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Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation
Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural.
Xiaoying Qi
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The interior of the Umayyad era in a contemporary context
Проект БайкалSome aspects of the culture of the Umayyad era are considered. Despite the active interaction of early Islamic culture with the cultures of Persia, Byzantium, Rome and Central Asia, traditional Arabic poetry remains an object of deep veneration.
Али Салем Альшурман +2 more
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Gallia, 2013 The site of Château-Bas (Vernègues, Bouches-du-Rhône), famous above all for its Augustan Roman temple, has yielded a set of pillars decorated either with writhing snakes or with straight rods. As yet there are no known parallels to such pillars.
Sandrine Agusta-Boularot +1 more
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Hereditary and foundation-related rights of noblewomen in the Serbian Medieval state in the era of Nemanjić's [PDF]
Baština, 2011 Charters, founder's inscriptions and portraits in churches give sufficient data to presume how women of feudal class in the Serbian medieval state in the 13th and 14th century had the right of heredity, enjoyment and disposal of the property, not only ...
Ničić Jelena
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MythosThe new dynasty of the Ptolemies faced a new situation that demanded an ideology oriented towards the Greek and Egyptian worlds. The first Ptolemies established an ideology based on the royal couple, which found its Egyptian expression in the decorative ...
René Preys
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The Artistic Reception of Decorative Graphics in Wus’ Memorial Temple in Hong’an
Signs and MediaAbstract The decorative graphics of Wus’ Memorial Temple in Hong’an have evolved continuously over time, forming a unique symbolic system. This article analyzes the various forms of artistic reception of the decorative graphics in Wus’ Memorial Temple from the perspective of art communication, including the cultural traditions of the decorative ...
Yichun Wang, Xianping Leng
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A Multi-Phase Anglo-Saxon Site in Ewelme [PDF]
, 2014 New evidence is presented for a middle Anglo-Saxon ‘productive’ site on hilly ground north-west of Ewelme in south Oxfordshire. Coins and other finds from metal-detecting activity suggest the existence of an eighth- to ninth-century meeting or trading ...
Brookes, SJ, Mileson, S
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Annual Reports to the ESA Council ESA 110th Annual Meeting July, 2025
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
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