Anth319.L90 & L91 LAB

The Citadel Oral History Program, South Carolina Historical Society and the Lowcountry Oral History Alliance

Oral History Workshop

The Citadel Oral History Program, the South Carolina Historical Society and the Low Country Oral History Alliance invite the public to participate in an oral history workshop on Saturday, December 5th from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm at The Citadel in Bond Hall room 165.

Teachers, community activists, genealogists, and high school and college students are encouraged to attend. Space is limited and pre-registration is highly encouraged.

Your $5 donation will defray the cost of lunch.

This interactive workshop, led by staff from the SC Historical Society and The Citadel Oral History Program, will cover each aspect of the oral history process, including project planning, interview strategies, recording technology, and archiving. The program will be of value to those involved in family or community projects that are well underway and those in the planning stages.

The Citadel is located at 171 Moultrie Street in Charleston (near Joseph P. Riley Park).

Call Kerry Taylor at (843) 953-5357 for more information and to register.

~Laura

∞      What is your job description?

∞      How did you start working with primates?

∞      Can you tell me what a primate is?

∞      How do you feel about testing on primates, medical or otherwise?

∞      What kind of people do you meet working in fundraising for primate conservation?

∞      How do you use the internet in your everyday work?

∞      What is the hardest part of working with primates?

∞      How do strangers react when they find out what kind of work you do?

∞      Tell me about Igor (The gibbon sanctuary’s oldest resident- He’s almost 60!)?

∞      Tell me about Courtney (A gibbon born accidentally at the sanctuary that had to be rescued from infanticide at her mother’s hands, and was hand raised by sanctuary staff)?

∞      Describe your relationship with the gibbons.

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is proud to open the doors of its new gallery space, located in The Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts with the exhibition, Aldwyth: Work v. / Work n. — Collage and Assemblage 1991- 2009. The exhibition begins with a reception on Friday, October 23, 6 – 9 p.m. and will run through Saturday, January 9, 2010. During the reception, at 7 p.m., the artist Aldwyth and curator Mark Sloan, will lead interested guests on an exhibition walk-through. The first public viewing of the Halsey Institute’s new space will continue with a Hallelujah Chorus performed by members of the Taylor Festival Choir, the College’s professional choir in residence, as well as a dance performance by local Charleston dance group, Buen Aché. The exhibition opening is the first of many celebratory events for the School of the Arts’ 20th anniversary. The new building is located at the corner of Calhoun and St. Philip Streets (161 Calhoun St.). This is the first major retrospective of the collage and assemblage artist Aldwyth. Now in her 70s, Aldwyth lives and works in an octagonal house on the edge of a salt marsh on one of South Carolina’s sea islands. Aldwyth: Work v. / Work n. features fifty-two collage and assemblage works created within the past two decades. A film by John Reynolds with commissioned soundtrack by Bill Carson accompanies the exhibition, documenting the artist’s interaction with many three dimensional works. The Halsey Institute has also published a full color, 112-page exhibition catalogue including essays by curator Sloan and Boston artist/writer Rosamond Purcell. Aldwyth’s complex, often epic-scaled collages resemble “medieval manuscript pages writ large” says Sloan. Each piece can take years to make. Ackland Art Museum Director Emily Kass says about Aldwyth,”Her remarkable work demands to be seen. It is hard to think of an audience who will not be mesmerized by these extraordinary pieces of art.” Take a tour with gallery director Mark Sloan:  http://www.youtube.com/collegeofcharleston#p/u/3/mgAtt8HK5_c

Other posts in this series:

• Why did Fairey file in the Southern District of New York?
• Does AP actually own the copyright in the Garcia photo?
• Is Fairey’s suit doomed to fail before it even gets off the ground?
• What’s the “original” photo?
• What does the complaint say about the poster creation process?
• The AP strikes back
• What’s a “visual reference”?
• Mannie Garcia joins the suit
• Fairey’s spoliation bombshell—This post

Other Articles/Organizations/Links of Interest

• Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey, A critique by artist Mark Vallen
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Obomicon.me
• Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster (tutorial)

