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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2016 The Nasca area is the place of origin of innumerable archaeological examples that show the level of technical skill achieved by Prehispanic weavers. Although we now know much about the techniques involved in the manufacture of these items, however little
Viviana Siveroni, Anne Tiballi
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‘Nothing like Textiles’: Manufacturing Traditions in Textile Archaeology
Światowit, 2019 Textiles are evaluated mainly in regard to their visual appearance and technical features of textile production. From a modern point of view, it is their optical perception that is most often displayed in reconstructions. This, however, can rarely be achieved due to the poor and fragmentary preservation of archaeological textiles, which hinders ...
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Textile production is among the most fundamental and more complex technologies in human prehistory, but is under-investigated due to the perishable nature of fibrous materials.
Margarita Gleba +4 more
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Weaving Textiles: Textile Consumption for Travel and Warfare
Viking, 2021 Textile research has demonstrated that new types of textiles were introduced to Scandinavia in the latter part of the Scandinavian Iron Age (AD 700–900).
Eva Andersson Strand
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
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Archaeological textile item – vestment paraman: research and conservation-restoration
Tyragetia, 2020 The paper presents the research and the conservation-restoration treatment of the Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni’s vestment – the paraman discovered as a result of archaeological excavations in the area of the Căpriana Monastery in the Republic of
Mariana Gugeanu
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Archaeolinguistics, a field which combines language reconstruction and archaeology as a source of information on human prehistory, has much to offer to deepen our understanding of the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Northeast Asia.
Sarah Nelson +4 more
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