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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Une nouvelle inscription romaine provenant du castrum de Divio (Dijon)
Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2016 Known by literary sources from the Late Roman period, the Castrum of Dijon has marked today's urbanism. Old maps, the study of Louis-Bénigne Baudot's notebooks and the reassessment of the preserved ruins have improved our knowledge of the Late Roman ...
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EDV – Italian Medieval Epigraphy in the Vernacular. Some Editorial Problems Discussed, [PDF]
, 2018 EDV (Epigraphic Database Vernacular) is a database collecting the vernacular inscriptions produced in Italy from the late Medieval to the Early Modern Age, and is a part of the EAGLE and IDEA projects. The present contribution illustrates the criteria
Cannata, Nadia
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Local churches and the conquest of the North : elite patronage and identity in Saxo-Norman Northumbria [PDF]
, 2011 The social implications of the Saxo-Norman transition are particularly intriguing in Northumbria, where Anglian, Scandinavian, and Norman social structures, identities, and traditions of material culture converged.
McClain, A.
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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The Cinerary Urn of the Haruspex M. Titius Stephanus
GeriónWe present a study on a Roman funerary urn, with the Latin inscription mentioning a hitherto uncatalogued haruspex in the sacerdotes romani lists. The monument presents a complex and varied decoration, topical images of the urns, and some dionysiac ...
SABINO PEREA YEBENES
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions 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
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Une curieuse inscription découverte à Avgvstodvnvm (Autun – Saône-et-Loire)
Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2007 During an evaluation carried out in 2005 on the eastern periphery of Autun, funerary vestiges relating to one of the three known late Roman cemeteries were discovered.
Yannick Labaune, Yann Le Bohec
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The Posthumous Depiction of Youths in Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Gymnasia [PDF]
, 2018 Dieser Beitrag untersucht posthume Ehrungen und Darstellungen von jungen Männern im Gymnasion, die in der Forschung bislang nicht umfassend untersucht worden sind.
Kazakidi, Natalia
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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