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Ath 2500 Iii Introduction To Cultural Anthropology For Health Care Professionals Core General Education Assessment, 2017-2018, College Of Liberal Arts, Wright State University

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This report assesses Wright State University's course ATH 2500, III Introduction to Cultural Anthropology for Health Care Professionals, as part of the institution’s ongoing general education Core assessment plan.

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Approaching Abinadi, Stephen O. Smoot

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The recently released Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, a new book from Brigham Young University’s Book of Mormon Academy, offers readers multidisciplinary approaches to Mosiah 11–17 that highlight the literary, historical, and doctrinal richness of the story of Abinadi. Students and scholars of the Book of Mormon are sure to benefit greatly from this new volume.

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Insane Clown Posse And The Liminal World Of Carnival, Class, And Juggalo Family, Magdalene Taylor

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is an analysis of the boundaries of Juggalos, the subcultural following of the rap group Insane Clown Posse. Analyzing lyrics, documentaries, Juggalo media and qualitative data collected at the 18th annual music festival The Gathering of the Juggalos, I explore the ways in which the subculture utilizes subcultural capital and “badges of dignity” to negotiate with boundaries of class identity. I focus on three major themes: the function of the carnivalesque and horror in creating a subcultural identity, the liberatory bonds of community and chosen-kin networks in Juggalo “family,” and the ways in which these two themes work …

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The Inexorable Picture Of Language: Grammar, Meaning, Function, And An Interdisciplinary Upheaval Of Paradigms In Theoretical Linguistics, Sabrina Finn

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What is the nature of language? For more than 60 years, the answer to this question has been drawn from Noam Chomsky’s theory of linguistics, which treats the usage of linguistic structures in a speech community as irrelevant to its purpose, acquisition, and form. But by contrast, contemporary research in philosophy, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics suggests that the purpose, acquisition, and form of linguistic structures are necessarily linked to language’s function. In this project, I assert that functionality is a core property of language, and that the problems faced by the transformationalgenerative theories of language are the result of …

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The Sociopsychological History Of The “Self-Hatred” Image In Black African Americans Before & During The Civil Rights Movement, Lorraine Cruz

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This thesis uncovers the embeddedness of US western conceptual systems and psychological research, on Black studies from the early 1930’s to late 1960’s. Research on the Black psyche during this time (1950’s) reflected assimilationist racial ideologies of Blackness held by the State. As this relationship is explored, conceptual & methodological flaws are displayed as contributors of the “self-hate” or “damaged” image concluded from Black identity research. The construction of the “damaged black psyche” thesis is examined through its role in the overturning of the “separate but equal” doctrine in the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board Education of Topeka. Ultimately …

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In Online Reviews We Trust?: Investigating The Influence Of Online Reviews In Travel Decision Making, Meghan Reitz

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Few studies have focused on the use of online reviews for travel related decisions to an unknown destination. The aim of the current study was to examine whether the tone of online reviews could be used to influence visit intentions. Participants were randomly assigned to an experience based attraction or an observation based attraction on the island of Mauritius. Participants were also randomly assigned to a review condition (positive, negative, no reviews or mixed reviews). Lastly participants evaluated the information they previously read in terms of intention to visit the attraction, trust in the reviews, perceived helpfulness of the reviews …

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Striving To Be Sehat: An Ethnographic Investigation Of Indonesian Medical Practices, Trevor Johnson

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There is evidence of a particular practice of medical syncretism in the contemporary medical practices of those in the central Javanese province/city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Individuals were often found to have combined ideas of traditional Javanese practice and ideas of cosmology as a dualistic means of determining healthcare choices in relation to the Indonesian national healthcare system established in 2014. This provides insights into how these choices, that at may seem counter to contemporary trends at first glance, are active, conscious understandings of how best to live a healthy lifestyle as informed by a large local, and national history.

