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Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
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Voluntary Academic Services in Ultra-Disciplinary Milieus; An Action Research on Urban Planning in Iran [PDF]
To learn participatory and pragmatic urban planning, students have to engage with the society in real and ultra-disciplinary settings. In some universities, such an opportunity is provided through provision of voluntary civil services.
F. Samanpour, N. Barakpour, M. Maghsudi
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The time it takes: Temporalities of planning [PDF]
State planning has been a defining means for modern subjects to regulate the passage of time. In practice, it is the focus of multiple conflicts and doubts, which planners attempt to mediate.
Abram, S
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Abstract The preauricular sulcus has long been debated as a pelvic feature variably attributed to obstetric stress, ligamentous traction, and broader biomechanical processes. To clarify its determinants, we analyzed 409 adult individuals from three archeological and one early modern skeletal collection from the Iberian Peninsula, integrating graded ...
Rebeca García‐González +5 more
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Dal contadino al cittadino. Origini e percorsi dell’antropologia urbana in Ucraina
The first part of the essay seeks to examine some research conducted during the nineteenth century, whose primary topics of study focused on the peasants and their homes.
Tamara Mykhaylyak
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This article analyzes the incursion of cultural industry projects in various scenarios in the city of Cali (Colombia) and their linkage with Afro-Colombian cultural diversity, which is one of the city’s strongest socio-demographic and cultural components.
Mateo Pazos Cárdenas
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"What is Bread?" The Anthropology of Belief [PDF]
This is a postprint (accepted manuscript) version of the article published in Ethos 40(3):341-357 in September 2012. The final version of the article can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1352.2012.01261.x ...
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The largest silesaurid known from South America is described here, demonstrating that silesaurids reached large body sizes in southwestern Gondwana. This discovery further underscores the widespread geographic distribution and temporal persistence of large silesaurids across Pangea, despite faunal turnovers and environmental events such as the Carnian ...
Rodrigo Temp Müller
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Städtische Lebenswelten in Bewegung: In Afrika und darüber hinaus [PDF]
Although throughout the history of anthropology the ethnography of urban societies was never an important topic, investigations on cities in Africa contributed to the early theoretical development of urban studies in social sciences.
Hahn, Hans Peter
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Abstract It is likely existing anatomical illustrations are often used as the basis for new illustrative works, given not all illustrators have access to human tissues, bodies, or prosections on which to base their illustrations. Potential issues arise with this practice in the realms of copyright infringement and plagiarism when authors are seeking to
Jon Cornwall +7 more
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