How can historians of small spaces and cities focus on local events and issues and at the same time carry on conversations with peers in a disciplinar... [more]
Building on recent works that question a simplistic, White narrative of the history of academic oral history, this article focuses on the labors of Bl... [more]
The future of biography can be explored by looking at the itinerary of historian Robert Rosenstone, who has moved from writing an exemplary and classical work - Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed (1975) - to creating an innovative, multi voi
This article considers the question of the Stalinist subject, i.e. the way the self was constructed under the Stalinist regime, by means of a close reading of Bulgakov's satiric novel The Master and Margarita. Recent work on Stalinist subjectivity has dr
The concept of maternal imagination, whereby the disordered thoughts and impressions of pregnant women are used to explain the prevalence of monstrous births, was at its height during the early modern period, albeit it with many prior and subsequent manif
Even though director Manchevski rejected the idea that all Balkan nations are doomed to live through the violent nightmare of ethnic war, this was the dominant Western reading of his film. By uncritically continuing the line of traditional representation
Though pop entertainer Liberace may appear an antique figure of pre-Stonewall self-hate, his performances reveal instead a fascinatingly nuanced dance that took place in plain view of the most conservative audience. Using insights afforded by queer theory
In this paper I examine relationships between multiple semiotic modes used to construct hierarchy, and I show the importance of going beyond our traditional notion of language to look at how social actors employ a range of semiotic resources in organizing
During tree growth and development, wood cells created in the cambium are lignified and undergo maturation. During this process, deformations may appear, which are recognizable by specific anatomical features, observed under the microscope. In the case of
Within the framework of a European project, three cleaning laser devices are tested to evaluate the influence of different parameters on stone cleaning rate and efficiency. The project objective is to design a large surface-cleaning laser. One of the devi
A deposit of dismembered and cooked human remains from Ana Manuku in the Cook Islands, Polynesia, provides evidence for ritual practices c. AD 1390-1470.
This paper analyzes the characteristics of popular residential architecture on the Azorean Islands. The origins in the European Continent and the relationship to Moroccan architecture, especially that of northern Morocco, were also evaluated.
Several authors or practitioners have remarked that Q-switched lasers have an immediate blackening effect on mineral pigments such as vermilion (HgS), minium (Pb3O4), white lead [2PbCO(3)center dot Pb(OH)(2)], malachite [Cu2CO3 center dot(OH)(2)] and yell
Large collections of ethnographic ceramics created over multiyear periods of intensive collecting provide a way to bridge discrepancies between the temporal scales of ethnographic studies based on single field visits and archaeological analyses of assembl
Continuing our focus on the Hebridean Mesolithic, this paper describes new dating on the human bone from Oronsay, showing that late Mesolithic occupation may coincide with the coming of the Neolithic.
Archaeologists and anthropologists work alongside, but outside, conventional science. Quite often, as here, misunderstandings and misreadings of archaeological data and interpretation can distort the reading of our discipline!
New calibration studies of burials from the Catacomb culture of western Eurasia enable better understanding of the spread and development of different Bronze Age traditions.