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125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supply and demand in local government : Patea district, 1872-1917 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University [PDF]

, 1975
'Local government' is "that element of the whole structure of government which is concerned essentially with the administration of affairs of a peculiarly local significance,"¹ A.H.
Clifford, Edward Martyn
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Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

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
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Documentation of Additional Vessels from the Johns Site (41CP12), Camp County, Texas [PDF]

, 2010
The Johns site (41CP12) is a Titus phase cemetery in the Prairie Creek valley in the Big Cypress Creek stream basin of the Northeast Texas Pineywoods. The Caddo artifacts from the site are from the Robert L. Turner, Jr. and Tommy John collections.
Nelson, Bo, Perttula, Timothy K., Walters, Mark   +2 more
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On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

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

Interpretive Urban Cemeteries: Urban Cemeteries Reinterpreted

, 2022
Cemeteries - the oldest repositories of architecture and society - have until recently, 'quitely' been undergoing a technological as well as cultural revolution that is creating new opportunities for interacting not just with memorialisation but history and and our built environment as well.
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My life after death: connecting the field, the findings and the feelings [PDF]

, 2007
This paper is an account of an emotional journey that took place alongside an ethnographic study of the contemporary cemetery landscape. It seeks to highlight the importance of conducting empirical research as a 'rite of passage', leading to the role of ...
Woodthorpe, Kate
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

Araplar Düzü’nden Karskapı’ya Erzurum Şehitliği

Culture and Civilization
Osmanlı Devleti’nden Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ne uzanan süreçte Erzurum şehrinde iki şehitlik mevcuttur. Bunlardan biri, şehrin güneyindeki Çırçır Mahallesi’nin hemen üst, yani güney tarafında bulunan Araplar Düzü Şehitliği’dir.
Murat Küçükuğurlu
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source