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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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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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Ühe Praha varakeskaegse kultuskoha astronoomilised alused [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2011 The authors present a structure of cult points in Prague which was used during the Early Middle Ages and till the 12th century partially destroyed as well as partly substituted during some churches. The structure was composed on the basis of astronomical
Andrej Pleterski, Jiří J. Mareš
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Solar deity in Japanese mythology [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANUIn order to create an orderly state, the first imperial chronicles emerged in the early 8th century in the territory of modern Japan through the integration and systematization of mythical elements that proved the legitimacy of the government ...
Vasić Danijela
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Revisiting Ontology to Reshape Transgenerational Justice
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops a philosophical framework for understanding transgenerationality as a foundational concept for intergenerational justice. Drawing on social ontology and the philosophy of action, it introduces the notion of transgenerational civitas—a temporally extended community composed of past, present and future generations.
Tiziana Andina
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Arithmetic--some drill aspects [PDF]
, 1927 Thesis (M.A.)--Boston ...
Finneran, Elizabeth Margaret
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Begetting Silvio Gesell in the Modern Economy: A Marriage of Frederick Soddy and Kenneth Boulding
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Natural Economic Order, first published in 1916, Silvio Gesell warned against a fiat monetary system that in place of controlling the circulation of money with demurrage, sought to manage the system by accommodating demand for liquidity.
Ahmed Anwar
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ANCIENTS ROOTS AND SEMANTICS FIELD OF ETHNONIM KAS/KAŠ
Кавказология, 2019 The use of the root morpheme kas for the name of the ancient and medieval peoples of Eurasia is considered: helmets, Kassites, Caspians, Circassians. A connection is established between this ethnonym and the god of the moon in the Hutt, Cascian, Cassite ...
B. Kh. BGAZHNOKOV
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Region-Based Image Retrieval Revisited
, 2017 Region-based image retrieval (RBIR) technique is revisited. In early attempts at RBIR in the late 90s, researchers found many ways to specify region-based queries and spatial relationships; however, the way to characterize the regions, such as by using ...
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