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Naive geography: geoconceptology and topology of geomental maps. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2020
Zelianskaia NL, Belousov KI, Galinskaia TN, Ichkineeva DA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

In search of traces of the mandrake myth: the historical, and ethnobotanical roots of its vernacular names. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2021
Dafni A, Blanché C, Khatib SA, Petanidou T, Aytaç B, Pacini E, Kozuharova E, Geva-Kleinberger A, Shahvar S, Dajic Z, Klug HW, Benítez G.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Governing the Global Square: Pueblos, Platforms, and the Politics of Place

Constellations, EarlyView.
Jennifer Forestal
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the phylogenetic signal of morphosyntax. [PDF]

Pozn Stud Contemp Linguist
Sleeman R, Makri MM, Anagnostopoulou E, Ladoukakis ED, Michelioudakis D, Zioutis C, Pavlidis P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
wiley   +1 more source