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Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 77-95, March 2026.The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Currents of Progress, Toy Store for Tourists: Nineteenth-Century Mexican Liberals View the Niagara Falls [PDF]
, 2019 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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Evliyâ Çelebi’nin Freng-pesend Resim Tutkusu
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 Evliyâ Çelebi evidently became acquainted with European painting at an early age. Somewhat later, as he writes, he studied calligraphy with Güğümbaşı Mehemmed Efendi and nakş — i.e., painting — with Nakkaş Hükmizâde Alî Beg. He also informs us in several
Nuran Tezcan
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A “Stranger” as a Sick Person in Yugoslav Travelogues of the First Half of the 20th Century
Филологический класс, 2021 The paper deals with the connection between the figure of the ethnic “stranger” and the phenomenon of illness in Yugoslav travelogues in the second half of the 20th century.
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Buryat Oral Histories on Inner Asian Pilgrimage: Introducing a New Source
Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Research on Buryat and Kalmyk pilgrimage to Buddhist worshiping sites in Tibet and wider in Inner Asia at the late imperial period mostly focuses on biographies and travel writings of Buddhist clergy, while experience of ordinary pilgrims
Sayana B. Namsaraeva
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 59-83, March 2026.Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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Claiming space outside dominant narratives: feminist strategies based upon freedom and diversity, alternative God-talk and criticizing structures of authority [PDF]
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van den Brandt, Hendrika
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Did Evliyâ Çelebi “fall in love” with the Europeans?
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 What was Evliyâ’s attitude toward the Europeans, or the Franks as he calls them? Europeans are always referred to disparagingly but on the personal level Evliyâ had no problem befriending individual Europeans.
Robert Dankoff
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Europe as an extended Greece: Travelogues by Karl Kerényi and Gábor Devecseri
Journal of Language and Cultural Education, 2021 This study is dealing with the travel notes and diaries in Hungarian and German from the 1950s and 1960s. The two examined authors are Karl (Károly) Kerényi (1897–1973) and Gábor Devecseri (1917–1971).
Polgár Anikó
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Phonographic Recordings in Finno‐Ugric Languages in Finnish Archives
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This review discusses audio recordings made by Finnish scholars among the Russian Arctic people in the early twentieth century and stored in various archives in Finland. The background of the recordings, together with their broader meaning and the possibilities for research they offer, is brought out.
Karina Lukin
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