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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
wiley   +1 more source

From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source

SOFA SCORE AND OUTCOME: EXPERIENCE AT A PUBLIC SECTOR HOSPITAL ICU

open access: yesPakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2016
Objective: The objective was to find a cut off value of at admission SOFA score that best predicts outcome in critically ill patients admitted to ICU of public sector health care facility. Study Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive study.
Abrar Akbar   +3 more
doaj  

Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
wiley   +1 more source

[Holy Cards 01]

open access: yes, 2004
Holy Card information card.HOLY CARDS -- Collector's Item -- Printed on his own "Catfish Press," these original designs were done by Father E.M. Catich, who was a pioneer in developing modern liturgical art.
Father Edward Catich
core   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Die Universität Basel und die böhmischen Länder (1460–1630). Eine Matrikelauswertung

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis
This study focuses on relations between the Basel University and the Czech Lands since the university’s foundation until 1630. The analysis is based chiefly on the university’s official records, that is, on the university and faculty registers.
Martin Holý
doaj   +1 more source

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