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Shaman--Ritual--Place: Sacred Sites and Spiritual Transformation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Throughout the world, tribal societies have held in sacred esteem certain locales within the physical environment.
Faulstich, Paul
core   +2 more sources

On the Appetite Trail [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article recounts actions oriented at experiencing and reliving culinary traditions, undertaken by the Local Action Group of the “Mroga” Society for the Local Community Development. The Society operates in five communes: Koluszki, Brzeziny, Dmosin,
Karpińska, Grażyna Ewa
core   +4 more sources

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Afrocentric Ideologies and Gendered Resistance in Daughters of the Dust and Malcolm X: Setting, Scene, and Spectatorship [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This study of scenes from the films Daughters of the Dust and Malcolm X, describes images of myth, gender, and resistance familiar to African-American interpretive communities.
Jones, David
core   +1 more source

'Genealogical misfortunes': Achille Mbembe's (re-)writing of postcolonial Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In his latest work, Sortir de la grande nuit, the Cameroonian social theorist, Achille Mbembe nuances his description of the ontological status of the postcolonial African subject, which he had theorized extensively in his best-known text, On the ...
Derrida Jacques   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Michael Malay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Review of Michael Malay\u27s The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary ...
Bartlett, Brian
core   +1 more source

Illustrated pocket diaries and the commodification of culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper introduces a little-known print genre that flourished in Britain from the late 1770s to the late nineteenth century. Notwithstanding the long life of the illustrated pocket diary-cum-almanac, scholars have failed to assess the range and ...
Jung, Sandro
core   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Representations of a sacred territory in an ancient city

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2014
The article is devoted to the study of sacred structures in Greek and Roman cities. The article examines religious background of an ancient city, and influence of mythology on the construction of urban space.
Bielikova Kateryna Olexandrivna
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