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Une nouvelle inscription romaine provenant du castrum de Divio (Dijon)
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 ...
Sabine Lefebvre +1 more
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In this paper, we use Goffman's notion of “face work” to examine how pipeline engineers perform and present their working selves as competent experts. Our analysis identifies various faces and face work tactics, including a focus on professional judgment, actively selling one's expertise relative to others, protective self‐deprecatory strategies, and ...
Sarah Maslen +2 more
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This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
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Algar do Bom Santo: a Middle Neolithic necropolis in Portuguese Estremadura [PDF]
A research project on the Algar do Bom Santo necropolis started in 2010. This paper presents a preliminary synthesis on the exhumed human population and a first insight into the funerary practices recorded during the site excavations in the 1990s, as ...
Granja, Raquel +4 more
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Nekrodiatagma. Some Observations on I. Thrake Aeg. E216
The paper analyzes a funerary inscription from Maroneia, which contains an uncommon legal term – νεκροδιάταγμα. After a brief prosopographic and textual analysis of the inscription, the paper examines the term νεκροδιάταγμα from the point of view of the ...
Lyuba Radulova
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Une curieuse inscription découverte à Avgvstodvnvm (Autun – Saône-et-Loire)
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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For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
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A New Totenmahlrelief from the North-Western Asia Minor
A New Totenmahlrelief from the North-Western Asia MinorThe stele with a funerary banquet and a short inscription published here is of unknown provenance and was sold at an auction.
Thomas Corsten
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Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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