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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
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Plantation Mythology: Black Women in Academia
, 2001 This article presents the process and findings of a study to establish the relativity of plantation mythology to the institution of higher learning.
Malone-Hawkins, S., Ph.D. +1 more
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Debating Dumezil: recent studies in comparative mythology [PDF]
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 1993 N. J. Allen
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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, 2020 In the previous two posts, Classical Inquiries 2020.02.21 and 2020.02.28, I connected the idea of “trifunctionality” with the idea of “sins” committed in myths connected with two different Greek heroes, Hēraklēs and Paris/Alexandros.
Nagy, Gregory
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The Frontiersmen as an Object of Czech Nationalism 1918–1935
Studies 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
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Two Essays on Indo-European Comparative Mythology : Fights and Destructions
, 2019 application/pdf"Part One: In the Indian epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyana, the heroes (the Pāndavas and Rāma) represent two aspects of heroic elements (fighting and wandering) simultaneously, whereas these two aspects are represented separately in ...
5557, 松村, 一男
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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The ILESE project: Building an evidentiary database about students' use of learning environments
Review of Education, Volume 14, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract This paper presents the progress of a unique study of significant scope. The industry‐funded innovative Learning Environments and Student Experience (ILESE) study asked two questions: In what ways has more than two decades of learning spaces research culminated in readily used evidence that meets the needs of those involved in providing ...
W. Imms +5 more
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, 2020 In this study, the author attempts to systematically apply the methodology of historical and comparative linguistics to the most ancient mythological texts of the Scandinavian tradition, in order to investigate selected aspects of Old Norse poetics and ...
Ginevra, Riccardo
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