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, 2010 The book develops a scientific approach to the phenomenon of religion. It is the conviction of the author that such an approach can only be comparative in nature, in order to overcome centuries of religiously biased views on religion.
Pinxten, Hendrik
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Carnets, 2019 From the 1770s onwards, an imagination of the cannibalism of the Oceania islands was formed in Europe, as French and English scientific expeditions explored the "Southern Seas". Very early on, the visited islanders are suspected of being anthropophagous.
Nicolas Cambon
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Hambre de tinieblas. Caníbales, zombis y vampiros en tres novelas contemporáneas del Cono Sur
Amerika, 2023 The intention of this paper is to formulate the concept of 'monstrous hunger' as the center of proposals and actions in three contemporary novels from the Southern Cone that fall within the horror genre: Cadáver exquisito (2018), by Agustina Bazterrica ...
Liliana Lara
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Brésil(s), 2018 The article presents three case studies: first, the concept of the primitive in the historiography of Italian Renaissance art. Next, the article discusses the notion of « sauvage » art in French Surrealism.
Fernanda Marinho, Letícia Squeff
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St. Francis Xavier in Southeast Asia (1545-1552) – A Religious Captivating Journey Through Time, Space, Societies and Cultural Distance [PDF]
População e SociedadeThis study explores the 138 preserved writings of St. Francis Xavier, which consist of only thirty-three original documents and eight autographs among a greater number of dictated works.
Ivo Carneiro de Sousa
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Devouring Mainstream Economics: Oskar Lange’s War Strategy to (Def)eat Bourgeois Political Economy
World Review of Political EconomyOskar Lange aimed to conquer, subjugate, and absorb bourgeois political economy into a Marxist basis. By trying to devour non-Marxian economics, he proposed a challenging strategy to fight against capitalist ideology in economic science, which resembles ...
Tiago Camarinha Lopes +1 more
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OBOE, 2023 Arguably the XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, also known as the bienal da antropofagia, is the most internationally celebrated iteration of the Brazilian biennial.
Camila Maroja
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Cannibalism and Other Transgressions of the Human in The Road
European Journal of American Studies, 2017 The concept of cannibalism is essential for the dark vision laid out by Cormac McCarthy in his novel The Road (2006). This article sketches a brief history of the idea of anthropophagy in the Western intellectual tradition.
Andrew Estes
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A significant association between deltamethrin resistance, Plasmodium falciparum infection and the Vgsc-1014S resistance mutation in Anopheles gambiae highlights the epidemiological importance of resistance markers. [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND The success of malaria vector control is threatened by widespread pyrethroid insecticide resistance. However, the extent to which insecticide resistance impacts transmission is unclear.
Donnelly, Martin +7 more
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Hans Staden's captive soul: Identity, imperialism, and rumors of cannibalism in sixteenth-century Brazil [PDF]
, 2006 This article examines the ways sixteenth-century reports of cultural cannibalism among the Tupinamba of Brazil were employed strategically by Europeans and Brazilians in the contest for economic, spiritual, and cultural dominance in the Atlantic world ...
Martel, H. E.
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