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1959 Program for the Regional Meeting of the American Folklore Society and the New York Folklore Society [PDF]
, 1959 This document is the conference program for the regional meeting of the American Folklore Society and the New York Folklore Society held at Albany and Cooperstown, NY, on August 28-30 ...
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The Submerged Church at Zhrebchev Reservoir: Sacral Site, Center, Scene
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2023 A number of settlements are evicted and erased along with their public, religious and cultural and historical sites during the construction of many reservoirs. However, some of them are not completely forgotten and often their remains attract an interest
Yana Gergova
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Signaling uniqueness: The psycholinguistic effect of language precision on product perceptions
Journal of Consumer Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This research reveals a psycholinguistic effect whereby more precise words in product communications increase consumer perceptions of product uniqueness. Drawing on Categorization Theory, the authors propose that more precise words in product descriptions are situated deeper within their semantic categories and denote narrower subsets of ...
Guang‐Xin Xie, Ann Kronrod
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Manufacturing Nostalgia in the Digital Age: A Foreverism Perspective
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many scholars argue that we are experiencing the era of “retro”—nostalgia‐driven marketing and consumption phenomena reinforced by digital technologies. However, existing research lacks a critical analysis of nostalgia in contemporary markets and of how digital content, tools, and environments transform retro consumption experiences and alter ...
Dinara Davlembayeva +4 more
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Open Research EuropeThe article is devoted to the maiden servantry in Bulgaria – a relatively late social phenomenon, but with important cultural and social consequences.
Petko Hristov, Niya Spasova
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Allocation of Indivisible Items With a Common Preference Graph: Minimizing Total Dissatisfaction
Networks, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Allocating indivisible items among a set of agents is a frequently studied discrete optimization problem. In the setting considered in this work, the agents' preferences over the items are assumed to be identical. We consider a very recent measure for the overall quality of an allocation which does not rely on numerical valuations of the items.
Nina Chiarelli +6 more
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Rock, paper, pigeon: Exploring speculative ecologies through more‐than‐human play
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract As interactive technologies and playful storytelling increasingly explore posthuman and more‐than‐human perspectives, opportunities emerge to reframe natureculture heritage—as it recognizes that human lives, technologies and societies are always connected with the lives and environments of other species and ecosystems—as intrinsically ...
Pedro Galvão‐Ferreira +5 more
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2004 Program and Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society [PDF]
, 2004 This document is the conference program and abstracts for the annual meeting: “Folklore and the Cultural Landscape” of the American Folklore Society held at the Little America Hotel and Towers in Salt Lake City, UT on October 13-17 ...
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King +2 more
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2005 Program and Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society [PDF]
, 2005 This document is the conference program and abstracts for the annual meeting: “Folklore, Equal Access, and Social Justice” of the American Folklore Society held at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown in Atlanta, GA on October 19-23 ...
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