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The meaning of artefactual variability: the ceramic of Asurini of Xingu and the featherwork of Kayapó-Xikrin [PDF]

open access: yesBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2007
Aspects of the variability found in different artefactual ethnographic assemblages: in the Asurini ceramic and Xikrin adornments (featherwork braces). Show as different attributes can better define technological traditions in cultural terms.
Fabíola Andrea da Silva
doaj  

Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effective Interventions for Treating Superficial Self Mutilators [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Self-cutting is the most common form of self-mutilation in adolescents but there is insufficient knowledge as to which treatment methods to reduce self-mutilation are most effective.
Palladini, Maria
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Graphical Representations for Ising Systems in External Fields

open access: yes, 1998
A graphical representation based on duplication is developed that is suitable for the study of Ising systems in external fields. Two independent replicas of the Ising system in the same field are treated as a single four-state (Ashkin-Teller) model ...
Chayes, L., Machta, J., Redner, O.
core   +2 more sources

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

Late Ancient Adornments on the Territory of Romania – a Means of Religious Propaganda at the Beginning of Christianity [PDF]

open access: yesAnastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2014
Though unjustly considered minor, miniature arts served political propaganda, bringing the Roman artistic concepts to the provinces of the Empire. In the late ancient period, the phenomenon of religious propaganda appeared, this propaganda was done by ...
Ioana-Iulia Olaru
doaj  

The Very Idea of Seriousness

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What norms govern aesthetic conversations? In Hansen and Adams (2024), we argue for a norm we call, following Stanley Cavell, “the hope of agreement”, along with a requirement of “seriousness”, the “discipline of accounting for one's judgments”.
Nat Hansen, Zed Adams
wiley   +1 more source

Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples: Adapting Copyright Law to the Needs of a Global Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The definition and scope of intellectual property and associated laws are under intense debate in the emerging discourse surrounding intellectual property and human rights. These debates primarily arise within the context of indigenous peoples\u27 rights
Carpenter, Megan M.
core   +2 more sources

Adorning Intentions

open access: yesThe Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2021
openaire   +1 more source

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