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Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations
Abstract This article introduces the special issue on occupations and memory in organizations. To foster increasing collaboration from scholars from both fields, we offer a general argument connecting memory and occupations on two levels. At the societal level, we show how memory experts, such as historians, archivists, and museologists, have played a ...
Diego M. Coraiola +4 more
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Modernidad sincopada: música, ritmo y nación en la obra de Mário de Andrade
Este ensayo aborda la obra del poeta brasileño Mário de Andrade, enfocándose en su ambigua relación con la música popular masiva de su época, a partir de la constatación de que en general el modernismo literario brasileño y la música popular masiva ...
Fernando Pérez Villalón
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Social movements and the synecdoche problem
Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
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Born in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, the musical genre of choro is one of the three genres at the roots of all Brazilian music. It transcends the limits between popular music and art music while having a special place among Brazilian musics, being ...
Alice Boccara
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Though its trials are less monitored and recorded, music is no less subject to censorship than other forms of artistic expression, and the methods are much the same.
Petley, J
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Parents Develop Long‐Term Disgust Habituation, but Only After Beginning to Wean Their Children
ABSTRACT Disgust helps humans avoid potentially pathogenic substances such as bodily effluvia. This reduces illness risks and is difficult to overcome with cognitive strategies or through short‐term habituation (minutes to hours). Whether long‐term habituation (months to years) exists is an unsolved question.
Yifan Huang +4 more
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EM LETRAS E RITMOS: VISÕES DE ESCOLA, EDUCAÇÃO E TRABALHO NO SAMBA BRASILEIRO (1930-1950)
RESUMO: Este artigo analisa o modo como questões ligadas ao analfabetismo, escola, educação e experiência foram tratadas em canções compostas por sambistas brasileiros que se autodenominavam “malandros”.
MARIA ANGELA BORGES SALVADORI
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Synthesis of variable dancing styles based on a compact spatiotemporal representation of dance [PDF]
Dance as a complex expressive form of motion is able to convey emotion, meaning and social idiosyncrasies that opens channels for non-verbal communication, and promotes rich cross-modal interactions with music and the environment.
Gouyon, Fabien +4 more
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Visiting Professors for 2008-2009 at LLILAS [PDF]
Latin American ...
LLILAS staff
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World Englishes, heterodoxy, and applied linguistics
Abstract It is understandable that many people find it challenging to adopt a positive moral position with regard to English and its role in the world. The language is used in many contexts and situations to prop up systems of discrimination and inequality, leading to negative material and symbolic outcomes.
Christopher Jenks
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