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Demotic possession [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
As Allan Brown reports, Robin Hardy regarded The Wicker Man (1973) as an anti-fascist film. As such it fits into the classical liberal political schema, based on Enlightenment thinking that freedom and the democratic distribution of power is a product of
Franks, B.
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Trajectories across the lifespan of possession-self relationships [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Research on valued possessions tends to concentrate on only one phase of the consumption cycle at a time (acquisition, consumption or disposition) and largely neglects consumers' varying experiences of their special possessions over time.
Hogg, Margaret K.   +2 more
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Adverse possession: Moral authority

open access: yes, 2018
Naveed Ali analyses the evolution of adverse possession ‘Despite this “unjust” method of acquisition, there are numerous arguments in favour of adverse possession.
Ali, Naveed
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The phenomenon of possession and exorcism in north India and amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Master of PhilosophyBased upon two years fieldwork in Wolverhampton and Coventry, and several field trips to Punjab, this thesis focuses on ...
Chohan, Sandeep Singh
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‘To sin in loving virtue’: desire and possession in Measure for Measure

open access: yesSillages Critiques, 2013
This essay offers a startling new reading of Shakespeare’s Angelo as a paradoxical if not tragic hero who discovers in his sudden and inexorable impulse to rape a nun in the dark that desire is always more-or-less demonic – even, and perhaps especially ...
Ewan Fernie
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Bursuram, musicien des dieux en Inde centrale

open access: yesTerrains/Théories, 2022
Through the figure of Bursuram, this article deals with the status, role and category of ritual specialists, in particular among the musicians of the Ganda caste in the Bastar region of Middle India.
Nicolas Prévôt
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Beyond Possession Existence: Duration and Co-Possession [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
This paper introduces two tasks: determining (a) the duration of possession relations and (b) co-possessions, i.e., whether multiple possessors possess a possessee at the same time. We present new annotations on top of corpora annotating possession existence and experimental results.
Dhivya Chinnappa   +2 more
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Dis/Possessing the Polish Past in Marcin Wrona’s Demon

open access: yesHumanities, 2020
The article examines how Marcin Wrona’s Demon (2015) reworks the Jewish myth of a dybbuk in order to discuss how and to what extent a spectral haunting may disrupt acts of collective forgetting, which are in turn fueled by repression, repudiation, and ...
Agnieszka Kotwasińska
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Predicative Possession

open access: yes, 2022
After discussing some general restrictions of predicative possession, the article provides an overview of the three main constructions that mark this sentence type in Slavic: the be + adessive subtype, which dominates in East Slavic, the have subtype ...
Weiss, Daniel
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Deverbal nominalizations in Ktunaxa

open access: yesZeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2020
This paper presents an overview on deverbal nominalizations from Ktunaxa, a language isolate spoken in eastern British Columbia, Canada. Deverbal nominalizations are formed uniformly with a left-peripheral nominalizing particle k (Morgan 1991).
Terrance Gatchalian
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