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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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Rede de Multiplicação e Transferência de Materiais Propagativos de Mandioca com qualidade genética e fitossanitária para o estado da Bahia (RENIVA) - avanços e desafios: relato de experiência. [PDF]
, 2014 A cultura da mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) possui grande expressão socioeconômica, sobretudo por ser alimento básico para quase um bilhão de pessoas em todo o mundo.
CARDOSO, C. E. L., SILVEIRA, H. F. da
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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A Flexible Corporation: Classic Period House Societies in Eastern Mesoamerica
, 2001 House society models, based on the work of Levi-Strauss but since refined by cultural anthropologists and archaeologists, provide a good model for understanding social organization among the ancient Maya and their neighbors in Mesoamerica based on a ...
Hendon, Julia A., Joyce, Rosemary A.
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Beyond Groups? Consociational Culture and the Representation of Cross‐Segmental Interests
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract In deeply divided societies, consociational power‐sharing ensures representation for ethnonational groups but raises questions about cross‐segmental interests. This paper explores “consociational culture,” arguing that consociational systems create a form of political culture which incentivises the use of group‐based categories and identities ...
Patrizia John
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Surface Lithic Material Analysis at Northeast Pueyrredón-Cochrane Lake (Santa Cruz, Argentina) [PDF]
, 2013 La ubicación de concentraciones de material lítico en superficie puede brindar información acerca del uso de distintos sectores de un espacio determinado.
Bozzuto, Damian Leandro
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Resenha: Domesticidade, gênero e cultura material
Revista CPC, 2019 Resenha do livro Domesticidade, gênero e cultura material. Organização: Flávia Brito do Nascimento, José Tavares Correia de Lira, Silvana Barbosa Rubino, Joana Mello de Carvalho. 2017.
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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R. Estadísticos Descriptivos [PDF]
, 2014 Material elaborado en el marco de la convocatoria de Ayudas para el desarrollo de la Innovación Educativa y Calidad Docente del Vicerectorat de Cultura i Igualtat de la Unviversitat de València de 28 de marzo de 2013Conocer, calcular e interpretar ...
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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