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Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which they ...
Elsa G. Guillot, Murray P. Cox
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Locusts on the Arabian Oil Commodity Frontier: Space, Territory and Ecology in the Extractive Zone
ABSTRACT In 1943, British authorities launched a major operation in Arabia against the desert locust. Considered a threat to food security, teams of troops patrolled the desert to search for the insect and lay poison. Based on British archive documents, I argue that these patrols played a role in the territorialisation of the oil commodity frontier as ...
Christian Henderson
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: Many similarities existing in the epics of the Mongols and the Turkish allow to research common literary-cultural features in these works. The Book of Dede Gorgud and “The Secret History of the Mongols” as remarkable examples of nation’s heroic works ...
Lamiya NASIROVA
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Social construction and meta‐ground
Abstract The notion of social construction plays an important role in many areas of social philosophy, including the philosophy of gender and sex, the philosophy of race, and the philosophy of disability. Yet it is far from clear how this notion is to be understood.
Asya Passinsky
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Memories of Statehood in the “Defter-i Genghis-name” » [PDF]
The Turkic peoples of the Volga Region lost their statehood for centuries due to the Russian occupation of the Khanate of Kazan and Astrakhan in the mid–16th century.
Maria Ivanics
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Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which they ...
Elsa G. Guillot, Murray P. Cox
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ABSTRACT High‐resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al‐Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Satellite imagery and magnetometry reveal a 90‐meter‐wide meander belt—3–15 times broader than documented canals—adjacent to primary temple districts.
Reed Goodman +8 more
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Mongolskie oblicza postpamięci
The Faces of Mongolian Postmemory This article applies the concept of postmemory to demonstrate the relation of modern Mongolia to its own past and history.
Celina Strzelecka
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Hygiene culture of nomads in the Eurasian steppes during the 13th–15th centuries
Based on a comprehensive study of various written sources and ethnographic materials, this paper considers some aspects of personal hygiene of nomads, who lived in the Eurasian steppes during the 13th–15th centuries, i.e., primarily in the states of ...
L.F. Abzalov
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Offensive Heritage in an Era of Globalization and Mass Migration
ABSTRACT Essays on the ethics of monuments tend to focus on their morality in relation to domestic populations. In this article we turn our attention to how the principles we favor for the ‘ingroup’ apply to various ‘outgroups’, including foreigners and foreign governments, guest workers, visiting scholars, forcibly annexed or colonized peoples, and ...
Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo
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