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Values versus Tactics: The Liberal Democrat Predicament
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Liberal Democrats emerged from the 2024 election with their largest parliamentary party since 1923. The 2026 elections saw further progress in English local government and Scottish parliamentary elections, with support consolidating in areas of strength.
David Howarth
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Viktoria Mukobenova, Two Amulets
, 2018 Viktoria relays a story about two amulets called mird. She says that in the past Kalmyk households kept mird amulets. When men left for war their family members would put a mird amulet around their neck as protection.
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A Newly Discovered “Bull Head Amulet” from Tell El-Farkha, Egypt
Studies in Ancient Art and CivilizationIn 2022, a new object fitting the so-called “bull head amulets” category was discovered at Tell el-Farkha in layers related to the late Predynastic period (Naqada IID2-IIIA, hereafter abbreviated as NIID2-NIIIA).
Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Recent archaeological discoveries, reviewed in this essay, challenge traditional views on the emergence of human symbolic cognition. Once believed to have originated in Europe around 40,000 years ago, new evidence shows it emerged much earlier across diverse regions.
Francesco d'Errico +3 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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Symbolism and meaning of solar heart amulets [PDF]
, 2012 We present in this study a brief description of the main morphological and symbolic features of the solar heart amulet. Under this designation we consider the heart amulets that present a sun disk over the top of the object. Starting with a morphological
Sousa, Rogério
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Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2022 In some Greek and Latin testimonies of Late Antiquity, several stones are used as core material in the making of different objects; these objects are described as jewels (body ornament) and as amulets (powerful objects).
Thomas Galoppin
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Alena Lidzhieva, Amulets, Talismans and Other Religious Objects
, 2018 Alena says that amulets for personal use should not come from laypeople but be requested from monks in Buddhist temples. Amulets given by laypeople bring nothing good. Amulets are small bags that hold paper prayers inside.
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The Amulets of German Merovingian Aristocracy [PDF]
, 2018 [full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] The amulets referred to in this paper were found mainly in the eastern part of the Frankish tribal lands.
Dryakhlov, Vladimir +3 more
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