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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015 The authoress researched the so-called impure deceased - spirits of the dead, fairies, and the churchyard - within the spring ritual calendar of Slavic nations.
Tatjana A. Agapkina
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Christianization of Fairies in Armenia
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2007 The Armenian church was quite intolerant towards any expression of pagan faith in the early periods of Christianity. Pagan gods and spirits (fairies) were either rejected or labeled as “evil” or were simply “Christianized” acquiring the necessary ...
Alvard Jivanyan
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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma +2 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Llegenda i paisatge com a elements de mediació literària. Encantades i pedagogia de l'imaginari
Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2020 S'hi analitzen les possibilitats de mediació literària del paisatge llegendari a partir d'una experiència de ruta literària desenvolupada amb alumnes de primària en un espai natural on es vincula una llegenda (en concret, el Barranc de l'Encantada a ...
Alexandre Bataller Català
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Genealogy+Critique, 2022 Based on a posthumanist theory framework and laid out as a queer-posthumanist reading this article explores Barbara Frischmuth's novel Die Mystifikationen der Sophie Silber along various figures of thought and concepts by Karen Barad* and other ...
Anna Babka
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Analysis of the variation in the bony structures of the inner and middle ear provides critical insights into functional morphology, as well as adaptive morphology across primates. In this study, we investigated whether ear morphology patterns are related to the ecological characteristics of species and their habitats to test two acoustic ...
Myriam Marsot +4 more
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Fééries, 2020 The investigation proposed in this essay starts with the analysis of the Roman goddess Venus as she is represented in the famous ancient tale of Psyche and Cupid in the Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) of Apuleius and then transformed into an ogress in the
Ute Heidmann
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Teacher retention is often explained through workload, job satisfaction and burnout, but these accounts have examined less systematically whether teachers experience their profession as socially and institutionally recognised. Drawing on recognition theory, this study examines how occupational recognition is configured across material and ...
Mengting Qian +3 more
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There is No Running Away from Fate
Gender Studies, 2018 At birth, everybody is assigned a fate that cannot be changed. In the Banat region, the belief in the powerful influence of the Fairy Godmothers on the new-born’s destiny is still alive.
Alexin Otilia Daniela
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