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Tolkien, Eucatastrophe, and the Re-Creation of Medieval Legend [PDF]
, 2017 Using comparative literary analysis, this essay examines three case studies from J.R.R. Tolkien’s oeuvre, in which Tolkien practiced eucatastrophic rewriting: his folk-tale, “Sellic Spell,” in which he re-creates the Old English poem Beowulf; his poem ...
Beal, Jane, PhD
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines corporate LGBTQ+ activism and the productive incorporation of queers into capitalism in Brazil. Mobilising transnational queer materialist critiques in tandem with critical perspectives from teoria do cu, the paper sheds light on how homonormativity operates not simply as a set of cultural norms or representational tropes ...
Olimpia Burchiellaro
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Lengua y artefactos en la etnografía wichí de Alfred Métraux
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2016 Alfred Métraux’s publications and some unpublished writings are reviewed in order to assess the place of native language and artifacts in his ethnographic works on the Wichí people of the Gran Chaco. A mere gaze at his « Ethnography of the Chaco » in the
Rodrigo Montani
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Of Monsters and Men: A Comparison of Greek and Norse Mythology in the Western Canon [PDF]
, 2013 Greek literature has long been considered the most valuable to Western culture, and it has been held up through the ages as a literary exemplar. While the western literary canon has often been revised and added to, we have never truly questioned the ...
Morrow, Amber
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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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Le cerf chez les anciens P’urhépecha du Michoacan (Mexique) : guerre, chasse et sacrifice
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2008 The deer among the ancient P’urhépecha of Michoacan, Mexico : war, hunting and sacrifice. The study of the place of deers in the Relación de Michoacán and in archaeological remains shows the importance of this animal in ancient Pur’hépecha’s mythology ...
Brigitte Faugère
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Mythos : A Play in Two Acts About the Ability to Choose [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a two-act play in the fantasy genre about the ability to choose, titled “Mythos.” The goal of the play is to persuade audience members to consider that regardless of their past, they still have the ability to choose their future ...
Filegar, Jacob F.
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing enthusiasm to reconsider the normative foundations of the stakeholder theory is spreading in related literature. Current research mainly focuses on religious, spiritual, and philosophical underpinnings to reexamine these foundations.
Roberta Sferrazzo +2 more
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Mythes à la cour, mythes pour la cour (Courtly Mythologies), éd. A. Corbellari, Y. Foehr-Janssens, J.-C. Mühlethaler, J.-Y. Tilliette et B. Wahlen [PDF]
, 2011 Estelle Doudet
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