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{\plain Brent Clark\par
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{\plain AS: This sounds like a really interesting local project and, depending on the quality of 
the work, you might even be able to publish your findings in the Independent given the 
general interest that people have in this area.  I have a good friend, Gavin O\'92Hara, who 
was really involved with the music scene in the early 1990s and who is interested in the 
local music scene generally.  He has done some writing for the Independent and may 
have some really good ideas for you to focus your project.  I would suggest that you look 
at a specific time when the music scene here became really hot (the 1990s is one 
example, but I\'92m sure there are others).  That may give you a needed focus and should 
make the overall task less daunting.  If possible, it might be really informative to chat 
with some club owners/long-term employees to get their take on whatever slice of time 
(or other focus) you ultimately decide on.  If you want to get in touch with Gavin here is 
his email: }{\plain \*\cs4 Gavin O'Hara }{\field{\*\fldinst  HYPERLINK "mailto:thegav@hotmail.com" }{\fldrslt{{\*\cs5\ul\cf2 }{\*\cs5\ul\cf2 thegav@hotmail.com}}}}{\plain }{\plain ,  He and his wife just had a baby, so he 
probably won\'92t have too much time to chat, but I\'92m sure that he\'92ll have some good ideas 
to get you going.\par
}{\plain CLC: There is much to mine here--all the way back, I suspect, to when popular 1930s 
swing bandleader Kay Kayser moved to Chapel Hill.  I agree that it is important to pick 
only a slice (otherwise this will be a dissertation!) and also maybe a genre (there are 
several different threads such as bluegrass, Celtic music, grunge, etc) and perhaps also a 
focus (is it the creativity of the artists, or the venues such as the Cradle, or the discovery 
of CH scene by the outside world, or ?).  Looks as though you\'92ll have lots of back-up 
material if one lead proves unpromising.  This should be fun!\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Jayur Mehta\par
}{\plain AS: I can\'92t really assess anything about your proposal since details are lacking.  Overall, 
it sounds like an interesting idea, but the lack of clearly defined research questions, data 
sources, and analytical techniques is troublesome.  Please submit a full proposal based on 
the criteria that Dr. Crumley outlined in class so that we can identify any potential 
problems that your research might face or additional resources that might benefit your 
project.\par
}{\plain CLC: I agree\'96we don\'92t have enough detail on your project to help you with it.  You can 
email a more complete explanation of your topic to us.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Kathleen MacGuire\par
}{\plain AS: I think that the tension you have identified between race as a non-existent biological 
category and race as an influential social category is an important one.  By contrasting 
the ways that the \'93academic community\'94 views the biological validity of race with the 
beliefs that linger in the wider society you can get an interesting picture of the debate 
surrounding race (as a biological and/or social category) in both academic and 
mainstream discourse.  I\'92m a little unclear as to how you will tie the history of Physical 
Anthropology and \'93race\'94 together with modern portrayals of race in teen-targeted 
magazines.  Are you asserting that the magazines continue to portray images of the 
qualities inferred (or, more accurately, ascribed) to various \'93racial\'94 groups through 
socially motivated physical anthropology practices?  How do you plan on disentangling 
the faulty biological assertions from the social biases that enabled their production?  I 
guess I\'92m interested in the ways that you plan on linking the how magazines 
\'93communicate different ideas about race\'94 with the history of scientific racism embedded 
in some physical anthropology practices.  Ideas are tricky\'97did physical anthropology 
\'93create\'94 ideas about race or did it simply provide \'93evidence\'94 to back up claims that 
already existed about the qualities inherent to different \'93races\'94 of human beings?  The 
roots of discrimination, based on perceived \'93racial\'94 differences, extends back farther than 
the discipline of physical anthropology and some of the \'93ideas\'94 that your interested may 
not have sprung independently from this \'93science\'94.  It will be hard to work out these 
relationships, but I think that your overall idea is intriguing.  I would suggest that taking 
a look at The Mismeasure of Man (the physical anthropology section) by Stephen Jay 
Gould might be helpful in beginning to think through the connections among science, 
