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Teaching Japanese Popular Culture
The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2010 Japanese popular culture has arrived on American college campuses as never before. Student interest in Japanese manga (comic books), anime (animated films and television shows), and video games drives much of the enrollment in Japanese courses and ...
Van Symons
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“Mummymania”:mummies,museums and popular culture
Journal of Biological Research, 2021 This lecture presents the major findings of the first anthropological study of British and American “mummymania”, the public fascination with ancient Egyptian mummies, and its associated myth, the mummy’s curse: a belief that those who interfere with ...
Jasmine Day
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Popular Culture: Supracultural Communication
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2012 The basic questions which stem from theoretical inquiry into popular culture can be summed up as follows: whose culture is this and in what way should it be approached.
Bojan Žikić
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Holocaust Parody in Israeli Popular Culture
Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2022 For many years, Israeli culture recoiled from dealing with the Holocaust from a humorous perspective. The perception was that a humorous approach to the Holocaust might threaten the sanctity of its memory, or evoke feelings of disrespect towards the ...
Liat Steir-Livny, Maria V. Semykolennykh
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Interrogating American Popular Culture
Res Rhetorica, 2018 Rather than relegating the study of rhetoric to the past, and confining it to its traditional analyses of ceremonial, forensic, and political speeches, the author argues that it has much to say to and about contemporary popular culture.
ROBERT WESTERFELHAUS
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Traditional Fish Leather Dyeing Methods with Indigenous Arctic Plants
HeritageAlong the Arctic and sub-Arctic coasts of Alaska, Siberia, north-eastern China, Hokkaido, Scandinavia and Iceland, people have dressed in clothes or worn shoes made of fish skin for millennia.
Elisa Palomino +4 more
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Learned culture and popular culture in renaissance Italy
Revista de História, 1992 Ainda que estudos sobre o Renascimento italiano se multipliquem, sempre haverá surpresas quanto a abordagem da cultura popular. O presente estudo pretende explorar as formas de captação dos princípios populares transparecidos na literatura da época.
Peter Burke
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, 2010 Abstract This chapter examines popular culture of the British Empire in Australia. It identifies the underlying structural reasons for the emphasis on ‘the popular’ in the creative output of the colonies and evaluates the imperial myths and meanings which animated the popular pastimes of the colonists.
Richard White, Hsu-Ming Teo
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.We investigated the toxicity of 12 active compounds commonly found in herbal weight loss supplements (WLS) using human liver and colon cell models. Epigallocatechin‐3‐gallate was the only compound showing significant toxicity. Metabolic profiling revealed protein degradation, disrupted energy and lipid metabolism suggesting that the inclusion of EGCG ...
Emily C. Davies +3 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The dielectric properties of clays are studied on the level of individual monolayers and functional double stacks. The material breakdown characteristics and charge storage performance are analyzed. For illustration, a defined charge pattern representing a cuneiform character is produced, written into a microscopic clay tile, referencing the origins of
Sebastian Gödrich +6 more
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