CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE CLIENT KIND
Am I ready for this? What will they be like? What will I be like? Nothing is more equally exciting and frightening for a young anthropologist than entering into the field for the first time. As I imagine Margaret Mead daydreamed about the exotic South Pacific before she arrived in person, I fantasize about the corporate world with both excitement and horror. What will it be like? Am I ready?
'PULLING UP MYTHS FROM THE ROOT:' DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING AN ANTI-RACIST CURRICULUM ABOUT THE AFRICAN HERITAGE FOR THIRD GRADERS IN PUERTO RICO.
When defining the foundations of Puerto Rico's national culture, indigenous Tainos and Spanish influences are often referred to as the first and second roots respectively. African heritage is known as "the third root." This ranking reveals deeply entrenched racial hierarchies that position blackness as the least important or desirable element of Puerto Rican identity. This article is based on a five-year ethnographic research project that documents the impact of this racial hierarchy in the third grade classroom in order to provide educational materials to deal with the problem of racism in Puerto Rico. Here, we describe the research carried out with third graders, teachers, and parents in two elementary schools. We discuss the findings and elucidate the challenges faced in conceptualizing and designing an anti-racist intervention in one of the schools.
Treatment of sentence production deficits in aphasia: A linguistic-specific approach to wh-interrogative training and generalization
Abstract The present research examines the effects of a linguistic-specific treatment on acquisition and generalization of wh-interrogative structures in two aphasic subjects presenting with deficit patterns consistent with agrammatism. The underlying linguistic representation of sentence structures selected for treatment and generalization was considered based on aspects of Chomsky's (1981) Government Binding (GB) theory, and a linguistic-based, wh-movement treatment strategy was implemented. Using a single-subject multiple-baseline design across behaviours and subjects, the effects of treatment were explored by examining generalization patterns across wh question forms requiring wh-movement (movement of a direct object NP to COMP). Within question form generalization also was evaluated by examining formulation of untrained sentences of varied complexity—with complexity defined in terms of the number of phrasal nodes in the d-structure representation of sentences. Results indicated that for both subjects...