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‘Beds and thrones: the reform of aulic space in late eighteenth-century France’ [PDF]
Court societies relied on interior decoration to make visible their strict social hierarchies. The successful deployment of architecture and furnishings not only enhanced a regime’s prestige but also buttressed its political legitimacy.
Jean-François Bédard
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Late fire ceremonies and abandonment behaviors at the Classic Maya city of Naachtun, Guatemala
Abstract This paper focuses on the process of abandonment in pre-Hispanic Maya societies. Toward the end of the Classic period (250–950 CE), the general desertion of the Central Lowland cities gave place to multiple acts – including fires and on-floor ash spreading – intended to ritually terminate the occupation of houses and buildings.
Dussol, Lydie +2 more
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HUMAN CEREMONIAL RITUAL AND THE MODULATION OF AGGRESSION
. Human ceremonial ritual is considered as an evolved behavior, one of the principal effects of which is the promotion of intragroup cohesion by decreasing or eliminating intragroup aggression.
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The language of fire has sometimes been used in illustrative ways to describe how social movements spark, flare, and sometimes sputter out. Building on recent scholarship about protest camps, as well as borrowing language from environmental historians ...
Elizabeth Hoover
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An Inside Sun: Lickanantay Volcanology in the Salar de Atacama
The need of establishing more substantive dialogs between the mainstream and Indigenous knowledge on volcanoes has been increasingly recognized. To contribute to this endeavor, in this article we present the basic volcanological understandings of the ...
Sonia Ramos Chocobar +5 more
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Tari Baris Babuang pada Upacara Pegingsiran Jro Pingit di Desa Pengotan
Bali is one of the islands that is very well known to foreign countries. Besides being famous for its natural beauty it is also known by the nickname of the Thousand Temples.
I Wayan Hartawan +2 more
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Since late antiquity, diplomacy has been subject to various protocols governing the treatment of ambassadors and their behavior. With the gradual spread of new ways of doing diplomacy, and the increasing correlation of diplomacy with sovereignty during ...
Toby Osborne, Osborne, Toby
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ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo +9 more
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Economic Rents and Legitimacy: Incorporating Elements of Organizational Analysis Institutional Theory to the Field of Business Strategy [PDF]
Are sources of economic rent, as defined by the prevalent business strategy paradigm, sufficient to attain and maintain superior returns? The perspective developed within the conceptual framework of the Institutional Theory may offer managers a ...
Marco Aurélio Lima de Queiroz +2 more
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Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine +17 more
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