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Mortality On The Mormon Trail, 1847–1868, Melvin L. Bashore, Byu Pioneer Mortality Team, H. Dennis Tolley
Mortality On The Mormon Trail, 1847–1868, Melvin L. Bashore, Byu Pioneer Mortality Team, H. Dennis Tolley
BYU Studies Quarterly
Over two decades, staff and volunteers at the Church History Department compiled a database of thousands of pioneer records, now available at http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels(link is external), containing diaries and company reports of known Mormon pioneers from 1847 to 1868 (56,042 of them). Data were then compiled in tabular format in an Excel file, available at http://statistics.byu.edu/news(link is external). Researchers working with BYU actuarial students analyzed these data and report their findings: Slightly more males than females made the journey. Fully 45% of the immigrants were under age twenty. For about 25% of known pioneers, no death date is available, …
Mitt, Greg Whiteley, Hunter Phillips
Mitt, Greg Whiteley, Hunter Phillips
BYU Studies Quarterly
Independent of political ideology, the 2012 election signified the apex of the "Mormon Moment," a period during which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints occupied a greater space in the public consciousness than perhaps ever before. This moment was defined largely by Republican candidate Mitt Romney, arguably the most wellknown Mormon to those outside the Church. His ascendance to the presidential nomination was a historic moment for the Church and its members, for whom national relevance represents a major shift in their self-awareness. Despite his own ubiquity during the election cycle, Romney remains an enigma to the average …
Population Genetic Structure Of The Baird's Pocket Gopher, Geomys Breviceps, In Eastern Texas, Sarah R. Welborn, Jessica E. Light
Population Genetic Structure Of The Baird's Pocket Gopher, Geomys Breviceps, In Eastern Texas, Sarah R. Welborn, Jessica E. Light
Western North American Naturalist
The Baird’s pocket gopher (Geomys breviceps) is a solitary, fossorial rodent found throughout areas of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. These rodents are highly modified morphologically for an underground lifestyle, often resulting in limited vagility and isolated populations. Despite these unique characteristics, little is known about the population genetics of pocket gophers. We used mitochondrial and microsatellite data and performed a series of population genetic analyses to better understand the population structure and gene flow among a series of G. brevicepslocalities. Population genetic analyses supported high levels of gene flow among nearby localities (within 2 km of …
Home-Range Size And Subadult Dispersal Of Black Bears In The Cascade Range Of Western Oregon, Dave Immell, Dewaine H. Jackson, Margaret C. Boulay
Home-Range Size And Subadult Dispersal Of Black Bears In The Cascade Range Of Western Oregon, Dave Immell, Dewaine H. Jackson, Margaret C. Boulay
Western North American Naturalist
Knowledge of home range size and subadult dispersal activity of North American black bears is essential for understanding the complexity of how bears interact within populations and the environment. During 1993-98, we monitored 96 radiocollared black bears (Ursus americanus) in the Cascade Range of western Oregon to estimate home range and dispersal movements. Composite fixed-kernel home ranges were calculated for 37 bears. Mean home range size differed between sexes (189.7 km2 for males and 33.6 km2 for females); however, there was no difference between subadult and adult male or subadult and adult female mean home range …
Book Review: Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenthcentury Couple's Spiritual Journey In The Atlantic World, Travis Jaquess
Book Review: Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenthcentury Couple's Spiritual Journey In The Atlantic World, Travis Jaquess
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Civilization And Self-Determination: Interpreting R.G. Collingwood For The Twenty-First Century - Part I, Gautam Ghosh
Civilization And Self-Determination: Interpreting R.G. Collingwood For The Twenty-First Century - Part I, Gautam Ghosh
Comparative Civilizations Review
This article – the first of two – elaborates and endorses the understanding of civilization as advanced by R. G. Collingwood. Particular attention is given to two of his most neglected works, The New Leviathan and "What 'Civilization' Means." The New Leviathan in particular was written in the context of the rise of fascism and the prosecution of World War II. To support the war effort, Collingwood reconceptualized notions of civilization and linked it to a rationality of self-determination. Central to his argument are the distinctions he draws between civilization and barbarism, on the one hand, and between social, economic …
The Power Of God Unto Salvation, R. Kelly Haws
The Power Of God Unto Salvation, R. Kelly Haws
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
No abstract provided.
Uncovering The Online Information Seeking Behaviors Of Chinese University Students: A Pilot Study, Ralph Gabbard, Allison Leaming, Qian Liu, Wang Lei, Melissa Guy
Uncovering The Online Information Seeking Behaviors Of Chinese University Students: A Pilot Study, Ralph Gabbard, Allison Leaming, Qian Liu, Wang Lei, Melissa Guy
Journal of East Asian Libraries
The online behaviors of researchers have been studied from many angles in the library and information science literature. This collaborative study presents a unique perspective by detailing the behaviors exhibited by Chinese university students executing a researcher-defined task. Data was collected using a verbal protocol analysis method. The study results are correlated to research provided by leading scholars in the field of information seeking behaviors. The results of the study provide a valuable starting point for understanding the behaviors exhibited by a growing and significant group of online researchers.
