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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Hugo Williams, self-styled anglo-american poet [PDF]
, 2007 Although his poetry gives every appearance of being pre-eminently 'English', Hugo Williams claims he is an 'Anglo-American' poet. This surprising assertion rests on his enthusiastic embrace of American popular culture as well as the construction of a ...
Fulton, D
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The genus Prorops Waterson, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Madagascar [PDF]
, 2012 Three species of the genus Prorops Waterson, 1923 occur in Madagascar. Prorops nasuta Waterson, 1923 is recorded for the first time from Madagascar and two new species are described and illustrated: P. sparsa sp. nov. and P. impotens sp. nov., both based
Azevedo, Celso O., Waichert, Cecília
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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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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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The Poetic World of Love Poetry in Dargin Folklore
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article analyzes love songs in Dargin folklore, considers their ideological, aesthetic and compositional features as well as the system of expressive means and methods, such as epi-thet, metaphor, comparison, conversion, symbols, artistic ...
F. A. Alieva
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...the way things were back then : Why Making Excuses for Slavery Doesn\u27t Work [PDF]
, 2011 Presentism. Aside from historical revisionism, it is perhaps the \u27epithet\u27 with which the modern historian find themselves branded the most. I\u27ve been reading again a series of screeds by Bill Vallante, a Confederate reenactor and SCV member ...
Rudy, John M.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Tracking the Odyssey’s Plot through Dawn\u27s Epithets [PDF]
, 2013 The three formulaic sunrises in Homer’s Odyssey share several characteristics. Particularly significant is the use of metrically similar epithets: rhododaktulos and xrusothronos, often translated “rose-fingered” and “golden-throned.” Previous scholarly ...
Hartwick, Kerry
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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