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Pallas, 2011 Ancient Egyptian religious imagery—ranging from Horus and Seth contending for the throne of the kingdom to Anubis in the act of embalming the deceased—is well known from Egyptian temples, tomb walls, and ubiquitous cippi.
Nick West
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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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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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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Opposing consensus science through scholarly practices: The role of claims maintenance
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 7, Page 891-906, July 2026.Abstract This study examines how three US‐based communities who oppose consensus science produce and disseminate scholarly‐like artifacts: pro‐life activists, Young Earth Creationists, and Anthropogenic Climate Crisis skeptics. Prior research shows that industry‐ or church‐backed advocacy campaigns often generate claims supported by these communities ...
Irene V. Pasquetto +3 more
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Ежегодник Япония, 2022 The Miroku’s iconography forms the central theme of the present article which introduces the creations of the Buddha of Future that survive today in the temples of ancient capitals.
Y. Kuzhel
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German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 419-436, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article considers how trans lives are mediated across literary, painterly and filmic registers in Paul B. Preciado's Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). My analysis draws on Andrew Webber's development of reading practices applied to intertextual works that also exhibit interpictorial and interfilmic dynamics in his reading of a scene
Lawrence Alexander
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, 2022 Abstract Chapter 3 focuses on devotion: the god Śiva or Bhairava as manifested in the forms of Amṛteśa and Mṛtyujit. It locates the deity in the wider corpus of Sanskrit literature. It first situates Śiva as outside of Vedic orthodoxy instead of living and worshipping in the charnel ground.
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Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 19, Issue 6, Page 859-868, June 2026.Abstract According to Nietzsche, “In every real [adult], a child is hidden that wants to play.” In everyday life, playfulness and competition can make routine or dull tasks more engaging and can offer educators opportunities to engage a learner in a more entertaining or interactive manner.
Judi Laprade
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Publiczne konstruowanie historii. Przeszłość w prawicowej ikonografii
Teksty Drugie, 2016 Saryusz-Wolska analyses covers of conservative weekly magazines to examine contemporary Polish right-wing iconography. Focusing on historical motifs, she highlights the mechanisms behind the construction of ‘us’ and ‘them’ or ‘enemies’ and ‘friends’ in ...
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
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