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further.support.a.role.for.minocycline.in.improving.aberrant.behaviors.in.the.Fragile.X.mouse.model.and.indicate.that.minocycline.
treatment.can.maintain.some.effectiveness.after.the.treatment.
This.work.is.supported.by.a.grant.from.the.FRAXA.Research.
Foundation.
Mummy Research in the Electronic Age
Tuesday, starting at 4:15 p.m. in KIPJ Theatre
139 Introduction: The New Age of Research: Digitization and
Electronic Access, DAVID A. RAWSON (Department.of.Humanities.and.Arts,.Worcester.Polytechnic.Institute,.100.Institute.Road,.
Worcester,.MA.01609;.drawson@WPI.EDU)..
The.last.twenty.years.have.seen.a.transformation.in.historical.research,.especially.here.in.the.United.States..The.growth.and.
spread.of.the.Internet,.driven.by.the.development.of.graphical.user.
interfaces. (GUI),. has. generated. an. ever‐increasing. demand. from.
researchers.for.digitization.of.both.primary.and.secondary.sources;.
materials.that.could.then.be.easily.accessed.via.that.new.electronic.
access..The.simple.convenience.of.such.access.may.be.the.primary.
impetus.for.digitization.efforts,.by.eliminating.the.need.for.expensive.travel.to.archive.collections,.but.there.are.also.important.new.
insights. into. the. past. emerging. as. a. result. of. researchers’. ability.
to.both.process.larger.quantities.of.material.in.their.research.and.
unearth.scraps.of.information.buried.in.the.mass.of.source.materials..This.symposium.presents.elements.of.two.projects.that.were.built.on.digital.resources..My.introduction.to.them.provides.a.context.for.their.development..It.begins.with.an.overview.of.the.types.of.materials.that.are.available.currently.to.researchers,.before.turning.to.the.rationale.for.the.digitization.of.particular.materials.and.
the.methods.used.to.create.them..It.also.considers.the.strengths.and.
weaknesses.of.the.digitized.resources.discussed,.as.well.as.trends.
for.the.future..This.presentation.will.suggest.that.the.research.possibilities.of.digitized.materials.have.yet.to.be.fully.realized,.and.that.
the.two.projects.that.follow.represent.the.innovations.in.research.
that.are.beginning.to.appear.among.researchers.who.understand.the.
promises.and.limitations.of.this.new.resource.form.
140 The Mythology of Mummy Paper: Deconstructing an Urban
Legend,.S. J. WOLFE (American.Antiquarian.Society,.185.Salisbury.Street,.Worcester,.MA.01609;.swolfe@mwa.org)..
Long.thought.to.be.an.urban.legend,.the.existence.of.“mummy.
paper”.has.been.both.championed.and.denigrated.by.writers..Among.
the.latter.is.a.refutation.by.Joseph.Dane,.“The.Curse.of.the.Mummy.
Paper,”.in.which.he.decried.the.reliability.of.newspaper.accounts.
and.personal.recollections.as.valid.historical.sources;.argued.that.
the.absence.of.the.specific.term.“mummy.rags”.indicated.that.the.
practice.did.not.exist;.and.complained.about.his.inability.to.locate.
both. supportive. textual. information. on. the. topic. and. supposed.
actual.examples.of.paper.made.from.mummy.wrappings..
Through. the. use. of. both. basic. and. advanced. electronic.
resources. (some. of. which. were. available. to. Dane. at. the. time. of.
his.writing),.these.refutations.can.be.themselves.rebutted.and.the.
reality.of.using.mummy.wrappings.for.paper.making.demonstrated.
and.elucidated.as.a.not.uncommon.practice.in.19 th -century.America.
Beginning.with.the.discovery.of.documents.which.explicitly.
state.they.are.made.from.mummy.wrappings,.and.including.various.newspaper.and.periodical.accounts.of.the.practice,.and.ending.
