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, 2015 A collaboration between London College of Communication, the UAL Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC) and the Museum of British Folklore, Figures of Folk, curated by Val Williams, explores ongoing traditions through a series of large format
Williams, Val
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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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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Temiar Dream Music – Han Joi [PDF]
, 1941 A narrative song as a form of telling folklore. It is accompanied by a Percussion instrument, a gong with leather stretched over it and a piece of bamboo is ...
Carvill
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Sperm Sexing in Selected Animals and Humans: Methods, Applications, and Future Prospects
Andrology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Sperm sexing is a technique that enables the selection of offspring sex by sorting spermatozoa based on their sex chromosomes. This technology has gained increasing attention due to its potential applications in both animal breeding and human‐assisted reproduction.
Domrazek Kinga, Jurka Piotr
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Preliminary Comments on Dog Interments from Archeological Sites in Northeast Texas: Folklore and Archeology [PDF]
, 2013 Dogs have been associated with humans for thousands of years, and dog interments—either associated with human interments or as separate interments—also have an antiquity of thousands of years.
Todd, Jesse
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RG flows, cycles, and c-theorem folklore
, 2011 Monotonic renormalization group flows of the "c" and "a" functions are often cited as reasons why cyclic or chaotic coupling trajectories cannot occur. It is argued here, based on simple examples, that this is not necessarily true. Simultaneous monotonic
A. B Zamolodchikov +3 more
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Narratives of Strength: Exploring Storytelling as a Tool for Resilience in Families
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Resilience, originally viewed as a psychological capacity to ‘bounce back’ from challenges, is now understood to be shaped by broader social inequalities, including gender, socio‐economic status, politics and ethnicity. This study explores how stories and narratives can help nurture resilience and improve well‐being among those residing in an ...
Chandra Ramamurthy +3 more
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Calle 14: Revista de Investigación en el Campo del Arte, 2015 A partir de la comprensión de la fiesta popular se discuten dos temas importantes sobre Bolivia: la conexión democratización social y forma estatal y la dispar articulación de disponibilidad social. En tal sentido, argumenta que, aunque la fiesta popular
Cleverth Cárdenas Plaza
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Exact Chiral Symmetry on the Lattice [PDF]
, 2001 Developments during the last eight years have refuted the folklore that chiral symmetries cannot be preserved on the lattice. The mechanism that permits chiral symmetry to coexist with the lattice is quite general and may work in Nature as well.
Alvarez-Gaume L +8 more
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