Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA. [PDF]
Evol Hum SciSeferidou E, Atağ G.
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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Global tastes, local choices: Strontium isotope and concentration evidence for changing dietary input in Roman Nijmegen, the Netherlands. [PDF]
PLoS OneDe Coster M +5 more
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Long bones after suspected "grave robbery": a comparison of different methods for the estimation of the post mortem interval. [PDF]
Forensic Sci Med PatholBaumgarten J +7 more
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The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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More than flowers: Habitat type, floral resources, and landscape context shape pollinator communities in villages. [PDF]
Ecol ApplSchulze S +7 more
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Making Boundaries: Polish Memory, Identity and the Ukrainian Other
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Political elites use historical references abundantly when drawing national boundaries. Despite the prominence of such language, we know little about the ways in which ordinary citizens internalise historical narratives of the Other to construct their national identity.
Félix Krawatzek
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Living on the Edge: Juvenile Foraging and Adult Breeding Ecology of an Aerial Top Predator in Urban Environments. [PDF]
Ecol EvolEngler M, Krone O.
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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