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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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Ancient Plumage Colour Genetics Reveal Goose Domestication and Hybridization. [PDF]

Anim Genet
Honka J, Olli S, Askeyev AO, Askeyev IV, Askeyev OV, Aspi J, Shaymuratova DN, Kvist L.   +7 more
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Causes of the 16th-century Military Campaigns of the Oromo

This chapter reevaluates the socio-political and geostrategic catalysts behind the expansive 16th-century military campaigns of the Oromo nation. Rejecting imperial narratives that essentialize these movements as barbaric incursions, Demmeksa instead ...
Deribie Mekonnen Demmeksa
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Emerging capitalism and sociocultural niche construction in early modern Greece. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Liakopoulos GC, Groß M, Guzowski P, Kouli K, Lamprakis D, Masi A, Vakkas T, Xoplaki E, Izdebski A, Fernandes R.   +9 more
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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Differences in Textile Metal Threads in Croatia Through the Centuries. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Šimić K, Martinčić O, Doračić D, Pušić T.   +3 more
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Living in the Mycelial World

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Oral Medicine Under Review: Current Practices and Future Pathways for Specialty Recognition

Oral Diseases, EarlyView.
N. G. Nikitakis, M. Georgaki, E. Piperi, A. Vissink, I. Alajbeg, I. von Bültzingslöwen, B. Carey, S. Kantola, A. R. Kerr, N. Yarom, M. Carrozzo, M. Escudier, M. D. Mignogna, M. Meleti, K. Delli   +14 more
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