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Riverkin: Seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the United Kingdom and beyond
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 6, Page 1877-1892, December 2023., 2023 Abstract We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with ‘thingifying’ processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and Indigenous contexts as person‐like kin, we describe how rivers the world over have been re‐done primarily as thing—amoral, controllable, a potential commodity like anything else ...
Joshua B. Cohen +6 more
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The Baptism of an Indian Juggler: Event and Narrative in the Swedish Press, 1827–1852
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 318-339, June 2023., 2023 In 1827, an Indian juggler named Mooty Madua Samme converted to Christianity in Stockholm, Sweden. This historical event got much attention in the press at the time – as did his succeeding marriage to a Swedish woman named Erica – and was celebrated as a victory for the Evangelical Lutheran faith.
Jens Carlesson Magalhães +1 more
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 286-320, April 2022., 2022 Abstract A tribute to Dr. Irving J. Selikoff MD, the founder of this journal, is indeed welcome now more than two decades after his passing. He was known during his lifetime as the US Father of Environmental Medicine which at the time encompassed occupational medicine and much more as industry also polluted the general environment.
Sheldon W. Samuels +3 more
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Animal Genetics, Volume 52, Issue 5, Page 675-682, October 2021., 2021 Summary The domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) is a valued companion animal throughout the world. Over 60 different cat breeds are accepted for competition by the cat fancy registries in different countries. Genetic markers, including short tandem repeats and SNPs, are available to evaluate and manage levels of inbreeding and genetic diversity ...
M. de Groot +16 more
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Dialog, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 145-154, June 2021., 2021 Abstract The intellectual distinction between Jews and Gentiles, Christians and Pagans is a division between true and false religion. Danish theologian N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783–1872) refuted this binary when he “matchlessly discovered” that pagan simply denotes a natural, pre‐Christian human, created in the image of God.
Jone Salomonsen
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Lightning Bugs and Fireflies: Can Metamodernism Help Us Do Better Comparative Mythology?
, 2022 Religious Studies Review, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 497-500, December 2022.
Brian Collins
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Re‐analysing the Baining: The Mytho‐Poetics of Race, Gender and Art
Oceania, Volume 90, Issue 2, Page 98-150, July 2020., 2020 ABSTRACT This article criticises primitivist caricatures of the Baining in Melanesia as a society that lacks exegesis, symbolic logics, religion, structures of power and control, and even an interest in play. The mytho‐poetics of gender and procreation in Mali Baining society are documented by focusing on how art and sexuality are traced onto each ...
Andrew Lattas
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Monitoring and projecting snow on Hawaii Island
Earth's Future, Volume 5, Issue 5, Page 436-448, May 2017., 2017 Abstract The highest mountain peaks on Hawaii Island are snow covered for part of almost every year. This snow has aesthetic and recreational value as well as cultural significance for residents and visitors. Thus far there have been almost no systematic observations of snowfall, snow cover, or snow depth in Hawaii.
Chunxi Zhang +2 more
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Antikythera Mechanism and the Ancient World
Journal of Archaeology, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016 In this historical review, the opinions of Ancient Greece philosophers, astronomers, and poets such as Thales Milesian, Pythagoras, Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Archimedes, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Iamblichus, Plutarch, Homer, and Aratus about the planet position calculations and about the possibility of predictions of natural phenomena are analyzed ...
A. N. Safronov, I. Liritzis
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Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 163-181, March 2026.Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
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