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Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
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Tracing Islamic Sources in the Saraiki Folktales
Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research, 2021 Saraiki is one of the languages spoken by the people of Southern Punjab sine prehistoric times. Like all old languages of the world, this language has a long tradition of oral narratives especially the folktales which transferred by word of mouth from ...
Zahoor Hussain, Saiqa Imtiaz Asif
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ILCEA, 2014 This paper studies The Folktales of mugwort [Polynnye skazki] by Yuri Koval’, based on his mother’s childhood memories. We will focuse on two apparently contradictory aspects of this text: the realism of the context and the wonderful aspect of folktales.
Laure Thibonnier
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O обичном коњу у српским народним приповеткама
Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie, 2020 About the "Common" Horse in Serbian Folktales. The paper analyses the character of the common (nonmagic) horse in Serbian folktales from the following perspectives: (1) names and attributes, (2) function, (3) horse owners, (4) characteristics in animal ...
Voyvodich, Darya
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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PHYSICAL AND VERBAL VIOLENCE IN INDONESIAN FOLKTALES RETOLD IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2016 Folktales as a cultural expression can contain all aspects of human life including violence. As Indonesia comprises so many diverse cultures, the context of violence, its degree and its nature, are also various.
Qanitah Masykuroh
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT Around age four, children in urban, post‐industrial societies begin to understand the subjectivity of beliefs and other mental states: they can be true or false, and they are aspectual, representing situations under specific descriptions. These two insights have been found to emerge in tandem, suggesting a shift toward a metarepresentational ...
Ljubica Petrović +4 more
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FUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 2, August 2026.ABSTRACT This paper introduces the Ubuntu Intergenerational Primer (UIP), a culturally grounded cognitive debiasing intervention designed to mitigate future discounting bias among Real‐Time Delphi (RTD) participants in Southern Africa. Learning from prior research engagements and informed by the region's cultural settings, we innovated around the Rip ...
Simbarashe Nhokovedzo +3 more
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Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT We studied the oral stories 226 U.S. Latine caregivers (most Mexican‐born, earning under $50,000 annually) shared with their children (Mage = 51.81 months) when prompted to tell a science‐ or nature‐related story. Inductive qualitative coding and analyses revealed personal experience stories—reminiscing, caregiver memories, and fictionalized ...
Andrea C. Bühler‐Wassmann +5 more
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The struggle and Islamic patriotism of Sunan Kalijaga in folktales of Central Java, Indonesia
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 This study aims to describe and explain (1) the hero figure and his worldview in the folktales ‘The Legend of Sunan Kalijaga’ and ‘The Legend of Ki Ageng Pandanaran’; and (2) Sunan Kalijaga’s struggle and patriotism in the two folktales. This research is
Nugraheni E. Wardani
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