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Journal of World History Turns 20, Debuts in JSTOR

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JSTOR logoThe Journal of World History passes two milestones this year: starting its 20th year of publishing and making its debut in the JSTOR online archive.

Every published volume of the Journal of World History is now available online. Current volumes will continue to appear on Project MUSE (subscription required), which also contains archives going back to vol. 7 (1996). This month, vols. 1 (1990) through 16 (2005) made their digital debut in JSTOR (subscription required). The JSTOR moving wall is 3 years. In other words, newer volumes will be added to the JSTOR archive 3 years after they first appear in print.

UH Press Seeks Production Manager

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The UH Press will accept applications until March 5th to fill its full-time, permanent position as head of Design and Production, which became vacant upon the retirement of JoAnn Tenorio in December 2008.

More information about the position’s duties and responsibilities, minimum qualifications, desirable qualifications, and application procedures can be found at the Work at UH website.

Korean Studies 32 (2008)

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Korean Minorities in the Age of Globalization

Between Defector and Migrant: Identities and Strategies of North Koreans in South Korea
Byung-Ho Chung, 1

This article examines the structural conditions and the individual strategies of North Koreans in South Korea. It provides a historical account on the changing social definitions of and policies toward North Korean border-crossers and how the changing conditions have affected their identities and lives. It also gives an ethnographic account of the difficulties and risks of individuals whose identities are caught between ‘‘defector’’ and ‘‘migrant.’’ The problems they face in capitalist South Korea are examined in the major areas of social transition—arrival, orientation, residence, consumption, work, education, and ideology—focusing on individual strategies that negotiate cultural differences between the two Koreas.

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Pacific Science: Index to Online Archives

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Pacific Science, the UH Press’s original journal and only journal in the natural sciences, now has a new Index to Online Archives, which contains an increasingly comprehensive listing of published tables of contents (ToCs) from each volume, with links from each article title to its online edition. From vol. 47 (1993), the ToCs also contain abstracts. All volumes from 1 (1947) through 54 (2000) will be available by open access in UH Hamilton Library’s ScholarSpace digital repository. So far, the repository contains complete volumes going back as far as the early 1970s, but we plan to have all the volumes from the 1960s, 1950s, and 1940s available online by June 2009.

A short history of the journal’s migration from print to electronic availability follows.

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Asian Perspectives, vol. 47, no. 2 (2008)

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We are instituting a new system for contacting the journal editors to improve our communication with authors. General inquiries about the journal, initial requests for information about article submissions, and electronic submissions should be sent to ljunker@uic.edu and addressed to Laura Junker. Once articles are submitted, the assigned journal editor will notify you with their specific contact information for author queries. Mailed submissions should continue to be sent to: Asian Perspectives Editor Laura Junker, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, M/C 027, 2102 BSB, 1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, Illinois 60607-7139 U.S.A. Authors with large graphics files should send their submissions by mail or in several e-mails (5 MB maximum per e-mail) to avoid problems of file retrieval and electronic bounce-backs. We would like to emphasize that we encourage submissions from a broad range of theoretical perspectives. We also want to especially invite indigenous Asian archaeologists to submit manuscripts and, while we encourage all authors to use whatever resources available to produce clearly written English language papers, we are also happy to work with authors on English language issues to improve the peer review process. Please let us know if you would like to be added to our list of peer reviewers.

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Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. 2, no. 2 (2008)

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Locus Equation Analysis as a Tool for Linguistic Fieldwork
Caleb Everett

Locus equations are linear regressions based on F2 formant transitions from vowel onsets to vowel midpoints. The F2 value of the onset of a given vowel can be plotted on the y-axis, with the F2 for the vowel’s midpoint plotted on the x-axis. Locus equations are derived from numerous F2 onset-F2 midpoint plots of this type. Each locus equation is associated with a particular consonant, which precedes the particular vowel tokens plotted according to F2 transition. Locus equations provide data on the patterns of CV coarticulation characterizing particular consonants. Studies in laboratory settings have demonstrated the efficacy of locus equation analysis for exploring such coarticulation patterns. However, locus equation analysis has generally not been exploited as a tool for linguistic fieldwork. This study presents an exception, as the author presents various locus equations based on data from Karitiâna, an endangered Amazonian language. These equations, based on acoustic data gathered in the field, reveal language-specific patterns of coarticulation. The results suggest that, even in remote non-laboratory settings, locus equations can be applied in a straightforward manner in order to provide useful insights into a language’s sound system.

Capturing Chaos: Rendering Handwritten Language Documents
John Henderson

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