Results 101 to 110 of about 359,240 (341)
Biological richness of a large urban cemetery in Berlin. Results of a multi-taxon approach
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2016 Background Urban green spaces can harbor a considerable species richness of plants and animals. A few studies on single species groups indicate important habitat functions of cemeteries, but this land use type is clearly understudied compared to parks ...
S. Buchholz +10 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Remembrance Day…But Remembering What?
, 2014 In conversation with other CWI Fellows last week, we began discussing the strangeness of the annual Remembrance Day Parade. Originally conceived as a way to recreate the procession to the cemetery in 1863 to hear the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ...
Johnson, S. Marianne
core
One Year On: Obliterated By Degrees [PDF]
, 2014 The battle anniversary loomed in the waning days of June. And Gettysburg was preparing. Aside from the feasting in the Spangler Meadow on the 4th, the holiday would undoubtedly see tourists swarming the fields and hills where just a few dozen weeks ...
Rudy, John M.
core +1 more source
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
wiley +1 more source
Children’s burials from the early medieval inhumation cemetery in Radom, Site 4
Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2015 The paper discusses discoveries of children’s burials from the inhumation cemetery in Radom, which was excavated in the 1960s. Data on post-mortem treatment of children from groups of infans I and infans II was discussed against the general background ...
Tomasz Kurasiński, Kalina Skóra
doaj
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
wiley +1 more source
Une curieuse inscription découverte à Avgvstodvnvm (Autun – Saône-et-Loire)
Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2007 During an evaluation carried out in 2005 on the eastern periphery of Autun, funerary vestiges relating to one of the three known late Roman cemeteries were discovered.
Yannick Labaune, Yann Le Bohec
doaj +1 more source
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
wiley +1 more source
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
wiley +1 more source
Archéologie d’un village du Moyen Âge à la période moderne. L’exemple de Villiers-le-Bel
Archéopages, 2015 Excavations in the centre of present-day villages are an essential component of investigations into the complex questions thrown up by medieval villages, complementing interventions on rural settlements in open fields. The areas excavated are smaller and
François Gentili
doaj +1 more source