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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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The experience of pilgrimage in the Roman Empire: communitas, paideiā, and piety-signaling [PDF]
, 2020 Pilgrimage of various types is well attested in the pre-Christian religions of the Roman Empire, but there is comparatively little evidence for the personal experiences of pilgrims.
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Horticulture as history making
American Ethnologist, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 195-207, May 2025.Abstract Depopulation has become a landmark transformation across different rural areas, one that is often accompanied by collective experiences of abandonment, crisis, and deprivation. On the Azores archipelago, Portugal, people encounter demographic decline as a disorienting loss of familiarity with their environment and especially their ...
Tim Burger
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“Are you Navajo or Inuit?” Identity, television dialogue, and Indigenizing semiotics
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 1, May 2025.Abstract This study analyzes Indigenizing semiotic tactics in television narratives from the United States, combining corpus linguistic methodology with a theoretical framing inspired by linguistic anthropology. Given recent changes in the US television landscape, we analyze two landmark series with First Nations showrunners: Reservation Dogs and ...
Monika Bednarek, Barbra A. Meek
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Revista Chilena de Literatura, 2012 Este trabajo analiza tres de los principales criterios mediante los cuales se ha buscado clasificar la predicación hispánica en géneros, entre los que se ha incluido el panegírico.
Bernarda Urrejola
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 345-363, December 2024.Abstract Through the prism of Voltaire's letters on the Quakers (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's The Greek Theatre (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case, Methodist enthusiasm, to formulate some of the principal tenets of fledgling ...
Jonathan P.A. Sell
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Our Place in New Zealand Culture: How the Museum of New Zealand Constructs Biculturalism [PDF]
, 2003 The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa opened in 1998 amidst controversy but has been a huge popular success and has become an icon of national identity.
Goldsmith, Michael
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Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 105-115, December 2024.Abstract This narrative offers a personal and impressionistic account of a few major historical transformations of Israeli society seen through the lens of ethnographic observation. Anthropologists are trained to observe and analyze the “other”, whether individuals or groups, situated within the limited borders of space and time without judging their ...
Moshe Shokeid
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Reconstructing phonologies of dead languages: the case of Late Greek
, 2012 This article compares prescriptive texts of the Indian and of the Greek scholarly tradition (Prati®akhya and Atticist lexica), with a focus on a specific problem of Late Greek phonology, the pronunciation of ‹Ë›.
Vessella, C.
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