Death has been a major focus of Ulster-Scots Presbyterian writing, from theeighteenth century to the present day. Eschatological, apocalyptic, anddispensational modes of thinking circulate, migrate, and manifest themselves invarious expressions of Ulster Protestant culture, both religious and secular. A futuristeschatology can be connected to the restlessness and motion characteristic of Ulstermigrants to the New World. The Ulster Kailyard tradition demonstrates narrativeexamples of death-in-life that form the atmosphere of Presbyterian piety. ArchibaldMcIlroy, Lydia Foster, and Florence Davidson offer an escape from the modern worldthrough an embracement of death and future judgement. The discourse around theNorth West 200 road race also participates in a fascination with time and eternity,and identifies speed and death as central to Ulster identity. The novels of JanCarson, following the tradition of Irish Protestant Gothic, articulate evangelicalconcepts of time and the embracement of death.

The chapter examines how India’s emergence as the world’s largest source of international migrants has affected its economy. It first provides a brief framework to understand international migration’s economic effects, arguing that these depend on selection and sorting effects inherent in migration: who goes, how many go, where they go, why they go and how many return. It then examines the different mechanisms and magnitudes of these effects through different types of financial flow via both the current account (remittances) and the capital account (bank deposits, bonds, FDI), via the network effects of the diaspora on trade and via human capital effects due to a ‘brain drain’. It concludes by arguing that the economic effects of migration on India have depended primarily on factors within India. People leave for a reason and will invest only if it makes financial sense to do so.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Spanish cinema has enjoyed numerous instances of significant national and international success but against a background of industrial weakness and apparent long-term decline. Fernando Trueba's Oscar success with Belle Epoque in 1993 provided a welcome boost for Spanish films in overseas markets and confirmed that Spanish directors and the Spanish industry could compete with Hollywood. However, other siren voices in the early 1990s could be heard, voices announcing Spanish cinema's imminent demise. In anticipation of the centenary of Spain's film industry in 1995, critic Romá Gubern wondered whether he would be attending a funeral rather than a celebration. The period 1993 to 1994 was perhaps one of the most difficult for the film industry in post-Franco Spain, particularly in relation to production totals and audience figures.

Nearly all Italian historians from the seventeenth century who wrote on the Revolt in the Low Countries took the view that the war waged by the Spanish monarchy against the rebels was a just one. Some of these histories, however, do contain criticism of the monarchy’s administrative and military policies in the rebellious Low Countries. This chapter focuses on the Sack of Antwerp in 1576, one of the central episodes of violence during the first phase of the Revolt in the Low Countries. Though most Italian historians supported Spanish policy, some wrote more critically about these events. While it was a way of criticising Spanish dominance within the Italian Peninsula, the Sack of Antwerp could also be used to create a clear-cut opposition between the behaviour of Spanish and Italian military in the Low Countries. The cruelty of the Spanish soldiers could be contrasted with an image of superior and virtuous Italians fighting in the same war and on the same side. As such, these texts could be used to support an Italian patriotic language that could be found, for example, at the Medici court in Florence.

Chondrule types include porphyritic (FeO-poor and FeO-rich), barred olivine, radial pyroxene, granular, and cryptocrystalline. Chondrules in unequilibrated OC tend to have unfractionated refractory lithophile abundances; metallic components include one enriched in refractory siderophiles and one in common and volatile siderophiles. Although most chondrules are a few hundred µm in diameter, microchondrules (0.8-40 µm) and macrochondrules (0.5–5 cm) also occur. Compound chondrules include enveloping, sibling, and adhering varieties. Some chondrules have fine-grained rims, others igneous rims. Relict grains survived the most recent chondrule melting. Calcium–aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) and amoeboid olivine aggregates (AOAs) are very rare. Matrix material occurs mainly as chondrule rims and isolated lumps. Carbon-rich aggregates and clasts contain poorly graphitized C, amorphous C, metallic Fe-Ni, and minor chromite. A few H chondrites contain halite. Opaque assemblages include metallic Fe-Ni, sulfide, and oxides. Some shocked OC contain metallic Cu. Large metal nodules formed by impact-induced vaporization and fractional condensation. Many shocked OC exhibit silicate darkening, and many are breccias with a variety of clasts. Some OC are regolith breccias enriched in solar-wind-implanted noble gases.

