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Investigating Dark Rituals: The Detective as Anthropologist in Thomas Ligotti’s “The Last Feast of Harlequin”

open access: yesJournal of the Short Story in English, 2022
Thomas Ligotti’s narrator in “The Last Feast of Harlequin” can be seen as an updated version of Lovecraft’s antiquarians whose exploration of folklore ironically leads to self-revelation.
Isabelle Boof-Vermesse
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Muinastulede öö [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused
The article focuses on the initiation, spread, and implementation of the tradition of the night of ancient bonfires, mapping the cultural environment and describing the internal and external socio-cultural factors, as well as connections to identity ...
Mare Kõiva, Andres Kuperjanov
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Conservation challenges and opportunities for native apple (Malus) species in Canada

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 134-156, January 2026.
Apple, one of the world's most widely cultivated and economically important fruit crops, has two wild relatives native to Canada. In this review, we describe the importance of these native apple species to Indigenous heritage and the current threats the species faces due to pests, diseases, and habitat loss.
Terrell T. Roulston   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nima's “Incomplete” Humans: Storying Adolescents’ Black Inhabitations in Accra

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract In this article, I story adolescents as “incomplete” human beings whose inventive modes of storytelling and inhabiting community space shape a “black sense of place” in the Nima neighbourhood of Accra, Ghana. In collaborative arts‐based research with Spread‐Out Initiative NGO, Nima adolescents share stories and narrate experiences that witness
Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye
wiley   +1 more source

On Emerging British‐Latinx Art: The Case of Art Ubicua

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The historicisation of Latinx art has been consolidated as a field of study in the United States. While categorising art by specific communities or geographic regions can sometimes marginalise artists, such classifications have also opened up opportunities in spaces that might otherwise remain exclusive and inaccessible.
Clara Garavelli
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Postage Stamps in Palestinian National Identity and History

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 85-103, Winter 2025.
Abstract This article examines how the Palestinian Authority has used postage stamps as a tool to construct national identity, shape collective memory, and convey political messages during what it hoped would be a transition to statehood. The analysis focuses on three themes of stamps issued between 1994 and 2023: the struggle for independence and ...
Ido Zelkovitz, Yehiel Limor
wiley   +1 more source

THE SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO BY VIOREL MUNTEANU IN THE INTERPRETATIVE CONCEPTION OF NATIVE MUSICIANS [PDF]

open access: yesStudiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică, 2016
Signed in 1974, the Sonata for violin and piano by Viorel Munteanu continues the Enescu tradition and distinguishes itself by an original musical language, that alongside of the form sobriety, places this opus among the most representative examples of ...
STOLEARCIUC XENIA
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The ‘Ogoh-Ogoh’ Youth Festival: A Living Structure of Folklore Transmission in the International Tourist Town of Ubud, Bali

open access: yesJurnal Kajian Bali (Journal of Bali Studies)
This ethnographic study examined the annual festival of ogoh-ogoh (giant sculpture) held by youth in the international tourist town of Ubud, Bali. Using participant observation supplemented by semi-structured interviews with youth organizations, ritual ...
Ni Putu Parmini   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Typology of Folklore Festivals and Principles of their Digital Conversion

open access: yesCultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization, 2020
An attempt to structure the types of folklore festivals in terms of organizational processes and public significance. Examining the possibilities of creating a digital imprint of events of a folklore nature, which corresponds with the transmission processes of the communities in their quest to preserve the cultural heritage.
openaire   +3 more sources

Kultuuriidentiteet, rahvuslus ja muutused laulutraditsioonis

open access: yesMäetagused, 1998
The article describes some alterations in singing traditions from the aspect of sociocultural context and viewed from the Estonian perspective, providing a historical and social background of singing traditions, including the survey of the `national ...
Kristin Kuutma
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