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Of Alpinists and Domestic and Wild Animals in the Alps (1857-1899): a Corpus Analysis
Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2020 British and Irish alpinists were among the first to explore the highest altitudes in the Alpine massif and to write about it, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century. They reported on their travels and many travel narratives they produced
Samia Ounoughi
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 4, Page 718-734, December 2025.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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Life and traditions of Caucasian Circassians: historical-comparative probe of travelogues of European travellers from the beginning of the 16th century to the half of the 19th century (Život a zvyky kaukazských Čerkesov: historicko-komparatívna sondáž cestopisov európskych cestovateľov od začiatku 16. do polovice 19. storočia) [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2017 The aim of this study is to clarify evolution of life and traditions of Circassian society in a historically comparative perspective. It is based on published travelogues and diaries of European travellers who visited various parts of Caucasian Circassia
Michal Šmigeľ +2 more
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The Alcobaça Abbey hydraulic landscape [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: This paper concerns the main domain (“coutos”) of Alcobaça Abbey (central Portugal), founded in 1153. It shows the involvement of the Cistercian monks in shaping hydraulic landscapes along time. This monastic territory is limited westwards
Jorge, Virgolino Ferreira +2 more
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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.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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The Linnaean revolution – A history of the Natural System
TAXON, Volume 74, Issue 5, Page 1011-1034, October 2025.Abstract A very brief history of the Natural System (NS) is presented, focusing on angiosperms. The account is divided into four parts. The first, “Setting the stage”, gives an outline of my understanding of evolutionary ontology and how this reflects on taxonomy.
Magnus Lidén
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Визуальная теологияThe article is devoted to the study of visual images presented in texts devoted to pilgrimage to Palestine of the late 19th – early 20th century. The research interest is based on the idea of illustration as a way of overcoming the rationality of ...
Alexander Valitov / Александр Александрович Валитов
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War film as a political problem in Polish press 1945–1949 [PDF]
, 2015 This book was financially supported by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities: project “Cinema: Intercultural Perspective. Western-European Cinema in Poland, Polish Cinema in Western Europe. Mutual Perception of Film Cultures (1918–1939)
Rachwald, Tomasz
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Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 864-874, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
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Corne Ducale et Sainte-Chaussette dans la relation de voyage d’Evliyâ Çelebi
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 In the Seyahatnâme we find two references for a relic kept in Urfa at an uncertain date, stockings or sock of Jesus. This reference is related to the headdress characteristic of the Venitian Doge, the corno ducale, ridiculous according to Evliyâ because ...
Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont
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