This thesis concerns the process and outcomes of my research involving a group of Southern Yukon beadwork objects, a project carried out on behalf of the MacBride Museum in Whitehorse, Yukon, in 1993. I studied the objects themselves, researched museum documentation of them, and subsequently interviewed several women elders/beadworkers. In the thesis I examine several ways of studying and researching material culture and provide an analysis of these methods. Looking at objects in different ways tells us something about the nature of them but raises new questions which I address here. Reviewing museum collections records tells us more about the institution and the institutional lives of the objects than about their original context and meaning. Asking elders about the objects inspires them to speak about many seemingly unconnected topics: history, personal and mythical stories, and long ago life and times. An underlying theme which emerged in interviews with elders was their commentary on cultural and societal change within the First Nations community and how this has affected the process of learning for younger generations. I argue that beadwork objects can be best understood as learning and teaching tools for First Nations people of every generation, that their creation and essence are linked to every aspect of the culture, and their reclamation cannot properly happen without observance of all of these connections.

SANTRAUKA Teritorijų planavimo teisinis reguliavimas Šio magistro darbo tyrimo objektas – teritorijų planavimo teisinis reguliavimas. Ekonominės politikos sudedamąja dalimi yra teritorijų planavimo politika, kurios įgyvendinimas įmanomas tik valstybei nustačius nepriekaištingą teritorijų planavimo teisinį reguliavimą. Pagrindinis teisės aktas, kuris reglamentuoja Lietuvos Respublikos teritorijų planavimą, tai – Lietuvos Respublikos teritorijų planavimo įstatymas. Įstatymas nustato teritorijų planavimo savoką, teritorijų planavimo procesą, jo etapus, stadijas, apibrėžia teritorijų planavimo dokumentų sąvokas, šių dokumentų rengimo, derinimo, tvirtinimo procedūras, planavimo organizatorių, planų rengėjų, fizinių, juridinių asmenų, valstybės ir savivaldybių institucijų teises ir pareigas šiame procese bei atsakomybę. Teritorijų planavimo teisinio reguliavimo dalyku yra teritorijų planavimas. Teritorijų planavimą įstatymas apibrėžia kaip nustatytą procedūrą teritorijos bendrajai erdvinei koncepcijai, žemės naudojimo prioritetams, aplinkosaugos ir kitoms sąlygoms nustatyti, žemės, miško ir vandens naudmenų, gyvenamųjų vietovių, gamybos bei infrastruktūros sistemai formuoti, gyventojų užimtumui reguliuoti, fizinių ir juridinių asmenų veiklos plėtojimo teisėms teritorijoje nustatyti. Tačiau pagrindinis teritorijų planavimo tikslas – suderinti fizinių ir juridinių asmenų ar jų grupių, visuomenės, savivaldybių ir valstybės interesus. Šio darbo tikslas yra reniantis teisės šaltiniais... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / ABSTRACT Legal Regulation of Territory Planning The subject of this MA thesis is legal regulation of territory planning. Territory planning policy is an intergral part of state economical policy of Lithuania and implementation of the former is possible only if the state sets out an indefectible legal regulation of territory planning. The main legal act regulating territory planning in the Republic of Lithuania is the Law on Territory Planning of the Republic of Lithuania. This law defines a concept of territory planning, sets types and levels of territory planning, regulates territory planning process as well as links and stages of the process, formulates concepts of territory planning documents, established procedures for preparing, coordination and approval of such document as well as rights, obligations and liabilities of planning organizers, plan preparers, natural and legal persons and state and municipality level institutions in the process. The subject of legal regulation of territory planning is territory planning itself. The said law defines territory planning as a pre-established procedure for setting general spatial concept of a terrotory, land use priorities, environmental conditions and the like, forming land, forest and water property, residental area production and infrastructure systems, regulating occupation of residents and establishing rights of natural and legal persons activity development in a territory. However, basic aim of territory planning is to... [to full text]

Secession has been noticeably absent from International Relations theory although its role in the creation and recognition of states is clearly relevant. Traditionally, the dominant perspectives in IR have not questioned state formation and this has effectively barred secession as a topic since it cannot be thoroughly treated without looking across the inside/outside divide of state sovereignty. Secession must be placed in its historical context-as a phenomenon only possible in the modern era and only perceived as a global threat in this century. Theorists from other disciplines who have discussed secession have relied on a problem-solving theoretical perspective which has kept them from considering secession as an outcome of problematic assumptions about identity and territory in the international system. In contrast, a critical theoretical perspective, which affirms the constitutive processes of historical discourse allows an analysis of secession which exposes the contingency of its basic assumptions. Historicising the territorial state allows us to recognise the different structures of political power through which we have already passed and thus to theorise about different forms for the future. The secessionist imperative narrates the boundaries of a specific people who must be secured by a territorial state. Textual analysis of secessionist documents reveals that the narrative strategies they employ are exclusionist and historically short-sighted. Recognising identity as a continuous and relational process is a necessary step towards a post-territorialist order. If different forms of political space are practiced, democracy must also be re-theorised. There is no single model which can guarantee peaceful democratic politics since ambiguity and conflict are inherent in the political process itself and must be encouraged. However, an understanding of the intersubjective processes through which we have generated our present day politics of territory and identity can open up the theoretical space required for alternative politics.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington. / Vita. Bibliography: l. [303]-308.

Proefschrift--Utrecht. / "Résumé et conclusion": p. 97-98. "Stellingen": [2] p. inserted. Bibliography: p. 102-107.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1939. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 649-669).

