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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Fingerprinting conflict: A comparative model with applications to archaeological and historical data. [PDF]

PLoS One
Wichmann S, Loy AK, Andersen AT, Bleile R, Jonjić D, Kneisel J, Nübler N, Santamaria A, Schneeweiß J, Schwedler G, Zerzeropulos K, Kienle L, Nakoinz O.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Isomalabaricane Chemical Composition of Vietnamese Marine Sponges Inspected by Metabolomic and Chemical Approaches. [PDF]

Mar Drugs
Kolesnikova SA, Kozhushnaya AB, Shilov VA, Kukhlevsky AD, Kalinovsky AI, Popov RS, Dmitrenok PS, Ivanchina NV.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Synthesis of Patchy Particles at Phase Boundaries. [PDF]

Small Methods
Zhang L, Kuhn A.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

A high-resolution, two-millennium monthly downscaled climate dataset for North America. [PDF]

Sci Data
Guaita PR, Crippa P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

Mitochondrial Genome Evolution: The Influence of Partitioning, Calibration, and Gene Heterogeneity on Pleurodontan Substitution Rates. [PDF]

J Mol Evol
Salles MMA, Domingos FMCB.
europepmc   +1 more source