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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper is devoted to the collections of old Sakha objects produced by Indigenous craftsmen in the north of the Russian Empire and now located in many museums around the world. For several centuries, objects representing Sakha material culture were taken away from their place of origin by explorers, scholars, collectors, and missionaries ...
Tatiana Argounova‐Low
wiley   +1 more source

A metaverse based digital preservation of temple architecture and heritage. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Buragohain D   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 57-88, February 2026.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
wiley   +1 more source

The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 34-69, February 2026.
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Material Aspirations, Cultural Change, and the Transition Toward Sustained Growth

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 199-223, February 2026.
ABSTRACT We highlight the role of economic materialism as a cultural phenomenon of significance in relation to economic transformation and development. By inducing material aspirations, an endogenous cultural change toward more widespread adherence to materialistic values is both a cause and an effect of productivity growth.
Evangelos V. Dioikitopoulos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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