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The History Of Forensic Science In The State Of New York, Elke Hof-Kenyon
The History Of Forensic Science In The State Of New York, Elke Hof-Kenyon
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation delineates the process and advancements in professionalizing the police departments and the development of forensic science in New York. Furthermore, as a preliminary and exploratory study it examines the evolution and changes of forensic science within the growth and expansion of a New York county police department. The relationship between police and forensic science was complex; for example, the impetus for the police to adopt a particular forensic methodology varied. At times, the development of forensic methodologies necessitated a further step in professionalizing the police departments. Other times, law enforcement sought new forensic inventions, or the improvement of …
Aztec Antichrist : Christianity, Transculturation, And Apocalypse On Stage In Two Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Dramas, Ben Leeming
Aztec Antichrist : Christianity, Transculturation, And Apocalypse On Stage In Two Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Dramas, Ben Leeming
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation centers around two recently-discovered early works of indigenous American literature, a pair of religious plays that take as their subject matter the medieval legend of Antichrist. The author of this dissertation located the plays, which are written in Nahuatl, the language of the Nahua (or “Aztec”) people, within a bound manuscript dating to the later half of the sixteenth century that is currently held in the library of the Hispanic Society of America in New York. The manuscript is signed in multiple places by a Nahua named Fabián de Aquino, in whose hand the plays are written. This …