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AFFANDI VERSUS ORIENTALISM IN BALI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
When thinking about the role played by visitor-artist in the cultural history of Bali, the names that usually come to the mind are those of westerners, be it those who taught techniques to local artist, like Walter spies and Rudolf Bonnet, or those who ...
Jean , Couteau
core  

‘They Called Them Communists Then … What D'You Call ‘Em Now? … Insurgents?’. Narratives of British Military Expatriates in the Context of the New Imperialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper addresses the question of the extent to which the colonial past provides material for contemporary actors' understanding of difference. The research from which the paper is drawn involved interview and ethnographic work in three largely white ...
Becky Taylor   +21 more
core   +2 more sources

Advanced Corneal Hydrogels: From Passive Replacement to Active Regeneration and Intelligent Interaction

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This review charts the evolution of corneal hydrogels from passive replacements to active and intelligent systems, evaluating natural and synthetic materials while addressing design challenges such as transparency and strength. Advanced applications such as scarless wound healing, three‐dimensional bioprinting, and smart wearables are highlighted to ...
Xinwei Wang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Jew and the Odalisque: Two Tropes Lost on the Way from Classic Orientalism to Islamophobia

open access: yesReOrient, 2019
Contemporary Islamophobic discourses lack two of the important figures of classic orientalism: (1) the “Jew” as an “oriental” ethnoreligious figure akin to “Muslim,” and (2) of the “harem” as an eroticized trope of male domination.
Ivan Kalmar
doaj   +1 more source

Science Fiction by, about, and for Arabs: Case Studies in De-Orientalising the Western Imagination

open access: yesReOrient, 2020
Orientalism is a much maligned concept. While geared to the service of the Western colonial sense of superiority, Orientalism is, at base, a loose set of symbols and motifs that is more geared towards an introspective critique of ...
Emad El-Din Aysha
doaj   +1 more source

Towards an Analytic, Fārābian Conception of Orientalism

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2022
In this paper, I attempt to develop what I call an ‘Analytic, Fārābian’ conception of Orientalism. The motivation for this conception is that it helps us with the task––identified by Wael B.
Anthony R. Booth
doaj   +1 more source

Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections of Western Cultural Attitudes toward Iran in the Linguistic Construction of English Journals [PDF]

open access: yesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2009
This study attempts to introduce two main currents in orientalism, the classic and the modern. The Western attitude toward the Orient, and especially Islam, is analyzed in both currents and the operative factors that lead to modern orientalism are ...
Maryam Sadat Ghiasian
doaj   +1 more source

Scalp electroacupuncture targeting trigeminal nerve activation alleviates post‐traumatic stress disorder–induced depression and neuroinflammation in mice

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Scalp electroacupuncture (SA) through activation of the trigeminal pathway exerts anti‐inflammatory, antidepressant, and anxiolytic effects in an animal model of post‐traumatic stress disorder induced by single prolonged stress. This suggests that SA is involved in neuroinflammation and changes in brain‐derived neurotrophic factor protein through the ...
Bombi Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Western Image of the Orient and Oriental in Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile: A Postcolonial Reading

open access: yesGaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2016
This paper attempts to read Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile (1937), a Hercule Poirot detective novel from a postcolonial stand in general but in particular it seeks traces of Orientalism in it. Expertly plotted and set in Egypt, an exotic background,
Mevlüde ZENGİN
doaj   +1 more source

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