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Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used in Central Macedonia, Greece. [PDF]

open access: yesEvid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2019
This work provides the ethnobotanical data concerning the traditional use of medicinal plants in Macedonia region (Northern Greece), which has, up to now, been poorly investigated. The aim of the present study was to collect, analyze, and evaluate information on the use of medicinal plants among different population groups living in Central Macedonia ...
Tsioutsiou EE   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

An analysis of Watson vs. BARD vs. ChatGPT: The Jeopardy! Challenge

open access: yesAI Magazine, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 282-295, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract The recently released BARD and ChatGPT have generated substantial interest from a range of researchers and institutions concerned about the impact on education, medicine, law and more. This paper uses questions from the Watson Jeopardy! Challenge to compare BARD, ChatGPT, and Watson. Using those, Jeopardy!
Daniel E. O'Leary
wiley   +1 more source

Rescaling hospitality

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 309-320, May 2023., 2023
Abstract As demonstrated in an ethnographic description of displaced Syrians living in Gaziantep, Turkey, hospitality fails when it is captured by a state that transforms ethical‐religious duties into legal obligations. Indeed, Syrian “guests” cannot reciprocate state hospitality because they do not belong to the same scale; moreover, they refuse their
Charlotte Al‐Khalili
wiley   +1 more source

Home visits, holy visits: Diasporic pilgrimage to the ‘Holy Land’ amongst Palestinian–Jordanian Christians from Amman

open access: yesGlobal Networks, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 291-306, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper contributes to ‘visiting friends and relatives’ (VFR) discussions within migration and diaspora literatures by proposing a closer theorization of religious mobilities through the conceptual framework of ‘diasporic pilgrimage’.
Annabel C. Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond “Making Poland Great Again.” Nostalgia in Polish Populist and Non‐populist Discourses1

open access: yesSociological Forum, Volume 37, Issue S1, Page 1360-1386, December 2022., 2022
Nostalgia can be triggered not only by personal recollections but also by exposure to narratives or images evoking desirable pasts, more or less fictional, and inducing feelings of longing for them. We analyze the institutional and semiotic machinery involved in the cultural construction of nostalgia in Poland and its role in generating sentiments that
Marta Kotwas, Jan Kubik
wiley   +1 more source

Revolutionary Landscapes and Kitchens of Refusal: Tomato Sauce and Sovereignty in Egypt

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 789-809, October 2022., 2022
Abstract This article presents a cultural history of tasbika, a tomato‐based cooking technique, as a window into transformations of sovereignty in colonial and postcolonial Egypt. It draws on cookbooks, popular magazines and oral histories to argue that tasbika’s relatively recent emergence as one of the country's most ubiquitous home cooking methods ...
Anny Gaul
wiley   +1 more source

Marketing Logics and the Politics of Public Spheres: On Discursive Engineering and Enclosure

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 301-325, August 2022., 2022
Scholarship on publics has proliferated during the past two decades, especially in linguistic anthropology. Drawing on Michael Warner’s famous formulation, publics are now routinely theorized as a social form predicated on the reflexive circulation of discourse. This article, however, identifies a tension within Warner’s conception of publics.
Andrew Graan
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic return migration, exclusion and the role of ethnic options: ‘Soviet Greek’ migrants in their ethnic homeland and the Pontic identity

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 497-512, April 2021., 2021
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper explores the reasons why and the processes through which the Greeks from the former Soviet Union altered their self‐identification after migration to their ethnic homeland. Responding to their labelling by the native Greeks and the doubts expressed about their Greekness, most introduce themselves as
Manolis Pratsinakis
wiley   +1 more source

Nationalism and the lost homeland: The case of Greece

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 482-496, April 2021., 2021
Abstract As evidenced by the radical changes to state organisation, legitimacy and the international order in the past couple of centuries with the development of nationalist ideology, nationalism inherently carries a spatial dimension that translates into an assertion for control of land.
Thanos Koulos
wiley   +1 more source

Historical background of Turkish gastronomy from ancient times until today

open access: yesJournal of Ethnic Foods, 2018
This study has focused on Turkish culinary culture from ancient times until today. Horse meat and mutton were prominent foods of ancient Turks. The journey of Turkish food culture has been in continuous development from the past beginning from Central ...
Ali Batu, Heysem S. Batu
doaj   +1 more source

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