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On a Wing and a Prayer: Ibis Mummies in Material Culture at Abydos
Arts, 2020 The production of millions of artificially mummified animals by the ancient Egyptians is an extraordinary expression of religious piety. Millions of creatures of numerous species were preserved, wrapped in linen and deposited as votive offerings; a means
Lidija McKnight
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Medical Imaging of Mummies and Bog Bodies
, 2010 Mummies are human remains with preservation of nonbony tissue. Mummification by natural influences results in so-called natural mummies, while mummification induced by active (human) intervention results in so-called artificial mummies, although many ...
Lynnerup, Niels
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Mother, Musician, Performer: Living the Impossible?
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on 19 qualitative in‐depth interviews with classically trained musicians in Australia and the UK, who have an active performing career and identify as mothers. Building on pioneering research on motherhood, work, and leadership in the creative industries, this article explores how mothers navigate the challenges of a ...
Sally Savage, Christina Scharff
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Well‐paid, nontransferable parental leave for fathers is intended to promote engaged fatherhood and, in turn, gender equality at work and in the household. Yet the extent to which such entitlements achieve these outcomes depends on the cultural and institutional context in which they are introduced.
Anna Kurowska, Katarzyna Suwada
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Mountains, Kurakas and Mummies: Transformations in Indigenous Andean Sovereignty
Población & Sociedad, 2018 This essay argues that Andean mountains have not always embodied indigenous sovereignty as they do today. The lordly titles that mountains now bear were, until the second half of the colonial period, held by ancestral mummies and living indigenous ...
Peter Gose
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Human intestinal parasites in the past: new findings and a review
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003 Almost all known human specific parasites have been found in ancient feces. A review of the paleoparasitological helminth and intestinal protozoa findings available in the literature is presented.
Marcelo Luiz Carvalho Gonçalves +2 more
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Plant Breeding, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Historically cultivated for medicinal and dyeing purposes, safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) saw a shift towards widespread oilseed production after the 1920s due to the growing importance of oils. However, there is a renewed interest in its medicinal and dyeing properties today.
Tansu Uskutoglu +2 more
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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article brings together theories of history and filmic realism to analyze the representation of the provinces in Nataliia Meshchaninova’s The Hope Factory (Kombinat “Nadezhda,” 2014) and Andrei Zviagintsev’s Leviathan (Leviafan, 2014). It argues that these two films share a typically realist attitude of respect toward the profilmic in ...
Daria Ezerova
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Chagas disease and human migration
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2000 Human Chagas disease is a purely accidental occurrence. As humans came into contact with the natural foci of infection might then have become infected as a single addition to the already extensive host range of Trypanosoma cruzi that includes other ...
Felipe Guhl +4 more
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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