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Myth

open access: yesHumanities, 2018
Myth has become a fundamental frame of reference for Western thinking. This paper explores the term and category “myth” from the perspective of folklore studies, with concern for the use of myth as a tool in research. The ways in which myth has been used
Frog
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Theorizing Myth to Facilitate Comparison and Re-Description in Biblical Studies

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This article promotes the theorizing of myth in ways that facilitate comparison and re-description of data within Biblical Studies. After addressing background categorical issues within Religious Studies and Biblical Studies, I chart the old model of ...
Debra Scoggins Ballentine
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Current status of nylon teeth myth in Tanzania: a cross sectional study

open access: yesBMC Oral Health, 2018
Background Nylon teeth myth is a belief of associating infant illnesses with bulges on infants’ alveolus that mark the positions of underlying developing teeth and that it is necessary to treat the condition mainly by traditional healers to prevent ...
Emeria Abella Mugonzibwa   +3 more
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Two approaches to the myth of city foundations: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2002
The paper discusses the myth of the founding of Vilnius as an example of a myth of city foundation. The myth has received two independent semiotic interpretations.
Kestutis Nastopka
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Photo Albums as the Instrumentality of building a popular Myth [PDF]

open access: yesIn Medias Res, 2014
The article analyzes the popular myth production. The popular myth is seen as the result of a popular production that uses the material of metalanguage as a secondary semiological system.
Dragan Ćalović
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AGAMA DAN MITOS: Dari Imajinasi Kreatif Menuju Realitas yang Dinamis

open access: yesEl Harakah, 2010
Myth always comes to be a debatable discourse among the scholars and observers of Islam. Frequently, a scientific study of myth leads to an extreme ideological analysis.
Roibin Roibin
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Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak   +2 more
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell   +4 more
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Mental health service use among Filipino American and Korean American young adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the heightened mental health challenges amid rising Anti‐Asian sentiment, Asian Americans have significantly underutilized mental health services, a trend that persisted even before the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although considerable efforts have been made to understand how various factors are related to mental health service use in this ...
Michael Park   +6 more
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MYTH, RITUAL, AND THE ARCHETYPAL HYPOTHESIS

open access: yesZygon, 1986
. This paper reexamines the myth‐ritual complex, considering myth as a psychobiological stereotype, the neurobiology of myth structuring, the neurobiology of myth transformation, and some religious implications of the myth‐ritual complex.
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