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Dementia in the minds of characters and readers - A transdisciplinary study of fictional language. [PDF]

open access: yesDementia (London)
Devine P   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
wiley   +1 more source

The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

British fiction 1900-1930 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter has eight sections: 1. General; 2. Pre-1945 Fiction; 3. British Fiction, 1945–2000; 4. Pre-1950 Drama; 5. Post-1950 Drama; 6. Poetry; 7. British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Modern Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Matthew Levay; section 2(a) is by Andrew Radford; section 2(b) is by Sophie Vlacos; Section 2(c) is by Maria-Daniella Dick; section 2(d ...
openaire  

Is there truth in fiction? Lessons from readers' responses to dementia fiction. [PDF]

open access: yesMed Humanit
Lugea J   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

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