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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
Museum 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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Iconoclasm as a Subject of Visual Theology / Иконоборчество как предмет визуальной теологии
Визуальная теология, 2021 The purpose of the research is analyzing philosophical and theological aspects of iconoclasm taking into account its various forms and secular analogies.
Alexander Pigalev / Александр Иванович Пигалев
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Churchill and Spain: More Sancho than Quixote?
History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 217-236, March 2026.Abstract This article offers a detailed analysis of Winston Churchill's relationship with Spain over the course of his long and eventful political and personal life. The article focuses on three key episodes: Churchill's ambivalent stance during the Spanish Civil War; his leadership and policy towards Spain during the crucial years of the Second World ...
EMILIO SÁENZ‐FRANCÉS
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Historia de dos monumentos: el ascenso del héroe, la caída de un villano y el olvido de Rodin
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2023 While Captain Arturo Prat was an early victim of the Pacific War (1879-1883), turning his defeat into a symbol of heroism, General Manuel Baquedano led the Chilean army to victory in that same war, turning his triumph into a ...
José de Nordenflycht
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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« My dear audacious Moore » : les poses de l’artiste décadent dans Confessions of a Young Man
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2012 In George Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man, published in 1886 at the beginning of Moore’s career, audacity, which is manifested both in the story and in the telling, verges on iconoclasm yet also appears as a pose.
Fabienne Gaspari
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Lubetkin's Lenin Memorial [PDF]
, 2011 This conference paper summarised my recent research on the strange story of the Lenin Memorial erected in wartime London and destroyed shortly afterwards. It placed this episode within the wider context of iconoclasm and the destruction of public art.
Kerr, Joe
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Book Review:\u3cem\u3ePilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2016 Book Review of Pilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers. By Mary V. T. Cattan.
Prabhu, Joseph
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-47, February 2026.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Body, Space & Technology Journal, 2014 From the earliest experimental film works to today’s contemporary and diverse use of moving image platforms, the notion of visual music is considered synonymous with abstract animation, because in part, abstract imagery is employed across the vast ...
Emmanouil Kanellos
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