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The Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit of Conspiracy Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Jackson David Lakowsky Hansen
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Religious Negotiation and Identity Formation: Reading Material Religion in Oaxaca’s “Guelaguetza Oficial”
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Rene Sebastian Cisneros
Access: Open access
- The Oaxacan Guelaguetza Oficial is a folk-dance festival in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico which takes place on the last two Mondays of July each year. This state-sponsored celebration of Oaxacan identity is intertwined within histories of Indigenous religious belief and Catholic everyday practice. The Guelaguetza Oficial can be traced back to late 19thcentury celebrations venerating the Virgen del Carmen Alto. Oaxaqueños today predominantly practice an Indigenous-Catholic tradition whose rituals, festive scripts, pantheon of popular saints, and immanent understandings of heavenly power over earthly events can be traced back to negotiations between Indigenous forms of popular belief and institutionalized Catholic practice. Through historical and present-day religious tensions between existing modes of Indigenous religious belief and institutionalized Oaxacan Catholic practice, this thesis asserts that while Indigeneity often represented an obstacle to different structures of power in Mexican history, hegemonic institutions eventually came to accept the lasting presence of Indigenous identity and religious life to varying degrees within Mexican society and culture. This resulting reading of Guelaguetza demonstrates how religion is fundamentally implicated in the history of public festival and popular culture in Oaxaca. Furthermore, this thesis argues that Indigenous-Catholicism has not lost its prominence in public space in Oaxaca despite the reforms of post-1910 Oaxacan state and Mexican national politics and the effects of globalized neoliberal economies in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Design, Fabrication, and Evaluation of Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators on ST-X Quartz Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Angela McKenzie
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Photosynthetic phenology of a boreal spruce forest observed at stand and needle scales This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Jeremy A. Hoyne Grosvenor
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Exploiting Context in Linear Influence Games: Improved Algorithms for Model Selection and Performance Evaluation
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Daniel Little
Access: Open access
- In the recent past, extensive experimental works have been performed to predict joint voting outcomes in Congress based on a game-theoretic model of voting behavior known as Linear Influence Games. In this thesis, we improve the model selection and evaluation procedure of these past experiments. First, we implement two methods, Nested Cross-Validation with Tuning (Nested CVT) and Bootstrap Bias Corrected Cross-Validation (BBC-CV), to perform model selection and evaluation with less bias than previous methods. While Nested CVT is a commonly used method, it requires learning a large number of models; BBC-CV is a more recent method boasting less computational cost. Using Nested CVT and BBC-CV we perform not only model selection but also model evaluation, whereas the past work was focused on model selection alone. Second, previously models were hand picked based on performance measures gathered from CVT, but both Nested CVT and BBC-CV necessitate an automated model selection procedure. We implement such a procedure and compare its selections to what we otherwise would have hand picked. Additionally, we use sponsorship and cosponsorship data to improve the method for estimating unknown polarity values of bills. Previously, only subject code data was used. This estimation must be done when making voting outcome predictions for a new bill as well as measuring validation or testing errors. We compare and contrast several new methods for estimating unknown bill polarities.
An Investigation on Data Gaps in Scope 3 Emissions Accounting and Disclosure using 2010-2021 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Questionnaire Responses This record is embargoed.
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Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Samara Nassor
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Hypersensitization of Helicobacter pylori to Antibiotics Through Perturbation of Bacterial Glycan Armor Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: William J. Rackear
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“I felt so untrustworthy of my ability to get pregnant”: Women’s Embodied Uncertainties and Decisions to Become Pregnant
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Theodora K. Hurley
Access: Open access
- This paper identifies “embodied uncertainties”—possibilities of aging and infertility lodged within the body—as informing women’s conceptualizations of their reproductive bodies and their decisions about and approaches to getting pregnant. Using data from semi-structured interviews with a small sample of highly educated, professional, white women who had given birth within 18 months prior, this paper argues that (bio)medicalized risk discourses and neoliberal logics of responsible choice-making lodge uncertainty and the possibility of failure within women’s reproductive bodies. As they attempt to reconcile childbearing with professional and financial constraints, women may identify their bodies as laden with embodied uncertainties and may subsequently adopt strategies for becoming pregnant that seek to mitigate those embodied uncertainties, such as by trying to conceive before feeling completely ready for a pregnancy. Ultimately, (bio)medicalization and neoliberalism have transformed reproductive aging and infertility into individualized concerns and foreclosed recognition of the institutional failures that create conflicts of aging, careers, and childbearing in women’s lives.
Beyond Urban Bias: Peasant Movements and the State in Africa
Date: 2019-05-01
Creator: Connor Rockett
Access: Open access
- Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this study tests the hypothesis that state intervention in agrarian economies causes peasant movements to engage in broad-based contention, on regional and national levels. The study traces the connections between government land and agricultural institutions and the characteristics of rural movements that make claims on them. Case studies of regions of Tanzania, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ethiopia show the ways in which rural movements are constructed in response to the political and social environments in which they arise. That is, the comparisons demonstrate that the character of political authority and social organization are important determinants of the form taken by peasant movements.
Active and Passive Spatial Learning and Memory in Human Navigation
Date: 2019-01-01
Creator: Caroline Rice
Access: Open access
- Previous studies show that active exploration of an environment contributes to spatial learning more than passive visual exposure (Chrastil & Warren, 2013; Chrastil & Warren, 2015). Active navigation and cognitive decision-making in a novel environment leads to increased spatial knowledge and memory of location compared to a passive exploration that removes the decision-making component. There is evidence of theta oscillations present in electroencephalography (EEG) recordings from the hippocampus and pre-frontal cortex (PFC). These low-frequency waves could reflect spatial navigation and memory performance, suggested by their involvement in communication between the formerly named brain regions. Through communication with the hippocampus, theta oscillations could be involved in the integration of new spatial information into memory. While undergoing EEG, subjects in this study either actively or passively explored a virtual maze, identified as the “Free” or “Guided” groups, respectively. After exploring, subjects’ spatial memory of the maze was tested through a task that required navigation from a starting object to a target object. Behavioral data show increased spatial memory for the Free group, indicated by significantly greater navigation to the correct target object in the memory task. EEG results indicate significantly greater theta oscillations in frontal regions for the Free group during the exploration phase. These results support those found in previous studies and could indicate a correlation between frontal theta oscillations during learning of novel environments and spatial memory.