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Delegitimizing a Witness: Composition and Revision in Joshua 22

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2018
In Joshua 22, after the Transjordanian tribes fulfill their obligations they construct an altar by the River Jordan. In response, the Cisjordanian tribes assemble to wage war, yet a civil war is averted when they learn that this altar serves no ...
Philip Y. Yoo
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What's Wrong With Self‐Censorship?

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, discourse on freedom of speech has shifted away from exclusive focus on the state and towards societal threats to speech. Amidst this change, the notion of “self‐censorship” has gained increased prominence. Not only has self‐censorship emerged as a common reference point, several recent studies identify it as embodying a ...
Gideon Elford
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El altar como símbolo central en los ritos y velorios

Dissertare: Revista de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales, 2017
En la cultura de los pueblos se conjugan elementos que, por su naturaleza, son inseparables del hecho social y religioso, como es el caso de las celebraciones populares religiosas que se han transmitido de generación en generación.
Álvaro Pineda Escalona
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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SOME TYPES OF SCULPTURAL IMAGES OF THE MAYA AND THEIR COMMUNICATIVE CHARACTER

RUDN Journal of World History, 2014
Article is devoted to sculptural images of the Maya and their value for understanding of outlook of these people. The sculpture of the Maya is deeply symbolical, its symbols are religious. It bears information on religion, representations on afterlife of
S L Pyshnova
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Rethinking ‘Hill‐Valley Divide’ in Darjeeling District, India: An Autoethnographic Approach to Highland Identities

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
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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The Roman Altar Dedicated to Zeus from Velico Târnovo – Bulgaria: Reconsidered

Gerión, 2013
This Roman altar, dedicated to Zeus, was found among the ruins of a Roman civil building of the Late Empire, near the Ottoman Firuz Bey Mosque on the Carévéc hill in Velico Târnovo, Bulgaria. It is dated to the second-third century CE.
Asher Ovadiah
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
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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A tripod from the monument of Khantepa

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2018
The article is dedicated to the study of the details of the material culture of the monument of Khantepa, located in the ancient capital center of Sogd Erkurgan.
Kubayev S.Sh.
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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