Thursday, August 14, 2008

Finally

Well, I just thought I'd post that yet another PVAP thesis is on it's way to the library shelves! The defense (which was actually more than a month ago) was rather uneventful. (Although I'm pretty sure it was quite eventful behind the closed doors) In a few days it should be available on the BYU library website, or if you're really interested let me know and I can send you a pdf.

4 comments:

Chris said...

Details Mo! So are the Fremont a tribe? Did Joel's rage spilleth o'er? What the H happened with that?

Chris said...

And BTW, I will wait to download your thesis in order to boost your stats, which can be viewed at the following webpage.

https://etd.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/ETD/Stats/etdstats.pl?sort=t.thesis_department&orderBy=ASC

Some person I've never heard of is the number one accessed in Anthropology. Props to the Hollster for already having more than 500 hits.

Mo said...

Here's the deal with the whole tribe thing:
Due to Dr J's insistance, I kept it, but made sure it was kind of crappy. After protests from Allison and Clark in edits, I approached Dr J again and he said that if they didn't like it I should make them come up with something better at my defense! So when it was time for me to leave the room at my defense, Dr J was still insisting that be the way I go even after lots of argument from the other two. I'm not sure what happened in that room the 25 minutes I was out, but by the time I got back, the tribes were gone!
So, the focus ended up being on the ethnographic analogy and establishing a better clasification system with some side notes about how it all means the PV is importnat and people were aggregating there. (hmmm...sounds eerily like my proposal...arg!)

Chris said...

Joel, Cady, and I wrote a book chapter 3 years ago that has been in limbo that includes a lot of Joel's ideas about Fremont tribes. I didn't think much about it at the time, but I need to go and read it again now.

I'm sorry that it screwed you up Molly, but it is an interesting development in the continuing saga that is the BYU Department of Anthropology.