~laura

• Primate Morphology and Behavior Primate Morphology and Behavior
• Mary Ellen Morbeck, Holger Preuschoft, Neil Gomberg
• Current Anthropology, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1977), pp. 528-531Working BibliographyAlvard, Michael S. and Lawrence Kuznar. Deferred Harvests: The Transition from Hunting to Animal Husbandry. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 103, No. 2 (Jun., 2001), pp. 295-311Calcagno, James M. Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 105, No. 1, Special Issue: Biological Anthropology: Historical Perspectives on Current Issues, Disciplinary Connections, and Future Directions (Mar., 2003), pp. 6-15

  Count, Earl W. The Biological Basis of Human Sociality. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 60, No. 6, Part 1 (Dec., 1958), pp. 1049-1085

  This article lays out specific methodology for qualitative research on the process of cultural development.  An understanding of the evolutionary transition from “noncultural” animals to the invariable expression of culture among humans is part of understanding the nature and import of human cultures.

  Fedigan, Linda M. and Shirley C. Strum. Changing Images of Primate Societies. Current Anthropology, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Aug. – Oct., 1997), pp. 677-681

  Fox, Robin and Usher Fleising. Human Ethology. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 5, (1976), pp. 265-288

  This article stresses the importance of observing human behavior from an evolutionary perspective.  What are the adaptive implications of cultural development?

  Hardin, Rebecca and Melissa J. Remis. Biological and Cultural Anthropology of a Changing Tropical Forest: A Fruitful Collaboration across Subfields. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 108, No. 2 (Jun., 2006), pp. 273-285

  Hill, Catherine M. Primate Conservation and Local Communities: Ethical Issues and Debates. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 104, No. 4 (Dec., 2002), pp. 1184-1194

  Lestel, Dominique. How Chimpanzees Have Domesticated Humans: Towards an Anthropology of Human-Animal. Anthropology Today, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Jun., 1998), pp. 12-15

  Dominigue Lestel specializes in comparative primate cognition.  This article may be useful in illustrating the cultural approach to cognition and communication as opposed to the traditional psychological focus.

  Morbeck, Mary Ellen, Holger Preuschoft and Neil Gomberg.  Primate Morphology and Behavior. Current Anthropology, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1977), pp. 528-531

  Mullin, Molly H. Mirrors and Windows: Sociocultural Studies of Human-Animal Relationships. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 28, (1999), pp. 201-224

  Reynolds, Vernon. Primates in the Field, Primates in the Lab: Morality Along the Ape-Human Continuum. Anthropology Today, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Apr., 1994), pp. 3-5

  Sarles, Harvey B. The Study of Language and Communication Across Species. Current Anthropology, Vol. 10, No. 2/3 (Apr. – Jun., 1969), pp. 211-221.

  Sarles reviews past and current anthropological views about the significance of human interspecific interactions.  Human communications with other species are likely culturally relevant in all cases, not just that of interspecific communication with primates.

  Strier, Karen B. Primate Behavioral Ecology: From Ethnography to Ethology and Back. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 105, No. 1, Special Issue: Biological Anthropology: Historical Perspectives on Current Issues, Disciplinary Connections, and Future Directions (Mar., 2003), pp. 16-27

  Workman, Catherine. Primate Conservation in Vietnam: Toward a Holistic Environmental Narrative. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 106, No. 2 (Jun., 2004), pp. 346-352

Hey Joey,

I was wondering if it would be possible to check out the available Flip and Digital Voice Recorder on 10/16

Aly Myers

Questions for All Interviewed:
1. How would you define contemporary art?
2. How did you become involved in contemporary art?
3. What is it that drew you to contemporary art as opposed to traditional?
4. What is it that you like about contemporary art?
5. Tell me a little about yourself. What is your background? Training? Schooling?
6. What was your childhood like and how has it effected you in conjunction with contemporary art?
7. What is your sexual orientation?
8. How do you make a living?
9. What are your religious views?

