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Written in Granite: An Illustrated History of the Ether Monument. [PDF]

Anesthesiology, 2007
Mark E. Schroeder, Mark A. Warner
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From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
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LINGUISTIC RESEARCH OF ANCIENT TURKS ANTHROPONYMY (ON THE BASE OF WRITTEN MONUMENTS)

Неофилология, 2017
The proper names of the ancient Turkic anthroponymic system, which includes cultural information, reflecting the ethnic and aesthetic ideals of society, are studied.
Urzada Abilkasimovna Musabekova
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Jan Mast, een Utrechtse beeldhouwer van grafmonumenten in de achttiende eeuw

Bulletin KNOB, 2006
Until now, not much was known about Jan Mast, an eighteenth century sculptor from Utrecht. He left four signed funerary monuments in marble, two in the church of Wijhe (province of Overijssel), one in Tiel and one in Houten.
Carry Coppée
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The Virginia Monument’s Meaning in Memory

, 2018
In the early 1900s, many people began to advocate for Confederate monuments on the battlefield at Gettysburg. However, different motivations were present.
Tracey, Jonathan
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On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
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Crimean earthquakes of antiquity and Middle Ages: to the historical background

Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2008
Archaeological studying of monuments of the medieval Crimea hardly possibly without fixing of earthquakes. Fortunately, data on them remained in written sources. However their treatments aren't unambiguous. These nuances also reveal in my article.
V.V. Khapaev
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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