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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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Sixteenth century reckoners versus twenty-first century problem solvers
In this chapter, the focus is on arithmetic which for the Netherlands as a trading nation is a crucial part of the mathematics curriculum.The chapter goes back to the roots of arithmetic education in the sixteenth century and compares it with the current
Marjolein Kool, Kool, Marjolein
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Maria Fabricius Hansen: The Art of Transformation. Grotesques in Sixteenth Century Italy
Maria Fabricius Hansen: The Art of Transformation.
Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen
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Thermal and Mechanical Characterization of Yarn Samples from Flemish Tapestry of the Sixteenth Century. [PDF]
Caruso MR +5 more
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ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin +3 more
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From printshop to piazza: the dissemination of cheap print in sixteenth century Venice
PhDThis thesis is concerned with the smallest and cheapest products of the Venetian presses in the sixteenth century. Pamphlets and printed fliers were the most accessible articles of printed matter to the wider public, and they are crucial to ...
Salzberg, Rosa
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Over three centuries, some Croatian regions were in the geopolitical situation which could be qualified as between “the devil and the deep sea”, as far as they were under Venetian and Ottoman domination.
Sineva Bene-Katunarić
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Tracing the introduction history of the tulip that went wild (Tulipa sylvestris) in sixteenth-century Europe. [PDF]
Stefanaki A, Walter T, van Andel T.
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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