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Against interpretive exclusivism* Contre l'exclusivisme interprétatif

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Interpretive exclusivism is the dogma that we can only understand cultural systems by interpreting them, thereby ruling out causal explanations of cultural phenomena using scientific methods, for example based on measurement, comparison, and experiment.
Harvey Whitehouse
wiley   +1 more source

Vaginal biomechanical function in premenopausal and postmenopausal women with and without pelvic organ prolapse. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Zhou Q   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal: The Case of Mgr. Thomas John Capel

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was ...
Timothy Verhoeven
wiley   +1 more source

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

The agency of a marmalade machine: Gender, class and mechanical gadgets in the British Kitchen, c.1870–1938

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
wiley   +1 more source

Pear‐Shaped Eggs Evolved to Maximize the Surface Area‐to‐Volume Ratio, Increase Metabolism, and Shorten Incubation Time in Birds

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Some eggs are pyriform as this may attain a larger surface area‐to‐volume ratio making them grow and hatch quicker. ABSTRACT Bird eggs can be spherical, ellipsoid, ovoid, or pear‐shaped (pyriform), the latter being the most complex. There is however no unambiguous evolutionary/adaptive explanation for this final, exotic shape.
Valeriy G. Narushin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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