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Rain Shadow by Nicholas Bradley and Cloud Physics by Karen Enns [PDF]
Review of Nicholas Bradley\u27s Rain Shadow and Karen Enns\u27 Cloud ...
Shepherd, Kelly
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Polynesian pigs were brought to the Hawaiian Islands with Polynesian settlement in the mid‐1200s and represent part of the cultural legacy of Hawai‘i. Yet, the introduction of European pigs since 1778 and onward has put into question the ancestral composition of contemporary animals, and conservation efforts have been challenged by tension between the ...
Anna M. Mangan +8 more
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Currents of Progress, Toy Store for Tourists: Nineteenth-Century Mexican Liberals View the Niagara Falls [PDF]
The essay addresses the depiction of the Niagara Falls as an ambivalent symbol of progress in nineteenth-century Mexican travel accounts of the United States. At that time, various Mexican intellectuals spent some time in the USA.
Haas, Astrid
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Jean‐Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France
Abstract This article offers a fresh analysis of Olbie (1798), a frequently overlooked essay by the French author and economist Jean‐Baptiste Say (1767–1832). It positions Olbie as a central text for comprehending Say's political thought and situates it within the wider historical context, in particular French republicanism during the 1790s.
MINCHUL KIM
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Interpretation and translation in Guy Delisle’s Shenzhen [PDF]
As a piece of travel writing describing Guy Delisle’s trip to China as an animator, Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China (2006) is readable in relation to translation as a practice and as a metaphor.
Evans, Jonathan
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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Queer cryptograms, anarchist cyphers: decoding Dennis Cooper's The marbled swarm: a novel [PDF]
Concentrating on Dennis Cooper’s latest work, The Marbled Swarm: A Novel, a fiendishly complex, experimental tale of murder and cannibalism in Cooper’s adopted home city of Paris, I show that both the subject of the text and its formal architecture are ...
Hester, Diarmuid
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This article draws upon individual confidential case files compiled by the UN Office for Refugees (UNHCR) between 1951 and 1975 to examine its response to refugees who requested protection and to analyse policy and practice in Australia as a country of resettlement.
Peter Gatrell
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Judging from the eye: representation of women in Alexander Caldcleugh's travelogue
Judging from the eye: representation of women in Alexander Caldcleugh's ...
Julio Cesar Jeha
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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas
Abstract When the hypotheses and presumptions underlying an ethnographic fieldwork project are found to be “wrong,” why can this be productive for research? By tying my autoethnographic narrative of having my doctoral research seemingly fall apart to anthropological conversations about reflexivity, this essay explores how the continuity of ethnography ...
Dylan H. O'Brien
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