society, and ideas of race.\par
}{\plain CLC: Kathleen, we had a pretty broad-ranging discussion of this on Wednesday, and to 
recap: Although I know that you are hoping to do a part of the larger project that you plan 
with your \'91focus group\'92 for this course, I think you\'92d better be a bit less ambitious and 
concentrate on a part that can be easily tied to the course.  We talked about using several 
means (catalogues, old photos, perhaps magazines, maybe an interview or two) and 
perhaps only one period (Harlem Renaissance, or WWII, or 1950s or ?).  I know that it 
would be ideal to combine this course\'92s paper with your project but it may be hard.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Amit Verma\par
}{\plain AS: This is a very valuable research topic and deserves in-depth study.  I think that using 
secondary sources to create a context for your family\'92s understanding of these issues is a 
really good idea.  Since one of the key issues here is partition, it might be useful to tap 
the resources of the Map Collection at Wilson Library for any sociopolitical maps they 
may have for before and after partition of this area by the British government.  Bringing 
your analysis down to the level of your own family will give you a means to reflect on 
your connections to feelings about this conflict as you listen to the diverse opinions that 
exist within your own family.  If you have relatives living here and in India/Pakistan it 
would be very interesting to see how distance may play a role in creating feelings and 
anxieties about this conflict.  Pakistan\'92s new relationship with the US as a partner in the 
\'93War on Terrorism\'94 is also complex and potentially important to your project.  How has 
participation in this \'93war\'94 changed the status of Pakistan on the world stage and how 
does India feel about this new-found spotlight?  How do claims of \'93terrorism\'94 and 
\'93terrorist activity\'94 get mobilized around the fight for Kashmir?  \par
}{\plain CLC: Amy raises some good points and offers valuable suggestions, especially in making 
sure that you can trace the history of the region\'92s changing fortunes through maps.  I 
have a colleague, Julie Flowerday }{\field{\*\fldinst  HYPERLINK "mailto:<flowerda@email.unc.edu" }{\fldrslt{{\*\cs5\ul\cf2 flowerda@email.unc.edu}}}}{\plain   an anthropologist who has 
worked for many years in the Hunza area of north Pakistan.  Her UNC-CH Anthropology 
dissertation (in 1999 I think but in any event it is in the UNC-CH library) might have 
some useful information for you and a conversation with her would undoubtedly be 
enlightening and would be a way of balancing your family interviews.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Jason Weathers\par
}{\plain AS: Public transportation is intimately related to class, race, and gender structures in any 
community and is particularly relevant to issues of job access through increased mobility.  
One question you could ask is: Does Chapel Hill provide \'93marginalized people\'94 
(however you choose to define this) with sufficient employment opportunities and how 
does public transportation play into this?  Does mobility both open up employment 
opportunities elsewhere as it allows local communities to \'93ship out\'94 those who it does 
not create space to employ?  I saw a documentary a few years back, maybe a Frontline 
piece, where inner-city welfare mothers involved in the welfare-to-work program were 
being shipped out to suburban low-paying mall jobs (and the like) because employment 
opportunities simply did not exist in their communities.  Apart from being inadequate 
income resources, these jobs forced welfare mothers to spend many extra hours away 
from their children and necessitated the expenditure of already meager resources on child 
care (when family members were unavailable).  Instead of supporting local business and 
the growth of local communities, these women were being used as a source of cheap 
labor to support the consumption habits of white suburban communities.  I wonder if 
some of these same issues are present, but reversed, in \'93affluent\'94 Chapel Hill.  Are 
marginalized people being shipped out to work in Durham, Raleigh, and Cary because 
the local economy refuses to cater to low-income needs?  How does public transportation 
become complicit in these practices?  Anyway, these are just some thoughts on public 
transportation in Chapel Hill.  It may also be worth looking at how/why public 
transportation (at least within the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area) came to be a \'93free\'94 public 
service and how that articulates with the needs of low-income people.  More clarity on 
your specific research goals will help you narrow your subject matter and your temporal 
