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Brain function overlaps when people observe emblems, speech, and grasping. [PDF]

open access: yesNeuropsychologia, 2013
Andric M   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico

open access: yesVisual Anthropology Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 350-387, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
wiley   +1 more source

Mercenaries, Migration and the Crew of the Mary Rose

open access: yesHistory, Volume 107, Issue 378, Page 836-860, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This article reconsiders the presence of foreigners in the crew of Henry VIII's ship the Mary Rose in light of recent archaeological investigations of human remains from the wreck. Through an interdisciplinary analysis drawing on archaeological investigation, the artefacts found on board the Mary Rose and historical documents, this study ...
SAMANTHA NELSON, CATHERINE FLETCHER
wiley   +1 more source

‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anti‐Colonial Solidarity

open access: yesArt History, Volume 45, Issue 5, Page 1078-1100, November 2022., 2022
This essay traces the histories and reverberations of the socialist scholarship programmes which brought art and graphic design students from Africa to the USSR during the 1980s. Drawing on the accounts and archives of art students and cultural workers who participated in or supported these programmes, it follows the path of one Mozambican cohort ...
Polly Savage
wiley   +1 more source

How to analyze visual propaganda in the Middle East: An analysis of imagery in the “Saudi Strike Force Movie”

open access: yesDigest of Middle East Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 96-112, Spring 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper provides an innovative approach to visual analysis in the Middle East. It addresses a fundamental problem in the fields of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Securitization Theory (ST): they largely ignore the visual. This project develops a methodology for visual analysis.
Tom Walsh
wiley   +1 more source

Good men gone bad? Resistance to monastic reform in the tenth and eleventh centuries

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 366-393, August 2021., 2021
Conservative opponents of monastic reform in the tenth and eleventh centuries have traditionally been portrayed as principally reluctant to change and unwilling to abandon privileges and preferential treatment. This article performs a close, comparative reading of the poem Carmen ad Rotbertum regem by Adalbero of Laon (c.950–1031) and the monastic ...
Magnus Borg
wiley   +1 more source

Transtexuality and the Precarious Materials of Dissent (1973): Radicalism in Cecilia Vicuña, Felipe Ehrenberg and the Beau Geste Press (1970–1976)

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 267-284, April 2021., 2021
The article analyses the material strategies of dissent through two transtextual bookworks, Cecilia Vicuña's Sabor a mi (Vicuña, 1973) and Felipe Ehrenberg's Pussywillow (1973) produced at the Beau Geste Press radical collective. Contesting Pinochet's coup in Chile, they resorted to visibly undisciplined responses to ‘the New Disorder now in power ...
Erica Segre
wiley   +1 more source

Performing Identity: The Case of the (Greek) Cypriot National Guard

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 21, Issue 1, Page 26-45, April 2021., 2021
Abstract Students of International Relations are taught that the modern nation‐state has a monopoly on the (legitimate) use of violence. However, in the case of the Republic of Cyprus this does not seem to be the case, since its armed forces, the Cypriot National Guard (CNG), are intimately embedded within Greece’s military structure, and half the ...
Evangelina Moisi, Alexandros Zachariades
wiley   +1 more source

Emblemata: The emblem books of Andrea Alciato [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A study of the life and works of the legal scholar and humanist, Andrea Alciato (1492-1550), the originator of the emblem book. The nature of the emblem is elucidated and placed in its historical, intellectual and artistic contexts, with special ...
Bregman, Alvan M.
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