The Globetrotter: Cosmopolitan Travel, Connecting Cultures and Conjuring the 'Authentic' East, 1870-1920

Abstract: The Globetrotter: Cosmopolitan Travel, Connecting Cultures and Conjuring the ‘Authentic’ East, 1870-1920 Amy Miller Globetrotters were a new type of nineteenth-century traveller created from the confluence of three historic developments: British imperial dominance in India, the new presence of Britons in Chinese and Japanese Treaty Ports, and the improvements of steam technology, railway networks and the engineering that produced the Suez Canal. These technological advances accelerated the compression of time and space which meant that not only were the British colonies, with their mercantile and military concerns, nearer to home, but that tourists could ‘trot’ around the world in a matter of months. This dissertation considers how the gaze of globetrotters developed and changed during the period between 1870, when the opening of the Suez Canal promoted greater accessibility to the ‘East’, and 1920, when luxury Cruise Liners changed the culture of travel. Globetrotters’ collections and accounts brought something new to those at home: the global East, which notwithstanding their ‘orientalist’ view, distinguished among Asian cultures. Travellers chronicled a ‘cultural’ journey of distinct cultures and customs that both challenged and confirmed pre-existing tropes of the ‘East’ by conjuring their own ‘authentic’ version through their experiences and the objects they brought home. They also charted a journey, that of the transformation of self through mutual encounter with local populations. In this dissertation, chapters assessing globetrotters’ experiences through the cultural engagement of networks, space, food and collecting will explore these developments through three overarching themes: the gaze and mutual encounter, social distinction and authenticity, and cosmopolitanism and the differentiated East of India, China and Japan

Negation and Functional Projections in Early Grammar

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Designing Healthy Communities VIP: Nampa Community Health Assessment Model Profile - Social Determinants of Health (CHAMP-SDOH)

The Designing Healthy Communities VIP is a partnership between the Boise State Anthropology Department and the St. Luke’s Applied Research Division. Our team of Boise State students and St. Luke’s researchers are conducting qualitative user experience research in Nampa, Idaho. Phase one of our project consists of investigating the social determinants of health affecting patient access to healthcare through surveys and interviews. Phase two of our project is comprised of observing the patient clinical experience in St. Luke’s Nampa community clinics. Our mission is to collect data on what challenges our fellow community members in Nampa experience while using the St. Luke’s services available to them. St. Luke’s hopes to incorporate this knowledge into their systems, policies, and community clinics to better serve the Nampa population

Kentucky Youth At Risk Transitions: A Report to the Commonwealth

In the Commonwealth of Kentucky, there are over 22,000 youth being educated in programs that are funded, operated or contracted by state agencies. These state agency children come from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and bring a multiplicity of social, psychological, behavioral and educational problems that challenge teachers and staffs. These particular Kentucky students, more than any others, are at the greatest risk of not making successful transitions into adulthood. It is critical that all such young people be afforded the highest quality of transition planning and support so that they can become successful and productive adults. This report is a detailed and comprehensive account of a year-long study that identified and described key elements of student transition in education programs for state agency children in Kentucky. The study included all 105 non-traditional education programs funded and supervised by the Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children (KECSAC). The study design used a mixed methods approach that included input from state agency youth and administrators

Caregivers’ Incongruence: Emotional Strain in Caring For Persons With Stroke

Purpose:Guided by Friedemann\u27s framework, the purpose of this study was to examine the dimensions of new family caregivers’ emotional strain in caring for persons with stroke. Method: Seventy-three caregivers who were new to that role participated in an interview every 2 weeks for a year as part of a NIH project. Of these caregivers, 36 participants were randomly assigned and had access to a Web-based intervention and its e-mail discussion. In this secondary data analysis, 2,148 e-mail discussion messages plus 2,455 narrative interview entries were used to examine dimensions of caregivers’ emotional strain. Rigorous content analysis was applied to these data. Results: The majority of these caregivers were white women with an average of 55 years who cared for spouses. Three themes emerged from these data: (1) being worried, (2) running on empty, and (3) losing self. Discussion: Caregivers worried about themselves and their care recipient, sharing feelings of being just “plain tired.” The caregivers felt that their lives were lost to giving care. They described in detail the emotional strain that they felt, as they took on new roles in caring for the person with stroke. Conclusion: This study informs nurses about new family caregivers’ emotional strain, or incongruence in Friedemann\u27s terms, from their viewpoint and provides direction for supportive education interactions

