"They also encode and manifest critical information about how animistic and perspectivistic Indigenous communities ...

Uncle Joe’s steady ship of state has sailed and Trump’s victory signals a return to the harsh realities of the East-West axis ...

Environmental historian Robert Morrissey writes in “People of the Ecotone” that Indigenous peoples in what is now Illinois ritualized running, a skill necessary for hunting bison. They developed ...

He pioneered a surrealistic narrative style in collaborations with dancers, artists and the author Yukio Mishima, with whom ...

“The only behavior in the great ape repertoire that fulfills the same form, function, and context as kissing is the last step ...

Ritualized, public violence had been a favorite entertainment of the Romans for centuries. The practice began as an ancient Etruscan funeral ritual: when a tribal chief died, his warriors would ...

While barks are ideal for carrying over long distances, growls are mostly "short-range calls," making them more suitable for ...

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Yasuke’s remarkable journey took him from Africa to the ranks of Oda Nobunaga’s forces, where he became one of Japan’s most intriguing figures.

It is a good reference for students of Chinese politics.' Zhiyue Bo, The China Journal 2. Institutions manipulated, legitimacy ritualized: a theory of authoritarian legitimization 3. 'Meeting for ...

I don’t claim to know which form of basic training is the hardest or which is the easiest (well, as a Navy guy, I’m compelled ...

A landscape history combining built environments, cognitive maps, and spatial practices across the historic / pre-contact divide indicates that the settlement became a ritualized location central to ...