Redirecting Disney Rants: The Real Angst Fueling The Negative Obsession With Disney Tales, Laura Randle
Redirecting Disney Rants: The Real Angst Fueling The Negative Obsession With Disney Tales, Laura Randle
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Hunting, Elizabeth Knight
Hunting, Elizabeth Knight
BYU Studies Quarterly
"I married a hunter" are the opening words of this personal essay about the author's relationship with her husband and his relationship with nature. He is a wildlife biologist who also hunts. But "Lad is a hunter, not a killer, a distinction important to him in the face of the gun-crazed, shoot-anything, 'D'ja gitcha a buck?' culture that surrounds the sport." Woven skillfully into accounts of two separate hunting trips are observations on family, friends, death (and her aversion to it), and her own cancer scare. At the end of the second trip, Lad's uncle does kill an elk, and …
Terrestrial Resource Exploitation On Santa Cruz Island, California: Macrobotanical Data From Four Middle Holocene Sites, Kristin M. Hoppa
Terrestrial Resource Exploitation On Santa Cruz Island, California: Macrobotanical Data From Four Middle Holocene Sites, Kristin M. Hoppa
Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist
On the northern Channel Islands, the occupation of interior sites during the Middle Holocene (6650–3350 cal BP) has been attributed, in part, to terrestrial resource exploitation. The presence of groundstone artifacts, particularly mortars and pestles, in Middle Holocene sites and burials supports the idea that plants were important during this time period. The current study presents macrobotanical data from 4 Middle Holocene sites on Santa Cruz Island. Of the 4 sites, 3 are located within the Central Valley, the island’s most productive watershed; whereas the fourth site is located on a coastal bluff on the eastern end of the island. …
Full Issue, Byu Studies
Spirit Babies And Divine Embodiment: Pbes, First Vision Accounts, Bible Scholarship, And The Experience-Centered Approach To Mormon Folklore, Eric A. Eliason
Spirit Babies And Divine Embodiment: Pbes, First Vision Accounts, Bible Scholarship, And The Experience-Centered Approach To Mormon Folklore, Eric A. Eliason
BYU Studies Quarterly
Eric A. Eliason, a BYU Professor of English who specializes in folklore, explores the phenomenon of prebirth experiences (encounters with spirit children not yet born) and how this folk tradition is deeply enmeshed with official LDS doctrines. Encounters with spiritual beings are reported more frequently in the general population than the more academically respectable mystic or transcendent states of notable people in various religious traditions. In fact, rather than sensationalizing a mystic experience by presenting it as tangible, scholars find that people more likely to obfuscate or "mystify" what were originally straightforward meetings with personlike beings. Eliason suggests that an …
Be It Unto Me, Rebecca W. Clarke
Be It Unto Me, Rebecca W. Clarke
BYU Studies Quarterly
A woman shares her thoughts about having a child despite health challenges and comes to accept whatever happens as a blessing. She considers how Mary, the mother of Jesus, asks the angel one question about the mechanics of it all, and then responds without any evidence of hesitation, "Be it unto me, according to thy word."
