The Cinchona Program (1940-1945): Science and Imperialism in the Exploitation of a Medicinal Plant
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Alfred Kidder II in the Development of American Archaeology: a Biographical and Contextual View Karen L
Andean Past Volume 7 Article 14 2005 Alfred Kidder II in the Development of American Archaeology: A Biographical and Contextual View Karen L. Mohr Chavez deceased Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean_past Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Mohr Chavez, Karen L. (2005) "Alfred Kidder II in the Development of American Archaeology: A Biographical and Contextual View," Andean Past: Vol. 7 , Article 14. Available at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean_past/vol7/iss1/14 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Andean Past by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ALFRED KIDDER II IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY: A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CONTEXTUAL VIEW KAREN L. MOHR CHÁVEZ late of Central Michigan University (died August 25, 2001) Dedicated with love to my parents, Clifford F. L. Mohr and Grace R. Mohr, and to my mother-in-law, Martha Farfán de Chávez, and to the memory of my father-in-law, Manuel Chávez Ballón. INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY SERGIO J. CHÁVEZ1 corroborate crucial information with Karen’s notes and Kidder’s archive. Karen’s initial motivation to write this biography stemmed from the fact that she was one of Alfred INTRODUCTION Kidder II’s closest students at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as her main M.A. thesis This article is a biography of archaeologist Alfred and Ph.D. dissertation advisor and provided all Kidder II (1911-1984; Figure 1), a prominent necessary assistance, support, and guidance. -
A Spatial Analysis of Ceramics in Northwestern Alaska: Studying Pre-Contact Gendered Use of Space
Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses Winter 3-14-2018 A Spatial Analysis of Ceramics in Northwestern Alaska: Studying Pre-Contact Gendered Use of Space Katelyn Elizabeth Braymer-Hayes Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Part of the Anthropology Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Braymer-Hayes, Katelyn Elizabeth, "A Spatial Analysis of Ceramics in Northwestern Alaska: Studying Pre- Contact Gendered Use of Space" (2018). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4357. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.6250 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. A Spatial Analysis of Ceramics in Northwestern Alaska: Studying Pre-Contact Gendered Use of Space by Katelyn Elizabeth Braymer-Hayes A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Anthropology Thesis Committee: Shelby L. Anderson, Chair Virginia L. Butler Douglas C. Wilson Portland State University 2018 Abstract Activities and production among ethnographic Arctic peoples were primarily divided by gender. This gendered division of labor also extended to a spatial segregated pattern of the household in some Arctic cultures. Other cultures had a more gender-integrated spatial pattern of the household. There have been very few archaeological studies of gender in the Arctic, and even fewer studies of gendered use of space. In this thesis, I evaluated the existence of this gendered use of space in pre-contact Northwest Alaska. -
January 1968
Luce, Harris Named Faculty, Administration Give University Professors Two faculty members were named $3 Million to University Professors by the Board of Capital Campaign Trustees during their meeting last A total of 1,630 faculty and staff the country couldn't ask for a more month. They are Dr. Robert Duncan members of the University of Pennsyl- heartwarming vote of encouragement." Luce, professor of psychology, and Dr. vania have given $3,288,682 anony- It is hoped that by the May Trustees Zellig Harris, professor of linguistics. mously to its Development Program, meeting, at least 75 percent of the faculty University professorships were estab- Wilfred D. Gillen, chairman of the and staff will have participated. lished at Pennsylvania in 1961 to honor University's trustees, announced in Leading the appeal among the aca- those faculty members who are particu- December. demic faculties is Dr. George 'W. Taylor, larly distinguished in scholarship and It is believed that this is the larg- Harnwell Professor of Industry and whose contributions to knowledge have est amount ever contributed by any noted labor mediator; among the medical been made in more than one discipline, faculty and administration to a campaign faculties, Dr. Richard H. Chamberlain, rather than in a narrow field of speciali- of this kind. Over 50 percent have con- chairman of the Radiology Department zation. Dr. Luce and Dr. Harris are the tributed to the campaign. in the School of Medicine; and among eighth and ninth scholars to be named Gillen said the faculty-staff gifts had the administrative staff, Dr. Donald S. -
CARLETON STEVENS COON June 23, 1904-June 3, 1981
