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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

The Konark Temple’s Construction: A Critical Review of the Historical, Cultural, and Scientific Evidence [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

open access: yesF1000Research
Drawing from historical accounts, cultural practices, archaeological discoveries, and indigenous technical knowledge, the research presents a critical review of varied aspects of the construction of the Konark temple and provides future research ...
Damodar Suar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Twins in Mesoamerica as a Symbol of Contrasting Duality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In cultures across the Mesoamerican subcontinent, there are examples in the archaeological and ethnographic record of myths concerned with twins and sibling pairs (Minneci, 1999).
Rideout, Benjamin
core   +2 more sources

Detail-preserving and Content-aware Variational Multi-view Stereo Reconstruction

open access: yes, 2015
Accurate recovery of 3D geometrical surfaces from calibrated 2D multi-view images is a fundamental yet active research area in computer vision. Despite the steady progress in multi-view stereo reconstruction, most existing methods are still limited in ...
Li, Zhaoxin   +4 more
core   +1 more source

THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

Narasimha, Lord of Transitions, Transformations, and Theater Festivals: God and Evil in Hindu Cosmology, Myth, and Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper focuses on the multi-faceted nature of the divine depicted in Narasimha and the unique perspectives on God and evil offered by the myths of Narasimha, which is also subliminally represented within the religious practice and performance ...
Vemsani, Lavanya
core   +2 more sources

The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

கொங்கு நாட்டின் இராசிபுர வட்டார சிறுதெய்வங்களும் வழிபாட்டு முறைகளும் / Deities and Worshipping Methods in the Rasipuram Region of Kongu Nadu [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Tamil Language and Literary Studies
Man's early life was encircled by dangers for many thousands of years. Nature plays a major role in such risks. In the early times, nature seemed a mystery to man. The Sun, the Moon, darkness and deadly animals created fear in man. Fear becomes a mode of
செ. தனபால் / S. Dhanapal
doaj   +1 more source

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