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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Churches no longer as churches: the urban case study in Pisa
In_Bo, 2017 The urban tissue of Pisa is characterized by the presence of many churches built mostly in the Middle Ages (XI-XIII); however, the gradual reduction of the believer’s number in contrast to the widespread of churches, brought to re-functionalization of ...
Fabiana Susini
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The sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Atabyros in Rhodes: preliminary notes on its architecture
, 2023 No temple was ever built within the Rhodian sanctuary of Zeus Atabyrios, whose open-air cult focused on a monumental altar. Excavated in 1926, the sanctuary has been recently studied by the Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies in cooperation with ...
Giorgio Rocco, Monica Livadiotti
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We integrated short‐read and long‐read RNA‐seq data from cochlear tissues of echolocating and non‐echolocating bats to disentangle transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation. Echolocating bats showed neural‐function enrichment among differentially expressed genes, while alternatively spliced genes were linked to epigenetic regulation. Overlaps
Jianyu Wu +3 more
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DBCELLS - AN OPEN AND GLOBAL MULTI-SCALE LINKED CELLS
Revista Brasileira de Cartografia, 2017 Land change models require large amounts of data, and are diffi cult to be reproduced, as well as to be reused. Some initiatives to open and link data increase the reproducibility of scientiï¬ c experiments and data reuse. One pillar of the linked data
Sergio Souza Costa +3 more
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot +2 more
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The possible initial period origins of the Chavin Jaguar motif
, 2010 For years, the focus of study in the Chavin culture has been on their influence on later cultures. This study is meant to look into the influences that cultures in the Initial Period may have had on the Chavin, in particular, to their famous jaguar ...
Everson, Nathan
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