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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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Twins in Mesoamerica as a Symbol of Contrasting Duality [PDF]
, 2015 In cultures across the Mesoamerican subcontinent, there are examples in the archaeological and ethnographic record of myths concerned with twins and sibling pairs (Minneci, 1999).
Rideout, Benjamin
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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
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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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Etymology of the earwigfly, Merope tuber Newman (Mecoptera: Meropeidae): Simply dull or just inscrutable? [PDF]
, 2009 The naturalist Edward Newman did not provide an etymology for the mecopteran Merope tuber when he described it in 1838. In 1872 Asa Fitch asserted that the genus was named after Merope one of the Pleiades sisters of Greek mythology; however, he provided ...
Somma, Louis A.
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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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An Analysis of Greek Mythology Character in Dota 2 Game. Rio Abadi Kurnia 107010028 [PDF]
, 2017 The research is entitled An Analysis of Greek Mythology Character in Dota 2 Game. It is a research that analyzes a Greek mythology character in Dota 2.
Rio Abadi Kurnia and Drs.H.Tendy.Soemantri
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Death and Nationalism's Moral Imperative: The Battle for Britain, Industry and the ‘Left Behind’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with how nationalism is convened and condensed in this moment by exploring the function of loss and death and their centrality to nationalism's articulation. The discussion attempts to make sense of how death possesses an ideological currency that wields an alluring quality and equips nationalism with a moral imperative.
Bethan Harries
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Mythologizing Food: Marion Halligan’s non-fiction
Coolabah, 2011 This paper discusses Marion Halligan’s non-fiction, particularly her writing on food: Those Women who go to Hotels, Eat my Words, Cockles of the Heart, Out of the Picture, and The Taste of Memory. The focus is on how Halligan deconstructs and reconstruct
Ulla Rahbek
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While pubs have long been celebrated as a quintessential part of British culture, the ongoing and increasingly rapid closure of British pubs has raised concerns about the impacts of their loss on the wider cultural life and identity of the nation.
Robert Deakin, Thomas Thurnell‐Read
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