Vitality and Modernity: Defining the “Folk” in Early Twentieth Century China
As usual, the 2005 Chinese Rooster New Year celebrations in Beijing highlighted the annual Earth Temple Fair (Ditan Miaohui) as an indispensable attraction.
Li, Jing
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Shell and glass beads from the tombs of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Lower Congo [PDF]
The ancient Kingdom of Kongo originated in Central Africa in the 14th century. In the 15th century, the Portuguese organized tight contacts with the Bakongo.
Bostoen, Koen +5 more
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Youth offending and youth transitions : the power of capital in influencing change [PDF]
Neither the literature on offending nor that on desistance adequately explains the short-term nature of youth offending, young people's propensity to desist from offending as they reach early adulthood and the importance of youth transitions in helping ...
Barry, Monica
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Droplet‐based microfluidics enables precise, high‐throughput microscale reactions but continues to face challenges in scalability, reproducibility, and data complexity. This review examines how artificial intelligence enhances droplet generation, detection, sorting, and adaptive control and discusses emerging opportunities for clinical and industrial ...
Junyan Lai +10 more
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Culture Clash: Symbolic Capital and the Limits to Open Access Journal Growth in the Humanities and Social Sciences [PDF]
Each year brings more open access peer-review journals to the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite this proliferation, for-profit publishers continue to dominate, and hold the most prestigious journals in their portfolios, pushing the tipping ...
Michalski, David
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Celebrity advocacy and public engagement: the divergent uses of celebrity [PDF]
This article sounds a cautionary note about the instrumental use of celebrity advocacy to (re)engage audiences in public life. It begins by setting out the steps necessary to achieve public recognition of a social problem requiring a response.
Best J +20 more
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Non-Standard Typography Use Over Time: Signs of a Lack of Literacy or Symbolic Capital?
New technologies have provoked a debate regarding the role of non-standard typography (e.g. !!!, :-*). Some contend that new technologies undermine literacy while others state that new technologies provide new spaces for expressive writing and signal a ...
Asta Zelenkauskaitė, A. Gonzales
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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The Field of Fields. The State According to Pierre Bourdieu
A book published in 2012 included the publication of the lecture course on the State delivered by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France. The course was given at a time when Bourdieu’s work had reached full maturity, and it completed, at the most ...
Francisco Villacorta Baños
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The shaping of social and symbolic capital during the transition to farming in the Western Mediterranean: Archaeological network analyses of pottery decorations and personal ornaments. [PDF]
Pereira D, Manen C, Rigaud S.
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