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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
wiley   +1 more source

Zer sanr 'spirit guardians' chanted by pirma Gavq Lavq [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
.wav and .mp3 versions of audio fileA .wav recording of the third chant performed when carrying out a funeral rite and its accompanying text translated and glossed into contemporary Akha and English.
Terrell, Jacob A.
core   +1 more source

Generational Inversions: \u27Working\u27 for Social Reproduction amid HIV in Swaziland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
How do people envision social reproduction when regular modes of generational succession and continuity are disrupted in the context of HIV/AIDS? How and where can scholars identify local ideas for restoring intergenerational practices of obligation and ...
Golomski, Casey
core   +2 more sources

Att komplettera eller konkurrera? Om prästers och begravningsentreprenörers arbetsuppgifter och ansvarsområden

open access: yesSvensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2013
Funeral directors and priests — do they complement each other or do they compete? Based on field studies at funeral directors’ and a survey among priests in the Church of Sweden, conflicts between the two parts are analyzed. The funeral directors mainly
Anna Davidsson Bremborg
doaj  

‘Sons of athelings given to the earth’: Infant Mortality within Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
FOR 20 OR MORE YEARS early Anglo-Saxon archaeologists have believed children are underrepresented in the cemetery evidence. They conclude that excavation misses small bones, that previous attitudes to reporting overlook the very young, or that infants ...
Adams B   +89 more
core   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

SOME WAYS OF TALUSES' USE IN FUNERAL RITE OF EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE PEOPLE

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2014
The aim of this article is the analysis of small cattle’s taluses that were found in funeral complexes in Donetz river region dated by Early and Middle Bronze age.
A N Usachuk, N V Panasyuk
doaj  

Newly Discovered Sarmatian Burial Complexes from the Kurgan in the Caucasian Mineral Waters Region

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник
In 2010, the expedition of the Nasledie State Unitary Enterprise (Stavropol) conducted archaeological excavations on the territory of the Caucasian Mineral Waters and excavated the kurgan 1 of the Voniuchka-1 kurgan cemetery near the city of Pyatigorsk ...
Yakov B. Berezin, Aleksei А. Kalmykov
doaj   +1 more source

Mégalithisme chez les Konso (Éthiopie)

open access: yesAfrique Archéologie Arts, 2003
In Southern Ethiopia, on both sides of the Rift Valley, thousands of stelea have been risen on the death of some great figures between the Xth and XIVth centuries AD.
Roger Joussaume, Metasebia Bekele
doaj   +1 more source

What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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