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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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The Archaic Slavic Religion in a Perspective of Georges Dumézil's Comparative Mythology [PDF]

, 2012
THE ARCHAIC SLAVIC RELIGION IN A PERSPECTIVE OF GEORGES DUMÉZIL'S COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY JIŘÍ DYNDA ABSTRACT The presented paper deals with the application of Dumézil's comparative mythology on religion of ancient Slavs.
Dynda, Jiří
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A post-structuralist revised Weil–Lévi-Strauss transformation formula for conceptual value-fields

Sign Systems Studies, 2018
The structuralist André-Weil–Claude-Lévi-Strauss transformation formula (CF), initially applied to kinship systems, mythology, ritual, artistic design and architecture, was rightfully criticized for its rationalism and tendency to reduce complex ...
James B. Harrod
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DIGITAL TECHNOSCIENTIFIC SOCIALITIES AS AN ENTANGLED COMMONS

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this contribution I examine digital technoscientific socialities through ethnographic fieldwork with Health for All, an interdisciplinary network formed at the start of the Covid‐19 outbreak. I expand the entangled commons framework for anthropological inquiry into collaborative, data‐intensive science, arguing that digital technoscientific
Lucilla Barchetta
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A quantitative approach to comparative mythology

, 2014
A new, quantitative approach to comparative mythology is introduced using methods developed in theoretical physics. The broad concept of universality has long been relevant to comparative mythology, in a qualitative sense, and it has been claimed that ...
Mac Carron, Padraig, Kenna, Ralph, Kenna, R, Mac Carron, P   +3 more
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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A comparative study of Japanese and Polynesian mythology with particular reference to selected cosmogony and trickster myths [PDF]

, 1998
In this thesis, Japanese mythology is compared with Polynesian mythology. Particularly, two Polynesian myths are selected as comparative material. The first one is a Maori cosmogony myth, a South Island version of Tāne, the second one a Samoan trickster ...
Tsuji, Yasuko
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Zāl and Simorgh as Trickster Figures: A Mythological Reinterpretation of the Shahnameh Narratives [PDF]

Literary Arts
This study examines the trickster archetype within the narrative of Zāl and Simorgh in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh. The trickster, a mythological figure characterized by ambivalence, shape-shifting, resourcefulness, and divine intervention, occupies a ...
Tohid Teymori
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Comments on Comparative Mythology 7, Finding a Cure for the Anger of Hērā

, 2020
In a previous essay, Classical Inquiries 2020.03.20, I highlighted some ancient artwork picturing the hero Hēraklēs being breast-fed by the goddess Hērā after he was brought back to life after death.
Nagy, Gregory
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