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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
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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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, 2022 Like many archaeological collections worldwide, the University of Nevada, Reno, Anthropology Museum’s Island Mountain collection has been impacted by the far-reaching curation crisis.
Travagli, Emanuela Elisabetta
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Theories of Technological Progress and the British Textile Industry from Kay to Cartwright [PDF]
, 1996 Editada en la Fundación Empresa PúblicaLa industria textil británica continúa en el centro del debate sobre la revolución industrial. Las innovaciones técnicas en el período produjeron una aceleración extraordinaria del crecimiento del output y una ...
O'Brien, Patrick Karl +6 more
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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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Archaeological Textiles Reviews (ATR)
, 2020 The Archaeological Textiles Reviews (ATR) aims to provide a source of information relating to all aspects of archaeological textiles. Archaeological textiles from both prehistoric and historical periods and from all parts of the world are covered in the ...
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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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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2008 Cotton plants, belonging to several species of the Gossypium genus, have attracted the attention of Old World populations since the Neolithic because of the fibres that are attached to their seeds.
Margareta Tengberg +1 more
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