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Learning from the Dead: How Burial Practices in Roman Britain Reflect Changes in Belief and Society

open access: yes, 2019
This paper begins by examining the burial traditions of the Iron age Britons and Classical Romans to see how these practices reflect their societal values and belief systems. The funerary methods of both the Britons and Romans are then analyzed following
Engel, Samuel F.
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Orientalism and the puzzle of the Aryan invasion theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The origin of the Aryan invasion theory (AIT) is generally located in the discovery of the Indo-European and Dravidian language families. However, these discoveries cannot account for the emergence of the AIT, because the postulation of the invasion ...
De Roover, Jakob, Keppens, Marianne
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The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Everyone experiences disrupted interactions in their everyday life. However, research indicates that people with functional impairments are particularly exposed to patterns of interactional inequality at work. Despite this, little is known about the specific disrupted interactions in everyday life and the various types of interactional struggles this ...
Ida Friis Thing
wiley   +1 more source

Social Contradiction and Symbolic Resolution: Practical and Idealized Affines in Taiwan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is a publisher's version of an article published in the journal Ethnology in 1984. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence ...
Weller, Robert
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Post‐Traumatic Growth in the Global South: Possibilities in Relational Ethics from Communities to Classrooms

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early childhood transitions research: A review of concepts, theory, and practice’ Working Paper 48 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Chapter 1 begins by outlining developmental concepts which underpin transition themes, in particular those associated with the theories of Jean Piaget and other ‘stage’ theorists.
Gina, Crivello   +2 more
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Organic Representation as a Critical Media Approach to Leadership Studies in Popular Culture

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 75-80, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article applies the critical media concept of organic representation to leadership studies as an analytic of how various creators in popular culture today are not just writing inclusive storytelling but, more notably, modeling new modes of production and self‐presentation that are actively challenging hegemonic industry practices and ...
Raffi Sarkissian
wiley   +1 more source

The official interpretation of Islam under the Soviet regime : a base for understanding of contemporary Central Asian Islam [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Islam, the Muslim traditions and the ulama in Central Asian societies are becoming increasingly important for assessing the situation in and around the region.
Ersahin, Seyfettin
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
wiley   +1 more source

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