ABSTRACTS.–.Symposia
with. the. descriptions. of. the.Alexandrian. warehouses. where. animal.and.human.mummies.were.stripped.of.their.wrappings.for.the.
international.rag.trade.(the.bodies.being.ground.up.for.fertilizer).
this.presentation.argues.for.the.acceptance.of.“mummy.paper”.as.a.
product.of.the.industrialization.of.America.and.its.innovative.use.of.
the.mummy.as.commodity.during.the.19 th .century.
141 The Mummy Speaks: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Mummy
in Literature, Theatre and Politics,.JASMINE DAy.(Discipline.of.
Anthropology.and.Sociology,.The.University.of.Western.Australia,.
22.Coolidge.Street,.Como.W.A..6152,.Perth,.Australia;.mummywoman@hotmail.com).
The.recent.digitisation.of.nineteenth.century.periodicals.has.
revealed. that. that. many. more. creative. literary. works. featuring.
Egyptian. mummies. were. written. than. were. previously. known. to.
scholars. or. the. public..Anthologies. of. mummy. fiction. published.
to. date. are. considerably. incomplete. and. it. will. now. be. possible.
to.anthologise.mummy.poetry.and.plays..With.much.more.source.
material.for.study,.scholars.can.begin.to.build.a.more.comprehensive.
account.of.the.evolution.and.social.functions.of.fictional.mummies.
in.Britain.and.the.United.States..A.chronological.study.of.mummy.
poetry.demonstrates.the.abiding.influence.of.Horace.Smith’s.seminal.Address
to the Mummy.(1821).upon.later.poems.and.shows.that.
poets.gendered.mummies.as.female.in.order.to.submit.mummies.
to. metaphorical. interrogation..This. use. of. a. patriarchal. vision. of.
gender. relations. as. a. means. to. symbolise. colonial. and. economic.
domination.of.Egypt.was.mirrored.in.mummy.romance.fiction,.in.
which.male.explorers.conquered.female.mummies.–.but.recently.
discovered.mummy.curse.fiction,.authored.by.American.women.in.
the.1860s,.reversed.this.motif:.men.who.defiled.female.mummies.
were. slaughtered. by. ancient. magic.. Digitised. fiction. reveals. the.
proto-feminist.origins.of.the.“mummy’s.curse”.and.demonstrates.
that.Conan.Doyle’s.Lot Nº. 249.(1892),.upon.which.Hollywood’s.
mummy. films. were. apparently. based,. was. derived. from. a. genre.
already. long. established.. New. theoretical. studies. of. mummymania.made.possible.by.the.digitisation.of.Victorian.source.material.
will.establish.mummymania.as.a.core.subject.within.the.History.of.
Egyptology,.an.emerging.subdiscipline.of.Egyptology.
aDNA and Associated Biomolecules
Tuesday, starting at 5:15 p.m. in KIPJ Theatre
142 Ancient DNA and Parasites from Korean Mummies, DONG
HOON SHIN 1 *, MyEUNG JU KIM 2 , yI-SUK KIM 3 , CHANG
SEOK OH 1 , and MIN SEO 4 ( 1 Anthropology.and.Paleopathology.
Lab,.Department.of.Anatomy,.Seoul.National.University.College.of.
Medicine,.28,.Yongon-dong,.Chongno-gu,.Seoul.110-799,.Korea;.
2 Department. of.Anatomy,. Dankook. University,. College. of. Medicine,.
Choenan. 330-715,. Korea;. 3 Department. of. Anatomy,. Ewha.
Womans. University. School. of. Medicine,. 911-1,. Mok-6-Dong,.
Yangcheon-gu,. Seoul. 158-710,. Korea;. 4 Department. of. Parasitology,.Dankook.University.College.of.Medicine,.Cheonan,.330-715,.
Korea;.cuteminjae@gmail.com.or.bbbenji@naver.com)..
For.the.past.several.decades,.molecular.biological.studies.on.
ancient.DNA.(aDNA).retrieved.from.archaeological.samples.have.
attracted.attention.from.the.paleopathology.community..PCR-based.
analysis.on.aDNA.has.served.as.an.effective.way.to.develop.molecular.approach.for.the.detection.of.parasite.eggs.in.ancient.samples..
We,. the. paleopathologists. in. Korea,. also. tried. to. perform. aDNA.
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