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Indo-European Roots of the Helen of Troy

Studia Ceranea, 2018
As a part of the series on female deities and demons in the Indo-European culture, the article begins by establishing Helen’s divine character in the Greek tradition and religion.
Maciej Jaszczyński
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“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video.
Stacey Hannem, Christopher J. Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

“Time‐Tripping” and Memory‐Making: A Grounded Theory of Grounded Theory

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This paper explores the development of grounded theory methodology through the lens of memory studies, introducing the concept of “time‐tripping” as a key generic social process. The paper identifies several sub‐processes of time‐tripping, including “reclaiming,” “resisting,” “retro‐casting,” and “landscaping,” which shape the methodological “imaginary.
Barry John Gibson, Robert Porter, Richard Ekins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vaenulike kaksikute positsioon etteantud teogoonilises struktuuris [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2002
Comparative mythology needs to consider two parallel pairs of twins. One is the pair of antagonistic twins, the other the Ashvin pair of twins found in the Vedas.
Emily Lyle
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The Merry Mystery of the Maypole. A Few Observations on the Role of the Comic Object in Religion and Culture
Vedra skrivnost mlaja. Nekaj opažanj o vlogi komičnega v verovanjih in kulturi

Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2013
This article begins by analysing the maypole rituals in European folklore as a case study to make a point that it is arguably expandable to religious practice in general: that the humorous is intimately interwoven with the sacred and that the comic ...
Izar Lunaček
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Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination Le cauchemar de l’égalitarisme : commensuration, autonomie et imagination

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron, Florian Mühlfried, Hans Steinmüller   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
wiley   +1 more source

Slovanská hippomancie. Koňský divinační rituál jako mediátor v symbolické soustavě slovanského pohanství
Slavic Hippomancy. Horse Divinatory Ritual as a Mediator in the Symbolic System of Slavic Paganism

Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2016
The paper focuses on the meaning and function of the Western-Slavic horse divination and lot-drawing rituals. By means of analysis of written sources, contexts of the Indo-European comparative mythology and through the lenses of the anthropological ...
Jiří Dynda
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

Debating Dumezil: recent studies in comparative mythology [PDF]

Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 1993
N. J. Allen
openaire   +1 more source