Mary Louise Nosser\u27s First Communion

Mary Louise Nosser stands at the alter at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Vicksburg, Miss., surrounded by siblings and cousins, and a priest. Black and white photo in a well-worn mat, date unknown.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/lebanese_photos/1031/thumbnail.jp

The French Divorcee and Her Evolution

This thesis serves to explore the greater questions concerning patterns of divorce in France and how women, through divorce, experienced greater liberties within the law. The evidence used in this paper stems mainly from demographic data, opinion pieces on divorce, and legal journals. While I had hoped to access specific divorce hearings, privacy laws in France and the language barrier prevented me from this type of research. Through my research I have found that divorce did not follow typical trends in feminist movements as expected in France. Instead, divorce was reactionary of the social perceptions of marriage and gender. Additionally, divorce in France liberates women more than suffrage based on the evidence in the law and the patterns of female movement. Throughout this study, I explore how different influences in politics, the world, religion, and social pressures influence patterns of divorce

Rose Toubia at her First Communion

Marie Antoon’s great-grandmother Rosemary (Rose) Toubia Antoon at her first communion. Date unknown.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/lebanese_photos/1001/thumbnail.jp

Thinking About the Field: Ethnography, Social Relationships, and Legitimacy

(Seth Palmer, Session Chair) Seth Palmer (Christopher Newport University). To Each Their Own Destiny: Divine Possession and Dissident Gender/Sexuality in Madagascar This paper provides a brief overview of several interrelated research projects which address transgressive sex/gender communities\u27 language, activism, and religiosity in Madagascar. Among those topics addressed in the talk include the development, use, and outing of a linguistic register primarily employed by queer speakers in the capital, Antananarivo, and the means by which monarchical forms of spirit possession have acted as a central conduit for the transnational projects 25 of HIV-prevention and LGBT rights activism across the Red Island. The final portion of the talk considers ways in which a theoretically-trained academic anthropologist can undertake LGBTQ+ advocacy work in collaboration and in conversation with one’s interlocutors and, relatedly, how academic anthropology may, at times unwittingly, be deployed by activists in their pursuit of social change. Jennifer Scott (University of West Georgia). Exploring Anxiety in Ethnographic Fieldwork Participant observation is the backbone of ethnographic research. It allows us to document the nuances of daily life by simply being there. A form of participant observation is participant collaboration, in which the people being studied become active participants, affording them the voice and respect of co-creators. In August 2022, I began a pilot study on the development of community identity in a closed Anabaptist society known as the Bruderhof, eventually leading to an overnight visit to a small community in Tennessee. While there, a full year after beginning this journey, I learned from my hosts about their previous experiences with researchers. They did not feel as though their voices mattered or that their way of life would be shown in an accurate light. Research has been historically damaging to marginalized populations, and that is demonstrated each time our requests for visits are met with trepidation or denied. This paper will examine the role of anxiety in ethnographic fieldwork and the ethical benefits and efficacy of more collaborative practices. Maximilian X. Conrad (University of Mississippi). Disappearing Dixie?: The Changing Ethnoscape of the Festa Confederada From 1988 to 2020, before the COVID-19 Pandemic brought the world to a standstill, the town of Santa Barbara d’Oeste in the interior of Sao Paulo was the site of an internationally recognized festival celebrating the heritage of the Confederados, descendants of American Southerners who immigrated to Brazil after the American Civil War. The Festa Confederada, popularized by news articles and social media in both Brazil and the United States, captured attention and curiosity in both nations. However, the festival’s Confederate identity attracted significant amounts of controversy over the years, culminating in an indefinite hiatus even after COVID-19 restrictions were eased. Most recently, the town’s council voted unanimously to ban the use of the Confederate flag in publicly funded events. This paper will employ digital ethnography to review articles, social media posts, and videos of the Festa Confederada to provide a summary of the event’s history and the pervasive process through which its promotion of settler-colonialism and neo-Confederacy create a depoliticized and deracialized ethnoscape

Ledger 03, Household Accounts for Julia Logan, 1930-1931

Scan taken by members of HST 490, 2019. Not an official Archives image.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/neilsonsproject/1004/thumbnail.jp

Ledger 01, Blotter Correspondence from W. S. Neilson, February 3 & 4, 1873

Scan taken by members of HST 490, 2019. Not an official Archives image.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/neilsonsproject/1001/thumbnail.jp

Wonders of Microwave Cooking

Cover image to physical item published in [the 1970s] by the LSU Cooperative Extension Service. Special Collections copy is from the Southern Foodways Alliance Collection.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/soplate_advcovers/1022/thumbnail.jp

The Rise and Fall of Disco

The phenomenon of disco music is one that went as soon as it came and has a complex history associated with it.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/dighist/1027/thumbnail.jp