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Embodied Learning: Finding The Creative Process By Living Life, Allie Stachura

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This thesis project is a narrative analysis of my experience with embodied learning. I followed a program of personal research in an attempt to find meaning in my life and connect it with my academic work. The areas of inquiry included physical exercise, past examples of my creative process, and the experience of working on a thesis. Writing biographical narratives of my experiences in these areas allowed me to analyze them for thematic content and connect them back to the larger picture of my academic career. In practicing embodied learning, I encountered a new level of understanding that has changed …

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Transforming Ourselves, Transforming Our Society: A Virtue-Based Approach To Liberatory Education, Lena Isadora Nowak-Laird

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My goal for this thesis is to make the case for a virtue-based approach to Paulo Freire’s problem-posing pedagogy that addresses injustice in both schools and society in general. By teaching certain virtues in the classroom, I contend we can create a more caring and cooperative space for learning and transformation. I use virtue ethics and epistemology to frame the ways I think people can embody the sort of transformation I am advocating for. In our society, dimensions of oppression produce different (and differently valued) perspectives due to the vast range of social positionalities, both in the classroom and beyond. …

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“How Not To Smash Planets By Accident”: Allegory, History, And The Aspirations Of Fantasy, Ross Leach

Theses & ETDs

In this thesis, I consider the ways in which two novels of speculative fiction, Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin and Pym by Mat Johnson, manipulate the historical materiality of racial allegory. The protagonists of each novel seek to diagnose etiologies and treat pathologies of Whiteness that manifest at once in the fictional world of the novels and in the world of the producers of the fiction. Individuals and institutions of power in both reality and these fantastic novels propagate mythologized worldviews, based in historical fact but transmuted into allegories suiting the maintenance of their power. Yeine, Jemisin’s protagonist, does …

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“Self-Indulgent Nonsense”: Why Academics Write Badly And Why It Matters, Liliana Solomon

Theses & ETDs

In this thesis, I discuss the long-standing trend of academics writing inaccessibly, and explore the consequences of this writing for academics and the general public. In Chapter One, I review the most cited and trusted texts about writing to establish a basis for “good” and “bad” writing, and provide a brief history of how academic writing came to be so “bad.” In Chapter Two, I explore the tangible consequences of bad academic writing in high school, undergrad, postgrad, and beyond. In Chapter Three, I take on the project of “translating” and “rewriting” three prime examples of inaccessible academic writing, to …

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Sanitized Diversity: Race And Family On Disney Channel In The Early 2000s, Keaton Hughes

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The Disney Corporation has long been a major player in US, and in many cases global, cultural narratives. This thesis examines episodes of four Disney Channel original series from the early 2000s. Two, Even Stevens and Lizzie McGuire, center on white families, while the other two, The Proud Family and That’s So Raven, center on black families. At the dawn of the new millennium, many Americans imagined racism as a thoroughly 20th century phenomenon. Nevertheless, academic and residential spaces, like those portrayed on the Disney Channel, have historically been shaped by and continue to perpetuate systemic racism in the United …

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A Path To A Happy Life: Andean Cultural Preservation And Quechua Identity Construction In The Sacred Valley, Walker Hull Fleming

Theses & ETDs

My thesis project consists of a written ethnography, accompanied by a short ethnographic film, about a group of indigenous Andean families from Pisac, Peru. This community identifies as Runakuna, the indigenous Quechua speaking peoples native to the Andes, and is significant because, for more than twenty years, these families have engaged in grassroots cultural work to preserve their indigenous worldview and ancestral heritage. I engage in an ethnographic analysis of two of this community’s cultural preservation projects: the Kusi Kawsay Andean School, and the Kusi Ñan Organic Farm. I focus on the effects of these projects, as well as the …

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Ethno-Journalism: The Work And Writing Of An Ethnographic Reporting Form, Katelyn Grimmett

Theses & ETDs

In this thesis, I work towards reconceptualizing journalism as both literary and documentary. In Chapter One, I reframe Robert Boynton’s “New New Journalism” as ethno-journalism and define it as an ethnographic reportorial form that straddles the social sciences and the humanities. In Chapter Two, I discuss how ethno-journalism practices anthropological immersion through participant-observation work and the life history interview. In Chapter Three, I analyze ethno-journalism’s use of narrative and thick description, and argue for first-person narration to maintain accountability. In drawing the comparison between ethnography and journalism, I argue for the media and the social sciences to cultivate a stronger …

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Living With/In Disaster: Interpreting Heritage Through Performance In The Time Of Climate Change, Rachel Lyn Ceciro

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the function of an ecological theater as a method of heritage interpretation through research and practice. My first chapter explores definitions of memory, heritage, and interpretation, detailing what a successful interpretive project looks like. I then go on to define what constitutes a production of ecotheater by detailing its goals of coalescing the divide of nature and culture, encouraging performances to center the more-than-human world rather than focusing on exclusively human stories. The chapter concludes with examining the 2016-17 production of Bear by the Unreliable Bestiary, exhibiting how a piece of ecotheater uses interpretive tools to achieve …