focus.  As you begin to research, hopefully your path will become more clear!\par
}{\plain CLC: Over my years in Chapel Hill I have often heard of the vibrant community of bus 
drivers\'96an additional resource might be interviews with long-time drivers (perhaps the 
retired ones) for a more anecdotal approach to your issues but one that might offer 
important new avenues (sorry) of research.  This is a big topic and the threads will lead in 
many directions (for example, affordable housing, affluent and poor parts of town and the 
history of those neighborhoods); be careful not to take on too much.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Abigail Davis\par
}{\plain AS: By articulating the wider \'93Dirty War\'94 with the specific experiences of your family, I 
think that you can create a powerful understanding of how national policies play out in 
the tragedies in and resilience of individual lives.  I think that you will have your hands 
full with mapping indigenous cultures on Bolivian national space, moving the analysis 
down to a particular tribe/region, and then exploring the experiences of your family, as 
indigenous people, in this broader historical process.  Pictures will definitely add to the 
personal nature of your project and may spark individual and collective family memories 
of this painful past.  The two \'93side projects\'94 that you name (that of Japanese ethnicity in 
your family and of your father\'92s former life) are interesting in and of themselves and 
would be fantastic projects.  However, I don\'92t think that these three themes mesh, at least 
in an obvious way, so I would recommend focusing on the Dirty War and how it played 
out in your family. \par
}{\plain CLC: I agree that this is a big project (one that may take years, not a couple months) and 
that you should make a choice among which of the threads you\'92d prefer to pursue\'96here I 
don\'92t have an opinion but you should be both practical and choose something that is 
strong among your interests.  You don\'92t have to drop those other threads, just prioritize 
which ones you will pursue first.  Keep in mind the short time you have to work on it, 
and how that may affect who you can interview, what archives are available, etc.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Ertug Altinay\par
}{\plain AS: You have a really good handle on the directions you want to take your study and 
how it articulates to wider issues of ethnic imagination and the Native American 
experience here at UNC.  I also appreciate your attention to research ethics and 
confidentiality.  This is such an important part of the research process and is often 
ignored.  I look forward to seeing your finished product!\par
}{\plain CLC: We\'92ve talked some about this already, and I\'92ll just reiterate the possibility of 
talking with people in the Carolina Indian Circle for their thoughts on the choice of a 
sorority to express feelings of solidarity among Native American women.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Smith Gregg\par
}{\plain AS: This is a very interesting family history that speaks to the underestimated diversity 
of \'93Southern\'94 views on the Civil War.  The questions you identify are highly relevant.  
What distinguished the people involved this resistance from their Confederate neighbors?  
What ideas moved people from your own family to act in exceptionally dangerous 
circumstances and how did beliefs play into their continued resistance even after defeat 
and incarceration?  Using the lens of family history is a very effective means to see wider 
social tensions surrounding the Civil War and The South.  Sounds like a great project and 
I look forward to reading it!\par
}{\plain CLC: We have already talked a bit about this; I agree that the project has wonderful 
potential.  Don\'92t forget that map we saw in Wilson Library!\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Michael Pollock\par
}{\plain AS: Although your family research sounds interesting, it may be too time consuming for 
the purposes of this class and the connections to wider anthropological questions are not 
altogether clear.  For these reasons, I would suggest that doing a landscape history of one 
of the three identified \'93natural\'94 areas might produce a better overall ethnohistory project 
for this class.  You can also draw on the expertise of Dr. Crumley to help you think 
through the complexities of landscape evolution and how it is articulated to issues of 
class and race in the settlement of the Piedmont.  I think that your strategy of doing some 
exploratory research on each of the three identified areas is particularly good and will 
help you better assess which area has the best resources to answer the questions you pose.  