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES C ARLETON STEVENS C OON 1904—1981 A Biographical Memoir by W . W . H O W ELLS Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. Biographical Memoir COPYRIGHT 1989 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES WASHINGTON D.C. ,.• . V->.*>v "": •• •"• CARLETON STEVENS COON June 23, 1904-June 3, 1981 BY W. W. HOWELLS ARL COON was born June 23, 1904, in Wakefield, Mas- C sachusetts, a typical melange of Yankee stock, though the Coons were originally Cornish. At least two of Carl's forebears were Civil War veterans. His grandfather Coon—blind by Carl's time—was a great teller of tales, all calculated to make Carl very American in- deed. The old man talked not only about the war, but also about his travels in the Middle East and his readings on Af- rica. With his cotton broker father, the young Carl made a number of trips abroad, especially to Egypt. His mother was solicitous of his education, and the family maid (also Yankee) taught him to read before he went to school. When he was young, Carl's only apparent awareness of ethnicity came through fracases with Irish boys of the neighborhood. Pugnacious as well as scholarly, he managed throughout his early school years to avoid both distinction and opprobrium. But not entirely. His days at Wakefield High were numbered when, made fractious by boredom, he descended into the school's basement and swung from over- head pipes until they broke and flooded the place. -
Archaeology, Decolonization and the Cold War in Egypt
[A] Grounding Ideologies: Archaeology, Decolonization and the Cold War in Egypt William Carruthers Discussions of Egypt’s political place in the world tend to come attached to fairly standard narratives. For example, scholars working in the field of international relations have often described the period connected to Egyptian decolonization in terms of a particular chain of events. The story goes that, in the years following the Free Officers’ coup of July 1952, the British occupation of Egypt finally ended, and the United States jostled for influence in the country at the same time as the Cold War grew in resonance. Meanwhile, after Gamal Abdel Nasser had usurped Muhammad Nagib as the Free Officers’ leader in 1954, the coup started to become constructed as a revolution. Eventually—and particularly after the Bandung conference in 1955, the cataclysm of Suez in 1956 and the creation of the United Arab Republic in 1958— Soviet planners moved in, the Egyptian state became massively centralized and Third World and Pan-Arab identities increased in importance. Simultaneously, in addition to histories of his eventual undoing after the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, studies of the increasing consolidation of Nasser’s political power abound.1 However, as Laura Bier has noted, there are alternatives to this (fairly linear) decolonization narrative. Discussing the set of practices that she terms Egyptian state feminism, Bier asserts that ‘what such studies leave out are the countless struggles to define the content and meaning of the [Nasserist] project that occurred in other arenas.’2 This chapter deals with one such arena. Archaeological practice—and the representation of archaeological remains more generally—helped to define Egyptian state projects during the post-1952 period and also forged connections between Egypt and wider political processes: the spread of the Cold War, for example. -
Visualizing a Monumental Past: Archaeology, Nasser's Egypt and the Early Cold War Fieldwork at Mit Rahina Was Not Going Well, An
Visualizing a Monumental Past: Archaeology, Nasser's Egypt and the Early Cold War Fieldwork at Mit Rahina was not going well, and the team in charge of the new, Egyptian- American archaeological excavations at the site had reason to be worried. It was early 1956 and, in Cairo, ten miles or so to the north, construction work bearing the imprint of Egypt’s Free Officers was continuing apace. The press reported that grand buildings and boulevards linked to the modern, revolutionary and decolonized future promoted by Gamal Abdel Nasser were taking shape. And even in the countryside at Mit Rahina, the field team could see this process in action. Not far from the excavations, representatives from Egypt’s Department of Antiquities (DoA) were busy erecting a large, modern museum structure to lure curious tourists to visit a gigantic statue of the pharaoh Ramses II that would be housed therein.1 Nasser’s Egypt was to be monumental, the country’s pharaonic era reborn as a visible precursor of its modern, revolutionary future (Fig. 1). But beyond Mit Rahina’s new museum, and despite the concerted efforts of the practitioners working there, there was little sign of this revolutionary rebirth at the site. For years, Egyptologists, influenced by ancient writings, had associated Mit Rahina with Memphis, a place said to have been Egypt’s ancient capital and “the city of the white wall”.2 Yet even if this monumental characterization of the locale was accurate, the excavations at the site, now in their second season, had done little to demonstrate its validity. -
Phylogeny of the Tribe Cinchoneae (Rubiaceae), Its Position in Cinchonoideae, and Description of a New Genus, Ciliosemina
