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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married and cohabiting couples. Does the decline of marriage and growth of cohabitation alter this relationship?
Maude Pugliese
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Patrimônio Imaterial: debates contemporâneos
Cadernos de Estudos Sociais, 2011 tuação do que representava um ‘bem cultural’ a ser preservado se consolidaram no mundo ocidental como uma referência ligada a bens tangíveis, os chamados “pedra e cal”, só começando a ser questionada de modo mais amplo após a Segunda Guerra Mundial ...
Sylvia Couceiro, Cibele Barbosa
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Genetic similarities among Modenese, Romagnola and three Veneto chicken breeds
Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2010 A recent Italian poultry study (Zanon et al., 2001) showed, in the last decades, the presence of 90 poultry breeds (53 of them are chicken’s), they represent a historical and cultural patrimony, and a genetic source of biodiversity.
A. Sabbioni +4 more
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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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Investigaciones Geográficas, 2014 The creation of conservation units permits, among others, the valuing of the natural patrimony. This valuing process is associated to the way society perceives patrimony, which, consequently, is attached to the value attributed to it.
Lilian Carla Moreira Bento +1 more
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Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2005 Amazonian Indians nowadays claim their culture as intellectual property, and seek financial compensation for anthropological work conducted among them. Is this simply a process of westernization? Beginning with an analysis of Trumai conceptualizations of
Emmanuel de Vienne, Olivier Allard
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
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