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Monuments to Injustice and the Ethics of Dark Tourism: A Research Note
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research note aims to motivate philosophical examination of the ethical tensions surrounding ‘dark tourism’ and monuments to injustice. While such monuments function to acknowledge past wrongs, educate the public, and serve reparative functions, their presentation as tourist destinations can undermine these purposes.
Kok‐Chor Tan
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Small anthropomorphic figurines in clay at Ģipka Neolithic settlements
Documenta Praehistorica, 2005 Miniature Neolithic figurines in clay are a special topic of research. This especially concerns areas where their representation has so far been poor. While carrying out archaeological excavations in Northern Kurzeme, the north-west coastal dune zone of ...
Ilze Biruta Loze
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi +15 more
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2012 The biographical approach to material culture and the hypothesis of deliberate fragmentation of anthropomorphic figurines are used in this paper to deduce a hypothesis that there should be an association between particular fragmentation categories and ...
Marko Porčić
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Zoomorphic imagery and social process during the Early Bronze Age
Documenta Praehistorica, 2023 Through the agency of animals, we think about our identity, landscape and society, and therefore animal imagery holds a special place in approaches to human thought.
Ebru Gizem Ayten, Çiğdem Atakuman
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013 The paper focuses on researching the meaning of Siberian figurines of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Period. The figurines are considered to be symbols of power and ritual items. The research was conducted in the context of the places where the figurines
A. V. Morozov
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ReligionsMuch attention has been paid to female, pillar-based figurines from Iron II Judah, and the veneration of a major goddess in that territory. Similarly, female figurines throughout the Levant have largely been treated as evidence of goddess-worship, writ ...
Erin Darby
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King +2 more
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Small, EarlyView.Bio‐based oxime esters are converted into efficient metal‐free photoinitiators for 405 nm LEDs and sunlight by Dexter‑type triplet energy transfer from ITX, enabling fast and deep visible light curing, high‐resolution 3D printing and improved cytocompatibility.
Kaidan Yang +10 more
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