Again, avail yourself of the opportunity to use Dr. Crumley\'92s extensive knowledge on 
these issues and you can\'92t go wrong!\par
}{\plain CLC: You have a lot of good ideas here but need to make some choices among them.  I 
would do this relative to how much time you have to do the research.  Although the 
geneaology work would be interesting, it is notoriously time-consuming.  You might do 
better to look at the way the Northeast Creek area has changed (it\'92s nearby, there\'92s lots of 
information in UNC-CH libraries, map room, etc).  Don\'92t forget to look at all the county 
histories that this library has (almost every county in the US has two or three \'93History of 
Such-and-Such County\'94 \'96usually done every 20-30 years and often these were published 
in the decades of the 1860s, 1880s, 1920s, 1950s). \par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Juliette Vogel\par
}{\plain AS: You have highlighted the ways that a chance interaction with a single photograph 
can help to spark broader ideas about how that picture relates to both the society that 
produced it and to our \'93modern\'94 lives.  Your approach is very creative, interesting, and 
related to your own personal interests and professional goals.  This alone should make 
the research process engaging.  I think that linking past and present dissection practices 
and the human experiences of those difficult practices is a very valuable pursuit.  I think 
that the sources you can tap for information will become more clear as your research 
progresses since it seems that you don\'92t really know what ethnohistorical materials exist 
to answer your questions yet.  Mr. Fletcher is a great place to start.  I would also see 
whether the anatomy department has any historical records that you could use to begin to 
answer some of your questions.  Interviewing current and emeritus faculty could give you 
a \'93professor\'92s\'94 view of how dissection practices and ideas about dissection have changed 
over time.  I think that you are right to observe the human emotional aspect of dissection.  
Having participated in such a course, I can say that the images stick with you long after 
you leave the dissecting room for the last time!  Student\'92s perspectives and anxieties 
about taking these courses may give you another aspect of dissection and its practice here 
at UNC.  Good luck with tracking down relevant resources and feel free to bounce ideas 
off of me whenever the need arises.\par
}{\plain CLC: This is a fascinating topic.  Not too many years ago Patricia Galloway did a PhD. 
dissertation in Anthropology at UNC-CH on a similar topic.  Try finding her dissertation 
in Davis Library.  There is so much here to explore that you may want to be particularly 
sure not to try to do too much.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Yolonda Long\par
}{\plain AS: I really like your African-American women in film topic but I feel that the thesis is 
somewhat underdeveloped.  This is to be expected as your research has not really gotten 
off the ground yet, but it would be valuable for you to think through the links between 
race and film, as embodied in the experience of Esther Jeeter, and how these 
relationships articulated with wider social notions of race in American society.  How and 
why did race constrain the ability of these women to have their talents used effectively in 
openly acknowledged ways?  How might the economic constraints of the American film 
industry have played a role in this \'93invisibility\'94 of black female talent (i.e. who were 
movies being produced for and what messages were being sent through the medium of 
film)?  Watching the films that these women appeared in, if not physically then at least 
vocally, might give you a better idea about questions like this and it will be important for 
you to contextualize your findings within the social discourse of the time rather than 
critiquing these practices from a modern perspective (understanding vs. judgment).\par
}{\plain CLC: This has rich possibilities and I am eager to see what you find.  What would you 
think about picking one woman (Esther?) and seeing how much you can find out about 
her career?  Would that limit too much what you are trying to explore?  Don\'92t forget that 
UNC-CH has fantastic film archives\'96go visit!\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Susan Simms\par
}{\plain AS: It sounds like you have many resources that you can tap to answer questions about 
the economic relationships that existed between the Catawba and European settlers 
around the time of the Revolutionary War.  You should probably begin your research by 
meeting with relevant faculty and with the two graduate students who are pursuing 
research in this area.  This will give you a solid foundation for your own research and 
will avoid unnecessary repetition of research.  After having these discussions, you should 
have a more focused research agenda.  Feel free to discuss your evolving research topic 
with me at any time.\par
}{\plain CLC: From our conversation, it seems that you are aware of and pursuing the resources 
you need.  Don\'92t forget the collegial politeness of making sure that others working on 
this topic don\'92t feel threatened.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Katie Anglin\par
}{\plain AS: The evolution of mental health care through time is a fascinating research area that 
deserves more explicit attention.  I like the fact that you have \'93insider\'94 knowledge about 
the practices of one company, RSI, and the group-home philosophy that it espouses.  I 
think that tracing the history of group homes within the mental health industry more 
generally and in your company in particular will make for a really interesting project.  
