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Cultural politics and iconography : an introduction [PDF]

, 2004
This collection of papers reflects on the many dimensions of contemporary narratives of iconography in public culture in Australia and Asia. The idea for the volume arose from a series of seminars held at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research in 2002 ...
Thomas, Mandy, Ganguly, Debjani
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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Mysterious Image of Shiva from Parel: The Iconography of the Hindu Deity of the ‘Seven Notes

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
At the conclusion of the Ancient Age in India (5th–6th AD), the period of active formation of Hindu iconography was characterised by the emergence of complexly composed sculptural images.
Darya Nikolaevna Vorobyeva
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Titian's Falconer: From Zorzone to Girolamo Cornaro

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The identity of the sitter in Titian's Falconer and the issue of its dating have been subject to a false, yet very influential assumption: that The Falconer should be dated to a point as late as 1537 in order to connect it to the identity of Zorzone Cornaro (1517–1571), son of Girolamo (1485–1551).
Rachel Healy
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Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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The iconography of adornment:Funerary monuments from Roman Britain

, 2020
Funerary iconography in the north-west of the Roman empire was highly indebted to, but not a copy of, Italian funerary iconography. In Italy, tombstones portray women unadorned (without jewellery or accoutrements used in bodily grooming) in accordance ...
Hamelink, A.
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Performative Anchoring Practices and the Making of Belonging in Diaspora

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Greekness is constructed and negotiated by a member of the Greek second generation in Italy, a population largely absent from contemporary diaspora scholarship. Through a biographical and socio‐anthropological approach grounded in long‐term ethnographic fieldwork, the study shows how belonging emerges not as inherited
Andrea Pelliccia
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Algorithmic Iconography

, 2019
PhD thesis: The examination of social media image data from Twitter using a modified version of ...
Raymond Drainville
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