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Forging Common Origin in the Making of the Mexican Nation
Genealogy, 2020 The Mexican nation was built by the state. This construction involved the formulation and dissemination of a national identity to forge a community that shares common culture and social cohesion.
Natividad Gutiérrez Chong
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Myth of objectivity and the origin of symbols
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 An age-old challenge in epistemology and moral philosophy is whether objectivity exists independent of subjective perspective. Alfred North Whitehead labeled it a “fallacy of misplaced concreteness”; after all, knowledge is represented elusively in ...
Shagor Rahman
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From Dustings of Snow to Wax Tablets. Forms of Remembrance in Selected Poems by Krisztina Tóth [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: PhilologicaThe present study aims at discussing memory and remembrance through their relationship with literature, more precisely, poetry. The analysis reaches back to Plato’s dialogue about the primacy of orality over literacy.
Vilma-Irén Mihály
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Faire le mythe. Histoire, récit et transformation en Amazonie
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2002 Making the Myth. History, narrative and transformation in Amazonia. By means of an analysis of different versions of a Parakanã (Tupi-Guarani) myth on the origin of the Whites, this article aims at comprehending how these versions are produced, how myths
Carlos Fausto
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Concept of Myth as a Marker of Social Context: Roland Barthes and Pavel Gurevich [PDF]
International Journal of Slavic Studies, 2022 Philosophers often incorporate the concept of myth in their works since it is an important part of human life. However, considering the concepts regarding such phenomenon as myth in certain philosophical works can also indicate other important issues ...
Oleksandra Legeza
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Looking for Indigenous Entities in Afro-Brazilian Religions in Manaus: Activated Relations
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2015 This text is an entrance to the universe of Afro-Brazilian religions, in a search for the references, presence and action of indigenous entities. The focus begins with Umbanda, in whose origin myth indigenous entities have a foundational and central role.
Deise Lucy Oliveira Montardo
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The Impact of Indian myth on Occidental selected Poems
مجلة الآداب, 2018 The current study deals with the impact and influence of the Indian myth on western literature in general and on the British and American poetry in particular. The concept of myth and its origin is somehow shadowy and ambiguous.
فادي بطرس كرومي حبش
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Dimensi Eko-Eskatologis dalam Mitos Penciptaan pada Masyarakat Manggarai Nusa Tenggara Timur
Jurnal SMART (Studi Masyarakat, Religi, dan Tradisi), 2021 One of the problems suspected to be faced by human is environmental problems. Whereas in various traditions generated by the ancestors, it encourages harmony between human life and nature through mythology, including the teachings of eschatology.
Sefrianus Juhani +1 more
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Amnis, 2019 Based on the fieldwork carried out in the Provincial Immigrant’s Festival (Berisso, Argentina, 2010-2015), the article analyzes the role that official memories have in the formation of collective identities.
Nicolás Herrera
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Genealogical Myth of the Buryats of the Hori Tribe: Calendar and Ritual
Научный диалог, 2021 The plot of the genealogical myth of the Buryats of the Khori tribe is studied in the article as a historical and cultural source reflecting ideological attitudes, which were also a historical fact.
N. B. Dashieva
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