Interviewing employees and managers of the company as well as managers and 
employees from the institutions that feed into the group home will be a necessary 
element of your project.  I would nix the national and international scope since I think 
that this would become overwhelming.  Additionally, I would strongly suggest that you 
avoid interviewing any people with mental health problems since this will raise many, 
many ethical red flags and would require Institutional Review Board approval.  People 
with diminished mental capacity (for any reason) are very protected as research subjects 
and it is difficult to work through the ethical responsibilities of doing that sort of research 
and would be especially so within the context of this class.  I know that this may sound 
counterintuitive in that you would want to get the perspective of mental health patients 
on the group home vs. institutional contexts of living, but these are the constraints of 
doing research in a university environment.  Indirect evidence may be employed, but we 
would have to really think about the ethical implications of those inclusions before you 
integrated them into your analysis.  \par
}{\plain CLC: Amy has covered the points I wish to make, especially in keeping the research in 
NC and being }{\plain \i very}{\plain  careful of your ethical position.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Caitlin Smith\par
}{\plain AS: I think that narrowing your topic to include one of your three \'93marginalized\'94 groups 
would help you focus your research.  Within those three groups, I also think that pursuing 
research on African-American men or on women would be much easier for you than 
tackling the issue of homosexuality (gay and lesbian) in the military.  The issue of 
homosexuality in the military has always been more obscured and has recently been 
wrapped in the impervious cloak of the \'93don\'92t ask don\'92t tell\'94 policy.  I think that you 
could make some really interesting connections between military experience and 
changing social and economic conditions for either African-American men or women 
(although this would have to be sensitive to racial issues as well).  I know that there has 
been a lot of research in this regard for the post-WWII period and the WWII poster 
collection in the rare books room may be of interest to you.  I wonder whether they might 
have any pamphlets, books, etc from this time that deal with these issues in a more local 
context.  I also wonder if developments like Odom Village (a housing development just 
south of the hospital) and Glenn Lennox are linked to the return of veterans and the post-WWII boom.  If so, you could potentially look at your question in a very local context by 
asking how military service was interconnected with changing socioeconomic trends and 
experiences right here in Chapel Hill.  Was there racial/gender discrimination in 
\'93veteran\'94 housing?  How did the experience of war change expectations for life back 
home?  It might be possible to interview folks who used to live in those developments or 
who were more generally involved in these post-WWII processes to get at the human 
element of these changes.  As you begin your research, you should be able to get a better 
handle on where you want to go with your project.  \par
}{\plain CLC: Your project sounds very interesting, but you may be in danger of choosing 
something \'91way too ambitious for the time you have.  I too like the idea of picking one 
group and agree too that African Americans might be a good group to research, but 
Native Americans and women would be good too.  There are fascinating tales\'96for 
example the tale of the WWII Tuskegee airmen or other AfAm units that could not fight 
but were placed in service roles (kitchen staff, etc).  There were also women (pilots too I 
believe) who could not be at the Front but were used to ferry aircraft around from one 
base to another.  Also, the stories of Native American servicemen are inspiring (though 
sometimes heart-wrenching).\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Amanda Bennett\par
}{\plain AS: I think that the links between your family story and broader social science issues can 
be made effectively.  For example, you could look at how notions of masculinity, honor, 
and the military intersect.  By claiming that your great-grandfather was too short to have 
earned such honors, that cadet was challenging his masculinity (a social category well 
defined and cultivated through certain military practices) while your great-grandfather\'92s 
punching of this cadet enacted ideas about defending one\'92s personal honor (in this case 
by violence, another socially molded category played up in the military) and collective 
honor (disgraced by your great-grandfather\'92s punching of a comrade-in-arms that was 
NOT his equal in either age or experience\'97i.e. your great-grandfather should have 
known better and exercised more control).  How these elements played out in his 
dishonorable discharge speak to wider social issues and provide an interesting place to 
view family history in its social context.  If you find that you can\'92t get enough 
information about this even through interview or documentary evidence, you will need to 
formulate a back-up plan and let us know about your shift of topic.  However, based on 
what you included in your proposal, I think that you can find enough information 
(primary and secondary) to get a good handle on these issues.\par
}{\plain CLC: Whew!  This topic could sure stir up some dust in the family, but I think that you 
could do an interesting piece of social science research in seeing what sort of records 
there might be for this family tale.  Do be as careful as you can not to offend folks (but 
you know that) and see what turns up.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Keyvan Tavakoli\par
}{\plain AS: This sounds like an outstanding research project and I\'92m impressed with how 
developed your ideas are at this stage of the research process.  You have identified 
relevant resources and have thought through the biases of these resources and your 
information-gathering strategies.  I look forward to reading your paper!\par
}{\plain CLC: I like your topic very much.  It should yield a good visual record, figure in 
newspaper accounts, etc and have a good deal of controversy whirling about it.  See if 
you can find someone to interview who was involved in the idea of using it as a logo. 
