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Solar deity in Japanese mythology [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANUIn order to create an orderly state, the first imperial chronicles emerged in the early 8th century in the territory of modern Japan through the integration and systematization of mythical elements that proved the legitimacy of the government ...
Vasić Danijela
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Image of the Deer-Sun and Ethnonym of the Khori Buryats
Oriental Studies, 2020 . Introduction. The article examines the ethnonym of the largest Buryat tribe — Khori. The absence of universally accepted etymology thereof in Buryat ethnography significantly complicates ethnogenetic studies dealing with earliest ethnic history ...
Nadezhda B. Dashieva
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The dakhmas of Khakassia [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2016 In 2005 in the Ordzhonikidze district of Khakassia during an exploratory archaeological work was found "Temple of the Creation of the Universe" sanctuary of Fedorovo (Andronov) culture in Khakassia with cosmogonic petroglyphic compositions.
Larichev, V.E. +2 more
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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
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The Cult(ture) of the Second Sun: Remembering, Repeating, and Performing the Past Imperfect1 [PDF]
Recherches sémiotiques, 2014 This paper advances a pragmatic semiotic understanding of memory. By focusing on what is done with the real-time act of commemoration (or, the selective citation of memories), I analyze the multifunctional and multi-layered semiosis in society that presupposes and creates one’s experiential continuity between past, present, and future despite sudden ...
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Analysis of the Symbolic Function of the Cave in Mithraism Based on the Mircea Eliadeh's point of views [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2019 Mithraism, as one of the oldest Iranian religions, used mythical symbols to lead its followers which can be the leader of the audience for an accurate understanding of the various aspects of these symbols in this ritual.
Ali Sadeghi Manesh +1 more
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Revisiting Ontology to Reshape Transgenerational Justice
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops a philosophical framework for understanding transgenerationality as a foundational concept for intergenerational justice. Drawing on social ontology and the philosophy of action, it introduces the notion of transgenerational civitas—a temporally extended community composed of past, present and future generations.
Tiziana Andina
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Arithmetic--some drill aspects [PDF]
, 1927 Thesis (M.A.)--Boston ...
Finneran, Elizabeth Margaret
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Region-Based Image Retrieval Revisited
, 2017 Region-based image retrieval (RBIR) technique is revisited. In early attempts at RBIR in the late 90s, researchers found many ways to specify region-based queries and spatial relationships; however, the way to characterize the regions, such as by using ...
Hinami, Ryota +2 more
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