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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi +3 more
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Assyrian Music and Iconography
Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2012 The sources about music in ancient Mesopotamia are numerous, there are hundreds of cuneiform tablets in Sumerian and Akkadian language, and also iconic representations of material culture have been rescued by archeology.
Katia Maria Paim Pozzer +2 more
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Information and affective valence influence judgments of complexity, liking and understanding
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Visual complexity is a key factor in perceptual and evaluative judgments. People's representation of visual complexity is constructed from quantitative and structural image features, but it is also influenced by familiarity and expertise. We examined how people represent visual complexity and its impact on perception and evaluation, focusing ...
Xiaolei Sun +3 more
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The shifting iconography of drinking horns in the Western Grassfields, Cameroon
Cogent Social Sciences, 2017 This paper examines the shifting iconography and iconology of the buffalo and cow horn drinking cup in the western Grassfields of Cameroon. It highlights the extraordinary creativity of how cow horn drinking cups have provided young people who were ...
Mathias Fubah Alubafi, Molemo Ramphalile
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Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
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Images du Travail, Travail des ImagesIn Canada, Indigenous peoples represent a distinct minority that has been the target of policies of cultural assimilation and discrimination. Today, these Peoples, victims of considerable cultural loss, unite in common movements in which they exhibit a ...
Elisa Tripotin
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Orthodox Cosmology and Cosmography
Eikón Imago, 2014 Orthodox iconography is focused on the idea of representing the cosmos, the essence of God’s creatio ex nihilo, thus serving as a visual cosmology and thence - as a cosmography of all being. Icons depict the image of the archetypal world in its integrity,
Rotislava Todorova
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the importance of the linguistic landscape in language learning, the digital linguistic landscape (DLL) has emerged as an important multimodal input resource. However, few studies have been conducted to explore the antecedent and predictive effect of the DDL on L2 writing. To address this gap, the study attempted to conceptualize the DLL
Zi Yang, Lawrence Jun Zhang
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A New Insight into the Iconography of the Civitas Classis Mosaic at Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna
Journal of Mosaic Research, 2018 Ravenna boasts a high number of mosaics dating from the Late Antique period. Scholars have often considered these artworks in isolation, often within historical and topographic studies, and only from a very limited symbolic and iconographic perspective ...
Federico UGOLINI
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Specular suffering: (staging) the body in pain [PDF]
, 2008 For the abstract see the PDF ...
Richards, M
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