[Incidentally, do you know of my colleague Catherine Lutz\'92 new book }{\plain \ul Homefront}{\plain , about 
Fayetteville and the military presence there?]\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Carissa Barnes\par
}{\plain AS: Since you already know that gold was first discovered in the areas surrounding 
Charlotte, would it be possible to take this area as your focus while still contextualizing 
this local experience with the wider experience of gold mining in NC?  I like your idea to 
use maps as a means to see the links between town establishment/development and this 
industry.  Overall, I think that you have a good idea of where you want your research to 
head, but you now need to find what resources exist to answer your questions.  I think 
that there is a small exhibit on gold mining in NC at the museum in Wilson Library.  This 
might be a good place to begin your research.\par
}{\plain CLC: Wow!  There is a lot of information available on this topic.  Did you know that 
there are gold mines under the city of Charlotte, and that the beginnings of NationsBank 
was as a bank for gold miners?  Did you know that there is a gold mine right here in 
Chapel Hill?  It is at the top of Longview St, just north of downtown.  I think that retired 
geology Prof. John Rogers }{\field{\*\fldinst  HYPERLINK "mailto:jrogers@email.unc.edu" }{\fldrslt{{\*\cs5\ul\cf2 jrogers@email.unc.edu}}}}{\plain  is the one who told me about the CH 
gold mine.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Matt Meacham\par
}{\plain AS: It sounds like you have a great research background to tackle this project and that 
you have thought through some of the connections between this convention and wider 
social experiences of religious life and aesthetics in the South.  Even though he deals 
with gospel singing in the African-American community, I think that chatting with Glenn 
Hinson might be a good idea in that he may have additional resources in mind that might 
help you with this project.  Also, I wonder if any recordings from participants/performers 
at the convention exist.  Listening to changes in the style and content of the songs over 
time might help you link broader socioeconomic trends in the South with changes in this 
expressive cultural form.\par
}{\plain CLC: Matt, I will look forward to your work.  \par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Juliana Hoyle\par
}{\plain AS: I\'92m glad to see that you narrowed down your focus from the first time that we 
exchanged ideas about your project.  I particularly like the idea that you have to look at 
how the physical structure of the facility itself has changed over time and how this might 
relate to changing ideas about mental health and criminality.  Identifying the specific 
resources that you will use to complete this project is your next step!  Don\'92t hesitate to 
run ideas by me or ask further questions as your research progresses.\par
}{\plain CLC: A trip to Raleigh and NC State could help too.  You might also inquire about what 
sort of library/records collection that Dorothea Dix has in-house.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Guy Scronce\par
}{\plain AS: I think that your general interest in how food use and preparation has changed over 
time could provide a useful window on how our culture\'92s connection to time has changed 
over the past 100 years and how the value of certain \'93women\'92s activities\'94 are related to 
this shift.  How has the time consuming art of cooking with fresh home-grown 
ingredients been altered in the face of modern conveniences and our fast-food culture?  
