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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015 Los principales motivos concurrentes en diferentes textos que se refieren a la "mito de la larga noche" se describen en el marco de la mitología comparada indo-americana y según la clasificación de Stith Thompson.
Enrique Margery Peña
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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
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J. Puhvel, Comparative Mythology
, 1989 Sergent Bernard. J. Puhvel, Comparative Mythology. In: L'Homme, 1989, tome 29 n°110. pp.
Sergent, Bernard
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology I, Hēraklēs as athlete
, 2019 There is no single way to think comparatively about mythology—or about anything else. And Greek mythology is surely no exception. In my own work on mythology in general and on Greek mythology in particular, I have found it useful to apply—and to ...
Nagy, Gregory
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Myth and Law among the Indo-European, Studies of Indo-European Comparative Mythology
, 1974 le Roux-Guyonvarc'h Françoise. Myth and Law among the Indo-European, Studies of Indo-European Comparative Mythology. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 52, fasc. 3, 1974. Langues et littératures modernes - Moderne taal- en letterkunde.
le Roux-Guyonvarc'h, Françoise
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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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