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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Olympic Trolls: Mainstream Memes and Digital Discord [PDF]
, 2013 While the mainstream press have often used the accusation of trolling to cover almost any form of online abuse, the term itself has a long and changing history.
Leaver, Tama
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, 2015 Steven Mithen argues that language evolved from an antecedent he terms “Hmmmmm, [meaning it was] Holistic, manipulative, multi-modal, musical and mimetic”.
Jan, Steven
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
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Reading Memes: Rhetorical Analysis of Memes as Multimodal Texts [PDF]
, 2023 As a mode of visual communication, internet memes carry a lot of meaning in a concisedigital package.1 While memes were originally defined by Richard Dawkins as “units of culturaltransmission,”2 the term internet memes applies to virtual artifacts in a ...
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Viral Culture, Memes in Society and Politics: An Interview with Anastasia Denisova
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 2020 Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts (Denisova, 2019) was published in 2019. Much of the book by Anastasia Denisova of the University of Westminster reflected on the roles and meanings of memes, as well as the reasons why ...
WPCC Editorial Board
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Pocket Memes and the Gendered Pocket: A Social Listening Approach to Intertextuality on Twitter [PDF]
The pocket, often the subject of gendered discourse and production, is both celebrated and maligned, particularly in relation to disparities in the size and functionality of pockets in men’s and women’s clothing.
Eaton, Ruth
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Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the concept of non‐understandable in psychotherapy, based on the author's own play therapy with a boy with mild ASD (autism spectrum disorder). ASD is considered to belong to an area beyond comprehension, as psychotherapy is often deemed ineffective for it.
Toshio Kawai
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Memeing: Story Memes to Foster Multimodal Communication in Language Learning [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught LanguagesThis article highlights the use of memes as a tool for creating and conveying meaning through multiple modes of communication in language classrooms. Memes have emerged as a popular form of communication in the digital age, utilizing a combination of ...
Angela Lee-Smith
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