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Mother Goddes Cult in Mythology; Comparative Analysis of Representations of Umay Mother and Gaia and Their Reflections on

Art Time
This study examines the representations of Umay Ana in Turkish mythology and Gaia in Greek mythology through a comparative approach. The primary aim of the research is to understand the cultural and societal impacts of these figures, to reveal the ...
Talya Gençoğlu
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Mythology, poetry and theology

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2006
Human beings have always been mythmakers. However, in view of the heavy negative connotations attached to the word “myth”, the aim of this article may, inter alia, be seen as an attempt to “rehabilitate” the word “myth” as a positive term in order to ...
Alphonso Groenewald
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“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
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Southern Khmer mythology

Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Khoa học Xã hội, 2008
Tại thời điểm chúng tôi nghiên cứu, có 18 truyện và dị bản thần thoại, trong đó có 15 truyện giải thích về nguồn gốc vũ trụ, muôn loài và các hiện tượng thiên nhiên, 3 truyện giải thích về nguồn gốc loài người và những khát vọng của con người trong chinh
Phạm Tiết Khánh
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Magazinul magic de jucării – o interpretare feministă a miturilor (The Magic Toyshop – A Feminist Interpretation of Myths) [PDF]

Incursiuni în imaginar, 2015
The paper proposes a feminist analysis of myths in Angela Carter’s novel The Magic Toyshop. With fine irony, using the tools of magic realism, the British writer discusses popular myths concerning the relationship between masculinity and femininity.
Elena-Claudia Anca
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Rethinking GABAergic therapy in neonatal seizures: Beyond Scylla and Charybdis

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Raffaele Falsaperla, Vincenzo Sortino, Georgia Ramantani   +2 more
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Einige Termini der lappischen Mythologie im sprachgeographischen Licht

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1987
The article contributes to the research on Sami mythology by presenting an analysis of a selected number of concepts frequently used in Sami mythology.
Olavi Korhonen
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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MYTHOLOGY AND NATURE IN SCHELLING’S PHILOSOPHY

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2015
According to a scientist standpoint, mythology holds no value whatsoever. This is nothing but a mass of superstitions: a polymorphic arbitrariness of imagination.
Angela KUN
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