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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Titian's Falconer: From Zorzone to Girolamo Cornaro
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The identity of the sitter in Titian's Falconer and the issue of its dating have been subject to a false, yet very influential assumption: that The Falconer should be dated to a point as late as 1537 in order to connect it to the identity of Zorzone Cornaro (1517–1571), son of Girolamo (1485–1551).
Rachel Healy
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The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article draws on the narratives of Mongolians who have worked in Korea to explore the experience of migrant labour and the role work abroad plays in Mongolian identities and life projects. Four different categories of worker are discussed: those working on 3 month visas; those working illegally having overstayed their visa; contract ...
P. Chuluunbat, Richard D. G. Irvine
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The Cultural Evolution of Human Goals
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Humans pursue remarkably diverse goals that vary over time and across cultures. These goals are both drivers and products of cultural evolutionary dynamics, yet most theories of cultural evolution have focused on the influence of culture on how individuals reach their goals, rather than on which goals they pursue.
Jérémy Perez +5 more
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An act of gathering: Scholarship from posttotalitarian contexts
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract Researching a community living through violence and its aftermath reshapes the ethical stakes of the work and challenges claims to academic objectivity by foregrounding insights drawn from the lived experience of the field. My discussion here is structured around three such insights. The first is that a community after violence is not simply a
Olena Sobolieva
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City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, I draw on multi‐sited and remote ethnography in the cities of Munich in Germany and Hanoi in Vietnam to analyze how young hip hop artists transform cities as sensory contact zones through rap and dance. I show how young Vietnamese‐Germans amplify sensory contact zones in the diasporic city of Munich through the sounds, visuals,
Sandra Kurfürst
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.Abstract This article examines how language and environment become constitutive through the emergent environmentalism of Hemshin youth returning to Turkey's Hemshin lands from major cities. As development transforms the landscape, young Hemshins engage in “reading” their lands, encountering linguistic and material traces like stories, place names, and ...
Neşe Kaya‐Özkan
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The Material Basis of 18th‐Century Meissen Porcelain
Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 5, Page 908-918, October 2026.ABSTRACT In the summer of 1708, the quest for making hard‐paste porcelain from Saxonian clay and other mineral resources succeeded. This was achieved by applying as its essential ingredient newly discovered pure kaolin from Heidelsberg near Aue, western Saxon Ore Mountains.
Robert B. Heimann
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Resisting Hubris: For A Stoic Ethics of Power in Leadership Development
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 3725-3734, October 2026.ABSTRACT This essay advances a philosophical and Stoic reinterpretation of hubris that challenges the reductionist treatment it has received in contemporary management research. Whereas most studies, shaped by a positivist epistemology, have sought to quantify the effects of leader hubris on performance, this essay reclaims the concept's original ...
Valérie Petit, Xavier Pavie
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