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A Collaborative Exploration of Mapuche Medicine as a Form of Resistance against Chilean-Imposed Westernization

Publication Date
2025-May-24
Authors
Simons, Gerald
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
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The Mapuche are an Indigenous nation who have historically lived in southern Chile and Argentina, where their ancestral territory, Wallmapu, is located. Although the Mapuche largely succeeded in resisting Spanish conquest, the establishment of the Chilean Republic in 1810 and...

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A Dark Portrait: John Britton’s Denunciation of John Soane

Publication Date
2023-November-06
Authors
Lukacher, Brian
Department or Program
Art Department
Document Type
Article
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This article presents hitherto overlooked documents at Vassar College in the United States relating to the character and reputation of the architect John Soane (1753–1837). The antiquarian and topographic author John Britton (1771–1857), a lifelong friend and associate of Soane...

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