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Christina and Me
No full textBestselling Maine author Christina Baker Kline tells the background story of why she chose to write her novel Christina\u27s World which is based on the relationship between Maine artist, Andrew Wyeth and his muse, Christina Olson
Contribution of Bioanthropology to Defining the Tell el-Dab‘a Population in the Eastern Delta: Preliminary Findings
No full textThe data provided in this paper was presented at the workshop ‘Changing clusters and migration in the Near Eastern Bronze Age’, held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 4th–6th December, 2019. The work has been conducted under the Hyksos Enigma project’s Research Track 7 (RT7) in Bournemouth University (United Kingdom), focusing on bioarchaeology and the study of skeletal human remains from Tell elDab‘a. This paper highlights the potential of using an integrated suite of osteological analyses in the archaeological framework, offers an overview of the field of bioarchaeology, presents some preliminary findings using this framework, and offers further possibilities and directions. The paper focuses on the different aspects of research conducted by RT7, including non-destructive macroscopic (dental nonmetric trait and palaeopathological) analysis and biochemical (aDNA, stable isotope) analysis
Christina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life,
No full textChristina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life, delves into old letters written by Maine writer Ruth Moore in the 1950s. Moore was selling her family\u27s Gotts Island house to Phyllis and Richard Strauss, Gillis\u27s sister and brother-in-law
The Hyksos in Egypt: A bioarchaeological perspective
No full textThe term Hyksos commonly refers to the foreign dynasty that inhabited and held power in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, circa 1640–1530 BCE. Recent research has integrated archaeological, artistic and textual evidence, revealing the Hyksos origin and presence in Egypt more complex than previously envisioned. Answers to questions regarding the Hyksos origin (and reasons for migration), ethnic and biological homogeneity, nature of rule and impact on the Egyptian worldview are sought by the ‘Hyksos Enigma Project’. One of the research tracks is dedicated solely to the analysis of human remains.Bioarchaeology is a subfield of archaeology focusing on the analysis of human remains in the archaeological record. Here, bioarchaeology refers to the analysis and contextualization of human remains to answer the questions of Hyksos mobility and life history. This paper focuses on methods available for the investigation of mobility from human remains to illustrate the usefulness of bioarchaeological analyses.Mobility studies have experienced a new awakening in archaeology, caused by recent theoretical and methodological developments in both non-destructive and biochemical techniques. Ancient DNA analysis can be used to investigate both individuals and populations. Stable isotope analysis using strontium (87Sr/86Sr), oxygen (δ18O), carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) act as proxies for provenance and diet. Non-destructive biodistance analysis, using dental non-metric trait analysis and geometric morphometrics, reflects morphological closeness of individuals and groups. The analysis of human remains cannot only reveal movement of the Hyksos but can increase understanding of mobility in the eastern Mediterranean
The people of Avaris: Intra-regional biodistance analysis using dental non-metric traits
No full textDental non-metric traits have become widely used to estimate biological affinities,particularly by utilizing the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System(ASUDAS). Here, we offer information from the Middle Bronze Age site of Avaris, locatednear modern Tell el-Dab’a in the Egyptian Nile Delta, that was ruled by the Hyksoskings during the Second Intermediate Period (circa 1640–1530 BCE).Dental non-metric traits were recorded from a sample of individuals (n=90) and analyzedusing mean measure of divergence (MMD). Both intra- and inter-site analyses wereconducted. The former compared the ancestry between locals and non-locals, defined isotopicallyby a recent study. The latter compared Avaris to other Egyptian sites to gauge itspopulation distinctiveness.Results indicated that individuals defined as locals and non-locals were not ancestrallydifferent from one another. There was, however, a significant difference (p<0.01)between the pooled locals and non-locals of Avaris and other Egyptian sites, regardless ofspatial and/or temporal proximity. The results are in line with the archaeological evidence,suggesting Avaris was an important hub in the Middle Bronze Age eastern Mediterraneantrade network, welcoming people from beyond its borders
Religious intellectuals : the poetic gravity of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti
No full textThis thesis examines the writing of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti in terms of its
expression of religious culture and belief. It is my argument that Brontë and Rossetti
experienced religion as intellectuals, questioning and exploring doctrine and dogma neither
as sentimental lady Christians nor dismissive, secular critics. I contend that by close
reading their poetry, the genre both women privileged as most appropriate for the
consideration of religious matters, the reader may trace the sermons and theological works
they read. Moreover, their writing, I suggest, evinces their intellectual response to
theological, ecclesiological and ecclesiastical developments that took place in the
nineteenth century. I thus label Brontë and Rossetti 'religious intellectuals,' a phrase
suggestive of their intense understanding of, rather than their mild acquaintance with,
religious debate. Many women writing within the nineteenth century found that religion
granted them a field within which to freely read and research, but were denied the
professional title of 'theologian.' Brontë and Rossetti are thus examples of a wider
phenomenon wherein women encountered religion like scholars, one disregarded by current
criticism unable as it is to categorize a female activity simultaneously religious and
intellectual. I use Brontë and Rossetti as examples of what I call the 'religious intellectual'
because they represent different sides of this classification. Where Brontë struggled away
from her Methodist background, serving as a cultural commentator on its enthusiastic
belief-system, Rossetti forged a scholarly identity as a late member of the High Church
Oxford Movement. Both poets, I contend, wrote about religion in order to signal their
intellectual ability. I conclude that Brontë's interest in Methodism and Rossetti's
fascination with Tractarianism reveals the poets to be both independent of family pressures
and false consciousness, and fully engaged with a subject central to their age
Leonora Christina
No full textShort presentation of Danish author Leonora Christina and her main work
Diet and Migration in Prehistoric Remote Oceania
No full textThe human processes of food production and migration are intertwined and of utmost importance in the tropical Pacific, where generally depauperate islands predicated the need for effective cultural adaptations in order for settlements to thrive. This thesis investigates movement and diet of individuals from two prehistoric burial sites in Remote Oceania. Stable isotope analyses (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S) of bone collagen were conducted to examine diet within the last few years of an individual’s life, while dentine collagen analysis provided information about childhood diet. Oral conditions (caries, macrowear, calculus, chipping, periodontitis, alveolar lesions, and ante-mortem tooth loss) were also examined as dietary indicators. Strontium analysis (87Sr/86Sr) of tooth enamel was conducted to investigate childhood residence, identify likely migrants, and consider cultural forces that may have affected movement in the past. The first collection (n = 28) is from the coastal site of Bourewa in the Republic of Fiji. Bourewa contained burials dated to the Vuda phase (c. 750–150 BP), a period in which climatic fluctuations in Fiji potentially dramatically affected food resources
Beyond cost savings: The value of OER and open pedagogy for student learning
No full textThis workshop was delivered by Dr. Christina Hendricks, from the University of British Columbia, for the 2018 Open Education Week Celebration at Mount Royal. The presentation outline approaches to open education - including OER, open pedagogy, and open educational practices
Book Review on Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes
No full textThis is a brief book review of Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe. Published in April 2023, the text deals with various aspects of Black life, such as memory, trauma, and ongoing racial violence. Being an acclaimed scholar of the Black community, Christina Sharpe shares a surfeit of memories throughout her text, which is why I found this book to be an excellent addition to Black memory studies. The author argues on the functionality of museums and memorials. While many may insist on the necessity of these sites of memory, the author argues that memorial narratives fail to provide ‘reconciliation and healing’. She also asserts how language is usually manipulated by white supremacists, and hence, memory is manipulated as well. Motherhood is also a dominant topic that Sharpe explores in her book
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