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Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
wiley   +1 more source

The Frontiersmen as an Object of Czech Nationalism 1918–1935

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of the frontiersmen, that is, the Czech minority border communities, as a part of the discourse of the Czech nationalist movement. Via the example of the Czechoslovak National Democracy party, it traces the frontiersmen on two levels.
Dominik Šípoš
wiley   +1 more source

Debating Dumezil: recent studies in comparative mythology [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 1993
N. J. Allen
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“Who here is a volunteer?” Peacebuilding, brokerage, and moral authority in Papua New Guinea

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a critical examination of the global peacebuilding industry as it has operated in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and is based around the author's experience as a volunteer broker to the United States Agency for International Development Papua New Guinea Peace Project.
Michael Main
wiley   +1 more source

Old Europe and Comparative Literature

open access: yes, 2011
Old Europe and Comparative ...
ENGEL, MANFRED
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Teaching Through Making: |xam and !xun Material Culture of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2027.
ABSTRACT At Wits Art Museum (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a small collection donated to the former Wits Museum of Ethnology by Percival Kirby in 1952. A note in the accession register ties the items into the context of the renowned ‘Bushman researches’ of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd in Cape Town in the 1870s and ...
Vibeke M. Viestad, Justine Wintjes
wiley   +1 more source

Generated cultural heritage question-answer dataset: Durga in multi-dimensional perspectives. [PDF]

open access: yesData Brief
Suryanto TLM   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

open access: yesPopular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
wiley   +1 more source

C. S. Littleton. The New Comparative Mythology (An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumézil)

open access: yes, 1984
Dubuisson Daniel. C. S. Littleton. The New Comparative Mythology (An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumézil). In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 201, n°3, 1984.
Dubuisson, Daniel
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