Let Us Think Straight, Elder M. Russell Ballard
Let Us Think Straight, Elder M. Russell Ballard
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
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Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
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Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
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Diet Of The Exotic American Bullfrog, Lithobates Catesbeianus, In A Stream Of Northwestern Baja California, Mexico, Liliana Ortíz-Serrato, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Jorge H. Valdez-Villavicencio
Diet Of The Exotic American Bullfrog, Lithobates Catesbeianus, In A Stream Of Northwestern Baja California, Mexico, Liliana Ortíz-Serrato, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Jorge H. Valdez-Villavicencio
Western North American Naturalist
We studied the diet of the exotic American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) in Arroyo San Carlos, located in northwestern Baja California, Mexico, during spring and summer 2009. Analysis of 64 stomach contents revealed 15 prey types, of which the exotic red crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) and terrestrial isopods (Armadillidiidae) were the most significant items (according to an index of their relative importance), making up 64% and 31% of the bullfrog’s diet, respectively. Diet differed between the sexes, with red crayfish eaten more frequently by males (84%) than females (69%). Bullfrog diet changed with body size, with smaller individuals …
From The Editor, John W. Welch
Full Issue, Byu Studies
Civilizations: Which Constitutes Africa's Most Effective Choice?, Tseggai Isaac
Civilizations: Which Constitutes Africa's Most Effective Choice?, Tseggai Isaac
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
The Paradox Of Thinking And The Unthinkable, Walter Benesch
The Paradox Of Thinking And The Unthinkable, Walter Benesch
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Resolving Exeter Book Riddles 74 And 33: Stormy Allomorphs Of Water, Thomas Klein, William F. Klein, David Delehanty
Resolving Exeter Book Riddles 74 And 33: Stormy Allomorphs Of Water, Thomas Klein, William F. Klein, David Delehanty
Quidditas
The following article argues that the idea of the allomorph is a productive way to view two “transformation” riddles from the Old English collection of riddles in the Exeter Book. In the view of the authors, Riddles 74 and 33 should both be solved generally as “water,” and specifically as “in the form of a thunderstorm.” Both riddles dramatize the multiple forms that water may take, and meditate on the divinely-ordained grandeur of the storm and the particular paradox of a thing being both immensely violent and necessary for life on earth. Understanding how these riddles play out these truths …
Public Shaming: Milton And The English People, Courtney O. Carlisle
Public Shaming: Milton And The English People, Courtney O. Carlisle
Quidditas
“Public Shaming: Milton and the English People” discusses the role of shame and its performance in John Milton’s First and Second Defence of the People of England. As Milton attempts to shame Salmasius and More, he focuses on bodies and their relationship to shame. For Milton, shame should be morally productive—it is meant to produce a sense of self-consciousness and an appropriate moral awareness. Milton argues that Salmasius and More are shameless and therefore not self-conscious or morally aware. Involved with shame and self-consciousness is a profound awareness of one’s body and its relationship to others and to the environment. …
Can The Queer Subaltern Speak?, Jennifer Duque
Can The Queer Subaltern Speak?, Jennifer Duque
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
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Mitt Romney And "I Mormoni": A 2012 Analysis Of Italy's Print Media, Mauro Properzi
Mitt Romney And "I Mormoni": A 2012 Analysis Of Italy's Print Media, Mauro Properzi
BYU Studies Quarterly
The author, a native of Italy, considers how the 2012 "Mormon Moment" (prompted primarily by Mitt Romney's campaign for the U.S. presidency) was covered by the Italian print and online media. He analyzes 344 articles, dated between January 1 and October 31, 2012, that use the words "Mormon," "Mormons," or "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," examining their portrayal of Mormonism through the lens of three questions: How did Mitt Romney's Mormonism affect the media's portrayal of his candidacy? What historical, social, and theological images of the LDS Church emerged from these accounts? And how did reports on …
Gender Distribution Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Worldwide, Ray M. Merrill, Arielle A. Sloan, J. Grant Merrill
Gender Distribution Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Worldwide, Ray M. Merrill, Arielle A. Sloan, J. Grant Merrill
BYU Studies Quarterly
Analyzing disparities in LDS membership numbers between men and women, especially by age group and geographical location, produces a deeper understanding of Church growth, conversion, and member retention. While more females are on the records of the Church than men, the Church gender ratio is nearly even during the ages 15 to 24. Church records show a greater ratio of males to females in old age than the general world gender ratio. LDS gender ratios also vary widely by UN world region, which shows that cultural factors may impact the segments of the population that are most interested in participating …
Madonella's Other Convent: "Platonick" Ladies, Randy Rakes, And The "Mahometan" Paradise, Samara Anne Cahill
Madonella's Other Convent: "Platonick" Ladies, Randy Rakes, And The "Mahometan" Paradise, Samara Anne Cahill
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
In eighteenth-century England both the Roman Catholic convent andthe Muslim harem were stereotyped as feminine spaces of religious alterity and sexual subversion. As a result, those who wished to defend women's learning often resorted to complex xenophobic representational strategies as a way of disassociating learned women from these spaces. I argue that the stereotypical "Platonick lady:' as a satirical figure that negotiated both these sites of supposed sexual hypocrisy and foreign dominion, ought to be considered a complex but key trope in the history of feminist orientalism. This is because, in her hypocritical obsession with the disembodied "soul;' the …
"Oppressed With My Own Sensations": The Histories Of Some Of The Penitents And Principled Piety, Robin Runia
"Oppressed With My Own Sensations": The Histories Of Some Of The Penitents And Principled Piety, Robin Runia
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Many scholars have observed the sentimentalization of the prostitute throughout the eighteenth century, and while this sentimentalization and its connection to the culture of sensibility have been compellingly theorized, the penitent prostitute's relationship to emotion, sensation, and piety has not been fully developed. The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House (1760) constructs an anxious equivalency between emotion and sensation, reflecting the vexed nature of sentimental discourse-the difficulty of distinguishing clearly between sensibility and sensuality. Examining this slippage reveals anxieties about women's abilities to accurately interpret and act upon the sensations of their bodies and their corresponding …