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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

To the Issue of the Reasons of the Oirat Migration from Central Asia to Siberia at the Beginning of the 17th century

Oriental Studies, 2018
The article is devoted to the history of the Oirat migration process from Central Asia to the South-Western Siberia. Due to the lack of sources this subject has not been sufficiently studied on many aspects in the historiography.
V. Tepkeev
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The 17th Century French Debates on Origen's Biography

, 2016
This article deals with the debates on Origen's biography in 17th century France. Through the examination of the Histories of the Church and of the volumes concerning the Origen's figure, this essay aims to show the different strategy underlying ...
Rapetti, Elena
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Assessing the Vulnerability of an Inuit Archaeological Site in a Changing Periglacial Environment: A Novel Multimethod Geophysical Approach in Arctic Geoarchaeology

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With northern regions warming at twice the global rate, assessing the state of archaeological sites in these areas is critically important. In this study, we used a multimethod geophysical approach (ERT, GPR, and EMI) to characterize the current geocryological conditions of an Inuit archaeological site on South Aulatsivik Island (Labrador ...
Rachel Labrie, Dominique Todisco, Najat Bhiry, Cécile Finco, Héloïg Barbel Le Page, Armelle Couillet   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building Material Migration: Imported Brick Imported and Localization in Taiwan in 17th Century.

, 2014
In certain circumstances, the evolution of architecture is highly connected with construction technique development, which in turn may be generated by external cultures.
Chou, Yu-Sen, Theodossopoulos, Dimitris
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Disciplining the “Queen of the World”? Responsible Innovation as a Way of Life

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper offers a critical reflection on the concept of responsible innovation as defined during the last decades. We argue that the emphasis on innovation as a process risks neglecting the very goals of innovation, namely societal desirability and acceptability. Thus, we suggest reconsidering the role of imagination, the “Queen of the world”
Xavier Pavie, Ghislain Deslandes, Monika Kostera   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information and affective valence influence judgments of complexity, liking and understanding

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Visual complexity is a key factor in perceptual and evaluative judgments. People's representation of visual complexity is constructed from quantitative and structural image features, but it is also influenced by familiarity and expertise. We examined how people represent visual complexity and its impact on perception and evaluation, focusing ...
Xiaolei Sun, Jiajia Che, Marcos Nadal, Helmut Leder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jesuit college in Český Krumlov on the turn of 16th to 17th century.

, 2007
Jesuit college in Český Krumlov on the turn of 16th to 17th century. Contribution to religous and social history of the city This dissertation is dedicated to history of the city Český Krumlov on the verge of 16th and 17th century.
LOMBARTOVÁ, Veronika
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