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ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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Un monument circulaire en marbre orné de guirlandes découvert à Saints-Geosmes, près de Langres
This article studies a circular monument in white marble, discovered before 1652 in the crypt of the Saints-Geosmes church. Its decoration of garlands and crossed grapevine motifs hanging from bucrania allows us to date it to the middle of the 1st ...
Yvan Maligorne, Arnaud Vaillant
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The Influence of Fiscal Policy on Economic Growth [PDF]
In this paper we analyze the influence of several types of fiscal policies on the process of economic growth, namely on the rate of growth of consumption. We formulate and analyze two types of economic growth models.
Judita Samuel, Moisa Altar
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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Les aménagements du chœur de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, de la Révolution à 2019
The long history of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is marked by a variety of uses. As a religious building, its primary purpose is to host the celebration of the Eucharist.
Inès de Raguenel
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THE SPIRITUAL AND CULTURAL SYMBOLS IN A MAHAYANA BUDDHIST TEMPLE ‘VIHARA LOTUS’ SURAKARTA
The symbols contained in a vihara is intentionally used to remind the people to something that is believed, both cultural and spiritual values. This article aims to analyze the meaning and value of spiritual and cultural symbols in Vihara Lotus Surakarta.
Lery Prasetyo
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MODELING THE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN ROMANIA. THE ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL [PDF]
We simulate possible growth paths assuming that the Romanian economy behaves according to the hypothesis of the Uzawa-Lucas model. By calibrating the model to the Romanian economy, we are able to forecast the evolution of the Romanian GDP and the ...
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Picturing Paul against empire: the Gospel of the apostle to the gentiles in imperial perspective [PDF]
Presented at Vancouver School of Theology, 14 N ...
Maier, Harry
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ABSTRACT This article examines the education trajectories of Indonesian students attending university in Singapore. These students and their parents consider a project of educational migration to Singapore as a proven pathway toward their varied aspirations.
Erica M. Larson
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