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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
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Foot-amulets: a possible amuletic value
Buried History: The Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 2012 A number of foot-shaped objects have been found in Bronze Age graves in the region of Messará, Crete. Previous scholars have suggested they may be amulets or talismans. One hypothesis advanced in the late 1960s proposed that they gave protection from poisonous snakes bites and were connected to the Minoan Snake Goddess cult. This paper reports on a new
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Ekaterina Boldyreva, About Amulets
, 2018 Ekaterina says that amulets should be worn around neck. She herself has an amulet from Tibet. She contends that her amulet protects her well and that when she does not wear it she feels emptiness.
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Amulet Featuring the Image a Holy Rider from the South-Western Crimea
Античная древность и средние века, 2022 The bronze pendant in question in the form of a fine shield was discovered in the south-western Crimea, in the vicinity of mediaeval Cherson. Its front side depicts a holy rider piercing a demon with a cross; the first words of Psalm 90 (according to ...
Elzara Aiderovna Khairedinova
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Bringing artifacts (back) to life
American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract Museums’ ethnographic collections can be conceptualized as affective forces—relational intensities that emerge between human and more‐than‐human actors, unfold over time, and are embedded in and co‐shape sociomaterial environments. Drawing on debates in the anthropology of objects and political ontology, I develop this perspective through long‐
Hansjörg Dilger
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Dordzhi Barkhaev, about amulets
, 2019 Dordzhi talks about two kinds of amulets: When twins were born, especially if they were a boy and a girl, people performed a ritual aimed at separating them. It was done as follows: A mantra was scribbled on a piece of paper.
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Provenance reconstruction using strontium and lead stable isotopes can produce complex multidimensional fingerprints, challenging traditional methods. Identifying nonlocals, who migrated between sites, is a major task. Migrants are identifiable by divergent multi‐isotope fingerprints due to isotopic mixing between origin and destination sites.
Andrea Göhring +8 more
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Khargchin Koldzhieva, About Amulets and Talismans
, 2018 Khargchin says that amulets are empowered with mantras. People carry amulets around their neck. It is okay to take off one’s amulet and put it at the head of one’s bed. Amulets have powerful mantras inside them.
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Imported and locally manufactured jewellery in the Cimmerian Bosporus in the late 6th— 5thCenturies BCE [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового ПричерноморьяThis article is devoted to the publication and analysis of gold, electrum and silver jewellery dating from the late 6thto the end of the 5thcenturies BCE, found in the territory of the Cimmerian Bosporus.
Treister, M.
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