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Pitardia resurrected: A new member of subtribe Menthinae (Lamiaceae)

open access: yesTAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite tremendous progress towards clarifying phylogenetic relationships within the mint family (Lamiaceae), uncertainty remains regarding relationships among some major clades as well as the proper placement of some genera. While researching the genus Nepeta, a species from northeastern Morocco, N.
Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate stability drives multidimensional nestedness of amphibian assemblages in a Chinese sky island system

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract The nested subset pattern (nestedness) has been widely used to explain species distributions in island and fragmented systems. Mountain sky islands serve as critical natural laboratories for understanding the evolutionary consequences of geographic isolation and climate
Caiwen Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hair as sensory skin: sensitive bodies, ritual shaving, and the maintenance of bodily boundaries in Hindu Suriname De la pilosité comme peau sensorielle : corps sensibles, rasage rituel et maintien des limites du corps chez les hindous du Surinam

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
wiley   +1 more source

Methodological aspects of "West-East” system studies

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2016
Article is devoted to methodological approach to studying the East. Russian orientalism can successfully develop basing on the its national culture and active cooperation with the world orientalism.
Igor A. Zaharenko
doaj  

Zen og kunsten at spejlvende orientalisme

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1998
This article intends to put into perspective the critique on Orientalism raised by Edward Said with a case story (beyond Said's Orient) exemplifying how the Orientalist discourse has been inverted, serving as a means of religious and cultural ...
Jørn Borup
doaj   +1 more source

[Review of] Gina Marchetti. Romance mId the Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Marchetti poignantly mirrors Orientalism as conceived in the eyes of typical Hollywood filmmakers of their Eurocentric discourse, flavored with their own notions of romance, race and sexuality, and the Yellow Peril, the way they want to entertain the ...
Kim, Eugene C.
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Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Excerpt from Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies, edited by Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, and Takayuki ...
Hsu, Hsuan L., Yazell, Bryan
core   +1 more source

Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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