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Urban Infrastructure And Environmental Interaction In Late Medieval And Tudor Period England, Adilyne Mckinlay

Theses & ETDs

The motivation for this research is to investigate the historical development of the nature-culture divide, an anthropological concept that identifies tension between the ideas of nature and culture and seeks to understand where on the scale between autonomy and interaction the two operate. This study analyzes the divide in late medieval and Tudor period England (1250-1600) through the lens of urban infrastructure in order to add to literature concerned with human-environmental interaction and thinking. Using documents from lay culture, such as ordinances, building contracts, financial accounts, and wills, as evidence, this study demonstrates that Englishmen during this period were clearly …

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The Effects Of Bilateral Trade Preferences On Corruption And Polity In Sub-Saharan African Regimes: China, A New Paradigm?, David I. Nowak-Laird

Theses & ETDs

This study asks the question of whether Sub-Saharan African regime’s level of trade with three exterior trading partners (the People’s Republic of China, the European Union and the United States) influences levels of corruption and polity in the local regimes. A panel regression with 31 countries over a 12-year period was run in order to determine the relationship, which found that trade is positively correlated with reduced corruption, although to varying degrees. The following paper comprises a review of the literature on corruption, trade, foreign direct investment, and how these factors interact with polity, which is a synthetic variable substituting …

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Cacao Together: A Model For True Sustainability In The Chocolate Industry, Kerstin Roos

Capstone Collection

This Course Linked Capstone provides a critical analysis of the concept of sustainable development and then uses this analysis to create a social venture plan for a non-profit called Cacao Together. This capstone project will identify challenges in the sustainable use of cacao by first critiquing the mainstream sustainable development initiatives of certification schemes and corporate sustainability programs. It then offers an alternate framework through the 5 Capital Livelihood assessment tool which when applied, shows the gaps in cacao sustainability initiatives generally. I then propose a social venture that will addresses the needs of many parts of the chocolate supply …

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Listening To Equity-Seeking Perspectives: How Students’ Experiences Of Pedagogical Partnership Can Inform Wider Discussions Of Student Success, Alison Cook-Sather

Education Program Faculty Research and Scholarship

Discussions in higher education have proliferated in recent years regarding not only how to recruit a greater diversity of students but also how to support their success. The voices of students themselves, particularly those students traditionally underrepresented in and underserved by higher education, have important contributions to make to these discussions. This article draws on a larger study of the perspectives of undergraduate students who identify as members of equity-seeking groups (e.g., students who are racialized, LGBTQ+ and first generation) and who have collaborated with faculty in a bi-college, classroom-focused, pedagogical partnership program in the United States. Using constant comparison/grounded …

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Wrapped In Wool: Coast Salish Wool Weaving, Vancouver’S Public Art, And Unceded Territory, Alison Ariss

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Coast Salish blankets, lovingly woven with hand dyed, home spun, and commercially produced yarns, adorn the walls of an international airport, museum, universities, and national broadcasting studio, and a mixed-use development project in Vancouver. All of these publicly accessible sites are located in unceded Coast Salish territory, upon which this city exists. These weavings present a conundrum. Simultaneously viewed as public art and symbols of cultural revitalization, their recognition as fine art has been limited, as most discourse about Coast Salish blankets has occurred outside of the discipline of art history. How then, have these weavings found their way into …

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Balancing Local Tradition And Global Influences: Design And Business Education For Traditional Artisans In Kachchh, India, Ruth Clifford

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In the craft-rich region of Kutch, western India, and the historical sari weaving town of Maheshwar, central India, two institutes are providing design and business education to traditional artisans. These are Somaiya Kala Vidya (SKV) and The Handloom School (THS); they form case studies for my PhD research. SKV encourages students to focus on their traditional designs believing them to be their unique selling point, but to innovate upon these traditions making them relevant to contemporary markets. Graduates face challenges of balancing the maintenance of the traditional aspects of their craft, their identity and integrity, with urban and global market …

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Reawakening Chahta Nan Tvnna (Choctaw Textiles), Jennifer Byram

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Choctaw people have crafted textiles from the land for thousands of years. Native to Mississippi and Alabama, U.S.A., the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma resides today in the Southeastern part of the state and numbers over 200,000 citizens. This paper comes out of the tribe’s Historic Preservation department’s work in conjunction with community efforts to reawaken Chahta nan tvnna, Choctaw textiles. By piecing together disparate parts of the Choctaw textile narrative, the Choctaw community is creating new textile work that recalls the ancestors and brings the identity of Chahta nan tvnna to new generations of Choctaw artisans.

