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Sõimuväljendid: saatmine olematusse [PDF]
This study comparatively analyses swearing material in the Slovenian and Estonian languages in order to show the lexical and structural similarities/differences between swearing and incantations present in the material and to argue that swearing is not ...
Saša Babič, Piret Voolaid
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Les cours d’eau dans les incantations chamaniques des Indiens yucuna (Amazonie colombienne)
Rivers in shamanic incantations of Yucuna Indians (Colombian Amazon). For Yucuna Indians, every river has its history, its masters or original inhabitants. They are mentioned in invocations called juní maná (« invocations of water »).
Laurent Fontaine
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Swearing: Dissolution into Nothingness
Preklinjanje: izničenje v praznino
In this study we will comparatively analyse swearing material form Slovenian and Estonian language in order to show the lexical and structural similarities/differences between swearing and incantations present in the material as to argue that swearing is
Saša Babič, Piret Voolaid
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Singing of incantations in Nordic tradition
Spoken recitation became established as the mode of delivering the Finnish incantation. The ordinary incantations connected with everyday life in agrarian society were recited with little ceremony, in a mumble, a whisper.
Anna-Leena Siikala
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Incantations use the wedding code in order to fulfill the magical function which faces a cure or a protection, demanded by certain people. Thus the wedding code applied to the incantation turns out to be different from the wedding song itself.
Ana Vukmanović
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The article covers the life and historical and cultural heritage of Pyotr Osipovich Kirillov (1853–1917), one of the pre-revolutionary Kuban teachers who devoted themselves to the study of the region’s local history.
Matveev Oleg V.
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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Mythic Incantations of American Empire
American empire is sustained by the mythic incantations of rhetorical rituals constituting an attitude of war. The discourse of empire consists of dead metaphors that lend a sense of necessity and inevitability to war by depicting it as rhythmical ...
Robert Ivie, Oskar Giner
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The Concepts and Contextualization of Incantations in Nigerian Popular Music: Juju Music as Paradigm
The Yoruba people like any other African tribe are enriched with magical and other traditional spiritual powers that are capable of invoking spirits and deities.
Kayode Olusola
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The Mexico City Policy in US Development Policy and Its Backlash‐Frontlash‐Logic
ABSTRACT The Mexico City Policy provides for the discontinuation of U.S. government funding for foreign non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide legal abortion services. While Republican administrations have repeatedly pushed for the introduction of the Mexico City Policy after their re‐election, those regulations have been rescinded by ...
Thomas Lange
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