Ephemeral History Research Articles

The ephemeral history of Earth’s youngest supra-subduction zone type ophiolite from Timor

Ophiolites occur widely in orogenic belts, yet their origins remain controversial. Here we present a modern example with a geodynamic model from Timor, eastern Indonesia, where Earth’s youngest supra-subduction zone (SSZ)-type ophiolitic fragments are exposed. Zircon U-Pb ages and geochemical data indicate a short timespan (~10 to 8 Ma) for the magmatic sequence with boninitic and tholeiitic arc compositions. We interpret the Timor ophiolite as part of the infant Banda arc-forearc complex, which formed with the opening of the North Banda Sea and subsequent arc-continent collision along the irregular Australian continental margin. Our study connects the occurrence of small, short-lived ocean basins in the western Pacific with orogens around the globe where ephemeral SSZ-type ophiolites occur. These orogenic ophiolites do not represent preexisting oceanic crust, but result from upper-plate processes in early orogenesis and thus mark the onset of collision zone magmatism.

Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

Ephemeral history of the three-bladed tracheostomy dilator

Tracheostomy remains a topical surgical procedure. The history of tracheostomy is marked by the development of various instruments, including the three-bladed tracheostomy dilator from the middle of the 19th century. The purpose of this historical note is to recall the use of this unusual instrument.

Making Space

Making Space

Early/Modern/Queer/Recent

The three books under review can be classified as queer theory on Renaissance subjects: Jonathan Goldberg's Seeds of Things, Holly Dugan's Ephemeral History of Perfume, and Will Stockton's Playing Dirty. The three books are very different: Goldberg's book considers the importance of Lucretius both to contemporary critical theory and to Renaissance literature, Dugan's work is a cultural studies look at some of the significant scents of the Renaissance world, and Stockton's book is a literary analysis that makes consistent use of psychoanalytic theory of (chiefly) Renaissance texts. Taken together, these books show the continued vitality and breadth of Renaissance queer studies.

Holly Dugan, The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2011).

Holly Dugan, <i>The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England</i> (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2011).

The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England by Holly Dugan

Journal Article Holly Dugan. The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England. Get access The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England. By Holly Dugan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 259. $62.00 cloth. Elizabeth D. Harvey Elizabeth D. Harvey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 2, Summer 2014, Pages 229–232, https://doi.org/10.1353/shq.2014.0020 Published: 01 July 2014

HOLLY DUGAN. The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England.

HOLLY DUGAN. The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England.

Holly Dugan. The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. 280. $65.00 (cloth).

Holly Dugan. The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. 280. $65.00 (cloth).

Holly Dugan, The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England

Holly Dugan, The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England

The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England by Holly Dugan (review)

Review(s) of: The ephemeral history of perfume: Scent and sense in early modern England, by Dugan, Holly, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, hardback, pp. xi, 259, 15 b/w illustrations, R.R.P. US$65.00, ISBN 9781421402345.

Social Dimensions of Evolutionary Research: Discovering Native American History in Colonial Southeastern U.S.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, a series of Spanish missions was built in coastal Georgia and northern Florida. These missions were designed to convert and “civilize” the indigenous peoples of the region and establish a Spanish presence in the southeastern United States. The colony was not a success, and the missions were destroyed by the English by 1706. The native population fared poorly and suffered massive loss of people due to epidemics and colonial period hardships. In this paper, I discuss microevolutionary analyses of archeological skeletal samples representing the native populations from the region. Analyses document changing patterns of variation and intergroup biological integration through time. Formal evolutionary interpretations are offered, but these are reinterpreted with respect to the social and historical context of the time period. Specifically, patterns of variation suggest a nascent Catholic Indian identity was emergent in Spanish Florida when the missions were destroyed. While this may indicate an evolutionary and historical “dead end” for the indigenous peoples of Florida, further interpretation of the data with respect to the later history of the early Seminole people suggests a continuous biological history can be inferred, linking Spanish period (seventeenth century) and Seminole period (eighteenth century) peoples of Florida within a unified historical narrative. This complex, ephemeral history has repercussions for interpreting evolutionary genetic data within a strict cladistic framework. In addition, this research contributes a humanistic component to the evolutionary sciences with respect to cultural patrimony and oral traditions, in this case, of the Seminole peoples.