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British Educational Research Journal, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 2009-2030, June 2026.Abstract Despite a growing international consensus that students need to be provided with the type of education that effectively prepares them to engage in and contribute to their globalised world, and that teachers need to be appropriately trained to facilitate this teaching and learning, ‘global education’ continues to be hindered by a lack of ...
Sarah‐Louise Jones +2 more
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Divine intimacy, frustration and the madness of the city: Changing transhuman kinship in China
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.This essay shows the affective resonances of the collision of gods, humans, and rapidly shifting landscapes in a newly urbanized part of Suzhou, China. The first section discusses how ties to spirits are not just metaphors or projections of human kinship, but literal parts of a kinship system that invoke responsibilities of care, based on links of both
Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract Women's subjective relationship with their pregnancy is central in understanding fetal personhood, a relationship that is theirs to assemble and disassemble. A rigid perception of personhood as either present or absent is problematized, instead revealing an evolving approach.
Susie Kilshaw
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More than Valkyries : A re-interpretation of Viking Age Female Figurines
, 2019 Figurines with a human shape have been created in almost every culture all throughout human history. In this thesis one such group of figurines is under investigation, Viking age female figurines.
Wihlborg, Julia
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 308-319, June 2026.ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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Anthropomorphic Clay Figurines of the Jomon Period of Japan
, 2017 This chapter charts the trajectory of change of Jomon period clay anthropomorphic figurines in the Japanese archipelago. The earliest specimens embodied the perception of the body and female bodily experiences rather than accurately representing the body
Koji Mizoguchi
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Ancient Copper Alloy Figurines from Daghestan
, 1999 Nothing appears to have been written in English about a group of powerfully-sculpted lost-wax copper alloy, standing, naked figurines, 30–60mm tall, mainly from mountainous regions of west Daghestan and south-east Chechnya in the Caucasus.
Robert Chenciner
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The Evolution of Female Figurine Clothing in Tang Dynasty Luoyang
Art FrontierLuoyang was a secondary capital during the Tang Dynasty, and the female figurines unearthed from Tang tombs are representative of that era. During the early Tang period, female figurines often wore short jackets in red, yellow, or green paired with red skirts, with belts adorned with red and green patterns. Their robes were predominantly red, and their
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A rhomboidal clay plate from Iepureşti – La Islaz (Giurgiu County)
Materiale și Cercetări ArheologiceThe paper presents an incomplete, undecorated, burned rhomboidal clay plate discovered in the Gumelnița A1 settlement at Iepurești – La Islaz (Giurgiu County). Its importance relies on the fact it is one of the two westernmost known artefacts of the kind,
Kogălniceanu, R.
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A Study of Pigment, Adhesive, and Firing Temperature in Pottery Figurines Excavated from the Tomb of Qibi Ming, China. [PDF]
Molecules, 2023 Li Y +7 more
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