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Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As anthropologists increasingly take up refusal, opacity, and other forms of resistance to surveillance and subjugation, this paper questions what implications this has for the discipline in practice. Considering anthropology's enduring centrality in defining what it means to be human, including the various ways that this category has been ...
Cory‐Alice André‐Johnson
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Nicolas-Auguste Tissot: A link between cartography and quasiconformal theory
, 2016 Nicolas-Auguste Tissot (1824--1897) published a series of papers on cartography in which he introduced a tool which became known later on, among geographers, under the name of the "Tissot indicatrix." This tool was broadly used during the twentieth ...
Papadopoulos, Athanase
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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HartReseña. Juliet B. Wiersema, The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia’s Pacific Lowlands. University of Texas Press, 2023. 256 pp.
Carmen Fernández-Salvador
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
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GPS and property surveying [PDF]
, 2015 In 2010 the Global Positioning System (GPS) developed by the United States military was the best known Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Others included Russia’s GLONASS, China’s COMPASS and Europe’s GALILEO systems.
Drummond, J.
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
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The map of Johannes Quintinus Haeduus and its derivatives [PDF]
, 2007 The first known map of the Maltese islands was drawn in the latter part of the fifteenth century, but the first printed map was that published in 1536 in Lyons by Johannes Quintinus.
Ganado, Albert
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cremation became the dominant funerary practice in the Middle Danube Region during the Roman Period (RP) (1st–4th century) and reappeared in the Early Medieval Ages (EMA) (6th/7th–8th century). This study aims to reconstruct differences in cremation conditions from the Gbely‐Kojatín site (Slovakia, RP and EMA) and the Přítluky site (Czech ...
Katarína Hladíková +4 more
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Commentary on a British Geological Survey Computing Archive (1965-85) [PDF]
, 1996 An account of the emergence of computer methods in geology, as a background to a restricted archive of documents which chronicle their application in the British Geological ...
Loudon, T.V.
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