Has the range of foods cooked and consumed expanded or contracted over time and how 
is \'93seasonality\'94 experienced now versus in past times.  I think that you have identified an 
interesting trend in the way that people relate to food use and preparation, but you have 
to connect those changes to wider social issues in order for your project to have 
ethnohistorical relevance.  Changes in gender roles may be important here as increasing 
participation in the labor force necessarily constrains the amount of time women can 
devote to cooking and may result in new divisions of cooking labor where men 
participate more actively in food preparation.  These are just a few ideas of where your 
research could take you, but do be sure to connect your analysis with broader social 
issues.\par
}{\plain CLC: I very much like your topic and am interested in it myself (see my website at 
}{\field{\*\fldinst  HYPERLINK "http://www.unc.edu/courses/2003fall/anth/010/006/" }{\fldrslt{{\*\cs5\ul\cf2 http://www.unc.edu/courses/2003fall/anth/010/006/}}}}{\plain  ).  Don\'92t forget to contact the NCSU 
Ag Extension service\'96they have always monitored such trends and probably have recipes 
too. \par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Kathryn Blau\par
}{\plain AS: Another interesting aspect of the Grateful Dead subculture is that it was formed in a 
particular social context (the 1960s) but retains relevance in our \'93modern\'94 context both 
through continued participation by loyal early converts and by the conversion of new 
younger members whose social context is radically different (or is it?) from that 
experienced in the 1960s.  Intergeneration relationships may be important here as the 
\'93message\'94 may be interpreted differently depending on where your own experiences lie 
in relation to this historical development.  Perhaps you could use the passing of Jerry 
Garcia and the outpouring of emotion that it sparked as a means to get at your bigger 
questions.  What did his death mean to the following and how was it experienced by 
different members of the congregation.  How is the act of following The Dead related to 
wider resistance of mainstream culture and how has this resistance played out in both 
positive and negative ways in individual lives?  It will be important for you to look 
critically at all aspects of \'93deadhead life\'94 and to avoid overly glorifying the deadhead 
experience as one of transcendence and religiosity.  Like any \'93religion\'94 it will require in-depth critical analysis that may be difficult to do if you are too close to the subject.  I 
think that you will be able to navigate this difficult terrain and I look forward to seeing 
your results!\par
}{\plain CLC: Amy has given you some good direction.  You will find a LOT on this subject, so 
be sure you have a clear focus; otherwise you may end up doing a little here and a little 
there.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Patricia Fesperman\par
}{\plain AS: This sounds like a fascinating and personally relevant project.  There has been a lot 
of archaeological excavation at Occaneechi Town in Hillsborough done by the RLA here 
at UNC.  I think that some of the folks who actively developed and participated in this 
research may be very helpful to you as you begin your research process.  Dr. Steve Davis 
comes to mind as someone who could be a valuable resource.  The success of your 
project ultimately depends on the quality of the resources that you are able to find and I 
can\'92t really make any specific comments about feasibility based on what you\'92ve told me 
in your proposal.  Also, to really understand the migration processes of interest, I think 
that you would have to link these migrations and new settlements to the interactions 
between native peoples and European settlers.  What was the nature of these relationships 
and how did they constrain the territories of the Blackfoot and lead to their displacement 
from tribal lands?\par
}{\plain CLC: This sounds like a pretty big project.  I think it would be a good idea for you to 
begin by visiting with Dr. Steve Davis in The Research Labs of Archaeology in the 
basement of Alumni Building, just so that you can narrow your focus a bit.  There is a 
famous ethnohistory article by John Ewers, called \'91The Horse in Blackfoot Culture\'94 I 
think, which is worth tracking down.  As for the Occaneechi, they are still very much a 
presence in and around Hillsborough, and Steve will know several of them with whom 
you could talk.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Laura Flinchum\par
}{\plain AS: I think that this sounds like an excellent project and I particularly like the way that 
you have articulated family, local, regional and national histories through the lens of this 
cemetery.  Uncovering the diversity of opinions related to slavery and the Civil War in 
the south is an important element in understanding the complexity of these historical 
processes and the role that they continue to play in today\'92s society.  I appreciate the 
diversity of materials that you plan to use to complete this project and I look forward to 
reading your results!\par
}{\plain CLC: This is a great way to combine different resources, including your own two feet.  
