Allan F. Burns

Spontaneous gestures following right hemisphere infarct

Neurobehavioral studies of gesturing have been largely limited to left hemisphere damaged (LHD) patients. We compared spontaneous gesturing in seven right hemisphere damaged (RHD) patients, seven LHD patients, and seven normal controls (NHD) during videotaped interviews. Two judges coded symbolic, expressive, grooming, and fidgeting gestures in 120 10-sec intervals of videotape per patient. We found that RHD patients made significantly more total gestures and grooming gestures with the hand ipsilateral to their lesion than did LHD patients. Furthermore, RHD patients made more total and grooming gestures with their right hand than NHD subjects did with either hand. There were no differences in gesture production between the right and left hands of NHD patients. These results suggest that RHD produces enhanced gesturing, particularly involving grooming behavior.

Return of Guatemala's refugees : reweaving the torn

Preface Introduction 1. Torn by Terror 2. Reweaving the Pieces: Culture of Fear/Culture of Learning 3. The Contextual Loom: The Peace Accords, Civil Society, and the Powerful 4. Clash of Patterns: From Mexico and Guatemala A Pictorial 5. Resources for Reweaving: The Perils of Development 6. Human Rights: The Color of Life 7. The Gray of Frozen Grief: Resolving the Trauma of Memory 8. Tearing Still? The Army in Peacetime 9. Weaving the Future: What Needs to Be Done and How To Get Involved Appendixes A. U.S. Groups Providing Resources on Guatemala and Support for the Peace Process B. Chronology of Guatemalan History C. Chronology of the Guatemalan Peace Process Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index

Interactive features in Yucatec Mayan narratives

This paper examines how Yucatec Mayan people conceive of conversations. Special attention is given to the role of narrator, respondent, and audience in those speech arts which utilize conversational genres. The conversational genres of ordinary talk, storytelling, and myth-telling in Yucatec Mayan are all dialogues. One field-recorded narrative is analyzed in detail in order to illustrate the distribution and scope of narrator and respondent speech. (Ethnography of speaking, Middle American native language use, discourse analysis, mythology and folklore performance.)

Stakeholder Analysis of Florida Farmworker Housing

Abstract Farmworkers, farmworker advocates, state and federal policy-makers, and researchers all consider adequate housing as central to successful migration, community building, and quality of life, including good health, among farmworkers. This study analyzes results from interviews and focus groups with stakeholders involved in Florida farmworker housing conducted with the goal of providing recommendations for future farmworker housing policy. These recommendations include considering housing needs within a life continuum and understanding how wages and housing are interconnected. The concurring perspectives of stakeholders can be considered as building blocks in developing more effective state and local housing policy.

Politics, Pedagogy, and Culture in Bilingual Classrooms: A Case Study

This article explores the cultural context of a new bilingual education program in a small Southwestern town through the use of ethnographic research. The ethnographic perspective taken in the research focuses on how a bilingual program can be seen as operating in the three fields or arenas of individual classrooms, school administration, and community. Discontinuities within and between these three fields are examined so as to illustrate implementation problems, failures, and successes. A distinction between bilingualism as a symbol of identity and as a strategy for communication is used to clarify the history of project implementation. This case study suggests that bilingual education is more than a method of instruction; bilingual programs in schools are movements of directed social change in which participants imbue events and activities with different meanings depending on which field they are in. The implementation of the project discussed in this paper suggests that careful distinction must be made...

Maya Medicine: Traditional Healing in Yucatan (review)

The book is an interesting approach to the ideological formation of post-colonial Hispanic American societies and the role of the sentimental novel in this process. I wish Lander had considered the contradictions within the dominant class, which she presents as a monolithic group as if the victory of the Liberal project had been one of the whole class. Also, the notion of modernity is in part one-dimensional because of its equation of economic, political, social and aesthetic modernities—which do not always correspond. Therefore, the identification of literary and dominant discourse, that is the reduction of literature to a mere agency of hegemonic discourse, seems slightly exaggerated. Despite this criticism, the book is an intelligent incursion into the relations of political and literary discourses in the second half of the nineteenth century.