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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
wiley   +1 more source

Parametric Modelling and Traditional Architecture: Improving the thermal comfort of the traditional courtyard house in Morocco

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
The traditional courtyard house of the Mediterranean Basin has been viewed as a complex regulating system that creates a microclimate which historically worked, and still works, in a passive way to provide acceptable thermal comfort in summer.
El Harrouni Khalid, Ben Aicha Mouhcine, El Harrouni Rime   +2 more
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Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
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The Effects of Courtyards on the Thermal Performance of a Vernacular House in a Hot-Summer and Cold-Winter Climate

Energies, 2019
Achieving comfort in hot summer and cold winter (HSCW) climate zones can be challenging, since the climate is characterized by high temperatures in the summer and relatively colder temperatures in the winter. Courtyards, along with other semi-open spaces
Shimeng Hao, Changming Yu, Yuejia Xu, Yehao Song   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
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First record of Uperodon globulosus (Günther, 1864) (Anura, Microhylidae) in Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh [PDF]

Check List, 2018
Uperodon globulosus (Günther, 1864) has so far been recorded from 6 localities in Bangladesh over the past 3 decades. In June 2017, we found an adult female in a courtyard of a house in Jonail village (Natore district, Rajshahi division ...
Md. Mokhlesur Rahman, Md. Mahabub Alam, Md. Fazle Rabbe   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the ceramic finds from archaeological investigations conducted in 2024 at two settlements: ‘Islamic Village' and Suhaila 2, one of a number of mountain villages of the Late Islamic period within the Ḥattā Oasis: a high‐altitude exclave in the Emirate of Dubai. The sites are located on the northeastern slopes of Jabal Qallāt
Seth M. N. Priestman, Agnese Kukela, Mansour Boraik, Hassan Mohammed Zein   +3 more
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Bilateral Supracondylar Process in a Subadult in the Late Antique Age: A Case Report

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the excavation procedures for the railway trait Napoli‐Cancello, in the city of Afragola (Naples), several burials dating back to the Late Antique Age were found. One of them was an amphora burial (enchytrismòs) and contained the skeletal remains of a subadult individual affected by bilateral supracondylar process. Supracondylar process
Barbara Albanese, Daniele Maria Gibelli, Sergio Cascella, Cristina Cattaneo   +3 more
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Formation, Transformation and Inheritance of Dai Dwellings Through a Typological Lens: The Case of Nongme Village, China

Buildings
Traditional dwellings as the products of the combined effects of time, space and agency possess both a dynamic nature and historical continuity. With the progression of globalization and urbanization, the patterns of villages in Southwest China have ...
Xuerui Chai, Yinsheng Tian, Shuya Yang, Tao Wei   +3 more
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An Uncommon Instance of Egyptian Blue in the “Pigmented Intonachino” of the Fishpond Wall Painting From the Roman Villa of Torre di Pordenone (Northeast Italy)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasingly close integration of analytical techniques in the study of Greek and Roman wall paintings has shown that Egyptian blue was a common pigment, widely documented in the production of blue and greenish hues in ancient painted production.
Simone Dilaria, Clelia Sbrolli, Hilary Becker, Yotam Asscher, Anna De Zotti, Monica Salvadori   +5 more
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