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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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In SituThe identification, study, protection, organization, and even rediscovery of stone elements are reflected in the wealth of documents produced. Reflecting the proactive policy of the heritage services, these documents are largely available at the ...
Camille Duclert, Antonella Rotolo
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The Stone Monuments at Ōtano-shō [PDF]
, 1986 application/pdfThis paper is a research report on the stone monuments distributed in Ōtano-shō in the province of Bingo during the Middle Ages (12-16th century). Ōtano-shō is an estate (shōen) belonging to Kōyasan-kongoubu temple.
Kurahashi, Sumio +11 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Current Swedish Archaeology, 1996 This article deals with how people during the Iron Age constructed their social identity, how they matured and became men and women —a process connected with the ownership and cultivation of landed property.
Birgitta Johansen
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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A study of nano-particle based silane consolidants for Globigerina limestone [PDF]
, 2013 This STEPS funded study focuses on the application of hybrid and nanoparticle loaded hybrid silane consolidants for the treatment of 'Franka' type Globigerina Limestone. Consolidants act by gluing the deteriorated stone material to the underlying healthy
Vella, Daniel A. +2 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2008 Recent fieldwork conducted along the Tihâma coastal plain has illuminated a late prehistoric megalithic culture that extends the length of the Red Sea coast of Yemen. To date, seven sites comprising megalithic elements have been documented in the region.
Lamya Khalidi
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