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Journal of Contemplative StudiesBuddhist amulets have been a topic of academic research for decades. But scholarly presuppositions that amulets have circulated primarily in popular Buddhist milieus, related only tangentially to the pursuits of elite practitioners, has limited our ...
James Gentry
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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, Volume 107, Issue 3, Page 754-761, February 15, 2026.ABSTRACT Background Left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) has become a valuable alternative to long‐term anticoagulation for stroke prevention in patients with non‐valvular atrial fibrillation (AF), especially in those at high bleeding risk. Hypoattenuated thickening (HAT) and device‐related thrombus (DRT) remain notable postprocedural concerns ...
Pierre Guilleminot +7 more
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Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2018 This article explores a small (14 cm×7 cm×1.5 cm) Mongolian manuscript package. The package consists of several manuscripts as follows: 1. incense offering to the Five Personal Protectors (tib. 'go ba'i lha lnga); 2. Diamond sutra; 3.
Olivér Kápolnás
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 50-67, February 2026.Summary In 1884, one of the burials discovered at El Argar, the eponymous site of the El Argar culture, revealed the remains of a woman wearing an unusual silver bangle. This ornament appears to be the first evidence of a silver object produced by lost‐wax casting in Bronze Age Iberia and, to date, in Western Europe.
Linda Boutoille
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Scherlievo disease: A forgotten endemic treponematosis of the 18th–19th century Balkans
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, EarlyView.
Alberto Zanatta +3 more
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Amulets Depicting the Eye of Horus from Burial Mounds of Early Nomads in the Southern Urals
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018 Three faience amulets depicting the Eye of Horus (Wedjat) were discovered in the Southern Urals. They all come from burial mounds of early nomads and are dated by local chronologies to the 5th – 4th centuries BC.
Olga V. Anikeeva, [Leonid T. Yablonsky]
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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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Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context
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