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The Cornbread Country: Cornbread and the Development of Southern Identity

Following the chronological development of the American South from the pre-colonial era to the present day, this thesis analyzes the importance of cornbread in relation to historical circumstances. Native Americans, British settlers, early Americans, and self-identifying Southerners all related to the land and to its food in unique ways. Narrowing the scope of this broad topic to the specific point of cornbread allows for an analysis of the continuity and change of people\u27s circumstances and life experience, as well as the ways in which people define themselves by their food

John Doar to Dr. Silver, 21 January 1963

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Appropriating Stereotypes of Kin, Romance and Gender: An Ethnographic Study of Filipina Migrants Married to or in De-Facto Relationships with New Zealand Men

Transnational marriage migration is an emerging area of interest in anthropology, and contemporary scholars have written extensively on the international movements of Filipina women who have married non-Filipino men. Extending this research into an antipodean context, this thesis is based on interviews with Filipina migrants married to or in de-facto relationships with New Zealand men. Through an examination of narratives of love and romance, identity, and kinship, this work highlights the ways participants undertook identity work in their interviews. In particular, this thesis reveals the strategies employed by Filipina migrants in constructing narratives in which they distance themselves from negative stereotypes, while incorporating more positive typologies into their identities. Stereotypes included Filipina women as mail-order brides, domestic workers, subservient wives, and good family members. These narrative strategies demonstrated the ways participants sought to control and manipulate stereotypes in order to present themselves as successful and virtuous migrants. This thesis applies current scholarship on identity work and stereotypes. It also contributes to literature on marriage migration by expanding a contemporary focus on participant agency through acknowledging how migrants utilise identity resources, in this case stereotypes, available in their host society

The Geologic Implications of the Factors that Affected Relative Sea-level Positions in South Carolina During the Pleistocene and the Associated Preserved High-stand Deposits

This work utilizes the current understanding of South Carolina geology to provide a stratigraphic review of the late-Pliocene and Pleistocene marine deposits. Almost two centuries of recorded geological study includes geomorphic and stratigraphic units that were described, proposed, revised, abandoned, and revived. Along with the history of the age assignments, changes in geological time scales, and the changes in the understanding of geological concepts, this review is necessary because two concurrent and conflicting stratigraphies exist for late-Pliocene and Pleistocene marine sediments that record multiple sea-level transgressions that were more often destructive than constructive. The result, when tested against existing geological data covering \u3e22,000 km2, is a set of interpretations providing a revised and unified geomorphic and stratigraphic nomenclature. Eleven stratigraphic units occur only in the subsurface. Ten Plio-Pleistocene highstand deposits are preserved at the surface: one Pliocene, eight Pleistocene, and the current transgression. When the Pleistocene highstand elevations and geochronology were compared to sea-level reconstructions, based on predicted elevations from marine isotope studies, only two highstands matched. Other observed highstand elevations are higher than predicted by reconstructions. The factors affecting relative sea-level changes were studied to rectify the gap between the observed and predicted elevations. When applied, the factors partially reduce the gap; however, the results suggest that the processes affecting post-depositional changes in shoreline elevations are complex and not completely understood