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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

FOLK ASSOCIATIONS IN RHYMING SLANG

Многоязычие в образовательном пространстве
The purpose of the article is to identify and describe examples of rhyming slang with folklore associations. Some of the rhymes are based on the names of well-known characters in nursery rhymes, or on the use of catchy names of rhymes that make up the ...
Yu.V. Gorshunov
doaj  

Reseña de / Review of: Mensching, Guido y Frederik Savelsberg (eds.). Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology. Manuals of Romance Linguistics, 31. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. ― ISBN: 9783110302110 (hardcover) 9783110302271 (e-book) ― 594 págs. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110302271.

Valeria Casado Taranco
openalex   +2 more sources

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

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

Music speaks louder than lyrics: a conceptual priming experiment. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Karbanova A, Cui AX.
europepmc   +1 more source

A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
wiley   +1 more source

Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature. [PDF]

Evol Hum Sci
Kestemont M, Karsdorp F, Camps JB, Sleiderink R, Chao A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Origin, History, and Meanings of the Word Transmission. [PDF]

Microbiol Spectr, 2017
Villalba J, Navarro FA, Cortés F.
europepmc   +1 more source