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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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RE-WRITING OLD NORSE MYTHOLOGY – SIRI PETTERSEN’S "ODINSBARN"
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2017 Re-writing Old Norse Mythology – Siri Pettersen’s Odinsbarn. The article focuses on one of the contemporary Norwegian novels that re-write Old Norse mythology.
Cristina VIȘOVAN
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CONCEPTS "MYTHOLOGY", "LINGUCULTUROLOGY", "INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS"
, 2022 Pulatova Sarvinoz Botir kizi
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the use of otolith shape analysis for species identification and size estimation in Ariopsis felis and Bagre marinus, based on 181 modern otoliths obtained from a scientific collection and recent sampling in the coastal regions of Campeche and Yucatán, as well as 39 archaeological otoliths corresponding to the Early ...
Ariana Solis‐Gómez +7 more
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Affirmative Action and Its Mythology [PDF]
For more than three decades, critics and supporters of affirmative action have fought for the moral high ground through ballot initiatives and lawsuits, in state legislatures, and in varied courts of public opinion.
Glenn C. Loury, Roland G. Fryer, Jr.
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Fantasy Incarnate: Of Elves and Men [PDF]
, 2016 This essay proposes the idea of incarnation as a key to unlocking Tolkien’s conception of fantasy as set out in the \u27Origins\u27 section of On Fairy Stories.
Cook, Simon J, Dr.
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How is rape a weapon of war?: feminist international relations, modes of critical explanation and the study of wartime sexual violence [PDF]
, 2012 Rape is a weapon of war. Establishing this now common claim has been an achievement of feminist scholarship and activism and reveals wartime sexual violence as a social act marked by gendered power. But the consensus that rape is a weapon of war obscures
Bjørnlund M +30 more
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