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A New Concept of “Kim Jong Un Partizan” Discourse and Authoritarian Durability in North Korea
Pacific Focus, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does the North Korean regime secure elite loyalty without institutional transparency or material redistribution? While existing studies have examined the use of Partizan narratives under Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, this paper argues that Kim Jong Un introduces a significant discursive shift: the invention of “Kim Jong Un Partizans.” This ...
Sohee Hwang
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The weaver and the hunter: An attempt in comparative Himalayan mythology and cultural practice
, 2017 This contribution suggests that “the weaver and the hunter” can be regarded a prototypical gender model across the Himalayas. Taking the Rai of Eastern Nepal and the Naga of Northeast India as venture points, the paper comparatively explores the roots of
Wettstein, Marion
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Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper invites the readers to rethink regulatory governance by examining how trust‐based and rule‐based governance interact. To do this, it uses analytical narratives of three fictional polities: “Trustland”, “Regland”, and “Concordia”. Each polity represents a stylized model of governance: Trustland is anchored in trust‐based governance ...
David Levi‐Faur
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, 1974 Sterckx Claude. C. S. Littleton. The New Comparative Mythology. An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumézil. Berkeley-Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1966. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 14, fascicule 1, 1974. pp.
Sterckx, Claude
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Agricultural Motifs In Southem California Indian Mythology [PDF]
, 1974 The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of crop plants in the Cahuilla creation myth through a comparative study of agricultural motifs and elements which may be found elsewhere in Cahuilla mythology or in the myths of other California ...
Lawton, Harry W.
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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, 2016 This research focuses on the echoing process mythologies to fiction. The main problem of this research is the ideological echoes of European and Native American mythology of werewolves to fiction in Whitley Strieber’s The Wolfen and Stephenie Meyer’s New
Korini, Dyah Kumelar Ayu
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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, 2020 In the previous two posts, Classical Inquiries 2020.02.28 and 2020.03.06, I analyzed the idea of trifunctionality in the myth about the Judgment of Paris, especially with reference to the version of this myth as retold in Homeric poetry, at Iliad 24.25 ...
Nagy, Gregory
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