Culturally speaking, in the context of Euro-American societies, being related as kin is perceived as a self-evident, given and ‘fixed’ relationship. Reproduction lies at the heart of making such relationships; the birth of a biological child is conceptualized as the beginning of the next generation in a long line of generations going back through time. However, ‘making kin’ might be harder for some than for others. Based on original empirical data (cross-generational interviews), this chapter investigates how kin relationship comes into being in relationships between lesbian daughters and their parents in the context of childbirth through donor insemination. It looks specifically at the role of genes, biology and pregnancy in shaping and making kinship affinities in such family contexts. The chapter highlights that the making of the next generation might, for some, be a precarious and uncertain pursuit, rather than a given, self-evident process.

This chapter introduces the book’s central argument about the parallel development of ideas about context in anthropology and Wittgenstein’s philosophy. It situates both within broader ‘cultures of context’ in twentieth-century thought, while establishing key themes about form and formlessness. The introduction argues that anthropology’s current antiformalist stance represents not progress but a particular historical development that deserves examination. It outlines how the book will trace shifts from logic to language to life as models of context in both Wittgenstein and anthropology.

This chapter deals with the aspects of political economy in British India from c. 1850 to c. 1950, focusing on the major debates and controversies about economic policies, which concerned the role of the colonial state and its implications for British imperial policies. British India had wider economic relations with surrounding Asian and African regions, located as it was within dense regional trading networks, as a hub of transactions of goods, money, people (migration), services and information. Through the development of global economic history, new works and interpretations are presented as a new paradigm against the traditional Eurocentric approach. Using recent works by Asian and Japanese scholars, this chapter analyses a changing economic shift from trade to finance in British India and the transformation of the economic international order of Asia and the role of India in the interwar years, with a special focus on the drastic impacts of the Second World War.

Dodona lies in the northwest of Greece, south of Ioannina. It is situated in the midst of a lovely, peaceful green valley, overlooked by the twin peaks of Tomaros. Natural openings disrupt the rugged geomorphological relief and allow bilateral movements to and from Epirus’ hinterland areas and the coast. It is acclaimed by the ancient writers as the oldest oracle in ancient Greece, with researchers placing its origins as far back as the Bronze Age. The whole area is scattered with ruins, including an imposing theatre, the sanctuary and an acropolis enclosed by fortified walls, occupying an area of 164.659,43 m2.The aim of this paper is to contextualize the architectural development of the sanctuary of Dodona from prehistory till the first century BCE within a general overview of the sacred landscape. It aims to provide a synthesis of the architectural development of the temenos based on previous and recent excavation data. It argues that the transformation of the sanctuary of Dodona from a small open-air shrine to a pan-Epirote and pan-Hellenic cult centre seems to be associated with the urbanization of Epirus and the formation of an Epirotic identity.

There is a growing interest as well as urgency to understand diversity, cultural differences and transformation on the island of Ireland. With the UK’s Brexit decision in summer 2016 the notion of the border, border crossing and what European Union membership entails for different groups in society have become even more opaque. This chapter examines the everyday life experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Their experiences are differently fashioned through two distinct immigration systems, as well as two distinct national, historical and socio-economic contexts. This chapter considers how asylum seekers’ and refugees’ experiences of integration are shaped by issues such as racism and sectarianism in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland. It explores how local environments, spatial segregation and being a black immigrant in a largely white society condition feelings of belonging as well as future aspirations. The authors draw particular attention to the complex intersections of poor asylum processes, racism and exclusion.

Chapter 5 begins to draw the reader into the core case studies of the book. The movement of colonial education into the provincial countryside is revealed with a focus on the Puebla-Tlaxcala valley. This helps to build a local-regional component into the theory of learningscapes in An Unholy Pedagogy. Education is shown to be an introduced and foreign system of instruction, though it incorporated indigenous practices from collegians’ influence, and this didactic trajectory bordered the wholistic and preordained expertise of Ibero-Christian systems of learning. Though examining Christian official records, the chapter also seeks local identity and community efforts to navigate regional impacts with the introduced, augmented systems. One core note is that locals participated in the Mesoamerican countryside’s encounter with texts and architects. Against a tragic backdrop, towns established convents via skilled labourers’ hands under the discretion of Indigenous church people. The chapter studies the concept to placemaking in an account of Motolinía, reading against the hagiographic take to note how these active decades of church growth identified local participation and agency in planning developments and using the grounds of new convents and courtyards. A new provincial learningscape takes shape in this portion of the book, with the shining examples drawn from the Indigenous towns of Huexotzinco, Calpan, and Quauhquechollan.