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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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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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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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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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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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La culture du coton en région désertique
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2020 Modern cotton constitutes a major economic and environmental issue. Its long history, involving four species domesticated on three continents at different times, is an eloquent example of diffusion dynamics and integration of novelty.
Charlène Bouchaud
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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