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The meaning of death: semiotic approach to analysis of syncretic preceddes in the cult of "santa muerte [PDF]
, 2012 [Abstract] The proposed paper discusses applicability of semiotic approach inspired by the work of Boris Uspienski to analysis of syncretic processes in the cult of Santa Muerte (Saint Death), a controversial folk saint.
Grzegorz Michalik, Piotr
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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San Bernardo, Santa Muerte o San La Muerte: brujos, brujeados y santos en la provincia de Imbabura
Antropología Cuadernos de Investigación, 2017 El tema de la brujería es un tema fascinante, tanto para historiadores, antropólogos y otros científicos sociales como para la gente común. En la provincia de Imbabura, la brujería es entendida como la alteración de la armonía a través de la ...
Esthela Alfonsina Andrade Ortega
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 231-253, May 2026.In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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La autenticidad de dos comedias sobre santa Teresa atribuidas a Lope
Criticón, 2009 Two plays about Saint Teresa, La bienaventurada madre santa Teresa de Jesús and Vida y muerte de santa Teresa de Jesús, have been attributed to Lope de Vega, without a study being made to determine if the obscure origins of these attributions are ...
Donald McGrady
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La política internacional de la Santa Sede durante el pontificado de Juan Pablo II [PDF]
, 2005 Juan Pablo II programó su papado para darle a la Santa Sede un papel de referencia ética global, al servicio de la sociedad internacional. Juan Pablo II es ya una personalidad histórica y un dirigente internacional del siglo XX: la conmoción mediática
Armengod, Ramón
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
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Xihmai, 2019 Una revisión somera sobre los estudios que se han publicado sobre el fenómeno de la ”veneración a la Santa Muerte” muestra que ha sido primordialmente abordado desde miradas antropológicas y sociológicas, lo cual tiene mucho sentido si consideramos que ...
Alejandro George Cruz
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Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract The currently circulating high‐pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) virus of the subtype H5 causes variable illness and death in wild and domestic birds and mammals, as well as in humans. This virus evolved from the Goose/Guangdong lineage of the HPAI H5 virus, which emerged in commercial poultry in China in 1996, spilled over into wild birds,
Thijs Kuiken +9 more
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