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Late Quaternary Vegetation And Climate In The Escalante River Basin On The Central Colorado Plateau, Kim Withers, Jim I. Mead

Great Basin Naturalist

Five alcoves (rock shelters) in the Forty-Mile Canyon–Willow Gulch area of the Escalante River Basin in southeastern Utah yielded rich deposits of late Quaternary macrobotanical remains. The deposits were sampled and the contents identified in order to construct a chronology of vegetational change. Fourteen radiocarbon dates indicate that the fossils were deposited between 12,690 and 7510 yr B.P. (years before present).

Ninety-one plant taxa were identified, 62 to species. Six species were common to all alcoves: Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii), box-elder (Acer negundo), prickly pear (Opuntia subgenus Platyopuntia), skunkbush (Rhus aromatica var. trilobata), …

Libraries And Institutions, Yasushi Yamaji, Kent Mulliner

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Publications, Frank Joseph Shulman, Edward Martinique, Calvin Hsu

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Special Reports, Mihoko Miki, Yasuko Matsudo, Tai-Loi Ma, Amy V. Heinrich, Kimii Mitsui

Journal of East Asian Libraries

This task force was formed in August 1992 to work for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Foreign acquisitions Project for Japanese materials. The charge of the task force is to write a report which assesses current strengths and weaknesses of the major United States and Canadian Japanese research collections, determines their needs and priorities, and offers concrete action/funding proposals to address the identified problems. Fortunately, a number of previous reports and studies on the issues are available, and we reviewed and studied them carefully, including the "Survey" (1980) by Naomi Fukuda, the Perushek Report (1990), and the reports of …

Archival And Library Resources Within The Mid-Atlantic States Region For Advancing Scholarship In East Asian Studies, Frank Joseph Shulman

Journal of East Asian Libraries

The Mid-Atlantic States region is the home to a vast array of archival and library resources that have long-term research value for scholars and students interested in the history, politics, commerce and culture of the countries of East Asia and in American interaction with China, Japan and Korea. A series of fifteen panels between 1977 and 1991 presented a wide range of papers about some of these resources at the annual meetings of the Mid-Atlantic Region/Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS).

The Semantics Of Certainty In Quechua And Its Implications For A Cultural Epistemology, Janis B. Nuckolls

Faculty Publications

This article contributes to attempts on the part of Quechua scholars to understand the evidential system of this language family, and thereby paves the way for a more complex understanding of Quechua speakers' language and culture. The author opposes the position that the most general meaning of the -mi suffix is to indicate a direct or first-hand experience; and she holds that specific claims about Quechua speakers' epistemological orientations, based on such an analysis, cannot be supported. Evidence from speakers' use of -mi indicates that it encodes two paradigmatic contrasts: one is status-like or modal, the other evidential. The patterning …

Rule Of Law In Legal And Economic Theory, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Legal positivism, the leading version of legal theory, has shown that a concentration on the meanings and logical relations of legal concepts, however much supplemented by intuition, common sense and legal experience, is not adequate to make full sense out of the human experience of law, and the traditional understandings of legal obligation and rule of law in particular. However, modern economic science has advanced a radically individualistic theoretical approach which has propelled economics to the fore as the most successful of the social sciences. And its basic theoretical stance is proving both attractive and adaptable to all the other …

A Pedagogical Framework For Communicative Competence: Content Specifications And Guidelines For Communicative Language Teaching, Marianne Celce-Murcia, Zotán Dörnyei, Sarah Thurrell

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

No abstract provided.

Gold, Islam And Camels: The Transformative Effects Of Trade And Ideology, Alice Willard

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Before Columbus: The Question Of Early Transoceanic Interinfluences, Stephen C. Jett

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Neuropathology And The Scriptures, M. Gary Hadfield

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Cities, Civilizations And Oikumenes: Ii, David Wilkinson

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Publications, Pingfeng Chi, Richard T. Wang

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

King On King Lear: Finding Virtue In Minute Particulars, A. Jane Birch

Faculty Publications

“The social sciences should not exist. And I'm grateful that there are people in the social sciences working to destroy them.” This statement might easily be dismissed as rash and unjustified were the author not a world-class scholar, the quality of whose life-long study serves as an invitation to consider his reasons for making such a declaration. If, in the end, we cannot concur with Dr. Arthur Henry King's verdict on the ultimate value of the social sciences, might not his analysis of its problems give us a new perspective from which we might reevaluate it? Perhaps there is something …

The Sword Of Laban As A Symbol Of Divine Authority And Kingship, Brett L. Holbrook

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Swords often symbolize divine authority and kingship. Numerous examples from the mythology, literature, and history of the world attest to distinct patterns. The sword of Laban from the Book of Mormon fits these patterns and can be compared to the sword of Goliath. The sword of Laban can also be traced as part of the royal regalia that provides authority throughout Nephite history and later as it appears in the restoration. The sword of Laban as associated with Joseph Smith came to be an additional witness of his authority and of the divine sanction for his work.

Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies Volume 2 Issue Number 1, Neal A. Maxwell Institute For Religious Scholarship

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting understanding of the history, meaning, and significance of the scriptures and other sacred texts revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Reduction And Enlargement: Harold Bloom's Mormons, Alan Goff

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation (1992), by Harold Bloom.

Chattanooga Cheapshot, Or The Gall Of Bitterness, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Book of Mormon (1992), by John Ankerberg and John Weldon.

Two Towns Where There Was Once One: The Aldea In Medieval Aragon, Donald J. Kagay

Quidditas

No medieval era was more significant for the creation of royal, clerical, and urban institutions than the thirteenth century as sovereign and pope alike began to form the political structures of western European society in a way that closed many avenues of power to the trustees of societal authority of an earlier period, the nobility. Baronial resistance to the monarchical 'innovations' of the era would eventually direct the course of such state — building towards a fuller partnership between sovereign and subject. Though the best-known examples of such conflicts between custom and law occurred in England with the royal issuance …

Conceptualizations Of Contemporary Global Culture, Frederick Buell

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Native Women On The Utah Frontier, Ronald W. Walker

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Peirce Mormon Bibliography At Utah State University, Ann Buttars

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Fernand Braudel. The Perspective Of The World. Vol. 3 Of Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Jim Webb

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Miguel León Portilla. Aztec Thought And Culture, Elpidio Laguna

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Ignacio Bernal. A History Of Mexican Archaeology: The Vanished Civilizations Of Middle America, Elpidio Laguna

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Miguel León Portilla. Time And Reality In The Thought Of The Maya, Elpidio Laguna

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Index, Doris Brower, Melínda Jeffress

BYU Studies

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When Lehi's Party Arrived In The Land, Did They Find Others There?, John L. Sorenson

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

A number of statements in the Book of Mormon text indicate the presence in Lehi’s promised land of peoples other than those descended from Lehi’s party. Reasons the topic is not addressed more explicitly in the record include a focus on the Nephites (and not on other people), a generic treatment of Lamanites, an a desire not to waste space on something obvious or insignificant. Clear evidence for the presence of others in substantial populations is present in the Book of Mormon. The demographic or cultural history of Lehi’s literal descendants must take into account these other groups.

Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies Volume 1 Issue Number 1, Neal A. Maxwell Institute For Religious Scholarship

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting understanding of the history, meaning, and significance of the scriptures and other sacred texts revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

The Ancient State: The Rulers And The Ruled Hugh Nibley, David B. Honey

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.