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Female Figurines of the Kostenki Type: Style and Image

Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University. Geoarchaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology Series, 2022
The paper considers 15 figurines from the Kostenki 1, Avdeevo, Gagarino, and Willendorf sites. For comparison, representations of two modern female figures are employed. In eight cases, we used copies of the statuettes (collection St Petersburg State University) for interpretation of the measurements.
openaire   +1 more source

Iron Age II Clay Figurines and Zoomorphic Vessels [PDF]

, 2021
We discuss 49 Iron Age II clay figurines and zoomorphic vessels, one mold and a unique stone figurine found at Tel Rehov in the Galilee, Israel. The figurines include a new type (freestanding plaque figurines); drummer female figurines; a drummer ...
Kletter, Raz, Saarelainen, Katri
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Les figurines de terre cuite de l’Aphrodision d’Argos

Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2016
The terracotta figurines of the Aphrodision of Argos comprise a very rich corpus that sheds light on the creation of archaic Argive sculpture. This is especially the case for the type of the “seated female” that has a modeled body with a molded head. The
Hélène Aurigny, Francis Croissant
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The Obstetric Connection: Midwives and Weasels within and beyond Minoan Crete

Religions, 2021
The Minoan peak sanctuaries call for systematic comparative research as an island-bound phenomenon whose significance to the (pre)history of medicine far transcends the Cretan context: they yield clay anatomical offerings attesting to the earliest known ...
Simone Zimmermann Kuoni
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Brevi note di coroplastica siracusana: due esemplari di statuette con bambino

Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2016
Two mold-made, terracotta figurines representing a woman holding a child are rare within the coroplastic typology of Syracuse. Although they were brought to light during earlier excavations in Syracuse they have never been the object of study.
Angela Maria Manenti
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Fragile Women in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Marina Carr’s The Mai

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences, 2020
Both Tennessee Williams and Marina Carr are interested in female issues. Throughout his literary career, Williams expresses his feelings towards his mother and sister through the female characters that inhabit his plays. Mostly, they are fragile women in
Fathia Saleh Al-Ghoreibi
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Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
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From artifact to icon: an analysis of the Venus figurines in archaeological literature and contemporary culture [PDF]

, 2005
This thesis examines the body of material known as the Venus figurines, which date from the European Upper Palaeolithic period. The argument proceeds in two stages: the first examines this material through a detailed textual analysis of the ...
Lander, Louise Muriel
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‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton, Barbara Adewumi, Laura R. Bailey, Jacob W. Moore, Lauren‐Marie Aba Amoah   +4 more
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source