A Maya Universe in Stone focuses on Laxtunich Lintel 1, an ancient relief sculpture. Such intensive examinations of singular works remain rare publications related to the Americas, yet objects as complex this lintel, with layered iconographic and hieroglyphic content a rich social life, warrant thorough exposition. The authors convincingly argue that sculpture three additional lintel reliefs we...

Photo by Naveed Ahmed on Unsplash ABSTRACT India has had a solid standard for medical ethics since the birth of Ayurvedic holistic science over 5000 years ago. The country’s views healthcare policy, counsel how to deal with patients, and what constitutes good behavior within profession stem from ancient outlines practice. These “codes conduct” were heavily influenced religious spiritual practic...

Content warning: This article contains references to disordered eating and bodily harm.Beginning in March 1935, Orlean Kingston documented her rigorous fasts visionary experiences that revealed the proper diet for kingdom of God.1 In first entry on subject, she wrote, “We fasted every other day. I grew very weak. One night after fasting all day was such misery from hunger weakness could not sle...

This article explores and extends the field of historical rural sociology using the idea of respectability via a biographical study of 20 older adults from North Wales (UK) for whom the performance of respectability represented a form of social, symbolic or cultural capital. It entailed the active negotiation and management of barriers between differing constituencies of opinion, generations an...

The guidebook is not merely a registration of the city and its historical evolution or of the changing preferences of visitors but rather a device that selects and arranges aspects of the city—real as well as imaginary—into a coherent representation of that city. This is particularly the case in Rome, a city composed of three different entities: the ancient, the Christian, and—from the second h...

In her article "Rewriting Space in Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It?" Bernadine M. Hernandez analyses María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's text in the context of Mexican American and US-American literary history. In her novel published in 1872, Ruiz de Burton creates a space of racial and class difference that is a direct response to Mexicano displacement after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalg...

I present a model of the emergence and evolution of governance, conceived (narrowly) as the continuous resolution of dyadic conflicts by a third party. The model is comprised of three core elements: normative structure, dyadic contracting, and triadic dispute resolution. I demonstrate that a move to triadic dispute resolution leads the triadic dispute resolver to construct, and then to manage, ...

Both major contenders in Peru’s 1931 presidential contest made populist mobilization a centerpiece of their political strategies. Never before had a candidate for national office so completely flouted traditional channels of political power and so thoroughly staked his political aspirations on the mobilization of support from non-elite segments of the population. This paper asks: Why did these ...