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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

New evidence reveals dispersal of pearl millet from West Africa to South Asia by 2500 BCE. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Jiménez-Arteaga C, Parque Ó, Lancelotti C, Moderato M, Veesar GM, Abro T, Chandio A, Madella M.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Introduction: Emerging approaches to public archaeology

, 2017
Kerry Massheder-Rigby, Dominic Walker
openalex   +2 more sources

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

‘That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm’: The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture and Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
wiley   +1 more source

First evidence of bronze production in the Iron Age I southern Levant: A direct link to the Arabah copper polity. [PDF]

PLoS One
Eshel T, Bornstein Y, Bermatov-Paz G, Bar S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

MANIFESTO FOR THE ROMANIAN PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY

, 2017
Sorin Nemeti
openalex   +2 more sources

THE POTENTIAL OF ARCHIVES IN INFORMAL PLACEMAKING OF FORMER MENTAL ASYLUMS: Insights from Pionta Commoning Archival Practices Toward a Living Urban Archive

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores various forms of archives—such as institutions, collections, records and cities—as urban commons. It highlights the importance of community and institutional collaboration in curating archives to promote learning, discovery and well‐being through grassroots initiatives, transforming archives and their urban settings into ...
Gozde Yildiz, Francesca Bianchi
wiley   +1 more source

Open Data as Public Archaeology: The Monumental Archive Project

, 2018
Katherine M. Cook
openalex   +2 more sources