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Masculinity beyond the warrior ‘savage’: (re)thinking warriors as elite indigenous masculinity in select Angami folktales

Contemporary South Asia
This paper investigates the cultural perspective of Naga warrior identity through the lens of folktales, challenging colonial stereotypes and exploring the dynamic processes of indigenous masculine identity formation in post-colonial societies.
Mhasileno Peseyie, Rashmi Gaur
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Warrior Ants: Elite Troops in the Iliad

Classical World, 2010
In the Iliad , Achilles' Myrmidons and the troops under Telamonian Ajax represent elite infantry contingents distinct from the rest of the Achaean force, specifically in their use of phalanx formations. This is evinced by several passages within the Iliad itself, and also by the mythological origins of the Myrmidons.
M. Sears
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Elite Greek warrior myth debunked

Nature Biotechnology, 2022
M. Francisco
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Two faces of warrior elite. Stone wrist-guards and wrist-guard-like artefacts

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2023
Ludmila Kaňáková, Jaroslav Peška
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Book Review: The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228

Armed Forces & Society, 2002
L. McCray
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Under or Over (or Both)? Textile Armour and the Warrior in the High Middle Ages

Arms & Armour, 2023
To compliment significant research into knightly arms and armour, such as the mail hauberk and iron helmet, to shield design and types of swords, this article considers textile clothing worn in conjunction with metal armour in the High Middle Ages (1050 ...
Stephen Bennett
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ELITE BURIALS OF THE BEGINNING OF THE IRON AGE IN THE SURGUT AND LOWER OB RIVER REGION

Российская археология, 2023
Over the past four decades, in the taiga areas of the Surgut and Lower Ob River Region, six unique burial objects of the Early Iron Age with a large number of imported and local goods have been discovered: single graves, a hoard with shaman’s regalia and
V. Borzunov
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From Peasant Soldier to Elite Warrior: Raiding, Honor Feuds, and the Transformation of Khalsa Identity

, 2011
Purnima Dhavan
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The Nitrica I: Funeral deposit of proto-Lusatian warrior from Western Slovakia

Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2022
The genesis of Lusatian culture is not sufficiently understood due to the demanding nature of its funeral ideology, which suddenly makes the highest social group invisible in the eyes of archaeologists.
Filip Ondrkál
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Warrior Queens of the Silver Screen

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2022
Saba insists. Saba’s overreach should not, however, detract from American Mirror’s impressive strengths. The book is exhaustingly researched, with material from national and local archives in Brazil and theUnited States. Saba’s central argument, thatmany
B. Rouleau
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