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Time Tools. [PDF]

open access: yesTop Cogn Sci
Abstract Many core human activities require an understanding of time. To coordinate rituals, plan harvests and hunts, recall histories, keep appointments, and follow recipes, we need to grapple with invisible temporal structures like durations, sequences, and cycles. No other species seems to do this.
Cooperrider K.
europepmc   +2 more sources

In His Father’s Footsteps? Ahmed Münir İbrahim’s 1910 Journey from Harbin to Tokyo as a Member of the First Ottoman Student Delegation to Japan

open access: yesGlobal Perspectives on Japan, 2019
In the historiography of Japan’s Interaction with the Turkish and the Muslim World, Ahmed Münir İbrahim (1887-1941) has been overshadowed by his father, Abdürreşid İbrahim (1857-1944).
Ulrich Brandenburg
doaj   +1 more source

Functions of Ironical Mode in the Russian Travelogue

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2020
The research is performed within the linguistic stylistic approach which allows to determine the pragmatic foundation as existence of the ironic mode.
Ekaterina A. Shcheglova
doaj   +1 more source

Visit of the Romanian Delegation to Sultan Abdulmejid (1860) and Dimitrie Bolintineanu's Narratives of the Ottoman Country

open access: yesTürkiyat Mecmuası, 2022
Throughout history, human beings have felt the need to explore unknown places of the world, see distant countries, and recognize and promote new people and new places for various purposes.
Mariana Budu
doaj   +1 more source

Inner Otherness as a Source of Fear: Elements of Horror in Balkan Travelogues

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2011
Travel fiction has created numerous Others, assigning them an ontologically unstable status, while the traditional travelogue spread a fear of the dark interior of Europe, presenting images of daily political strife, assassinations, wars and uprisings ...
Sanja Lazarević Radak
doaj   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The Imagology of Women in Ibn Batutah’s Travelogue [PDF]

open access: yesزن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2018
Literary and historical texts can be considered as the most important tool in recognizing the images of women of different ethnic groups in the past. Imagology is the knowledge to classify and analyze the images of women in these texts on a systematic ...
Ehsan Ghabool   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

FOOD CULTURE IN IBN BATTUTA’S TRAVELOGUE [PDF]

open access: yesGeo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2018
Travelogues are valuable information sources about the period they were written. Ibn Battuta of Tangiers, Morocco, is a famous traveler of the 14th century. In his travelogue, Ibn Battuta exhibits a rich variety of information on the people, social life,
Aysel YILMAZ, Sibel ÖNÇEL, Medet YOLAL
doaj   +1 more source

Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
wiley   +1 more source

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