Michigan Academician articles from June 2003

Michigan Academician archives from June 2003

The evolution of a maple sugaring landscape on Lake Superior's Grand Island.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT When examined within their historic context, vernacular landscapes inform us about the behaviors, beliefs, and interrelationships of ordinary people and their surroundings. Through the integration of historical research with a...

Late Holocene (Little Ice Age Interval) microvertebrates from Mackinac County, Michigan.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT Microvertebrate remains from a dolomitic fissure in the Middle Silurian Engadine Dolomite, Mackinac County, Michigan, represent at least 9 species of Late Holocene (Little Ice Age Interval) vertebrates. These species include Bufo...

Globalization, transnationalism, and identity politics in South Asian women's texts.
June 22, 2003... How do women of the South Asian diaspora, some of whom have never been to their "home" country, negotiate gender identity and empowerment in shifting territories of the First and Third World diasporic spaces when they are first displaced from...

Mandatory annual distributions from traditional individual retirement accounts.
June 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION When the owner of an individual retirement account (IRA) attains the age of 70 1/2 years, the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) requires the owner to begin taking mandatory annual distributions (MADs) from the account; and when the...

Forced migration, special settlements, and ethnic identities: Soviet Germans and Crimeans after World War II.
June 22, 2003... In Vynuzhdennaia migratsiia: sotsial'nye posledstviia mezhnatsional'nyh konfliktov, philosopher Valerii Lukov and sociologist Sadig Nagdaliev propose, analyze, and apply a theory of the social effects of forced migration on national minority...