Results 61 to 70 of about 242,873 (400)

Orientalism and India [PDF]

open access: yesJ@rgonia, 2006
In this article Orientalism, a special hegemonic discourse about "the Orient" by Europeans is discussed by focusing on how it is manifested in a "Western" view of India. Orientalism as a discourse about the Orient is a concept first coined by Edward Said
Jukka Jouhki
doaj  

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

German Romantics Imagining India : Friedrich Schlegel in Paris and Roots of Ethnic Nationalism in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
When, some two centuries ago, German Romantics turned their backs on modernity – industrialisation, urbanisation, commerce and secularisation – they turned to ancient India.
Dusche, Michael
core  

Book Review: Religious Conversion, Contemporary Practices and Controversies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
A review of Religious Conversion, Contemporary Practices and Controversies edited by Christopher Lamb and Darrol ...
Neufeldt, Ronald
core   +2 more sources

Individualized Treatment in Distal and Medium Vessel Occlusion Stroke Using a Validated Explainable Counterfactual Treatment Estimation Model

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective The optimal treatment for distal medium vessel occlusion (DMVO) stroke remains uncertain, and evidence comparing endovascular therapy (EVT) with medical management (MM) is limited. We aimed to develop and validate a predictive modeling tool to assess individual treatment benefit in DMVO stroke using explainable counterfactual treatment ...
Mohamed F. Doheim   +14 more
wiley   +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

Broadening the semiaquatic scene: Quantification of long bone microanatomy across pinnipeds

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Investigations of bone microanatomy are commonly used to explore lifestyle strategies in vertebrates. While distinct microanatomical limb bone features have been established for exclusively aquatic and terrestrial lifestyles, identifying clear patterns for the semiaquatic lifestyle remains more challenging.
Apolline Alfsen   +10 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

Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
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

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy