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The Origins of Fashion

open access: yesEvolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep‐time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance.
Francesco d'Errico, Solange Rigaud
wiley   +1 more source

‘Doing Things with Words’: Funeral performative utterances among the Tonga of Zimbabwe

open access: yesThe Dyke
This article explores the oral heritage of the Batonga people through performative utterances made by individuals with specific relational roles during adult funeral ceremonies, whether male or female. It focuses on the nature of these utterances, their
Cathrine Sibanda   +5 more
doaj  

Exploring Human‐LLM Collaboration for Creativity Through the Lens of Concepts

open access: yesThe Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT We conducted a theoretical exploration into how human‐LLM collaboration can facilitate the emergence of creativity through the lens of concepts—a notion that is central in the philosophical discussions regarding human knowledge creation. Kant considers concepts to be an epistemological tool that transforms people's perceptual, intuitive ...
Honghong Bai   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Whānau Voices: Experiences of the Coronial Process Following Rangatahi Suicide in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2026.
This research investigates the experiences of whānau (Māori families) in Aotearoa New Zealand who lost a rangatahi (young person) to suicide and subsequently engaged with coronial services. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 11 whānau, involving 14 whānau members, between 2023 and 2024.
Denise Blake   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

« Sur les rites funéraires de la franc-maçonnerie belge du XIX e siècle »

open access: yesREHMLAC, 2011
During the 19 th century, death was a conflict between the Belgian Freemasonry and the Catholic Church. After the episcopal condemnation of 1837, Masons were denied the privilege to receive their last rites and have a religious ceremony at their ...
Jeffrey Tyssens
doaj  

Mass Fatality Management in Crisis and Wartime Conditions: Institutional Gaps in Civil Emergency Preparedness

open access: yesJournal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Mass fatality events represent one of the most challenging consequences of large‐scale crises and armed conflicts, yet they remain underexplored within crisis management and civil emergency preparedness research. While considerable attention is devoted to immediate life‐saving response and critical infrastructure protection, the management of ...
Irena Tušer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 309-341, September 2026.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
wiley   +1 more source

National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
wiley   +1 more source

‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 570-588, September 2026.
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
wiley   +1 more source

No Destination? Unveiling the Traces of the Future Among Young Asylum Seekers in “Waithood”

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 6, August 2026.
ABSTRACT What is the future like for young men who feel spatially and temporally stuck, like dozens of thousands who fled West Africa and reached Europe over the last decade, only to end up in the “waithood” of asylum reception? Is there any meaningful destination ahead of them? On the surface, their social and legal precarity is hard to reconcile with
Paolo Boccagni
wiley   +1 more source

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