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Faculty / Staff News - January 2006 Veena Kasbekar, professor of English, presented a paper entitled "Not for Children Only: Fables Old and New" at the National Council of Teachers of English conference in Pittsburgh on November 20, 2005. Ruth McClain presented at the 95th Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, held in Pittsburgh in November. Her presentation was titled “Images of Africa: Literature and Film on Human Rights Issues”. The convention is an intensive professional development experience complete with interactive sessions, invigorating workshops, world-class speakers, and more. John Reiger's two articles in the Florida Anthropologist have been used as the basis for the depiction of the shell and stone pendants worn by the Indians of the now extinct, pre-Columbian cultures of the Florida peninsula. In Florida's Lost Tribes, published by the University Press of Florida, Theodore Morris, a well-known artist, and Jerald T. Milanich, curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, teamed up to present what will probably be the best representation we are ever likely to have of what the people of these "lost tribes" looked like in their everyday lives. Before Reiger's articles, many had assumed that the artifacts called "plummets" (because of their resemblance to a builder's "plumb" hung at the end of a line to see whether a wall, etc. is vertical) were fishing sinkers. Now they are generally interpreted as pendants that conveyed status and power and are included in twelve of the Morris paintings. One of the depicted shell pendants is an exact copy of the one that Reiger illustrated in his articles, having been surface-collected by him on an endangered coastal site in the late 1970s. John Reiger's American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation (2001, third expanded edition) has been cited in an important new book by University of California environmental historian, Louis S. Warren, entitled Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show, published by Knopf in October, 2005. The reader is referred to Reiger's volume as a key source on American hunting and conservation.
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