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A Virgin Martyr In Indigenous Garb? A Curious Case Of Andean Ancestry And Memorial Rites Recalled On A Christian Body, Gaby Greenlee

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The notion of “social fabric” has deep resonance in the Andes, where woven textiles have long been entwined with gestures of political alliance, marriage, or rituals marking key transitions in the life cycle. Within the life cycle pre-Conquest, what is more, textiles were heavily implicated in that most poignant of transitions-from life to death. Yet in the Andes, death did not remove one from the life cycle. The deceased remained present and active participants in communal life, seen as potent advocates for the next generation, consulted as oracles, and regularly re-dressed in traditional woven textiles. After the Spanish-Catholic conquest, however, …

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Shipibo-Conibo Textiles 2010-2018: Artists Of The Amazon Culturally Engaged, Nancy Gardner Feldman

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper considers the intersection of processes of making and cultural memory as contemporary Shipibo artists design, produce, and exchange of their contemporary textiles and art. One sees a continuation of traditional collaborative social networks both in Peru’s deep Amazon region and in new Shipibo communities of Pucallpa and Lima. In cities, they create new artistic networks and expressions of art in ceremony. In these artworks, one sees how Shipibo relationship to the natural world, the forest, plants, animals, and waters reflects deep spiritual beliefs, wisdom, and community knowledge. Shipibo communities in 2017 face ever-expanding challenges from intrusions into their …

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Weaving Authenticity: Artesanías Or The Art Of The Textile In Chiapas Mexico, Addison Nace

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

During my six months in Chiapas, I worked for the weaving cooperative Mujeres Sembrando la Vida (MSV), a partner organization to Natik. Natik works with grassroots organizations in Mexico and Guatemala with a focus on economic development and education. MSV is a cooperative of sixty women weaving from the municipality of Zinacantán1 founded by Doña Magdalena and currently run by her two daughters Yoli and Xunka. Zinacantán is a Tzotzil Mayan village in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Chiapas has the highest population of indigenous people and is also the poorest state in Mexico with a poverty rate of 75.7 …

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Along A Continuum: Spirally-Woven Beadwork Of The Tlingit, Wasco, And Pit River Peoples, Alice Scherer

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This presentation explores the impact of introducing glass beads on the weaving practices of three Pacific Northwest Indigenous groups. Although Native Americans made and used beads of bone, shell, seed, and stone prior to contact with Western European culture, the 18^th-century introduction of glass beads brought new elements of sparkle, regularity, and color to native art and inspired creative expressions. Faced with the challenge of integrating these new materials, women turned to familiar basketry techniques for ideas, adapting traditional basket-making methods to weave beads and native-made fibers into bags, caps, straps, and hair ornaments. Visual evidence for this …

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Mind’S Eye And Embodied Weaving: Simultaneous Contrasts Of Hue In Isluga Textiles, Northern Chile, Penelope Dransart

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This article examines the use of hue in textiles woven during the twentieth century in Isluga, a bilingual Aymara/Spanish-speaking community of herders of llamas, alpacas and sheep in the highlands of northern Chile. It pays tribute to the weaving skills of Natividad Castro Challapa and other weavers of her generation, born early in the twentieth century. Aniline dyes were already known to them but, in the course of their lives, they witnessed increasing amounts of industrially manufactured, pre-dyed acrylic yarns arriving in the community. The article explores how weavers incorporated these brightly hued yarns in their textiles to form accents …

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Methylation-Based Enrichment Facilitates Low-Cost, Noninvasive Genomic Scale Sequencing Of Populations From Feces, Kenneth L. Chiou, Christina M. Bergey

United States Public Health Resources

Obtaining high-quality samples from wild animals is a major obstacle for genomic studies of many taxa, particularly at the population level, as collection methods for such samples are typically invasive. DNA from feces is easy to obtain noninvasively, but is dominated by bacterial and other non-host DNA. The high proportion of non-host DNA drastically reduces the efficiency of high-throughput sequencing for host animal genomics. To address this issue, we developed an inexpensive capture method for enriching host DNA from noninvasive fecal samples. Our method exploits natural differences in CpG-methylation density between vertebrate and bacterial genomes to preferentially bind and isolate …

