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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: “MICROANALYSIS AND SOCIAL HISTORY” (1977)*

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 257-270, June 2026.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article published by Edoardo Grendi in the Italian journal Quaderni storici, which functioned as the incubator of Italian microhistory.
EDOARDO GRENDI
wiley   +1 more source

May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 231-253, May 2026.
In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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Evaluating Youth Participatory Action Research in the Americas: Comparative Insights on Empowerment, Methodologies, and Social Change

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, Volume 98, Issue 3, Page 698-723, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) positions adolescents as co‐researchers to investigate and address social issues affecting their lives. While YPAR has gained global prominence, comparative research examining how it is conceptualized and practiced across regional contexts remains limited.
John Diaz   +5 more
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El etnocentrismo radical en La utopía arcaica y La civilización del espectáculo, de Mario Vargas Llosa

open access: yesCastilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2016
Este artículo sustenta que hay un etnocentrismo radical en dos libros de ensayo de Mario Vargas Llosa: La utopía arcaica y La civilización del espectáculo.
Camilo Rubén Fernández-Cozman
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The future of written culture

open access: yesIbérica, 2005
In the course of the past three centuries, much of Europe was transformed from an oral culture into one that was fundamentally grounded in the printed word. Print culture flowered for more than 200 years.
Naomi S. Baron
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The Key Architects of Brazil's Foreign Policy and the Quest for Multipolarity Under Lula

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the trajectories and worldviews of three central architects of Brazilian foreign policy during Lula's first two terms—Marco Aurélio Garcia, Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães and Celso Amorim. It argues that their progressive and anti‐imperialist orientations, aligned with the Workers' Party's broader project, were decisive in ...
Tiago Soares Nogara
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Biblia y Cultura Oral en Medios Evangelicos

open access: yesEstudos de Religião, 2012
Este presente artigo propoe a interpretacao de um paradoxo no campo religioso de Lima, cuja existencia tambem e dada no resto da America Latina: o exito de uma “religiao do livro”, em um ambiente onde predomina a cultura oral. Os evangelicos fieis a tradicao protestante da “Sola Scriptura” atribuem um papel central para a Biblia.
openaire   +1 more source

Electrified rhythms: How hydropower infrastructure transforms hydrosocial relations of riverine communities in the Lower Sogamoso River, Colombia

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 782-796, March 2026.
Abstract Hydropower dams regulate water flows for millions of downstream inhabitants worldwide, altering water availability. Under a changing climate, flow control is often framed technically and politically as being essential for reducing drought and flood risks. However, it can also disrupt ecological flows, impact livelihoods and erode environmental
Laura Betancur‐Alarcón   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

La tradición oral latinoamericana. Las voces anónimas del continente caliente

open access: yesAraucaria, 2006
Latinoamérica es un continente de cultura oral: toda su tradición ha sido difundida por esa vía, desde los aztecas, los mayas, los incas, los esclavos brasileños y centroamericanos.
Gabriel Cocimano
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Cidade Flutuante: uma Manaus sobre as àguas

open access: yesUrbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2016
Partindo de uma temática mais ampla, cidade, o artigo, outro fruto do doutorado, busca direcionar as discussões em direção a cidade flutuante de Manaus.
Leno Barata Souza
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