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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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The leader cult in communist Romania 1965-1989: constructing Ceaușescu's uniqueness in painting [PDF]
This study focuses on Ceaușescu’s cult in painting. Its aim is to demonstrate that in spite of obvious similarities with the master cult of Stalin, the Romanian leader's cult was not a simple adaptation of Stalin's cult, but it had its own ...
Mocanescu, Alice Carmen Rodica
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L’armée romaine et le culte impérial
Being a special means of expression of loyalty to the princeps, the imperial cult played a central role in the religious life of the Roman army between the 1st and the 3rd centuries AD. Its manifestations were very diverse.
Christophe Schmidt Heidenreich
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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The Achaean Federal Cult Part 1: Pseudo-Julian, Letters 198
This paper explores the evolution of emperor-worship at Corinth in the first century A.D. Specifically, it argues that a Greek ‘letter’ in the correspondence on the emperor Julian should be redated to c. A.D.
Antony J. S. Spawforth
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Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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The imperial cult and the development of Church order - recenzja [PDF]
Recenzja: A. Brent, The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order, Concepts and Images of Authority in Paganism and Early Christianity befor the Age of Cyprian, Brill: Leiden–Boston–Köln 1999, XXII, 396 s.
Myszor, Wincenty
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This chapter focuses upon the literary representations of the importance of rituals, religious offices, and cult traditions in the time of the Second Sophistic.
Marietta Horster
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
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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A Dialogue on Revolutions and Revolutionaries in Science: A Perspective From Quantum Mechanics
ABSTRACT We discuss the notions of scientific revolutions and revolutionaries in the context of the Relativity Revolution and of the First, Second, and Third Quantum Revolutions. We conclude that at the core of the question of what qualifies as a revolution and revolutionary is an assessment of the gradients of knowledge accumulation over time, both at
Ron Folman, Bretislav Friedrich
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