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Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 2305-2331, September 2026.
Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
wiley   +1 more source

National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Quintessence of Classical Japanese Martial Arts: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

open access: yes, 2007
Describes classical Japanese martial arts and provides historical and philosophical perspectives pertaining to various martial arts including Kendo, Judo and Jiujutsu.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/hms_books/1012/thumbnail ...
Hamada, Hiroyuki Tesshin
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 570-588, September 2026.
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
wiley   +1 more source

Description of the Methodology used for the Preparation of an Annotated Bibliography about Asian Martial Arts Monographs

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Asian martial arts have been incorporated into Western physical culture due to several intercultural communication processes. After their introduction, over a century ago, there is a great amount of cultural output about Asian martial arts published in ...
Gutiérrez García, Carlos   +1 more
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Constitution, regulations & acts; martial arts associations towards pure governance based on the national sports policy in Malaysia [PDF]

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[EN] In Malaysian legislation on Martial Arts, there are two acts to manage governance, namely the Martial Arts Organization Act (MASA) (1976) and the Sports Development Act (SDA) (1997).
Abdul Razak, Siti Nazariah
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‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan's Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein's Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 609-634, September 2026.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
wiley   +1 more source

An Introduction to Plum Blossom Boxing: History, Culture and Practice

open access: yesRevista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2012
Meihuaquan (“Plum Blossom Fist [Boxing]”) has traditionally been practiced as vernacular (folk) art practiced among the Han ethnic group residing in the Shandong, Henan and Hebei Provinces of China.
Guodong Zhang, Thomas A. Green
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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O'Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 764-780, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

Periods, Pains, Pills, and Performance—Fighting Blood, Bodies and Biology

open access: yesSociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 369-381, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on various data from long‐term immersion in combat sports to explore the period experiences of cis women fighters. We blend theoretical ideas from the social scientific literature on menstruation and the sociology of medicalization, pain and injury.
Reem AlHashmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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