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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2016 Different species belonging to the genus Triticum, and, to a lesser extent, Hordeum, can be processed yielding a product that the ancient Greeks called χόνδρος.
Antonino Pollio, Gianluca Del Mastro
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Caste hierarchies in India place children within a complex system of oppressor‐oppressed relationships that structurally reinforce practices of othering. This paper draws on research with children from privileged caste communities, raising critical consciousness of caste oppression in a primary school classroom in New Delhi, India.
Arushi Mathur
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Revista de Filosofia Antiga. This article aims to illustrate some intersections between Greek philosophical satire and ancient Greek philosophy by discussing the Pyrrhonian satire of Timon of Phlius against the philosophy of Socrates and his followers.
Giovanni Taglialatela
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Ancient Greek Theatre and Agonistic Culture
Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi, 2022 This article explores Ancient Greek theatre through the agons, which played an essential role in the culture of Greek society. The history of Greek theatrical performances goes back much further than the emergence of tragedy and comedy as a genre ...
Özge Acar
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Methodos, 2004 Socrates’ encounter with the Athenian jury is like the polytheistic poet Baal’s encounter with the Prophet in Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses : one religion’s piety is another’s impiety.
Myles F. Burnyeat
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Animals in Human Situations in Ancient Egyptian Ostraca and Papyri
Arts, 2021 It has been said that the ancient Egyptians were raised to tolerate all kinds of toil and hardship; they nevertheless also liked to amuse themselves with comic relief in their everyday life. For example, ancient Egyptian drawing can be quite accurate and
Azza Ezzat
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Comedies of Transgression in Gangsta Rap and Ancient Classical Poetry
New Literary History, 1999 The history of literature and art offers no shortage of works created to offend or shock an audience, but few have been as incendiary as gangsta rap. Apologists cannot deny the problematic content of this form of rap?the misogynistic posturing, themes of intense violence, freewheeling and gratuitous obscenity?and some detractors hold that even the ...
Rosen, Ralph M, Marks, Donald R
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