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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
wiley   +1 more source

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Flames: Comparative Analysis of Cremation Practices in the Roman and Early Medieval Periods at Gbely‐Kojatín (SK) and Přítluky (CZ)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cremation became the dominant funerary practice in the Middle Danube Region during the Roman Period (RP) (1st–4th century) and reappeared in the Early Medieval Ages (EMA) (6th/7th–8th century). This study aims to reconstruct differences in cremation conditions from the Gbely‐Kojatín site (Slovakia, RP and EMA) and the Přítluky site (Czech ...
Katarína Hladíková   +4 more
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Power, Gender, and Mobility. Aspects of Indo-European Society

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The volume is situated at the intersection of diverse but complementary approaches to the investigation of prehistoric culture and society: combining perspectives from linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, and history of religion, it seeks to explore ...
Höfler, Stefan   +3 more
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The Fiery Eyes of a Maenad: Origin Determination of Faceted Garnet Eye Inlays in a Roman Bronze Bust From Southern Tyrol

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lehmann (Winfred P.). Proto-Indo-European Phonology

open access: yes, 1953
Polomé E. Lehmann (Winfred P.). Proto-Indo-European Phonology. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 31, fasc. 2-3, 1953. pp.
Polomé, Edgar C.
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Indo-European Interfaces

open access: yes
Current scientific advances are reshaping our understanding of prehistory, offering unprecedented insights into the movements and kinship patterns of prehistoric populations.

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Uralic vs Indo-European contacts: borrowing vs local emergence vs chance resemblances

open access: yes, 2014
The article describes the (assumed) contacts and borrowing between Indo-European and Uralic, pointing out that borrowing at the level of proto-languages is a priori impossible, and that therefore the few, real correlations among Uralic and Indo-European ...
MARCANTONIO, Angela
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Turkish preschoolers show an advantage in their understanding of their own representational change over others' false belief

open access: yesBritish Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent studies suggest that Turkish preschoolers exhibit a different pattern of theory of mind development than Western samples, particularly with respect to understanding the diversity of beliefs and knowledge acquisition. The present study posits that such differences extend to distinctions between understanding others' false belief and one ...
Mesut Saçkes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proto-Indo-European verbal syntax

open access: yes, 2010
It is argued that the PIE thematic flexion can be compared with the objective conjugation of the Uralic languages.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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