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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Study of educational system of restoration of historic monuments and sites in Iran

open access: yesآموزش مهندسی ایران, 2013
Nowadays, in order to conserve and revival of monuments and historic-cultural sites and training human requirements some courses were designed in Iran universities.
Ali Omranipour
doaj   +1 more source

Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
wiley   +1 more source

‘Early’ Texts in ‘Clear Script’ in the National Corpus of the Kalmyk Language: Genre Characteristic

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article describes genre features of the written monuments in «Сlear Script». In the 17th century, along with the translated works in “Clear Script” there appeared original works of various genres, so that folklore texts were also literary edited ...
E. Bembeev
doaj  

The new meaning of retirement for bridge employees: Situating bridge employment through the lens of the Kaleidoscope Career Model

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 89-112, Spring 2025.
Abstract Retirees re‐entering the workforce, popularly termed as bridge employment, is a phenomenon that is anticipated to increase in the coming years. Though research establishes that these employees have unique aspirations and work motives (see Mazumdar et al., 2020), primary research on how the retirement transition and bridge employment shape each
Bishakha Mazumdar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Calculating the inherent visual structure of a landscape (inherent viewshed) using high-throughput computing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper describes a method of calculating the inherent visibility at all locations in a landscape (‘total viewshed’) by making use of redundant computer cycles.
Cox, S   +4 more
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The Bazaar as a Model for Knowledge Work

open access: yesKnowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents fieldwork that extends existing metaphors of knowledge work as a process shaped by hierarchical or market forces. A qualitative, ethnographic study of six knowledge‐intensive businesses in two countries identifies striking parallels with the Middle Eastern bazaar in contrast to Western impersonal markets and hierarchies. We
Reed Elliot Nelson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turkic borrowings in the Arabic language of the Mamluk-Kipchak written monuments

open access: yesTurkic Studies Journal, 2021
The Mamluk state is a country consisting mainly of Kipchaks who ruled Egypt and Syria in the XIII-XVI centuries. Those Kipchak personalities came to power from slaves-Warriors. The word Mamluk in Arabic [malaka] – possession, power; means “white slavers”.
Ragıp Muhammed   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Effect of population reinforcement method, site, and plant characteristics on early establishment of the rare endemic plant species Minuartia smejkalii

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Many habitat‐specialist plant species have been endangered by fragmentation or destruction of their habitats. Minuartia smejkalii is a serpentinophyte endemic to the Czech Republic. It is highly threatened by recent habitat destruction and fragmentation, calling for effective conservation measures.
Alrun Siebenkäs   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A SCIENTIST DEEPLY IMMERSED IN THE STUDY OF ANCIENT TURKIC WRITTEN MONUMENTS

open access: yesTiltanym, 2021
Reading the comprehensive step-by-step analysis of ancient texts carried out by Kulmat Umraliev, the unique scientist who devoted himself to the inventory of texts, their historical, literary and linguistic analysis and writing important scientific works, we get to know unique methods of studying ancient Turkic written monuments of the XV-XIX centuries
openaire   +2 more sources

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