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Scrimshaw
<p><em>SCRIMSHAW</em> is a work of fiction composed of prose vignettes and prose poems, ‘translations’ of photographs and films, and assimilated/appropriated texts—all of which trace one troubled family’s century-spanning story as it attempts to inhabit the unstable space of memory. The fragmentary …
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Scrimshaw: unlocking the cultural and biological archive of sea mammal art
… the nineteenth century the folk-art tradition ‘scrimshaw’, predominantly using the teeth of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus), flourished among the crews of industrial whaling ships. Scrimshaw collections represent a unique cultural and biological archive of pre-industrial/industrial sperm …
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Unwanted fertility and the underinvestment hypothesis: a Philippine study
… of the mother. Underinvestment as defined by Scrimshaw (1978) involved the idea that mothers would not go to extremes to save the life of a child and might invest more time and resources in other children. To measure underinvestment, a scale was constructed made up of the following items: 1) …