This thesis concerns the process and outcomes of my research involving a group of Southern Yukon beadwork objects, a project carried out on behalf of the MacBride Museum in Whitehorse, Yukon, in 1993. I studied the objects themselves, researched museum documentation of them, and subsequently interviewed several women elders/beadworkers. In the thesis I examine several ways of studying and researching material culture and provide an analysis of these methods. Looking at objects in different ways tells us something about the nature of them but raises new questions which I address here. Reviewing museum collections records tells us more about the institution and the institutional lives of the objects than about their original context and meaning. Asking elders about the objects inspires them to speak about many seemingly unconnected topics: history, personal and mythical stories, and long ago life and times. An underlying theme which emerged in interviews with elders was their commentary on cultural and societal change within the First Nations community and how this has affected the process of learning for younger generations. I argue that beadwork objects can be best understood as learning and teaching tools for First Nations people of every generation, that their creation and essence are linked to every aspect of the culture, and their reclamation cannot properly happen without observance of all of these connections. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

A study of rare barium minerals from the Yukon Territory has resulted in the discovery of at least one and possibly five new species. The present investigation is concerned with one of these, a barium-calcium-iron-alumino-silicate, which is tentatively classed as an inosilicate and named keeleite. The optical and physical properties, a chemical analysis, and the calculation of its formula are presented. The mineral has also been successfully synthesized. An X-ray study of some supergene and alteration products present in the rocks revealed the presence of an interesting mixture of barium-calcium carbonate salts, similar to those obtained as laboratory products. A paragenesis Is also presented. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

Cambrian (?) schists and phyllites of the Anvil Range, Yukon Territory, host three large stratabound lead-zinc deposits: Faro, Vangorda, and Swim. Because geological exploration is limited by a thick cover of glacial overburden, geochemical techniques were tested in the area. These include bedrock sampling for primary halos and geochemical marker horizons, and glacial overburden sampling for secondary dispersion patterns. Multi-element geochemistry of bedrock indicates that the schists and phyllites are not distinctive in one or any combination of the trace elements analyzed. However, some younger rocks are enhanced in various elements: amphibolite in Ni, Cr, Co, and Cu; rhyolite in Pb and Sn; and granite in Sn. Despite presence of glacial overburden, the trace element content of bedrock is reflected in soils. Soils overlying magnetic greenstones are enriched in Ni and Cu, whereas soils overlying granite are slightly enriched in Sn content. Detailed bedrock, overburden and soil sampling.at the Faro deposit reveals that primary Pb, Zn, Mo, and Ba halos exist about the ore zone. Mo parallels the visible alteration envelope, but Pb and Zn extend 100 feet into the hanging wall and 300 feet into the footwall. Ba extends 75 feet into the hanging wall but is not detected in the footwall. Secondary dispersion patterns are primarily related to the proximity of the Faro ore zone and type of parent material sampled. Till deposits have higher background and threshold values for Cu, Pb, and Zn than those of glaciofluvial deposits. Bath Pb and Zn distributions in overburden delineate the Faro #2 ore body; Zn extends to surface whereas Pb, in some cases, does not. This is a reflection of the type of overburden sampled. In general, Zn is the more consistent indicator of ore. The Zn anomaly is primarily hydromorphic in origin, cxZn having higher anomalous/threshold contrast than total Zn (11.1 for cxZn vs 4.8 for total Zn). The nature of the Pb anomaly is not understood. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

Multifractional analysis for scheelite (G=5.9-6.1), magnetite (G=5.2), heavies (G>3.3), mediums (3.3<G<2.9), and lights (G<2.9), in drainage sediments downstream of the Clea tungsten-bearing skarn deposit, Yukon Territory, revealed three interdependent problems that complicate interpretation of results of drainage surveys for W: (1) Scheelite concentrations in stream sediments reflect, in part, hydraulic sorting rather than source distribution. (2) Low numbers of scheelite grains in stream sediments cause high random sampling and subsampling errors and present analytical difficulties. (3) Scheelite/heavies or scheelite/mediums ratios may not be appreciably higher downstream of scheelite-bearing skarn than barren bedrock, because scheelite, heavies and mediums occur in increased amounts in skarns (i.e. they covary in source materials). Hydraulic effects result in systematic changes in mineral distributions between high and low energy environments (characterized by coarse gravel and fine gravel to sand, respectively). Scheelite, magnetite, heavies and mediums concentrations in minus 10-mesh sediments are greater in high than low energy environments, and this relative enrichment increases with grain size and density (up to one-hundredfold for scheelite). Using a regression method, developed in this study, hydraulically equivalent sizes of magnetite and heavies were empirically determined for finer (3.0-3.5 phi and 3.5-4.25 phi) scheelite sizes. Ratioing the weight of scheelite to that of a hydraulically equivalent mineral greatly reduces hydraulic variability. Resulting profiles of hydraulically equivalent scheelite concentrations more clearly delineate locations of scheelite input to the stream. The rare-grain problem can be reduced at the sampling level by sampling from high energy environments (thereby exploiting hydraulic effects) and/or by sampling for finer scheelite. Heavy mineral separation is the most effective means of reducing the rare grain problem at the subsampling and analytical levels. The problem of covariance in source materials can best be remedied by ratioing to an individual (hydraulically equivalent) heavy mineral which has a constant and ubiquitous distribution in the area of interest. In this study, magnetite shows promise, but more information on its source distribution is needed. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate