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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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A Taste of the Maori Culture! [PDF]

, 2010
Postcard from Kailee Seto, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New ...
Seto, Kailee
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Departure [PDF]

, 2016
Postcard from Sean Bowden, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama ...
Bowden, Sean
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Adventures in Australia [PDF]

, 2016
2016 essay contest winner Hannah Kintz\u27s Adventures in ...
Kintz, Hannah
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Cultivating and Сhallenging Patronizing Images of Subcarpathian Rus

Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
The article compares the main trends in the visual imagery relating to Hungarian/ Subcarpathian Rus which developed and dominated the territory of the Hungarian Kingdom and the First Czechoslovak Republic in the nineteenth and the first half of the ...
Pavlo Leno
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Austria\u27s National Holiday [PDF]

, 2014
Postcard from Jade Boyd, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the Austro-American Institute of Education in Vienna ...
Boyd, Jade
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The transformation of sociocultural celebration practices: the electronic greeting card as a polycode text

Неофилология
INTRODUCTION. Today, an electronic greeting card is an essential attribute of the socio-cultural practices of any holiday. Being a polycode text, an electronic postcard reflects society’s ideas about a particular holiday, captures the value meanings of ...
T. V. Savelyeva
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Welcome to Nottingham! [PDF]

, 2009
Postcard from Jordan Jacobo, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program in Nottingham ...
Jacobo, Jordan
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Study Day [PDF]

, 2010
Postcard from Mai Doan, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program in Aix-en-Provence ...
Doan, Mai
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Reproducts in Postcard Text: A Prolegomenon to the Question of Textual Models for Messages Sent on Postcards

Studies in Polish Linguistics
This article analyses the reproducts characteristic of the speech acts that constitute texts sent on postcards (picture postcards, greeting cards, invitation cards, etc.).
Daniel Dzienisiewicz
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