You might want to find out if the graveyard has been mapped.  Check with the Chatham 
County Historical Society to see what they have on it, as well as your relatives and the 
neighbors of the cemetery.  I\'92ll bet that the Lloyds have a family member who considers 
him/herself as the Lloyd family historian.  You might inquire.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Will Kiser\par
}{\plain AS: If you do plan to go forward with your family\'92s historical connection to Bessemer 
City, you would have to think of a way to connect these family experiences to larger 
historical processes.  Why was land granted to your family by The Crown?  What kinds 
of people were given that honor and how is that history reflected in the current structure 
of the Unites States (race, class, etc.).  How was that land used over time and how has 
land use changed with wider social, historical, political, economic, and cultural 
processes?  How has your family\'92s identity been shaped through their relationship to the 
land and how might their experiences be reflected in the experience of other people\'92s 
connection to the land, perhaps in particular, the relationship that Native Americans may 
have had to this same territory?  How is your family\'92s history implicated in processes of 
privilege and poverty in the US and how has the transformation of our society from its 
agrarian roots into industrialism and then to our modern communications/service based 
economy affected people\'92s relationships to the land?  These are just some of the 
questions you might want to pose, but be sure that you connect your research to broader 
social questions relevant to ethnohistory.\par
}{\plain CLC: Amy has already articulated most of my suggestions, although I would add that 
you should also look at the Gaston County histories (usually there are several, written 20-30 years apart, and starting in the mid-19th century).  An excellent person to help you is 
Dr. Alan May }{\field{\*\fldinst  HYPERLINK "mailto:alanm@cityofgastonia.com" }{\fldrslt{{\*\cs5\ul\cf2 alanm@cityofgastonia.com}}}}{\plain  who has worked on aspects of Gaston County 
history and archaeology for 20 years.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Johann Furbacher\par
}{\plain AS: It sounds like you have a good idea of where you want to go with your project and 
you have successfully connected the experiences of this local farm to wider social and 
economic processes, in particular, to urbanization.  By mobilizing multiple sources, you 
should be able to develop an in-depth understanding about the relationship that this farm 
had to surrounding territories and about the circumstances surrounding its ultimate 
demise.  I look forward to reading your paper!\par
}{\plain CLC: You would be well served to contact Michael Scholl }{\field{\*\fldinst  HYPERLINK "mailto:scholl@email.unc.edu" }{\fldrslt{{\*\cs5\ul\cf2 scholl@email.unc.edu}}}}{\plain  who 
has done a lot of ethnohistory and archaeology on PA farms.  He\'92d be a wonderful 
resource in addition to what you\'92ve already found.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Meg Midyette\par
}{\plain AS: I think that understanding the \'93myths\'94 surrounding Blackbeard and the ways in 
which those myths are deployed in the service of tourist-related capitalistic endeavors is 
really interesting.  How do locals package the idea of Blackbeard for financial benefit 
and do they, at the same time, resent the stereotypical representation of \'93pirates\'94 and 
their connection to this place?  It seems that there may be many tensions surrounding the 
use of Blackbeard imagery and it would be really interesting to get a handle on the 
diversity of perspectives that exist in your community.  Tying these local findings to 
broader discourses about the commodification of culture in the tourist industry (Ireland is 
a great example of this) would link your local project to broader ethnohistorical and 
anthropological themes.  \par
}{\plain CLC: Meg, this seems like a great project and lots of fun to do.  \par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Bayinaah Jones\par
}{\plain AS: Your project is very interesting and very complex.  I remember talking through some 
of these issues during one of our \'93brainstorming\'94 sessions while Dr. Crumley was away, 
so I think that I have a pretty good idea of where you\'92re going with this research.  I\'92m 
particularly interested in the way that you plan to weave together your personal history of 
negotiating the black/white divide with your community\'92s own struggle with these issues 
(as seen through your own experience with your father\'92s BBQ restaurant and the 
changing meanings that that space had for the local community).  In this way you can 
effectively connect personal history with the wider sociopolitical processes that are of 
key importance in ethnohistorical research.  \par
}{\plain CLC: I agree with Amy\'92s remarks.  You might be interested to know that in anthropology 
the \'93bi-discoursal\'94 idea is referred to as \'93code switching.\'94  And of course to some extent 
we all do it.  I\'92ll look forward to your paper.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Matt Jackson\par
}{\plain You might visit the Dental School library and see what they have about the history of 
training and deployment of dentists throughout the state.  It might be good to pick a time 
period, like the Depression.  And don\'92t forget to inquire if the photo archives at Wilson 
and the Dental School have pictures.\par
}{\plain \par
}{\plain Crystal Moore\par
}{\plain We\'92ve already talked some about your project, and it seems to me that you are heading in 
a good direction.  (By the way, Karen Blu was a UNC-CH anthro PhD if I\'92m not 
mistaken).  Keep up your good work, let me know if I can be of help.\par
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