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Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, 2017 From their king’s decision to embrace Catholicism at the turn of the sixteenth century to the advent of imperial colonialism in the late eighteen hundreds, the men and women of the central African kingdom of Kongo creatively mixed, merged, and redefined ...
Fromont, Cécile, Cécile Fromont
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Meaning beyond symbols! : A theological interpretation of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe’s logo [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyMethodism came to Zimbabwe in 1891. The church expanded through Eurocentric theology taught to the locals. As the mission continued to grow the indigenes became part of the Methodist ethos and theology through the contextualisation of the gospel, the ...
Onias Chagudhuma, Martin Mujinga
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أحكام الشارة المميزة في القانون الدولي الإنساني
مجلة العلوم القانونية, 2020 Thousands of victims of disasters, wars and armed conflicts Found in the emblems of the Red Cross and Red Crescent as a safe haven that protects these victims from violence, and extend a helping hand in the midst of adversity, and a symbol of humanity ...
هادي نعيم المالكي
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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico
Visual 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
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Mercenaries, Migration and the Crew of the Mary Rose
History, 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an interdisciplinary analysis drawing on archaeological investigation, the artefacts found on board the Mary Rose and historical documents, this study ...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
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Art 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
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Digest 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
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Good men gone bad? Resistance to monastic reform in the tenth and eleventh centuries
Early 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
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Bulletin 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
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Performing Identity: The Case of the (Greek) Cypriot National Guard
Studies 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
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