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Vulcan Historical Review 22 (End Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

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Ath 2500 Iii Introduction To Cultural Anthropology For Health Care Professionals Core General Education Assessment, 2017-2018, College Of Liberal Arts, Wright State University

Core General Education Assessments - All

Approaching Abinadi, Stephen O. Smoot

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Insane Clown Posse And The Liminal World Of Carnival, Class, And Juggalo Family, Magdalene Taylor

Theses & ETDs

The Inexorable Picture Of Language: Grammar, Meaning, Function, And An Interdisciplinary Upheaval Of Paradigms In Theoretical Linguistics, Sabrina Finn

Theses & ETDs

The Sociopsychological History Of The “Self-Hatred” Image In Black African Americans Before & During The Civil Rights Movement, Lorraine Cruz

Theses & ETDs

In Online Reviews We Trust?: Investigating The Influence Of Online Reviews In Travel Decision Making, Meghan Reitz

Theses & ETDs

Striving To Be Sehat: An Ethnographic Investigation Of Indonesian Medical Practices, Trevor Johnson

Theses & ETDs

Embodied Learning: Finding The Creative Process By Living Life, Allie Stachura

Theses & ETDs

Transforming Ourselves, Transforming Our Society: A Virtue-Based Approach To Liberatory Education, Lena Isadora Nowak-Laird

Theses & ETDs

“How Not To Smash Planets By Accident”: Allegory, History, And The Aspirations Of Fantasy, Ross Leach

Theses & ETDs

“Self-Indulgent Nonsense”: Why Academics Write Badly And Why It Matters, Liliana Solomon

Theses & ETDs

Sanitized Diversity: Race And Family On Disney Channel In The Early 2000s, Keaton Hughes

Theses & ETDs

A Path To A Happy Life: Andean Cultural Preservation And Quechua Identity Construction In The Sacred Valley, Walker Hull Fleming

Theses & ETDs

Ethno-Journalism: The Work And Writing Of An Ethnographic Reporting Form, Katelyn Grimmett

Theses & ETDs

Living With/In Disaster: Interpreting Heritage Through Performance In The Time Of Climate Change, Rachel Lyn Ceciro

Theses & ETDs

Urban Infrastructure And Environmental Interaction In Late Medieval And Tudor Period England, Adilyne Mckinlay

Theses & ETDs

The Effects Of Bilateral Trade Preferences On Corruption And Polity In Sub-Saharan African Regimes: China, A New Paradigm?, David I. Nowak-Laird

Theses & ETDs

Cacao Together: A Model For True Sustainability In The Chocolate Industry, Kerstin Roos

Capstone Collection

Meet The Editors

Intertext

Listening To Equity-Seeking Perspectives: How Students’ Experiences Of Pedagogical Partnership Can Inform Wider Discussions Of Student Success, Alison Cook-Sather

Education Program Faculty Research and Scholarship

Wrapped In Wool: Coast Salish Wool Weaving, Vancouver’S Public Art, And Unceded Territory, Alison Ariss

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Balancing Local Tradition And Global Influences: Design And Business Education For Traditional Artisans In Kachchh, India, Ruth Clifford

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Reawakening Chahta Nan Tvnna (Choctaw Textiles), Jennifer Byram

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

A Virgin Martyr In Indigenous Garb? A Curious Case Of Andean Ancestry And Memorial Rites Recalled On A Christian Body, Gaby Greenlee

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Shipibo-Conibo Textiles 2010-2018: Artists Of The Amazon Culturally Engaged, Nancy Gardner Feldman

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Weaving Authenticity: Artesanías Or The Art Of The Textile In Chiapas Mexico, Addison Nace

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Along A Continuum: Spirally-Woven Beadwork Of The Tlingit, Wasco, And Pit River Peoples, Alice Scherer

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Mind’S Eye And Embodied Weaving: Simultaneous Contrasts Of Hue In Isluga Textiles, Northern Chile, Penelope Dransart

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Methylation-Based Enrichment Facilitates Low-Cost, Noninvasive Genomic Scale Sequencing Of Populations From Feces, Kenneth L. Chiou, Christina M. Bergey

United States Public Health Resources

Vulcan Historical Review 22 (End Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review