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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Demirli Kale (Castle), rock tomb
, 2015 Rock cut monument with stairways, probably used as altar or some kind of devotional purposes by the Phrygians at Demirli Kale, a Phrygian hill-top castle with a rock-cut room, entrance gate, cisterns and arcosolium graves and rock-cut chamber tombs ...
Gonnet-Bağana, Hatice
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Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
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, 2006 A color photograph showing an aerial view of New Castle County paramedics posing beside their ambulance vehicles in a grass field. Seven paramedics stand in the center of the photograph in a star formation, with two of the seven in the center.
New Castle County Paramedic Unit
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The increasingly close integration of analytical techniques in the study of Greek and Roman wall paintings has shown that Egyptian blue was a common pigment, widely documented in the production of blue and greenish hues in ancient painted production.
Simone Dilaria +5 more
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Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 2015 Investigating ancient Pueblo culture from the North American Southwest is challenging task involving cooperationof scientists from different disciplines, mainly archaeology, history, anthropology, and linguistics. There isalso a large body of information
Radosław Palonka
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Direct Evidence of the Geographic Origins of Horse in the Yaoheyuan Site From Ningxia, China
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this study, It is explores the geographic origin of horses by analyzing the strontium isotope ratio of horses from the Yaoheyuan site, an important site in the northwest region of China during the Western Zhou Dynasty. The results show that most of the horses at the Yaoheyuan site were domesticated locally, while a small number came from ...
Youla Yang +4 more
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The Wonders of the Transatlantic Journey: Alice Munro’s “The View from Castle Rock” [PDF]
Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 2014 Alice Munro’s short story “The View from Castle Rock” is largely inspired by her ancestors’ journey from Scotland to Canada, where they settled. Her fictionalized account of the journey is centred on the ship, described as the heterotopia par excellence, which allows her to highlight the turning points in her characters’ trajectories, revealing “lines ...
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