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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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Architecture Image Studies, 2020 This article focuses on my ongoing work within a collaborative project based on the enigmatic literary fiction ‘Tale of the Arabian Nights’. The book is a collection of tales from the Middle East dating back beyond the ninth century and profoundly influenced many writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino.
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La préface de Jean-Noël Cuénod aux Chants et conjurations
, 2021 Jean-Noël Cuénod, journaliste à la Tribune de Genève et poète, a réalisé la préface de mon dernier recueil de poésie, Chants et conjurations, et l'a publiée sur ses trois blogs, dont ceux de la Tribune de Genève et de Mediapart.
Rémi Mogenet
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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Handshape recognition for Argentinian Sign Language using ProbSom
Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2016 Automatic sign language recognition is an important topic within the areas of human-computer interaction and machine learning. On the one hand, it poses a complex challenge that requires the intervention of various knowledge areas, such as video ...
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Stratégies du double dans deux conjurations magiques de l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne
, 2014 Les deux conjurations magiques anglo-saxonnes présentées ici n’ont pas reçu de la part des historiens de la magie toute l’attention qui leur était due.
Mathieu, Anne
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, 2019 Structures of conjurations are a lesser studied subject when it comes to magic in the Middle Ages. This thesis will take Richard Kieckhefer’s theory in his book Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century and apply it to conjurations
Posthumus, L
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