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Assessing the Viability of Complex Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) with a Spatially Distributed Sensor Array for Imaging of River Bed Morphology: a Proof of Concept (Study) [PDF]
This report was produced as part of a NERC funded ‘Connect A’ project to establish a new collaborative partnership between the University of Worcester (UW) and Q-par Angus Ltd.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Archaeological possibilities for feminist theories of transition and transformation
, 2008 Archaeology takes up material fragments from distant andrecent pasts to create narratives of personal and collective identity. It is, therefore, a powerful voice shaping our current and future social worlds.
Marshall, Yvonne
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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Research Status and Application Prospect of Underwater Soft Gripper
水下无人系统学报With the increasing demand for marine resource development and environmental protection, underwater robots have an urgent need for flexible, safe, and efficient soft grasping technology.
Yiwei LÜ +6 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Mater and matter: a prelimary cartography of material feminisms [PDF]
, 2016 Recientemente, ha habido un nuevo interés en la materia y la materialidad en la investigación feminista. El artículo sitúa a los feminismos materiales contemporáneos en relación con tradiciones más antiguas en las cuales se han establecido aproximaciones
Lemke, Thomas
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Non-destructive, portable approach as pre-screening tool for archaeological burnt bones
Journal of Cultural HeritageAncient bones are archives of information to reconstruct past life. However, detecting the organic content and the crystallinity changes of bone apatite post-mortem alteration becomes more challenging when burial conditions are coupled with thermal degradation.
Gatti, Lucrezia +9 more
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