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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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Inspiring contemporary poets of myth Syzyf (The Mahdi Akhawan Sales, Abd Alwhhab Bayati) [PDF]

دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2013
Syzyf myth is one of the main inspirations for modern Arabic and Persian poets. In ancient Greek myth it is stated that Syzyf, because of defying the gods, was condemned to carrying a big rock up the steep mountain to the peak.
shahriar Hemati, Jahangir Amiri, Payman Salehi   +2 more
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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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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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Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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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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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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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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