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Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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ABSTRACT Public appointments shape the top‐level bureaucracy by serving as a gateway for professionals with different profiles, chosen based on different criteria. In general, the literature has been more interested in analyzing appointments based on merit or sponsorship, based on verification of loyalty to the government or technical competence ...
André Vaz Lopes +1 more
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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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México: biografía del poder [PDF]
Enrique Krauze, México: biografía del poder, México, Tusquets, 2017, 1139 pp, ISBN: 978-607-07-4523-2.
Jorge Luis Arellano Mendoza
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Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Pushpin memoir: Making meaning out of murder
Abstract In 2018, my brother Adam Colquhoun, nicknamed “Stretch,” was killed in a bar in Calgary, Alberta by a man he barely knew. Stretch was the kind of person society finds convenient to discard. His history of theft, illicit drug dealing, mental illness, addiction, and homelessness made his humanity “undesirable.” Nevertheless, lessons Stretch ...
Noelle Sullivan
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Joaquín Amaro: una biografía política [PDF]
Este texto ofrece una biografía política de Joaquín Amaro, un destacado militar y político mexicano. Se examinan sus contribuciones a la política nacional y su influencia en los eventos históricos de su tiempoUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México ...
Anónimo
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Vides i biografies. La poètica de la biografia literària al segle XVIII
L’objectiu d’aquest article és examinar la naturalesa i l’abast de la modernització de la biografia en el camp de les vides d’escriptors. Per explicar la formació de la biografia literària moderna he comparat les idees sobre el gènere i les vides de ...
Cesc Esteve
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Abstract Before policy reform initiatives reach the agenda of national decision makers, such initiatives often start at a small‐scale, local level. The Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) emphasizes the importance of biographical connections to understand how a group of policy actors forms, and how it develops programs that may lead to decade‐long ...
Nils C. Bandelow +3 more
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Biografía e historia: un amor extraño [PDF]
Explora las complejas relaciones entre la biografía y la historia desde una perspectiva filosófica. La autora plantea una serie de cuestionamientos sobre cómo estos dos géneros se entrelazan y se influyen mutuamente, sugiriendo que la biografía, aunque a
Palazón Mayoral, María Rosa
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