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The Legacy of “Old Osawatomie”: John Brown in Art and Memory
, 2017 This, of course, is no deity, but rather John Brown, a man who received many appellations both during and after his lifetime. Abolitionist. Murderer. Freedom fighter. Terrorist.
Bilger, Ryan
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Book review: The hero building: an architecture of Scottish national identity by Johnny Rodger [PDF]
, 2016 In The Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National Identity, Johnny Rodger explores the role that commemorative monumental structures have played in Scotland as a mode of demonstrating national identity over the last two hundred years.
Carter McKee, Kirsten
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Societies in balance: Monumentality and feasting activities among southern Naga communities, Northeast India. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Wunderlich M +4 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Exploring the Monumentality of Khasi-Jaintia Hills Megaliths
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2019 To the Khasi-Pnar community, who are considered to be the authochthons of the Khasi-Jaintia hills of Meghalaya in northeastern India, the importance of their megalithic monuments is evident in their language itself, since the word “Kyn-maw” or “memory ...
Marco Mitri
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A sacrificed monkey at Teotihuacan and ancient imperial relationships in Mesoamerica. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Masson MA.
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Written with the Finger of God: Divine and Human Writing in Exodus
, 2014 The presence of writing in the book of Exodus must be considered not only for its contribution to the narrative as story, but also as a witness to several key socio-political issues (such as the interplay of textuality and orality in ancient Israel), for
Doak, Brian R.
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FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
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IpoTESI di PreistoriaThe workshop, which took place on October 7, 2024, at the Department of History and Culture of the University of Bologna, examined the theme of so-called megalithic walls.
Maurizio Cattani
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