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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
Paul Stock
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الأفعال الكلامية في خطاب التهنئة بالعيد في البلدان العربية من منظور تداولي
سعت الدراسة الحالية إلى رصد الأفعال الكلامية في خطاب التهنئة بالعيد، الشائعة في البلدان العربية، ودراستها من منظور تداولي، معتمدة في ذلك على المنهج التداولي الذي يهتم باللغة المستعملة.
أفراح أبو البشر محمد بابكر
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State of the Field: The History of Masculinities
Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
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China is a global hotspot for cuckoo‐host diversity, with 17 cuckoo species, exploiting 142 host species. We reveal adaptive matching in body size and egg traits, along with niche partitioning among cuckoos, while identifying eight new host species.
Tao Liu, Canchao Yang
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A critical discussion of the concept of 'performance literature' as applied to the cross-cultural and comparative analysis of literature, with special but not exclusive reference to the literatures of Asia and ...
Finnegan, Ruth
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What Good is a Rebellious Teenager? Classics and Linguistics in the Twentieth Century [PDF]
Copyright © 2001 by the American Philological Association. This article first appeared in Transactions of the American Philological Association 131 (2001) 289-296.
Dickey, Eleanor
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism
ABSTRACT After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics.
Chloe Ahmann +7 more
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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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Introduction: Indology and Aryanism: Knowledge of India in Nazi Germany-An Invitation for New Research. [PDF]
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