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From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

No need for a monetary halfway house: Lessons from the European Payments Union for post-Soviet currency arrangements [PDF]

open access: yes
The Soviet ruble has become the common currency for 14 independent states with their own policies on credit expansion and budget deficits. The built-in inflationary bias of the present arrangement can be redressed if the common ruble makes way for ...
Schmieding, Holger
core  

‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
wiley   +1 more source

Soviet Pins: Souvenirs as Spoils in the Triumphal Procession [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In Moscow today, old Soviet pins, which had once been awarded to school kids as a rite of passage, are sold as souvenirs to tourists. These pins are an example of the many ruins of the Soviet Union that have experienced a metamorphosis: they connote an ...
Levant, Alex
core   +1 more source

The History of Anthrax Weaponization in the Soviet Union. [PDF]

open access: yesCureus, 2023
Nikolakakis I   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sexing the history of Indian anti‐colonial internationalism: White women, Indian men and the politics of the personal

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological distress and voting behaviour in nine countries of the former Soviet Union. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep, 2023
Stickley A   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A visit to computation centers in the Soviet Union [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1959
John W. Carr   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

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