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This essay describes Crow beading between 1850 and the 1990s, the tragic disruption of Crow culture and economy after about 1880, and the subsequent increase in beading. The author asks why the art form flourished during such difficult times and goes on to examine policies of the Court of Indian Offenses and several links between beadwork and important cultural values. The author concludes that beadwork gives Crow people considerable pleasure but also strenthens crucial social institutions such as the clan system, concepts of prosperity, andtraditional marriage customs.Nell'articolo l'A. analizza il ricamo a perline dei Crow trail 1850 e il 1990, la tragica disintegrazione della cultura e dell'economia crow dopo il 1880 e il succesivo esplodere del beadwork. L' A. si chiede il perché del fiorire di quest'arte in tempi particolarrnente difficili ed esamina le strategie politiche della Court of Indian Offenses e i molti legami tra beadwork e altri pregnanti valori culturali concludendo che, se quest'arte da un lato dà ai Crow particolare piacere dall'altro ne rafforza anche cruciali istituzioni sociali - come il sistema clanico - la nozione di prosperità e gli usi matrimoniali tradizionali.

In the last twenty-five years the media has undergone major changes, moving fully from a broadcast model to cable and beyond. One effect of this change has been shifts in how politicians reach voters, particularly when campaigning. This has lead to politicians seeking out voters in venues that would have previously been considered beneath the dignity of their office. This, along with other shifts, has lead some critics to suggest that news is becoming corrupted, but others have suggested that news in merely evolving along with technology and culture. This project seeks to understand some of these shifts by investigating both entertainment talk shows, which have become a locus of political interviews, as well as interviews on cable news. Using qualitative and quantitative methods this project seeks to chart the norms of the talk show interview, how these norms shift in the face of a political interviewee, and how cable news norms differ from or not broadcast news norms. Using conversation analysis, chapter three of this dissertation finds two norms drive the talk show: personalization and congeniality. These contrast with the norms that drive news interviewing: neutralism and adversarialness. In the chapter four interviews are coded and compared statistically, showing that when a political guest appears on a talk show a mix of norms are used. The norm most closely associated with the genre, personalization, remains strong, while the norm more associated with the treatment of the guest, congeniality, is more likely to be dropped in favor of its news counterpart, adversarialness. In the fifth chapter, the same measures are used to compare broadcast and cable news, finding that there are few significant differences between the two.