This dissertation is devoted to exploring Armenian Üsküdar (an Anatolian side municipality of Istanbul) and its surroundings within the lenses of “conviviality” as conceptualized by Freitag (2014). Armenian neighborhoods in Üsküdar had all its relevance within the Ottoman rule i…
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The Republic of Turkey was established in 1923 out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Soon thereafter, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) and his ruling Cumhuriyet Halkci Partisi (Republican People's Party) launched a series of reforms which were designed to transform all aspects of life,…
The Deuteronomistic History (Dtr) is a story with a message for Israel in exile. It tells the story of Israel's leadership from its entry, under Moses and Joshua, into the land covenanted to its ancestors to its eventual expulsion from the land under monarchy. The story begins w…
The Hebrew Bible contains numerous injunctions against Israelite involvement in polytheistic worship. While the statements of the prophets and Biblical historiographers speak of rampant polytheism in ancient Israel, and cite disloyalty to YHWH as one of the main factors contribu…
This dissertation focuses on the Izanagi-ryū, a Japanese folk religion closely associated with the Monobe region in Kōchi Prefecture, to study the challenges faced by local communities in preserving and transmitting their intangible cultural heritages. Using an interdisciplinary…
This thesis is a study of the processes involved in the making, unmaking and potential remaking of a Pacific phosphate island. It is a history of Makatea, an uplifted coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), mined by a French private company from 1908 to 1966 a…
Musical notation in the Beneventan zone is attested in a brief explicit in a manuscript datable to 948-49. Other safely datable local testimonies to the practice of writing music have survived from about 40 years later; by the turn of millennium there are enough documents to all…
This thesis document researches the newly-emergent field of Ecosomatics as a meeting place for ecological consciousness, somatic-based movement practices, quantum physics, and social justice, as perceived through the lens of embodiment practices. The paper examines a multiplicit…
This project investigates a filmic technique—the production of moments of absorption and estrangement—and its translation and provocation to architecture with attention to private life and residence. The design research explored a set of formal, material, tectonic, programmatic,…
Acupuncture is the medical practice of inserting fine needles at specific places in the body, named acupoints. These points are located on pathways (called meridians) that run through the body, normally depicted as lines on the body’s surface. According to the medical paradigm o…
This dissertation examines the naming methods on Late Viking Age Swedish runestones. It is well-known in the runological world that the runestones of the Late Viking Age preserve a plethora of personal names. At the same time, name scholars have long observed that the older Germ…
More than one contemporary scholar has written about the “search” for the Anglo-Saxon oral poet. They consider historical texts and poetry and every other possible place where some record of who the Anglo-Saxon scop may have been might be found. Some claim to recognize the Old E…
Pejorative attitudes from mental health clinicians towards individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are well documented (Horn et al. 2007, Veysey 2013, Lester 2014, Charles 2020). Those thus labelled are frequently seen as ‘manipulative’, ‘attention-seeki…
Homophily—our tendency to form ties with people like ourselves—is a near-universal feature of human social networks. Scholars often assume that ties between members of different racial, ethnic, or religious groups will not only be rarer but also weaker on average than ties withi…
Statement of Problem or Issue: The Wilcox Museum at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas is in need of digitizing and organizing all of their paperwork from 1888 to current (2021).A majority of their documentation has begun to fade with time and they risk losing the hist…
Reformed ectypal theology can refine Thomistic analogy by supplementing Aquinas’ creational account of analogy’s ground with a covenantal account. Aquinas presents the ultimate ground of analogy as inexplicable but demonstrably real, terminating in the mystery of divine actualit…