätt, och att möjligheterna och incitamenten från ledningen att specialisera sig inom ämnet är få. De flesta av intervjupersonerna uppfattar klimatförändringar som ett lågt prioriterat ämne av både tidningarna och läsarna.