Local Production and Developing Core Regions: Ceramic Characterization in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Western Mexico

A core region is the first place for expected shifts in archaeological materials before, during, and after political changes like state emergence and imperial consolidation. Yet, studies of ceramic production have shown that there are sometimes limited or more subtle changes in the ceramic economy throughout such political fluctuations. This article synthesizes recent efforts to address political economic changes via geochemical characterization (neutron activation analysis; NAA) in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin in western Mexico. This region was home to the Purépecha state and then empire (Tarascan; ca. AD 1350-1530), one of the most powerful kingdoms in the Americas before European arrival. The combined ceramic dataset from four sites in the region result in eight geochemical groups. Our analysis indicates that the region experienced long-term and relatively stable ceramic production that was not substantially altered by the emergence of the state and empire. In addition, we find evidence for (1) dispersed, localized production; (2) long-lived compositional ceramic recipes; and (3) a complex ceramic economy with differential community participation. We discuss why documenting local ceramic production and craft production more generally is important for the study of past political economies

The genetic structure of Aedes aegypti populations is driven by boat traffic in the Peruvian Amazon.

In the Americas, as in much of the rest of the world, the dengue virus vector Aedes aegypti is found in close association with human habitations, often leading to high population densities of mosquitoes in urban settings. In the Peruvian Amazon, this vector has been expanding to rural communities over the last 10-15 years, but to date, the population genetic structure of Ae. aegypti in this region has not been characterized. To investigate the relationship between Ae. aegypti gene flow and human transportation networks, we characterized mosquito population structure using a panel of 8 microsatellite markers and linked results to various potential mechanisms for long-distance dispersal. Adult and immature Ae. aegypti (>20 individuals per site) were collected from Iquitos city and from six neighboring riverine communities, i.e., Nauta, Indiana, Mazan, Barrio Florida, Tamshiaco, and Aucayo. FST statistics indicate significant, but low to moderate differentiation for the majority of study site pairs. Population structure of Ae. aegypti is not correlated with the geographic distance between towns, suggesting that human transportation networks provide a reasonable explanation for the high levels of population mixing. Our results indicate that Ae. aegypti gene flow among sub-populations is greatest between locations with heavy boat traffic, such as Iquitos-Tamshiaco and Iquitos-Indiana-Mazan, and lowest between locations with little or no boat/road traffic between them such as Barrio Florida-Iquitos. Bayesian clustering analysis showed ancestral admixture among three genetic clusters; no single cluster was exclusive to any site. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that human transportation networks, particularly riverways, are responsible for the geographic spread of Ae. aegypti in the Peruvian Amazon. Our findings are applicable to other regions of the world characterized by networks of urban islands connected by fluvial transport routes

Unmet patient needs in monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8) deficiency: a review.

Monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8) deficiency is a rare, X-linked disorder arising from mutations in the SLC16A2 gene and resulting from dysfunctional thyroid hormone transport. This disorder is characterized by profound neurodevelopmental delay and motor disability due to a lack of thyroid hormone in the brain, and coexisting endocrinological symptoms, due to chronic thyrotoxicosis, resulting from elevated thyroid hormone outside the central nervous system (CNS). In February 2024, we reviewed the published literature to identify relevant articles reporting on the current unmet needs of patients with MCT8 deficiency. There are several main challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of MCT8 deficiency, with decreased awareness and recognition of MCT8 deficiency among healthcare professionals (HCPs) associated with misdiagnosis and delays in diagnosis. Diagnostic delay may also be attributed to other factors, including the complex symptomology of MCT8 deficiency only becoming apparent several months after birth and pathognomonic serum triiodothyronine (T3) testing not being routinely performed. For patients with MCT8 deficiency, multidisciplinary team care is vital to optimize the support provided to patients and their caregivers. Although there are currently no approved treatments specifically for MCT8 deficiency, earlier identification and diagnosis of this disorder enables earlier access to supportive care and developing treatments focused on improving outcomes and quality of life for both patients and caregivers