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German-language culture and the Slav stranger within [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The aim of this article is to delineate the symbolic position of the Slavonic, and in particular the Czech, in German-language Austrian culture of the period 1890–1940. My approach will be informed by psychoanalysis.
Beasley-Murray, T.
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Historical Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past African communities. While historical-comparative linguistics commonly deals with the immaterial traces of the past in Africa’s present-day languages ...
Bostoen, Koen
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Refaced/Defaced: Using Photographic Portraits of Khmer Rouge Perpetrators in Justice, Education and Human Rights Activism in Cambodia

open access: yesJournal of Perpetrator Research, 2019
This article explores the use of photographic portraits of Khmer Rouge perpetrators in Cambodia’s public sphere today. It is often said that the Democratic Kampuchea regime was faceless.
Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier
doaj   +1 more source

Desirable Death? Review of Sévane Garibian, ed., La Mort du Bourreau: Réflexions Interdisciplinaires sur le Cadavre des Criminels de Masse (Paris: Éditions Pétra, 2016)

open access: yesJournal of Perpetrator Research, 2017
Review of Sévane Garibian, ed., La Mort du Bourreau: Réflexions Interdisciplinaires sur le Cadavre des Criminels de Masse (Paris: Éditions Pétra, 2016)
Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier
doaj   +1 more source

'Ibadan - a model of historical facts': militarism and civic culture in a Yoruba city [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The article focuses on an historical relationship between the political institution of chieftaincy and civic pride in Ibadan, a Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria.
Watson, Ruth
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The Evil of Banality: Moby Dick vs. the Extreme Machine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In this article I am suggesting that Feidelson’s approach be appropriated for the contemplation and understanding of extra-literary phenomena like the extreme machine. As Russell Reising points out, Feidelson’s “historical premise—that symbolism arose at
Hamilton, Caroline Vanderveer
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Continuity and change in the ceramic assemblage from Metsamor between the 10th and 7th centuries BCE (new data from the 2021 season) [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2022
The morphology and distribution of what is considered as a local pottery assemblage from the Iron I and Iron II phases, which in Metsamor is part of a larger cultural phenomenon designated as the Lchashen–Metsamor pottery horizon, is the subject of ...
Mateusz Iskra   +3 more
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Building in Historical Areas: Identity Values and Energy Performance of Innovative Massive Stone Envelopes with Reference to Traditional Building Solutions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The intrinsic nature of local rocks shaped the features of built heritage in historical centers. The resulting building culture is part of the cultural heritage itself, and must be considered when building in such areas, while it is essential to solve ...
Ferrero, Marco   +2 more
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Information as the fourth vital element and its influence on the culture of peoples [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
Almongst the various possible subjects that occurred to me within the fields of experimental science and the humanities, I decided to choose a question of great importance today –that of information and its influence on the historical evolution of the ...
Currás, Emilia
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of river channel patterns during the last 400 years south of Leipzig, Germany [PDF]

open access: yesEiszeitalter und Gegenwart
The Elster–Pleiße floodplain south of Leipzig has undergone significant hydromorphological changes over the past few centuries, influenced by both natural processes and anthropogenic interventions (e.g.
J. Schmidt   +9 more
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