Question

A dissertation based on fieldwork in this island’s village of Kajar (“kuh-JAR”), which argues that underdevelopment was the result of a lack of capital rather than cultural differences with the West, was posthumously published as the book Surviving against the Odds. Ann Dunham’s work with metalworkers on this island inspired her to create a microfinance model to help rural artisans. A chapter on “Conflict and Integration” in a 1960 book about this island calls the Rijaja (“ree-yah-YAH”) holiday a “master symbol” for its culture. A communal feast on this island called the slametan (“slah-muh-TAHN”) is analyzed (-5[2])in that book, (10[1])which divides the title phenomenon (-5[1])into abangan (“ah-bung-UN”), santri (10[1]-5[1])(“SAHN-tree”), and prijaji (-5[1])(“pree-yah-YEE”) variants. This island’s “religion” titles a book by Clifford Geertz, (-5[3])whose work (-5[1])here informed the (-5[1])majority (-5[1])of his book Islam (-5[3])Observed. For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, name this island that yielded the type specimen for Homo (10[3])erectus. (10[7]0[7])■END■

ANSWER: Java [or Jawa; accept Java Man; accept The Religion of Java] (Ann Dunham was Barack Obama’s mother.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2264%0%64%133.00

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Halle FriedmanNYU AClaremont A92-5
Natan HoltzmanStanford ABrown A92-5
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AVanderbilt A9510
Ashish SubramanianDuke AMIT A100-5
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BRutgers B10310
Caleb KendrickMaryland AMinnesota A103-5
Matt JacksonChicago AHarvard A105-5
Leo LawFlorida AColumbia B115-5
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AIndiana A115-5
Ian ChowToronto AWUSTL A115-5
Roxanne TangOhio State AMcGill A117-5
Matthew SiffYale BSouth Carolina A121-5
Alex SchmidtPenn State AMichigan A122-5
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley AChicago B126-5
Conor ThompsonIowa State AVirginia A126-5
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BColumbia A126-5
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AMinnesota B12810
Brad MacLaineTexas AYale A12910
Joelle SmartRutgers AHouston A14010
Charles HangWUSTL AToronto A14010
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Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AChicago A14110
Walter ZhangBrown AStanford A1410
Albert ZhangColumbia BFlorida A14110
Jim FanNorth Carolina AImperial A14110
Joel MilesMinnesota AMaryland A14110
Tomás Aguilar-FragaClaremont ANYU A14110
Drake EshlemanIndiana APurdue A14110
Vivek SasseChicago BUC Berkeley A1410
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins ACornell A14110
Robert CondronChicago CFlorida B1410
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BChicago C1410
Todd MaslykMichigan APenn State A1410
Kevin FanMcGill AOhio State A1410
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina AYale B1410