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Decolonization and the politics of display: A case study from the National Museum of Qatar

Museum Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The exhibition “On the Move: Reframing Nomadic Pastoralism” was the flagship exhibition organized by the National Museum of Qatar for the World Cup 2022 period. The exhibition aimed to contextualize the nomadic past of Qatar within a broader, global cultural frame, as well as to create an ethnographic exhibition that would be appealing to a ...
Alexandra Bounia
wiley   +1 more source

Buqa Chīngsāng: Protagonist of Qubilai Khan’s Unsuccessful Coup Attempt against the Hülegüid Dynasty

Belleten, 2017
The study examines the coup attempt orchestrated by Qubilai Khan (1260–94), who desired to re-establish the ‘Yeke Mongol Ulus’ and to unify the separated Mongol khanates under the authority of the Yuan Empire.
Mustafa Uyar
doaj   +1 more source

Passing on the red genes: Communism nostalgia in online fictions and ideological governance in China

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
Abstract How does communism as an ideology fare in the post‐reform digital age China? What are the implications for China's ideological governance? Through online ethnographic work and text analysis, this paper identifies and analyzes how communism as an ideation and a practice is (re)memorized, (re)presented, and (re)interpreted in popular online ...
Rongbin Han
wiley   +1 more source

Ceramics with metallic lustre decoration. A detailed knowledge of Islamic productions from 9th century until Renaissance [PDF]

arXiv, 2011
This paper describes research on the technological evolution of glazed ceramics with a metallic lustre decoration starting from their emergence in the Near East until the Hispano-Moresque productions. That research covers the main known Islamic production sites and periods: Abbasid (Mesopotamia); Fatimid (Egypt); Timurid, Mongol, and Safavid (Iran ...
arxiv  

Impact of non-stationarity on estimating and modeling empirical copulas of daily stock returns [PDF]

, 2015
All too often measuring statistical dependencies between financial time series is reduced to a linear correlation coefficient. However this may not capture all facets of reality. We study empirical dependencies of daily stock returns by their pairwise copulas.
arxiv   +1 more source

The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Historical climatology, an emerging interdisciplinary field, seeks to reconstruct reliable climate data to understand the impact of climate change on historical events.
Ka wai Fan
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Tamgha and the Struggle against It: On the History of Medieval Turkic-mongol Taxation System [PDF]

Золотоордынское обозрение, 2014
The paper deals with the Turkic-Mongol taxation institute of tamgha widely used in the Mongol Empire since the first half of the 13th century. Author characterizes the etymology of this term, its meanings, legal regulation of levy and rates, evolution of
R.Yu. Pochekaev
doaj  

Relationship between English proficiency and socioeconomic status in Asia: Quantitative cross‐national analysis

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the relationship between English language proficiency and socioeconomic status (ELP–SES relationship) through a quantitative cross‐national analysis of 30 jurisdictions in Asia. It aims to uncover the degrees and patterns of the ELP–SES relationship by analysing AsiaBarometer surveys conducted in the mid‐2000s ...
Takunori Terasawa
wiley   +1 more source

Extended empirical likelihood for general estimating equations [PDF]

arXiv, 2013
We derive an extended empirical likelihood for parameters defined by estimating equations which generalizes the original empirical likelihood for such parameters to the full parameter space. Under mild conditions, the extended empirical likelihood has all asymptotic properties of the original empirical likelihood.
arxiv  

The Story of the Golden Horde Told by Coins (Japanese): 貨幣が語るジョチ・ウルス

Золотоордынское обозрение
Research objectives: This article reviews the recent book by Yasuki Shinichiro, published in Japanese under the title of 貨幣が語るジョチ・ウルス in October 2023 by Seifudo Shoten.
Atik K.
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