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Erotic mirrors. Eroticism in the mirror. An iconography of love in ancient Greece (fifth to fourth century B.C.)

Heródoto, 2018
This text consists of an interpretive essay about the meaning(s) of the “mirror” as an object in Mainland and Aegean Greece (in contrast to Western/Colonial Greece), based on iconography.
Fábio Vergara Cerqueira
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source

Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha, Khalid El Harrouni, Samir Kabouss   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Notes on Timarchos’ Iconography: Dioscuri Type [PDF]

, 2017
The paper deals with the iconography of Timarchos’ ‘Dioscuri coinage’. The remarkable feature of these coins is that this coin type is nearly to be identical to that one of Greco-Bactrian king Eukratides I.
SMIRNOV, Svyatoslav
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Production alimentaire et idéologie : les limites de l'iconographie pour l'étude des pratiques agricoles et alimentaires des Égyptiens du IIIe millénaire avant J.-C

Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2003
The increase of archaeozoological and archaeobotanic researchs concerning the pharaonic past shows a clear difference between the information provided by the archaeological assemblages and the iconography. The iconography expresses the ideological values
Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia
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Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source

Ikonographie, Ikonizität und Ikonizismus: Drei Begriffe und ihre Bedeutung für die Phraseologieforschung

Linguistik Online, 2006
Three key concepts in the research of idioms are discussed: iconography, iconicity, and iconicism. These concepts all have a role to play in phraseology (and beyond), although in quite different ways: Iconography is the mental picture that may be created
Ken Farø
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Political Recruitment and Pregnancy Resources: Anti‐Abortion Feminists Come to Campus, United States, 1990s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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Martyr et Pontifex: The Formation of St. Josaphat Kuntsevych’s Iconography

Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos
This paper traces the origins of the iconography of Josaphat Kuntsevych to the early adoption of the Baroque aesthetic on the part of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, following the Union of Brest of 1595.
Anatole Upart
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