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The Tatars in Lithuania and Their Ethnohistory
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2021 This article focuses on the interpretation and re-interpretation of the history of the Tatar community in Lithuania. It is the result of field studies conducted in 2012, 2015 and 2016 and draws the reader’s attention to Tatar ethnohistory, understood as ...
Veneta Yankova
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Les épidémies et Recherches amérindiennes au Québec
Revue d'Études Autochtones, 2022 Cette revue de littérature s’intéresse à la question des épidémies et à leurs études à l’intérieur des Amériques dans la revue Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (1971-2021).
Alexandra LaPerrière +1 more
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The Journal of Engineering, Volume 2023, Issue 12, December 2023., 2023 To propose a framework that utilizes the real‐time object detection capabilities of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm to enable rapid and efficient detection of health‐related cellular features or dangerous reptiles in cellular images, reducing the processing time compared to traditional methods.
Saroj Kumar Pandey +7 more
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Gambling in Ancient North America
Critical Gambling Studies, 2021 Gambling in ancient North America was primarily an intergroup activity. This position as a liminal practice, taking place on territorial frontiers and at large intertribal gatherings, puts gaming on the very forefront of cultural transmission and ...
Gabriel Yanicki
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Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 6, Page 1246-1259, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Iron has been one of the most critical technotraditions that had lasting impact on social formation throughout the Iron Age and historical period. Iron was used in warfare and subsistence economy. Our knowledge on ancient iron smelting and working have generally been derived from ethnography and ethnohistory, which is by all means, time ...
Nishkarsh Srivastava +5 more
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The Metamorphosis of Tobacco: The Tobacco Pipe Makers' Arms
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 896-917, November 2023., 2023 A delftware dish, made in London between approximately 1670 and 1690, depicts the arms of the Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers. The three Black women who gaze out from the dish can be viewed as representations of the enslaved women whose agricultural and reproductive labour enabled the transatlantic tobacco trade.
Carla Cevasco
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Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 603-622, July 2023., 2023 Abstract This article argues that Mormon colonists – once refugees who had sought freedom from persecution for their sexual practices – asserted a white middle‐class respectability as they cooperated with the US Army and corresponded with officers on the management of the soldiers’ sexual conduct. Their success depended heavily on shared understandings
Pamela Jean Maddock
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Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2002 A variant of the oracular game pichca, different from variants described by Gentile Lafaille (1998), provides an annual augury for agropastoralism in central Huarochirí (Department of Lima, Peru).
Frank Salomon
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Feathers and the Making of Luxury Experiences at the Sixteenth‐Century Spanish Court☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 399-438, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This article charts the activities of featherworkers (plumajeros) at the Habsburg court in Madrid. Drawing on archival records, objects, and paintings from sixteenth‐century Spain, I argue that royal featherworkers' skills, wit, and intricacy in the transformation of materials established feathers as luxury items.
Stefan Hanß
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Remarques critiques sur l’historiographie des Choctaw
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2019 Patricia Galloway’s historical work on the Choctaw of the Southeastern United States has mainly focused on their coalescent dynamic as a people. In such ethnogenetic perspective, it is commonly assumed that regional subdivisions of the Choctaw in the ...
Benjamin Balloy
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