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Converging on Cannibals Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670
No full textIn Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving-cannibalism-was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of potential cannibals.Intro -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1: An Introduction to Cannibal Talk -- 2: Angels of Deliverance, 1483-ca. 1543 -- 3: Phantoms of the Kongo, 1568-1591 -- 4: Destroyers of Angola, 1600-1625 -- Gallery of images -- 5: Queen of Cruelty, 1629-1655 -- 6: Preachers and Publicists, 1500-ca. 1670 -- 7: The Afterlife of the Jaga -- Appendix A: Research Methods -- Appendix B: Suggested Further Readings by Chapter and Topic -- Appendix C: Primary Source Excerpts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving-cannibalism-was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of potential cannibals.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
A high-throughput mutational scan of an acidic transcriptional activation domain
No full textRaw data for Staller et al. 2018 A high-throughput mutational scan of an acidic transcriptional activation domainMax V. Staller1, 2, Alex S. Holehouse3,4, Devjanee Swain-Lenz1,2,5, Rahul K. Das3,4,6, Rohit V. Pappu3,4, and Barak A. Cohen1, 2, *1Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 631102Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 631103Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, 63130 4Center for Biological Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, 631305Present address: Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 277086Present address: GNS Healthcare Inc., Cambridge, MA, 02139* Corresponding Author and Lead contact: [email protected] include:raw sequencing reads for replicate 1 (Sort 11)raw sequencing reads for replicate 2 (Sort 12 )raw sequencing reads for replicate 1 of amino acid starvation condition (Sort 14) for calculating inductionraw sequencing reads for mCherry only sorting (sort 15A)File of designed mutants (DNA sequence) (DNA_Seqs_GCN4_Array.txt).raw sequencing reads for paired end sequencing to look for mutations in the library (Sort11AD-BC R1 and R2)Key to barcodes:Sort_Bin5’ inline barcode3’ adaptor barcodeS11_1GCTCGATIND71S11_2TAGACTATIND71S11_3CGCTACCCTIND71S11_4ATAGTGGACAIND71S11_5GCTCGATIND72S11_6TAGACTATIND72S11_7CGCTACCCTIND72S11_8ATAGTGGACAIND72S12_1GCTCGATIND69S12_2TAGACTATIND69S12_3CGCTACCCTIND69S12_4ATAGTGGACAIND69S12_5GCTCGATIND70S12_6TAGACTATIND70S12_7CGCTACCCTIND70S12_8ATAGTGGACAIND70S14_1GCTCGATIND69S14_2TAGACTATIND69S14_3CGCTACCCTIND69S14_4ATAGTGGACAIND69S14_5GCTCGATIND70S14_6TAGACTATIND70S14_7CGCTACCCTIND70S14_8ATAGTGGACAIND70S15_1GCTCGATIND69S15_2TAGACTATIND69S15_3CGCTACCCTIND69S15_4ATAGTGGACAIND69S15_5GCTCGATIND70S15_6TAGACTATIND70S15_7CGCTACCCTIND70S15_8ATAGTGGACAIND7
Kingship in the Age of Extraction: How British Deconstruction and Isolation of African Kingship Reshaped Identity and Spurred Nigeria’s North/South Divide, 1885-1937
No full textRevision requested by author. Correction to page 9.To the outside observer today, Nigeria is a state whose political troubles are sunk in its oil wells. Yet in truth the difficulties facing Nigeria are reflective of colonialism’s alteration of Nigerian society, and in order to truly understand Nigeria’s complex landscapes, one has to understand the evolution of complex national identities. As modern states emerge, each of them are influenced, driven, or in some extreme cases formed entirely around ethnic, religious, and cultural histories. However within some states with sizable minority populations, a counter-cultural form of nationalism is created, whereby a specific group’s culture, beliefs, or history becomes a call for that group’s own state. Whether in the Basque region of Spain, in Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan, in Quebec, or in Scotland, self-identity around a specific culture can directly lead to nationalist movements. These movements can either resu lt in violent struggles (Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions), prolonged postponement (Morocco’s Western Sahara region), or in independence referendums (Scotland in 2014). Yet regardless of the various effectiveness of identity-driven nationalist movements, states with large populations that share a common social cleavage eventually must deal with their identity crisis in some capacity.
