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Contemporary Legends among Slovenian Students in Ljubljana [PDF]
Traditiones, 2004 V članku se avtorica osredotoča predvsem na vsebino in sporočilnost pripovedi, ki krožijo med slovenskimi študenti na ljubljanski univerzi danes, kakor tudi na odsev družbenih in aktualnih dogajanj v sodobnih študentskih zgodbah. Raziskava tudi odkriva, v kakšni obliki in okoliščinah se v današnjem slovenskem prostoru pojavlja sodobno študentsko ...
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Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
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Die Rothschilds. Aktien auf Waterloo (Erich Waschneck, Deutschland, 1940)
ILCEA, 2015 The Vorbehaltsfilm Die Rothschilds. Aktien auf Waterloo (Erich Waschneck, Deutschland 1940) draws a distortion of historical realities around the rise of the Rothschild family from Frankfurt am Main to financial power all over Europe at the beginning of ...
Johanne Hoppe
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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An exploration of language identification techniques for the Dutch folktale database [PDF]
, 2012 The Dutch Folktale Database contains fairy tales, traditional legends, urban legends, and jokes written in a large variety and combination of languages including (Middle and 17th century) Dutch, Frisian and a number of Dutch dialects.
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Legends of Organ Theft: The Moral Dilemma of Contemporary Society
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Legends and rumors of organ theft became a global phenomenon in the beginning of the 80s, with the information originating from the "Third world" countries. Victims where poor and powerless, typically children.
Dragana Antonijević
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Urban legends and the supernatural in Romanian folklore: a contemporary analysis [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in EuropaThis paper explores the persistence and transformation of supernatural entities and motifs from traditional Romanian folklore, particularly those involving devils and ghosts, within a contemporary urban setting. The study argues that these modern legends
Oana-Cătălina VOICHICI
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The alaas: the interplay between environment and Sakhas in Central-Yakutia [PDF]
, 2012 Alaases, thermokarst depressions formed in the permafrost environment of Yakutia (north-eastern Siberia) provide fertile hayfields for the Sakha cattle economy.
Mészáros, Csaba
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