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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Stable isotope analysis reveals Bronze Age diets at Deh Dumen Iran. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Maghsoud EM, Koochakzaei A, Naseri R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rethinking ‘Hill‐Valley Divide’ in Darjeeling District, India: An Autoethnographic Approach to Highland Identities

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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Ancient genomic evidence reveals dual migration routes and yak introgression history of taurine cattle on the Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]

Natl Sci Rev
Chen S, Hou J, Gao Y, Sheng G, Zhang Y, Wangdue S, Duoji Z, Hu S, Fu Q, Liu X, Chen N, Chen F.   +11 more
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Reflections of Their Homelands-Early Life Enamel Formation Disruption in Nineteenth Century Settlers of Otago, New Zealand. [PDF]

J R Soc N Z
Kavale-Henderson LA, Loch C, Buckley H, Petchey P, King C, Cameron C, Snoddy AME.   +6 more
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Silent witness: a moss provides important evidence in solving a cemetery crime. [PDF]

Forensic Sci Res
von Konrat M, Stark L, Merkel J, Grauer A, Jakalski W, Kiefer P, Kreider D, Leafblad E, Lichamer A, Merrill G, Moran J, Quinn G, Seccombe D, Sodetz K, Thrun M.   +14 more
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Urn Cemeteries

, 1958
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Do Mobile Phone Surveys Supplement Other Mortality Surveillance Methods? Results From a National Study in Bangladesh

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To test whether mobile phone surveys conducted remotely might generate data on deaths that are not covered by mortality surveillance systems established in laboratories and health facilities, or in institutions involved in the post‐mortem management of corpses (e.g., morgues, cemeteries).
Aashish Gupta, Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Tahsin Shahrin Khan, Chandra Nirod Saha, Farzana Islam Khan, Alain Labrique, Tahmina Shirin, Mohan Diwakar, Georges Reniers, Iqbal Ansary Khan, Dustin G. Gibson, Stephane Helleringer   +11 more
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