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Reflections of a back door parent

I was sitting in a meeting discussing policies and procedures of an organization. At one point someone said, "Let's find out what THE PARENT has to say about this." I turned to look and realized was the parent! Could I speak for parents everywhere? Could I speak as a parent at all? Who am I anyway? What perspective do I bring? ! I feel like I am sneaking in the back door ...

Ten Years after: Adaptive Diversity and Southwestern Archaeology

It has been a decade since Adaptive Diversity and Southwestern Abandonment (Upham 1984) was published in the pages of this Journal. Since that time, the concept of adaptive diversity has enjoyed a mixed reception. The idea that mobile, gathering and hunting populations occupied the landscape contemporaneously with sedentary village agriculturalists in certain parts of the Southwest has led some archaeologists to a constructive reexamination of data and interpretations. Although this idea was developed specifically for the prehistoric Southwest, the concept of adaptive diversity has now been used in other culture areas where it informs new explanations of culture change (e.g., Simms 1986). But the adaptive diversity model has also been criticized by a few archaeologists because of the way frequencies of limited activity sites (among other data) were used to support argumentation in the original article. Such criticism is fair, perhaps even warranted, but frankly, I am surprised that the idea of adaptive diversity continues to garner special attention, since the developmental frameworks of Southwestern prehistory require recourse to serial and contemporaneous adaptive diversity to describe the occupational histories of many regions. I am gratified, however, that this concept and my 1984 article have stimulated yet another innovative and thoughtful examination of the Southwestern archaeological record. Lisa Young's analysis of lithic assemblages in the Homol'ovi region is a careful attempt to document the presence of gatherer/hunters in an area that was occupied and abandoned by agricultural groups over a period of 750 years. Her approach to the idea of adaptive diversity is novel, and her tentative conclusion about the presence of gatherer/hunters offers mild substantiation for the hypothesis that nomads coexisted with village agriculturalists at different times during the Homol'ovi occupational sequence. Young is to be congratulated for devising the analytical methods she employs and for working through the uncertainties of data reduction and comparison to develop this important new interpretation. While some Southwestern archaeologists will find fault with Young's approach and methods, her sample sizes, or her lack of attention to transformation processes, others will find her work useful. I find myself in this latter group, despite the vexing conservatism of Young's beginning assumptions and the purposeful leveling of all potentially suggestive trends in her data. In recent correspondence, a colleague wrote to me stating that at some point someone would need to define the sites and artifacts which identify a

A Complete Replica of Contemporary Indian Society in the Fictional Works of Chetan Bhagat: A Detailed Literary Analysis of his Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center and The Three Mistake of My

hetan Bhagat is one of the most influential fiction writers of contemporary Indian English literature. Postmodern subjects like youth aspirations, love, sex, marriage, urban middle class sensibilities, and issues related to corruption, politics, education and their impact on the contemporary Indian society are recurrently reflected thematic concerns in his fictions. In all his fictions, he has mostly depicted the contemporary urban social milieu of Indian society. Though the fictions of Chetan Bhagat are romantic in nature, contemporary Indian society and its major issues are the chief of the concerns of all his fictions. He has focused on the contemporary issues of middle class family in his fictional works. All of the chief protagonists of his works are sensitive youth and they do not compromise with the prevalent situations of society. Most of the characters are like caricatures that represent one or the other vice or virtue of the contemporary Indian society. The author has a mastery to convince the reader about the prevalent condition of society so that one can easily reproduce in mind, a clear cut image of contemporary Indian society. The present article is a sincere endeavor to present the detailed literary analysis of the select fictions of Chetan Bhagat keeping in mind how the contemporary Indian society has been replicated in the fictions.