54 (1) • February 2005: 17–28 Andersson & Antonelli • Phylogeny of Cinchoneae MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS Phylogeny of the tribe Cinchoneae (Rubiaceae), its position in Cinchonoideae, and description of a new genus, Ciliosemina Lennart Andersson* & Alexandre Antonelli Botanical Institute, Göteborg University, P. O. Box 461, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. alexandre.antonelli@ botany.gu.se (author for correspondence) Relationships of and within the Rubiaceae tribe Cinchoneae were estimated based on DNA sequence variation in five loci: the ITS region, the matK and rbcL genes, the rps16 intron, and the trnL-F region including the trnL intron and the trnL-F intergenic spacer. Within Cinchonoideae s.s., the tribe Naucleeae is the sister group of a clade that comprises all other taxa. Cinchoneae and Isertieae s.s., are strongly supported as sister groups. The tribe Cinchoneae is strongly supported as monophyletic in a restricted sense, including the genera Cinchona, Cinchonopsis, Joosia, Ladenbergia, Remijia and Stilpnophyllum. There is strong support that these genera are monophyletic as presently conceived, except that one species mostly referred to Remijia is of uncer- tain phylogenetic affinity. To accommodate this species and a morphologically closely similar one, a new genus, Ciliosemina A. Antonelli, is proposed and two new combinations are made. KEYWORDS: Cinchona, Cinchoneae, Cinchonopsis, Joosia, Ladenbergia, Remijia, Stilpnophyllum, Rubiaceae; ITS, matK, rbcL, rps16 intron, trnL-F. oideae. Bremekamp (e.g., 1966) revised Schumann’s INTRODUCTION classification and redefined Cinchonoideae to comprise Traditionally (e.g., Candolle, 1830; Schumann, only genera without raphides, with imbricate or valvate 1891, 1897; Robbrecht, 1988), the tribe Cinchoneae has corolla aestivation and testa cells with coarsely pitted been circumscribed to include about 50 genera with basal walls. -
De Macrocarpaeae Grisebach
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by RERO DOC Digital Library Published in Harvard Papers in Botany 9, issue 2, 305-342, 2005 1 which should be used for any reference to this work DE MACROCARPAEAE GRISEBACH (EX GENTIANACEIS) SPECIEBUS NOVIS VI: SEED MORPHOLOGY, PALYNOLOGY, AN INFRAGENERIC CLASSIFICATION , AND ANOTHER TWENTY-THREE NEW SPECIES LARGELY FROM COLOMBIA JASON R. GRANT1 Abstract. A brief survey of seed morphology and palynology in Macrocarpaea is discussed and illustrated by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) photographs. An infrageneric classification is presented where four sec- tions are recognized: sect. Tabacifoliae, sect. Macrocarpaea, sect. Magnolifoliae, and sect. Choriophylla. Another 23 new species, largely from Colombia, are here described and illustrated: Brazil (1): M. illecebrosa; Colombia (14): M. betancuriana, M. callejasii, M. gaudialis, M. gondoloides, M. gravabilis, M. gulosa, M. hilarula, M. jocularis, M. lacrossiformis, M. laudabilis, M. maryae, M. silverstonei, M. umerulus, and M. ypsilo- caule; Ecuador (4): M. berryi, M. jactans, M. neillii, and M. voluptuosa; and Peru (4): M. chthonotropa, M. gran- pajatena, M. quechua, and M. xerantifulva. Keywords: Macrocarpaea, Gentianaceae, seed morphology, palynology, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. SEED MORPHOLOGY There is a great diversity of previously unrec- trating seeds of new species described below. A ognized, taxonomically useful seed morpho- more thorough and detailed survey of seed logical characters in Macrocarpaea. To date, morphology with comparison to pollen types, seed morphology has only been summarized at as well as the molecular phylogeny, is in the generic rank. Bouman et al. (2002) dis- preparation. cussed the seed morphology of Macrocarpaea Seeds of Macrocarpaea are miniscule in size, in comparison to other members of the family. -
Alexander Wetmore Papers, Circa 1848-1983 and Undated
Alexander Wetmore Papers, circa 1848-1983 and undated Finding aid prepared by Smithsonian Institution Archives Smithsonian Institution Archives Washington, D.C. Contact us at [email protected] Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Historical Note.................................................................................................................. 1 Chronology....................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction....................................................................................................................... 6 Descriptive Entry.............................................................................................................. 7 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 8 Container Listing ........................................................................................................... 10 Series 1: General Correspondence, 1901-1977, and undated, with Related Materials from 1879................................................................................................ 10 Series 2: Organizational File, 1901-1977 and undated.......................................... 64 Series 3: Smithsonian Institution -
Natural and Cultural History of the Marquesas Islands
