British and Irish Toponyms in the South Atlantic States

Gulley, Harold E.

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“…The English Placenames Survey is one major project that carries on this philological tradition. In the United States, a somewhat similar project in cultural geography has sometimes been undertaken, tracing various European settlement histories through the borrowings of European placenames (Gulley 1995) or toponymic generics (Zelinsky 1962). The more recent history of European settlement in the United States tends to preclude the kind oi historical linguistic project that has occupied the interest oi Europeanists.…”

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Indeterminacy and history in Britton Goode's Western Apache placenames: ambiguous identity on the San Carlos Apache reservation

Samuels

2001

American Ethnologist

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In this article, I explore the inherent ambiguity of cultural identities through a discussion of placenames around the San Carlos Apache reservation in southeastern Arizona. The Western Apache residents of San Carlos live in a colonized landscape. Residents maintain an attachment to Apache history and cultural sovereignty, not only by preserving and maintaining placenames in the Western Apache language, but through the performance arenas of speech play, verbal art, and code-switching puns. In this article, I concentrate on the placenames compiled by Britton Goode (1911-81), a Western Apache linguist and historian. These language practices problematize the question of identity by reading culture into and through the contingencies of everyday experience, [placenames, verbal art, identity, Western Apache, language and culture] So every day I wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight I unwove it; and so for three years I deceived the Achaeans.-Homer, The Odyssey 19: 150-152 (Fitzgerald 1963) Penelope's "weaving trick" (Katz 1991) presents the opening and organizing image for the article that follows. Penelope's weaving and unweaving of Old Laertes's funeral shroud implicates a political practice-a kind of crafted (and crafty) filibuster. As a subaltern practice, Penelope takes to a literal end point her son Telemachus's admonition that she tend to her own (female) tasks, "the distaff and the loom" (Fitzgerald 1963:1.410). She uses the gendered practice of weaving to sabotage the desires and expectations of her untiring, unwanted suitors. It is also, I think, a fruitful anthropological image-one that highlights "the indeterminacy of rhetorical action" (Battaglia 1995:4) and the productivity of loose threads in cultural practices. As such, it makes a powerful metaphor for cultural semiosis, playing against the constructionist tropes of weaving, tapestry making, and web spinning that have dominated a certain version of cultural interpretation that often locates the meaningfulness of culture in its internal coherence. 1 American Ethnologist 28(2):277-302.

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Indeterminacy and history in Britton Goode's Western Apache placenames: ambiguous identity on the San Carlos Apache reservation

Samuels

2001

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“…Much of the historical geographic literature about American cul ture is premised on Great Britain's role as the dominant source of cul ture traits in American society (Meinig 1986;Fischer 1989;Zelinsky 1992;Gulley 1995). Scholars emphasizing material culture have eval uated such traits as patterns of house, barn, and fence types (Stilgoe 1982;McAlester and McAlester 1989;Gowans 1992;Lewis 1994).…”

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The Place of the Dog: AKC Breeds in American Culture

Ray

Gulley

1996

Journal of Cultural Geography

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The American Kennel Club (AKC), the primary registry agency for purebred dogs in the United States, had recognized 138 breeds through September 1995. An investigation of the source areas of these breeds reveals the cultural authority of Great Britain in organized dog breeding in the United States. Although Great Britain accounts for more than one-third of the AKC breeds, however, its importance has declined. Dogs from Asia account for more than one-fifth of the breeds recognized since World War II. Breed names that contain toponymic elements (such as Sussex Spaniel) usu ally reinforce the importance of the area in which the breeds were developed. An analysis of the patterns of geographic names reveals a pronounced emphasis on Western Europe, particularly Great Britain. A decline in the prominence of names from Europe has occurred. Asian name sources have become more important, and Australia and Africa have begun receiving attention. North America as a source of breeds as well as a source of naming has occupied a relatively minor role throughout the AKC's history. Ameri can breeders and promoters of purebred dogs have tended to look outward, especially toward Europe, for sociocultural forms.

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1999

The Cambridge History of the English Language

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British and Irish Toponyms in the South Atlantic States

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Indeterminacy and history in Britton Goode's Western Apache placenames: ambiguous identity on the San Carlos Apache reservation

Indeterminacy and history in Britton Goode's Western Apache placenames: ambiguous identity on the San Carlos Apache reservation

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