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Identifying the materials in archaeological textiles

, 2022
Given their organic origin, textiles rank among the rarest archaeological finds. While the vast majority of these artefacts are preserved as small fragments or mineralised remnants, their detailed textile technology study provides interesting and ...
Březinová, Helena
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Archaeological textiles from ancient Macedonia

Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 2023
This paper reviews the published evidence for archaeological textiles from ancient Macedonia and explores what they reveal about the region’s history. One textile is made by felting and the rest are woven in plain tabby, weft-faced tabby, and tapestry weave, typically from single yarns with z twist.
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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

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 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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The company you keep: becoming one(self) in an Indonesian convent En bonne compagnie : devenir (quelqu’)un dans un couvent indonésien Pergaulan dalam biara di Indonesia: sebuah proses pembentukan diri*

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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Textiles

, 2018
Textiles are among the commonest objects of material culture used throughout the human past, although due to their organic nature they rarely survive in archaeological contexts.
Margarita Gleba
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Las colecciones de textiles andinos en los museos de España

Estudios Atacameños, 2000
Este trabajo trata de ofrecer una visión actualizada de las colecciones de textiles andinos de los principales museos públicos de España. Se hablará de su procedencia, de cómo se formaron las colecciones y se hará hincapié en los textiles más ...
Victoria Solanilla Demestre
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

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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Un tejido único Moche III del sitio Castillo de Santa: una escena de cosecha de yuca

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2003
Archaeological fieldwork carried out in July 2002 on Terrace East at El Castillo site, Santa Valley, resulted in the discovery of a child burial wrapped in many textiles. One of them is unique. It represents a harvest scene of the plant identified as the
Claude Chapdelaine, Víctor Pimentel
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