Nigerians, however, face an ongoing identity crisis whereby it can be difficult to conceptualize a singular Nigerian identity. Yet herein lies the value of understanding colonial influence on Nigerian identity: Islam and Modern Nationalism are so generationally ingrained that these two competing ideologies supersede all other social cleavages on a national scale. Nigeria’s north/south divide is a rift created as two supremely opposite regions were morphed into two distinct colonies and then abruptly joined together. As northerners of different ethnicities were coalesced into Northern Nigeria, Islam became the uniting identity category that grew in importance as the effects of colonial neglect grew more pronounced. On balance, the institutionalization of hundreds of groups of southerners as a result of a loss of traditional kingship placed southerners in colonial positions and institutions that would eventually lead to pan-Nigerianism. Rather than the single group counter-culture n ationalism prevalent in many states, Nigerians instead face a unique challenge as the ethnic, religious, and culture cleavages of several hundred groups have been consolidated and generalized into a north/south regional divide. As a result of direct rule through the deconstruction of kingship in the south and as a result of indirect rule and isolation of kingship in the north, Nigerians’ identities have been ideologically blended, but geographically placed into contention
História Pessimista: Identidade Santomense, Pessimismo, e História em dois textos do século dezanove
No full textThis paper adds to the scholarly literature about the Santomean past by analyzing the specific language used in the 19th century texts written by José Joaquim Lopes de Lima and Raimundo José da Cunha Matos. By considering the literary techniques employed by these two writers, the paper can elucidate the literary trends that became entrenched as standard ways of writing and thinking about São Tomé. In particular, Matos and Lima presented images and language of varying societies on São Tomé island, but they wrote about these as a singular colonial society. Their singular island society came to define the idea of “São Tomé” for foreign readers and local people.Este trabalho contribui para a literatura académica sobre o passado santomense, analisando a linguagem específica utilizada nos textos do século 19 escritos por José Joaquim Lopes de Lima e José Raimundo da Cunha Matos. Por considerar as técnicas literárias empregadas por estes dois escritores, o papel pode elucidar as tendências literárias que se tornaram entrincheirados como formas padronizadas de escrever e pensar sobre São Tomé. Matos e Lima apresentou imagens e linguagem de diferentes sociedades em São Tomé ilha, mas eles escreveram sobre estes como uma sociedade singular colonial. Sua singular sociedade passou a definir a idéia de “São Tomé” para os leitores estrangeiros e habitantes locais
A high-throughput mutational scan of an acidic transcriptional activation domain
No full textRaw data for Staller et al. 2018 A high-throughput mutational scan of an acidic transcriptional activation domainMax V. Staller1, 2, Alex S. Holehouse3,4, Devjanee Swain-Lenz1,2,5, Rahul K. Das3,4,6, Rohit V. Pappu3,4, and Barak A. Cohen1, 2, *1Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 631102Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 631103Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, 63130 4Center for Biological Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, 631305Present address: Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 277086Present address: GNS Healthcare Inc., Cambridge, MA, 02139* Corresponding Author and Lead contact: [email protected] include:raw sequencing reads for replicate 1 (Sort 11)raw sequencing reads for replicate 2 (Sort 12 )raw sequencing reads for replicate 1 of amino acid starvation condition (Sort 14) for calculating inductionraw sequencing reads for mCherry only sorting (sort 15A)File of designed mutants (DNA sequence) (DNA_Seqs_GCN4_Array.txt).raw sequencing reads for paired end sequencing to look for mutations in the library (Sort11AD-BC R1 and R2)Key to barcodes:Sort_Bin5’ inline barcode3’ adaptor