Art Deaccessions and the Limits of Fiduciary Duty [PDF]
, 2009 Art deaccessions prompt lawsuits against museums, and some commentators advocate using the stricter trust standard of care, instead of the prevailing corporate standard (business judgment rule), to evaluate the conduct of non‑profit museum boards.
Chen, Sue
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The microstratigraphy of middens: capturing daily routine in rubbish at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey [PDF]
, 2011 Microstratigraphy — the sequencing of detailed biological signals on site — is an important new approach being developed in the Çatalhöyük project. Here the authors show how microscopic recording of the strata and content of widespread middens on the ...
Almond, Matthew J. +3 more
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Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of desiccation tolerance in land plants
American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Desiccation tolerance (DT), the ability to survive near‐complete cellular dehydration, is widespread in diaspores but rare in the vegetative tissues of land plants. The patchy and punctuated phylogenetic distribution of vegetative desiccation tolerance (VDT) suggests that the trait is both ancient and recurrent, yet the evolutionary ...
Rose A. Marks +2 more
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Demodamante di Mileto e l’identità ionica
Erga-Logoi, 2018 This paper reconsiders our evidence on Demodamas of Miletus, his relations with the temple and the cult of Apollo in Didyma and with the Seleucid dynasty, highlighting his promotion of the Ionian identity and ethnicity in the Hellenistic oriental world.
Cinzia Susanna Bearzot
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The Problem of the Origination of Statehood in the North-Eastern Caucasus in the Epoch of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages [PDF]
, 2023 Suleyman Magomedovich Demelkhanov +1 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Surveiller et punir. La pratique du tatouage dans l’antiquité gréco-romaine
Droit et Cultures, 2023 This article examines the use of compulsory tattooing in Greco-Roman antiquity. During the ancient period, ornamental, prophylactic, apotropaic or religious body marking was practiced in many of the civilisations with which the Greeks and Romans ...
Ralph Evêque
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Divided Consciousness And Female Companionship: Reconstructing Female Subjectivity On Greek Vases [PDF]
, 1997 Art ...
Petersen, Lauren H.
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Etnogeografie a archeologie údolí Jaghnóbu
AntropoWebzin, 2014 The Yaghnob Valley is nowadays considered as (geographically) isolated region; historically the region was not an isolated part of Sogdiana as it was commonly suggested.
Ľubomír Novák
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