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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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Un fardo funerario del Horizonte Tardío del sitio Rinconada Alta, valle del Rímac

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2004
This article documents the unwrapping of a coastal fardo dating to the Inca period. The fardo, excavated at Rinconada Alta in the Rimac Valley, is particularly rich in garments and textile accessories, and provides the opportunity for examining the suite
Mary Frame, Daniel Guerrero Zevallos, María Carmen Vega Dulanto, Patricia Landa Cragg   +3 more
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Advantages and limitations of micro-computed tomography and computed tomography imaging of archaeological textiles and coffins

Heritage Science, 2023
We have recently studied northern Finnish archaeological textiles extensively using computed tomography (CT) imaging. These textiles have been found in inhumation burials from the Late Medieval church of Valmarinniemi in Keminmaa and the Postmedieval ...
Sanna Lipkin, Ville-Pauli Karjalainen, Hanna-Leena Puolakka, Mikko A. J. Finnilä   +3 more
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CONSERVATION ETHICS AND PRINCIBLES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEXTILE

Idil Journal of Art and Language, 2021
Textiles made of organic fibers, include anthropologic knowledge about lifestyle, art idea, mythology, daily life and religious traditions of the culture made them. These tangible examples of Cultural identity of the society important for transfer traditional knowledge from next generation.
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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections [PDF]

, 2015
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its founder, the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie,
Stevenson, AE
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Deepening inside the pictorial layers of Etruscan sarcophagus of Hasti Afunei: An innovative micro-sampling technique for Raman/SERS analyses [PDF]

, 2019
The Hasti Afunei sarcophagus is a large Etruscan urn, made up of two chalky alabaster monoliths. Dated from the last quarter of the third century BC, it was found in 1826 in the small town of Chiusi (Tuscany- Il Colle place) by a landowner, Pietro Bonci ...
Bianco, Armandodoriano, Bruno, Maurizio, Ciccola, Alessandro, Gagliano Candela, Rossella, Lombardi, Livia, Pellegrino, Lorella, Postorino, Paolo, Serafini, Ilaria   +7 more
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The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

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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Bronze Age moss fibre garments from Scotland – the jury’s out [PDF]

, 2015
In the light of recent discoveries of early to middle Bronze Age burials with mats and fibrous material in Scotland, for example at Langwell farm and Forteviot, it was deemed timely to re-evaluate earlier finds of this period, several of which were ...
Gleba, Margarita, Harris, Susanna
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