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Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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Spatial and temporal distribution characteristics and geographic contexts of civilized villages in China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ding Q, Yang Z, Huang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment Possibilisme agropastoral et affordances des trajectoires dans les landes de l'arrière‐pays danois : une étude des entraves dans le passé lointain

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark.
Zachary Caple, Mette Løvschal
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Phylogenetic analysis of the enigmatic Kalash population in Pakistan. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Shahid I, Javed F, Shehzadi A, Munsif J, Ali Shahid A, Shafique M.   +5 more
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Emotion as the Basis of Civilization

, 1930
Li K, J. H. Denison
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Was Einhard a widower?

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
wiley   +1 more source

In Vivo Insights into the Role of Astragaloside IV in Preventing and Treating Civilization Diseases: A Comprehensive Review. [PDF]

Int J Mol Sci
Stępnik K, Jarząb A, Niedźwiadek R, Głowniak-Lipa A, Głowniak K, Kukula-Koch W.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Civilization of the Native Peoples of America [PDF]

, 1884
Edward B. Tylor
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Carl Gustav Jung: Paradigms and extra-terrestrial intelligence. [PDF]

Bioinformation
Shapshak P.
europepmc   +1 more source