Results 91 to 100 of about 5,247 (297)
IntroductIon: Against Exoticism
, 2016 Anthropology begins in the encounter with the ‘exotic’: what stands outside of—and challenges—conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism ...
Kapferer, Bruce +1 more
core
Advanced Science, EarlyView.An electro‐templating strategy directs the relaxation of cholesteric finger loops into discrete concentric rings whose geometry is electrically programmed. The photopolymerized structures retain the topological defect pattern and, upon heating, show reversible, castle‐like surface modulation.
Jacques A. Peixoto +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Rethinking exoticism in selected travel texts on Persia by Victorian women writers [PDF]
, 2013 Exoticism in Western travel writing of the colonial era, i.e. travellers’ representations of differences encountered in the contact zone as exotic, has been found by postcolonial critics to be profoundly informed by the asymmetrical power relations ...
Ghaderi, Farah
core +1 more source
RIHA JournalIn 1929, Mexico presented itself at the Ibero-American Exposition in Seville, Spain, with a pavilion architecture that replicated the aesthetics of 'Mexican antiquity', referring back to ancient Mexican construction types.
Miriam Oesterreich
doaj +1 more source
L’imagerie touarègue entre littérature savante et littérature populaire
L’Année du Maghreb, 2011 To this day, a number of clichés continue to hinder our understanding of the Tuareg society. With different degrees and some adjustments, such clichés usually emerge in travel literature, media, movies, advertising, and sometimes in academic publications.
Paul Pandolfi
doaj +1 more source
Benjamin Schmidt, Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World [PDF]
, 2016 Benjamin Schmidt, Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 448 pp., isbn 978 0 8122 4646 9)
Wouter Ryckbosch
core +1 more source
Scalable Crackle‐Lithography for Multifunctional Enclosed Plastic Nanofluidic Devices
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Crackle‐lithography enables scalable fabrication of enclosed plastic‐substrate‐based nanofluidic devices with interconnected nanochannels that enable molecular transport, optical interrogation, confined electroless copper deposition, and ionic memristive behavior.
Tirumala Rao Dumpala +8 more
wiley +1 more source
Culture et aménagement péri-urbain : plus près, plus loin pour la communauté vacancière
Revue Internationale Animation, Territoires et Pratiques Socioculturelles, 2016 La dimension spatiale du départ en vacances n’est pas soluble dans la proximité. Celle-ci est peut-être bien, paradoxalement, un frein si l’on considère la difficulté à identifier l’exotisme à côté de chez soi, à apprécier la précarité d’une nuit en ...
Luc Greffier
doaj +1 more source
Jardin japonais en France : exotisme, adaptation, invention
Projets de Paysage, 2011 Through the history of the Japanese garden in France from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century, we intend to question the evolution of the art of a foreign garden introduced in France.
Hiromi Matsugi
doaj +1 more source
Addressing Racism in the Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking of Black Girls: The Role of Public Health Critical Race Praxis. [PDF]
Public Health Rep, 2022 Cook MC, Le PD, García JJ.
europepmc +1 more source