http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz ResearchSpace@Auckland Copyright Statement The digital copy of this thesis is protected by the Copyright Act 1994 (New Zealand). This thesis may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and the following conditions of use: • Any use you make of these documents or images must be for research or private study purposes only, and you may not make them available to any other person. • Authors control the copyright of their thesis. You will recognise the author's right to be identified as the author of this thesis, and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate. • You will obtain the author's permission before publishing any material from their thesis. To request permissions please use the Feedback form on our webpage. http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/feedback General copyright and disclaimer In addition to the above conditions, authors give their consent for the digital copy of their work to be used subject to the conditions specified on the Library Thesis Consent Form and Deposit Licence. The role of arboriculture in landscape domestication and agronomic development: A case study from the Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia Jennifer Marie Huebert A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, The University of Auckland, 2014. Abstract Polynesian settlers transformed the native forests of the central Pacific islands into productive economic landscapes. Root crops came to dominate agronomic systems in many areas but arboriculture was the dominant mode of food production in some, and it is not well understood how these different endpoints evolved. -
Rubiaceae: Cinchona Calisaya)
Phylogeny predicts the quantity of antimalarial alkaloids within the iconic yellow Cinchona bark (Rubiaceae: Cinchona calisaya) Maldonado Goyzueta, Carla Brenda; Barnes, Christopher James; Cornett, Claus; Holmfred, Else Skovgaard; Hansen, Steen Honoré; Persson, Claes; Antonelli, Alexandre; Rønsted, Nina Published in: Frontiers in Plant Science DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00391 Publication date: 2017 Document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Document license: CC BY Citation for published version (APA): Maldonado Goyzueta, C. B., Barnes, C. J., Cornett, C., Holmfred, E. S., Hansen, S. H., Persson, C., ... Rønsted, N. (2017). Phylogeny predicts the quantity of antimalarial alkaloids within the iconic yellow Cinchona bark (Rubiaceae: Cinchona calisaya). Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, [391]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00391 Download date: 08. Apr. 2020 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 22 March 2017 doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00391 Phylogeny Predicts the Quantity of Antimalarial Alkaloids within the Iconic Yellow Cinchona Bark (Rubiaceae: Cinchona calisaya) Carla Maldonado 1, 2 †, Christopher J. Barnes 1 †, Claus Cornett 3, Else Holmfred 3, Steen H. Hansen 3, Claes Persson 4, 5, Alexandre Antonelli 4, 6 and Nina Rønsted 1* 1 Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia, 3 Analytical Biosciences, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, 5 Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden, 6 Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Gothenburg, Sweden Edited by: Danièle Werck, Centre National de la Recherche Considerable inter- and intraspecific variation with respect to the quantity and Scientifique, France composition of plant natural products exists. -
Palynological Characters and Their Systematic Significance in Naucleeae (Cinchonoideae, Rubiaceae)
Palynological characters and their systematic significance in Naucleeae (Cinchonoideae, Rubiaceae) By: YanFeng Kuanga,b,d, Bruce K. Kirchoff c, YuanJiang Tang a,b, YuanHui Liang a, and JingPing Liao a,b,* Kuang, Yan-Feng, and B. K. Kirchoff, Yuan-Jiang Tang, Yuan-Hui Liang, and Jing-Ping Liao. 2008. Palynological characters and their systematic significance in Naucleeae (Cinchonoideae, Rubiaceae). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 151: 123-135 Made available courtesy of ELSEVIER: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503359/description#description ***Note: Figures may be missing from this format of the document Abstract: Phylogenetic studies have improved Naucleeae classification, but the relationships among the subtribes remain largely unresolved. This can be explained by the inadequate number of synapomorphies shared among these lineages. Of the 49 morphological characters used in phylogenetic analyses, none were from pollen. It has been proposed that H-shaped endoapertures form a synapomorphy of the Naucleeae. Further study of Naucleeae pollen is needed to test this hypothesis as the endoapertures of many Naucleeae genera are unknown. Pollen morphology of 24 species was examined using scanning electron and light microscopy. Naucleeae pollen is very small to small, with a spheroidal to subprolate shape in equatorial view. Three compound apertures are present, each comprised of a long ectocolpus, a lolongate to (sub)circular mesoporus, and an often H-shaped endoaperture. The sexine ornamentation is microreticulate to striate, rugulate, or perforate. Pollen wall ultrastructure of five species was studied with transmission electron microscopy. The exine is composed of a perforated tectum, short columellae, and a thick nexine. The nexine is often differentiated into a foot layer and an endexine, and thickened into costae towards the aperture.