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An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Tale of the Tokugawa Artifacts: Japanese Funerary Lanterns at the Penn Museum

open access: yes, 2019
That previously stood at the back of the quiet inner courtyard of the Penn Museum waited many years for its significance to be rediscovered. It is one of the Tokugawa lanterns that long illuminated the shogunate family’s grand mausoleums during the Edo ...
Nishimura, Yoko
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Back to the Land: Museum Practices, Collections, and Other‐Than‐Human Politics in Southern Chile

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the 2000s, Mapuche communities' participation has transformed the Mapuche Museum of Cañete. This participation shifted the institution's concept, curation, and conservation practices. From the second half of the 2010s onwards, other‐than‐human politics reshaped the participatory process.
Lucas da Costa Maciel
wiley   +1 more source

Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
wiley   +1 more source

‘There Is No Such Thing’—Meaningful Human Contact in Prison Under International Law

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the notion of ‘meaningful human contact’ as expressed in the Mandela Rules 2015 (United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners—SMRs) through fieldwork carried out in Scottish prisons via a letter‐writing project.
Deborah Russo
wiley   +1 more source

Under the Judgement of the Living God: The Early Christian Funerary Imprecations of Phrygian Eumeneia

open access: yesReligions
Since the late nineteenth century, the Phrygian funerary imprecation, known as the Eumeneian formula, has been considered one of the clearest indicators of Christian religious identity on inscriptions from Roman Asia Minor.
Bernard Doherty
doaj   +1 more source

Families and states: citizenship and demography in the Greco-Roman world [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the interrelationship between states and families. At different levels of organization, both play a large role in shaping the context in which individuals live their lives. Yet when it comes to understanding key demographic events
Saskia C. Hin
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Union–Member Engagement in Cambodia's Construction Sector

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues for the concept of adaptive unionism as a useful way to explore the pragmatic, often short‐term approach that unions adopt just to survive in many parts of the Global South, exploring the impact of an adaptive approach through a comparative study of the Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia's ...
Michele Ford, Vichhra Mouyly
wiley   +1 more source

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