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Techno-utopianism and the Orient in Russian revolutionary culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The magnitude of the hopes pinned on technology in early twentieth-century Russia was directly proportional to its relative backwardness in this area. The nation saw itself on the brink of an historic clash between the age-old ways of the Slavic peasant ...
Hellebust, Rolf
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Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish history [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Historians have long tended to define medieval Scottish society in terms of interactions between ethnic groups. This approach was developed over the course of the long nineteenth century, a formative period for the study of medieval Scotland.
Anderson James   +21 more
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THE ROLE OF IRON AGE STELAE IN THE CREATION OF A SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 159-181, May 2025.
Summary This paper investigates a complex archaeological landscape on the Iberian peninsula’s Atlantic coast. The present‐day landscape is characterized by dense forest and abrupt topography, posing challenges for a systematic research program of landscape archaeology.
Jagoba Hidalgo‐Masa   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Going to pot: Bronze Cauldrons on the Western fringe of the Scythian culture [PDF]

open access: yesPeuce, 2020
Bronze cauldrons of the Scythian time are a rather rare find in the Northern Black Sea region, especially on its western borders. Scythian bronze cauldrons in the west area are concentrated in three main regions: Bukovina and Podillya (Iacobeni, Avrămeni,
Denis TOPAL
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Extracting, investigating and representing geographical concepts in Herodotus: the case of the Black Sea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In a short break from his preparations for the invasion of Scythia, Darius stops off where the Bosporus was bridged and sails to the Dark Rocks, apparently retracing the steps of the Argonauts.1 ‘There’, Herodotus reports, ‘he sat on the headland and ...
Barker, Elton   +3 more
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Joachim Lelewel’s Edda of 1807 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article focuses on Joachim Lelewel’s interest in Old Norse literature as reflected in his paper on Old Norse literature delivered in 1806 and his book Edda that was published a year later.
Krakow, Annet
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Consilience in practice: social–ecological dynamics of the Lake Volvi region (Greece) during the last two millennia

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 459-480, April 2025.
ABSTRACT The Lake Volvi area, part of the region of Macedonia (northern Greece), is a biodiversity hotspot, located in the central part of a major communication corridor connecting the western and eastern parts of the Balkans. The sediment succession from Lake Volvi is investigated here to provide a unique high‐resolution pollen and geochemical record ...
Lucrezia Masci   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The New Science of Virtues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Although Vico\u2019s New Science (NS) has been interpreted from the standpoint of practical philosophy, his treatment of moral virtues has largely been overlooked.
Bassi, Romana
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“Plants Don’t Have a Culture to Appropriate”: Accounting for Accusations of Cultural Appropriation of Peyote Ceremonies

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The concept of cultural appropriation has drawn increasing attention from academic disciplines and nonacademic circles. Yet, there is no consensus on what constitutes cultural appropriation nor whether it is harmful. The contested nature of the concept suggests that it is important to understand how people respond to such accusations.
Heith Copes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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