For the last forty years, the vestry of St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray, has been home to a remarkable, yet little known, piece of medieval sculpture known locally as the "leper head" and linked by tradition to the nearby hospital foundation at Burton Lazars. Doubts have been cast on this over the years by both professional and amateur historians, who have alleged that the distinctive features...

This article examines the shifting status of women in rural Bhutan, some whom, while living a social arrangement characterized by matrilineal inheritance and matrilocal residence, can become seemingly marginalized old age. It analyzes occupancy trajectories against backdrop aging, loss power, traditional land tenure system, considering their linkages to transformation one’s home from secure inc...

The paper analyzes the concept of social meaning, which has been conceptualized in lexi­cal semantics since 1980s and become central modern sociolinguistics linguis­tic anthropology. It used to describe pragmatic increments meaning a lan­guage unit, it receives context. New explanatory approaches have developed from sociolinguistic perspective metapragmatics, where is seen as index that emerges...

T he afternoon had been very long, longer than most, because we didn't seem to be getting anywhere. Even while his grandmother was dying in the hospital, Johnny refused to accept it. Now that she was gone, his denial grew stronger. The harder I tried to console him, the more he resisted. I wanted one thing—to give Johnny hope. I tried to explain to Johnny how death happens. But this eight-year-...

Purpose: Free and open source software (FOSS) brings many benefits to digital preservation; however it is not “free.” If we examine the context in which free and open source software tools are created and employed, it becomes clear that • The sustainability of any software (FOSS, custom or commercial) we rely on to ensure the preservation of our digital heritage will depend on careful assessmen...