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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 237-256, June 2026.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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As vidas de um gênero: biografia, história, ficção

Diálogos, 2017
Neste ensaio, proponho uma discussão sobre as relações entre o gênero biográfico, a ficção e a história, através da análise do prefácio das Vies imaginaires, de Marcel Schwob. A proposta é seguir alguns argumentos do escritor francês, tomando-os como uma
Maria da Gloria de Oliveira
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“Humanizar”: aprendizajes sobre alteridad, salud y futuro en una experiencia de investigación compartida

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The visit to Bogotá of a fééeneminaa (Muinane) friend, Célimo Nejedeka Jifichíu, and in particular, his work in researching and transmitting traditional health knowledge, offer the pretext to navigate the relationship between elements that at first glance seem distant from each other: indigenous imaginaries about otherness, their visions of ...
Giovanna Micarelli
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-33, February 2026.
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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À propósito do texto "epistemologia pós-moderna, texto e conhecimento: a visão de um historiador" de Ciro Flamarion Cardoso

Diálogos, 2017
representado pela pós-modernidade e pela Posthistoire. Como ciência, a história não pode ignorar essas tendências, perfilando-as apenas como simples modismos; precisa, sim, levá-las a sério, afinal, é desse desafio que surgem os questionamentos sobre ...
Astor Antônio Diehl
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Presença da Mãe D´Água

Oculum Ensaios
O presente trabalho aborda a localização das antigas hierofanias das divindades das águas os cultos de matriz africana, em especial aquelas relacionadas sob o nome Mãe d´Água, em Salvador (Bahia).
Daniel Juracy Mellado Paz
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Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
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When the rich do (not) trust the (newly) rich: Experimental evidence on the effects of positive random shocks in the trust game

Southern Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 2, Page 434-469, October 2025.
Abstract We study behavior in a trust game where first‐movers initially have a higher endowment than second‐movers but the occurrence of a positive random shock can eliminate this inequality by increasing the endowment of the second‐mover before the decision of the first‐mover.
Hernan Bejarano, Joris Gillet, Ismael Rodriguez‐Lara   +2 more
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Deconstructing Policy Evaluation in the Global South: Historical, Political, and Transnational Influences

Politics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 5, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Policy evaluation is crucial for effective governance and development in the Global South, yet its institutionalization is shaped by a complex interplay of historical, political, and transnational factors. This study examines how colonial legacies, domestic political dynamics, and external influences converge to influence policy evaluation ...
Anis Ben Brik
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