barcodeS11_1GCTCGATIND71S11_2TAGACTATIND71S11_3CGCTACCCTIND71S11_4ATAGTGGACAIND71S11_5GCTCGATIND72S11_6TAGACTATIND72S11_7CGCTACCCTIND72S11_8ATAGTGGACAIND72S12_1GCTCGATIND69S12_2TAGACTATIND69S12_3CGCTACCCTIND69S12_4ATAGTGGACAIND69S12_5GCTCGATIND70S12_6TAGACTATIND70S12_7CGCTACCCTIND70S12_8ATAGTGGACAIND70S14_1GCTCGATIND69S14_2TAGACTATIND69S14_3CGCTACCCTIND69S14_4ATAGTGGACAIND69S14_5GCTCGATIND70S14_6TAGACTATIND70S14_7CGCTACCCTIND70S14_8ATAGTGGACAIND70S15_1GCTCGATIND69S15_2TAGACTATIND69S15_3CGCTACCCTIND69S15_4ATAGTGGACAIND69S15_5GCTCGATIND70S15_6TAGACTATIND70S15_7CGCTACCCTIND70S15_8ATAGTGGACAIND70THIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOV
História Pessimista: Identidade Santomense, Pessimismo, e História em dois textos do século dezanove
No full textThis paper adds to the scholarly literature about the Santomean past by analyzing the specific language used in the 19th century texts written by José Joaquim Lopes de Lima and Raimundo José da Cunha Matos. By considering the literary techniques employed by these two writers, the paper can elucidate the literary trends that became entrenched as standard ways of writing and thinking about São Tomé. In particular, Matos and Lima presented images and language of varying societies on São Tomé island, but they wrote about these as a singular colonial society. Their singular island society came to define the idea of “São Tomé” for foreign readers and local people.Este trabalho contribui para a literatura académica sobre o passado santomense, analisando a linguagem específica utilizada nos textos do século 19 escritos por José Joaquim Lopes de Lima e José Raimundo da Cunha Matos. Por considerar as técnicas literárias empregadas por estes dois escritores, o papel pode elucidar as tendências literárias que se tornaram entrincheirados como formas padronizadas de escrever e pensar sobre São Tomé. Matos e Lima apresentou imagens e linguagem de diferentes sociedades em São Tomé ilha, mas eles escreveram sobre estes como uma sociedade singular colonial. Sua singular sociedade passou a definir a idéia de “São Tomé” para os leitores estrangeiros e habitantes locais
Pessimistic History: Santomean Identity, Pessimism and History in two 19th century texts
No full textThis paper adds to the scholarly literature about the Santomean past by analyzing the specific language used in the 19th century texts written by José Joaquim Lopes de Lima and Raimundo José da Cunha Matos. By considering the literary techniques employed by these two writers, the paper can elucidate the literary trends that became entrenched as standard ways of writing and thinking about São Tomé. In particular, Matos and Lima presented images and language of varying societies on São Tomé island, but they wrote about these as a singular colonial society. Their singular island society came to define the idea of "São Tomé" for foreign readers and local people. Palavras-chave: São Tomé, literature analysis, intrigue, disorder, decadence Este trabalho contribui para a literatura académica sobre o passado santomense, analisando a linguagem específica utilizada nos textos do século 19 escritos por José Joaquim Lopes de Lima e José Raimundo da Cunha Matos. Por considerar as técnicas literárias empregadas por estes dois escritores, o papel pode elucidar as tendências literárias que se tornaram entrincheirados como formas padronizadas de escrever e pensar sobre São Tomé. Matos e Lima apresentou imagens e linguagem de diferentes sociedades em São Tomé ilha, mas eles escreveram sobre estes como uma sociedade singular colonial. Sua singular sociedade passou a definir a idéia de "São Tomé" para os leitores estrangeiros e habitantes locais
Island of Imaginations: The Historical Dialectics between Experiences and Observations in the Creation of São Tomé (1472-1953)
No full textParution : Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica : pre-columbian, colonial, and contemporary perspectives
No full textLightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica Staller, John E. Stross, Brian John E. Staller is an independent archaeologist and author or editor of six books, most recently Pre-Columbian Foodways. Brian Stross is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some re..
