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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.
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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
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Functions of Ironical Mode in the Russian Travelogue
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
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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
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Inner Otherness as a Source of Fear: Elements of Horror in Balkan Travelogues
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
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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
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The Imagology of Women in Ibn Batutah’s Travelogue [PDF]
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
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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
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FOOD CULTURE IN IBN BATTUTA’S TRAVELOGUE [PDF]
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
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
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
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