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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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Baptism and Marriage Witnesses of the Catholics of Dubrovnik (1870-1871)
Dubrovnik Annals, 2017 Based on the data from parish registers, this article analyses godparents and marriage witnesses among the Catholics of the City Parish of Dubrovnik in 1870 and 1871.
Ariana Violić-Koprivec, Nenad Vekarić
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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Eesti keel XVIII sajandi kirikumeetrikates
Keel ja KirjandusSince the second half of the 17th century, parish registers served as administrative documents in which local pastors recorded the births, marriages, and deaths of congregation members. The matrix language of the registers was German.
Kristiina Ross
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“PREHISTORY” OF TYPOGRAPHY IN B&H: HAND-WRITTEN HERITAGE OF THE BOSNIANHERZEGOVINIAN FRANCISCANS [PDF]
Hum, 2007 The first printing house in Bosnia and Herzegovina was bought by the Herzegovinian Franciscans in 1872.It started with its work in 1873 in Mostar. Till that moment the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Franciscans had printed their works outside of Bosnia and ...
Robert Jolić
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The Richness of Italian Historical Demography
Historical Life Course Studies, 2020 In this paper, we present a new methodology for the reconstruction of individual life-histories based on information derived from the integration of different parish registers.
Marco Breschi +2 more
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Illegitimate Fertility in the Urals During the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2023 Out-of-wedlock births are one of the important aspects of the demographic history in late imperial Russia. The percentage of children born to unwed mothers in the Russian Empire during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was lower than the ...
Elena Mikhailovna Glavatskaya +1 more
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Consanguinity in the Maltese Islands [PDF]
, 2015 Consanguineous marriages may increase the risk of some medical conditions and may be useful to examine social and other aspects. There were few such marriages in the Maltese islands until late in the 19th C when they increased until they began to decline
Wyatt, H.V.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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Solombala Admiralty Settlement in 1850-1861: Demographic Aspects of the History of a Military Parish
RUDN Journal of Russian HistoryThe author examines the demographic and medical aspects of the existence of the military parish of the Transfiguration Naval Cathedral in the Solombala Admiralty settlement, a parish church for military personnel and officials of the Military and Naval ...
Nikolay V. Manvelov
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