To answer the questions that I am posing (who was Thekla in the Slavic tradition? How important was her cult within this tradition?) I intend to gather the whole hagiographical ...read more
Due to large scale electrification, demand for copper rose exponentially at the end of the 19th century. New copper resources were found across the world, particularly South America and ...read more
The aim of this project is to develop the first comprehensive study of the economic role of the Old Babylonian temples as institutions and their evolving relation with the Palace ...read more
This PhD project is situated in the study of gender and religion, and takes the lives of (young) Roman Catholic women as a starting point in order to examine how ...read more
This project investigates the changing social structure of small communities from the Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 2400-400 BC) in central Adriatic Italy. Archaeologists still know little about how these ...read more
This project examined early marriage practices among Syrian refugees in Jordan in relation to their Sexual and Reproductive Health. The team of this collaborative anthropological research project consisted of anthropologists based in ...read more
This study envisages an international book publication approaching various traditions of materiality in different parts of the world as hybrid creations. The cultural dynamics are determined by the art of ...read more
The aim of the project is to develop an account of explanation in engineering science. In contrast to explanation in the physical sciences, life sciences, and social sciences, very little ...read more
This project aims to analyse the depiction of foster families in Old Norse and Icelandic sagas. This research focuses on relationships between foster families and the emotions that surround the ...read more