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Kinship and History in South Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1974
Kinship and History in South Asia presents four papers given at a small conference of kinship studies scholars, “Kinship and History in South Asia,” at the University of Toronto in 1973. They draw upon one another and show several common concerns, particularly the theoretical importance of Dravidian systems.
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Krishna and the Plaster Cast. Translating the Cambodian Temple of Angkor Wat in the French Colonial Period

open access: yesThe Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2011
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
doaj   +1 more source

EMIL KRAEPELIN AND GERMAN PSYCHIATRY IN MULTICULTURAL DORPAT/TARTU, 1886–1891; pp. 351–367 [PDF]

open access: yesTrames, 2016
When the later famous psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) 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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Rock Art Research in Southeast Asia: A Synthesis

open access: yesArts, 2014
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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Chemical studies of Chinese coinage II: from Qin to Yuan (221 BCE–1368 CE)

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2021
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

open access: yesHistory of Science in South Asia, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Total evidence phylogeny and evolutionary timescale for Australian faunivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia)

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017
Background The order Dasyuromorphia is a diverse radiation of faunivorous marsupials, comprising >80 modern species in Australia and New Guinea. It includes dasyurids, the numbat (the myrmecobiid Myrmecobius fasciatus) and the recently extinct thylacine (
Shimona Kealy, Robin Beck
doaj   +1 more source

From the Sky to the Garden: A Top-Down and Bottom-Up Methodology for Estimating Population Trends in Port Moresby’s Informal Settlements

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby, is growing rapidly, and housing development has not kept pace. Thousands arrive in the city each year from rural villages, and many come to live in the city’s sprawling urban squatter settlements.
Bradley Dare, Shimona Kealy
doaj   +1 more source

First Assessment of Mercury (Hg) Concentrations in Skin and Carapace of Flatback Turtles (Natator depressus) (Garman) From Western Australia

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Mercury pollution in the surface ocean has more than doubled over the past century. Within oceanic food webs, sea turtles have life history characteristics that make them especially vulnerable to mercury (Hg) accumulation.
Larissa Schneider   +5 more
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Population structure and history in East Asia [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000
Archaeological, anatomical, linguistic, and genetic data have suggested that there is an old and significant boundary between the populations of north and south China. We use three human genetic marker systems and one human-carried virus to examine the north/south distinction.
Y C, Ding   +10 more
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