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A history of cross-cultural exchanges in Finnish and Swedish diddling [PDF]
, 2010 Publisher ...
Hill, Juniper
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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez +1 more
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Journal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aristolochia species have long been used in traditional medicine for their presumed anti‐inflammatory, analgesic and antimicrobial properties. However, extensive toxicological and epidemiological evidence now demonstrates that these plants contain aristolochic acids (AAs) I and II, highly potent nephrotoxic, genotoxic, and carcinogenic ...
Victor Ventura de Souza +2 more
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Impacts of Social Assistance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Poor Remote Communities
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing social assistance to poor populations in remote communities in times of crises, such as pandemics, is challenging but crucial. This paper examines how food assistance during the COVID‐19 pandemic affected people's behaviour, using our surveys among over 400 rural communities without road access in the Peruvian Amazon. Food assistance
Yoshito Takasaki +2 more
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Cultural Folk Paintings of Nimar
International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH, 2018 Indian folk arts establish the ethos of life and the foundation of folk culture. The culture and civilization of Nimar can be seen in folklore, folklore, folk paintings. The inclusion of symbols in the making of various Teej-festivals folk paintings shows the presence in their sociality.
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The popular and the avant-garde: performance, incorporation and resistance [PDF]
, 2015 Many modernists in the late nineteenth century harboured a strong suspicion of the emerging mass culture produced for the working classes. Adopting a position similar to Matthew Arnold’s (2009) that culture was the speciality of a cultured few, and not ...
Price, Jason
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines regional and chronological variations in Acheulean handaxe morphology during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (c. 425–365 ka BP) in Britain. Using a data set of 737 handaxes from 13 securely dated sites in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, we apply three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to examine morphological ...
Mark White +5 more
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Intangible inventions: the Kalbeliya gypsy dance form, from its creation to UNESCO recognition [PDF]
, 2015 Despite the creation of the Kālbeliyā dance form in the 1980s, it was recognized as a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage in 2010. Rajasthani “Gypsy” performances,featuring a dance designed by the nomadic Kālbeliyā community, have quickly become popular ...
Joncheere, Ayla
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Multidexterity: Reframing Strategic Agility for Hyper‐Transformation
Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organizations experiencing hyper‐transformation—continuous, multidimensional, accelerated, and simultaneous organizational changes—face some limitations in traditional strategic agility and ambidexterity frameworks. Current strategic agility emphasizes rapid responsiveness but insufficiently addresses the nuanced management of varying speeds ...
Alessandro Lanteri
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