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Artemis: Depictions of Form and Femininity in Sculpture [PDF]
Grecian sculpture has been the subject of investigation for centuries. More recently, however, emphasis in the field of Art History on the politics of gender and sexuality portrayal have opened new avenues for investigation of those old statues.
Waters, Laura G.
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ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
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Spartan Daily, April 14, 1964 [PDF]
Volume 51, Issue 104https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/4524/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Zeitgeist and Ortgeist: Time and Place in Institutional Creation
Abstract How are institutions created is one of the most interesting questions in institutional theory. Some strands of literature favour heroic explanations: mythologizing individuals with vision, tenacity and drive and putting these individuals on the pedestal of the institution.
Sabina Keston‐Siebert, Kevin Orr
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Symmetrized Poisson Reconstruction
Abstract Many common approaches for reconstructing surfaces from point clouds leverage normal information to fit an implicit function to the points. Normals typically play two roles: the direction provides a planar approximation to the surface and the sign distinguishes inside from outside.
M. Kohlbrenner +3 more
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The Security Pretext: An Examination of the Growth of Federal Police Agencies [PDF]
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, bureaucrats and special interest groups have been busy repackaging everything from peanut subsidies to steel protectionism under the rubric of "national security." Federal law enforcement agencies have ...
Melanie Scarborough
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Creating the Complexo de Israel: Religion, Urban Orders, and Aesthetics in Rio de Janeiro
ABSTRACT This article centers on the relation between religion, criminal(ized) economies, and the production of urban space in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our empirical focus lies on the Israel Complex, a cluster of favelas located in the city's northern periphery.
Jolien van Veen, Martijn Oosterbaan
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Spartan Daily, October 26, 1964 [PDF]
Volume 52, Issue 24https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/4634/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Animating the Archive: The trial and testimony of a Sufi saint [PDF]
In 1895 the colonial administration of Senegal sentenced Sheikh Amadu Bamba to exile for stirring anti-colonial disobedience. At his trial, Bamba allegedly recited a prayer in defiance of the French authorities.
De Jong, Ferdinand
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Abstract Ancient Maya texts are informationally dominated by hieroglyphic inscriptions and visually dominated by figural art with distinctly formed hands. The hands suggest iconographically embedded hand signs, which would constitute a unique modality of semantic expression and a discourse complement to hieroglyphic writing.
Rich A. Sandoval
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