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, 2015 The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Krawczyk-Wasilewska, Violetta
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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The Contexts of Osip Mandelstam’s Works in Tomas Venclova’s Diptych “Two Poems about Love”
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2020 The article analyzes a diptych “Two Poems about Love” written by Tomas Venclova in 1973 and its contexts. The article refers to the archived manuscript and the translation of Mandelstam’s poem “Za to, chto ia ruki tvoi ne sumel uderzhat‘…” (“For I failed
Donata Mitaitė
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[Review of] H. Nigel Thomas. From Folklore to Fiction: A Study of Folk Heroes and Rituals in the Black American Novel [PDF]
, 1990 The complex and important relationship between African American folklore and African American literature is the focus of this thoughtful, well-written book.
Ottenheimer, Harriet
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Toward a unified understanding of people’s aversion to nature: biophobia
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.Human–nature relationships are often framed positively, but research rarely addresses biophobia, the aversion to nature. However, negative relationships with nature are likely to become more widespread following societal and environmental changes, with serious implications for public health and conservation efforts.
Johan Kjellberg Jensen +2 more
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European Journal of Life WritingThe COVID-19 pandemic, declared a global crisis by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, dramatically altered society’s daily routines, social interactions, and digital media consumption. This paper aims to evaluate how leveraging crowdsourcing
Sanita Reinsone +3 more
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Songs and Letters for the Beloved
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2022 Balys Sruoga, Raštai, t. 17: Laiškai Vandai Daugirdaitei, kn. 1: 1919–1924, sudarė Algis Samulionis (1936–1994), Neringa Markevičienė, parengė Neringa Markevičienė, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2021, 541 p.
Manfredas Žvirgždas
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The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang [PDF]
, 2010 This article traces the evolution of narratives about the supernatural woman said to live on Gunung Ledang, from oral folklore to sixteenth-century courtly texts to contemporary films.
Hijjas, Mulaika
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Revisiting the Ancient Origins of Gender Inequality
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study re‐examines the long‐term effect of traditional plough use on contemporary gender roles, as originally advanced by Alesina, Giuliano and Nunn [Quarterly Journal of Economics (2013) Vol. 128, pp. 469–530]. The findings demonstrate that the reduced‐form relationship between historical plough adoption and female empowerment is robust ...
Trung V. Vu
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Interlitteraria, 2022 The author aims to discuss three topics using the memory research method. The first part discusses construction of the imagined community and collective memory of 19th century Lithuanian intellectuals in a country where education in the national ...
Eugenijus Žmuida
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