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The resource-poor, isolated islands of Wallacea have been considered a major adaptive obstacle for hominins expanding into Australasia. Archaeological evidence has hinted that coastal adaptations in Homo sapiens enabled rapid island dispersal and ...
Patrick Roberts +13 more
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The Transcultural Travels of Trends. An Introductory Essay
Lifestyle and consumer trends are part of people’s everyday lives everywhere. Trends in media and politics, though perhaps less frequently acknowledged as trends, shape the way societies are perceived and the way humans interact.
Jennifer Elisabeth Altehenger +2 more
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Ku Waru Clause Chaining and the Acquisition of Complex Syntax
How do children learn to understand and use complex syntactic constructions? In English, Diessel (2004) shows that they do so in two different ways.
Alan Rumsey +2 more
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Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe [PDF]
The conference volume of the Bochumer Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” outlines the thesis that religion is not a homogeneous cultural phenomenon, but a dense network of diachronically and synchronically differing ...
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The analysis of hidden power constellations in any translation process between cultures–in this special case between Asia and Europe–is an emerging feature in (trans-)cultural studies.
Michael Falser
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EMIL KRAEPELIN AND GERMAN PSYCHIATRY IN MULTICULTURAL DORPAT/TARTU, 1886–1891; pp. 351–367 [PDF]
When the later famous psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856â1926) was called to the University of Dorpat/Tartu at the age of 30, he probably did not busy himself much with the multicultural situation that he found there.
Maike Rotzoll, Frank Grüner
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Sonic Modernities in the Malay World : A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s) [PDF]
Sonic Modernities analyses the interplay between the production of popular music, shifting ideas of the modern and, in its aftermath, processes of social differentiation in twentieth-century Southeast ...
Barendregt, B.
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Chemical studies of Chinese coinage II: from Qin to Yuan (221 BCE–1368 CE)
This paper surveys of the chemical composition of the copper alloy coinage in China from the Qin Dynasty to the end of the Yuan Dynasty (221 BCE–1368 CE).
A. M. Pollard, Ruiliang Liu
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The Evidence for Hospitals in Early India
The article surveys the history of South Asian literature and epigraphy for reliable evidence regarding the existence of early hospitals. It explores the reasons that may account for the exclusion of South Asian data from international scholarship on ...
Dominik Wujastyk
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Rock Art Research in Southeast Asia: A Synthesis
Rock art has been known in Southeast Asia since the early 19th century, but relatively little attention has been paid to this class of archaeological material.
Noel Hidalgo Tan
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