Artist Questions
1. How would you describe your process? How does your work get from your head to the paper/canvas/ect.?
2. How would you describe your work?
3. When do you remember the first time you were struck by art?
4. What do you feel sets you apart from other contemporary artists?
5. How do you feel about your work? What are your feelings?
6. How do you see yourself as your art changes? Why does it change?
7. What medium are you working with now vs. years past?
8. What do you want your art to say to people? How do you want it to come across to the viewer? What do you want it to say?
9. What are some of your favorite things to do? What do you do when you aren’t in the studio?
10. How many galleries represent you?

Gallery Owner Questions:
1. How long have you been involved with contemporary art?
2. How long have you owned your own gallery?
3. What inspired you to open a gallery?
4. How many artist do you represent?

Interview Questions

1) How were you first introduced to electronic music?

2) When did you begin going to live electronic music concerts, and what was your reaction?

3) How would you describe your initial reaction to electronic music culture, in the live setting?

4) How would you define “electronic music”?

5) What kinds of art would you identify within this culture?

6) I understand that you are a Could you describe your main role? What other roles do you play within the electronic music scene?

7) How is electronic music culture different from another live music scene?

Electronic music has been created through the invention of the sythnesizer and furthered with the invention of the computer. What is your reaction to someone who feels that music made with a synth or computer isn’t music, or rather isn’t as credible as music made only with instruments and voice?

10) How has the internet effected does this effect the success of live music in your view?

11) What do you most appreciate about this electronic music?

12) Do you think that this culture impacts our environment and society as a whole? How?

13) What kind of economy is present within electronic music culture? What fuels it? What kind of transactions occur?

14) What sort of transactions take place?

15) Could you identify any kind of idealogy associatied with electronic music scene, like a lifestyle or spirituality of any kind?

16) What kinds of rituals have you noticed in the electronic music culture?

17) What role do drugs play within electronic music and the live experience?

18) What is your opinion on this? (help with this question) In what ways might you consider drugs a negative or positive part of the culture?

19) How has this culture impacted your life in positive and negative ways? (maybe too broad… turn into 2 questions?) looks good to me

20)What kinds of fashion are popular right now in the electronic music scene?

21) How do you feel about glowsticks? could be a funny question

22) In what ways has electronic music culture changed since you became a part of it?

23) Where do you see this culture going?

24) Maybe have a list of words for informant to define in their own terms? perhaps ask them if they can think of any vocabulary particular to this group and define it

-please edit/add your thoughts

The charleston water keeper society.

how does this group relate to peace and the environment?

how can we relate the upkeep of charlestons waterways to the idea of peace…on not just a local, but also a global level?

a basic human right is to have to access to clean water, what happens in situations where people do not have this right?

what would you say is the most fundamental cause of war?

why is this?

can we see visible changes from keeping not just our waterways clean, but elsewhere in the world? (knowing that the water keeper group is in 6 of the 7 continents.)

e idea of peace mean to you?

How can we relate peace to our every day lives?

Do you believe the idea of having worldwide peace on day is an idealist thought?

Were your parents active peace protesters?

Are you an active anti war protester?

Do you think there might be a generational connection between those whose parents were peace activists and how active their children are?

Have you been involved in any peace march in your lifetime?

Do you see any connections between the peace culture and the new idea of keeping our world “green”?

How can you relate peace to our environment?

Why do you think our country and others can not seem to give up the ideas of war?

Why is war used to solve problems and not peace?

What are some things we can do to promote peace and world peace?

Have you heard of Charleston Peace one day?

If so, did you attend the festival on September 20th at Brittle Bank park?

Have you heard of the international day of cease fire on September 21rst?

How does this day relate to the importance of peace?

Do you feel like we live in a time of constant judgment and warfare? If so, why?

How old are you?

Are you a college student, or what level of education have you completed?

Do you feel that this peace movement has momentum?

Have you heard of the new bill in the congress advocating for the department of peace to offset the department of war?

What do you think of the new bill?

What can you do to be a peacemaker?