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Monumentality, Skyscrapers, and Being human [PDF]

The public has reacted to the monumental skyscrapers of today in an ambiguous fashion; unlike during the twentieth century when citizens expressed anxiety about the large-scale buildings, this attitude has changed.
Korolija Fontana-Giusti, Gordana
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Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon. [PDF]

Nat Hum Behav
Hermenegildo T, Prümers H, Jaimes Betancourt C, Roberts P, O'Connell TC.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nonlinear landscape and cultural response to sea-level rise. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2020
Barnett RL, Charman DJ, Johns C, Ward SL, Bevan A, Bradley SL, Camidge K, Fyfe RM, Gehrels WR, Gehrels MJ, Hatton J, Khan NS, Marshall P, Maezumi SY, Mills S, Mulville J, Perez M, Roberts HM, Scourse JD, Shepherd F, Stevens T.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide in sculpture: qualitative thematic analysis and psychiatric perspective. [PDF]

BJPsych Open
Yüksel HN, Çamsarı DD, Çamsarı T, Çamsarı UM.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
wiley   +1 more source

A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Sanjuán LG, Ramírez-Cruzado S, Díaz-Guardamino M, Rodríguez JAL, Romero TD, Vargas JÁA, Rodríguez-Rellán C, Nieto VB, Cáceres Puro LM, Wheatley DW, Earle T, Cintas-Peña M, Jiménez JMV, Flores ÁF, Triviño ML, Cárdenas-Párraga J, Merino MM, Guinea FM.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘We Do Not Forget, We Do Not Forgive’: Anti‐Feminicide Collages and the Commemorative Politics of Care in Urban Space

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the commemorative practices of two feminist collectives engaging in anti‐feminicide collages in the cities of Paris and Montreuil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, it examines how these activist interventions, as temporary urban memorials, intersect memory‐work and care‐work in urban space ...
Morgane Rudaz
wiley   +1 more source

Climbing the Giara: A quantitative reassessment of movement and visibility in the Nuragic landscape of the Gesturi plateau (South-Central Sardinia, Italy). [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Schirru D, Vanzetti A.
europepmc   +1 more source