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Hidden in the margins: the overlooked artists of 19th-century travel illustrations

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
Nineteenth-century travelogues significantly influenced how European audiences perceived distant colonial territories, their landscapes, and the peoples inhabiting them.
Anderson Antunes, Sara Albuquerque
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Pantomimic fossils in modern human communication. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021
Żywiczyński P, Wacewicz S, Lister C.
europepmc   +1 more source

European Encounters with Dracunculiasis in the Northern Bank of the Persian Gulf: A Perspective from Travelogues of the Safavid and Qajar Eras [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Research on History of Medicine
“Dracunculus medinensis” or “Guinea worm” disease is transmitted to humans through drinking contaminated water, leading to symptoms such as ague, muscular weakness, and infection. This disease is endemic to arid and warm regions with minimal rainfall and
Javad Mousavi Dalini   +2 more
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“OTHERNESS” DEPICTED IN TRAVELOGUES: MACEDONIA IN GERMAN-LANGUAGE TRAVELOGUES

open access: yesSCIENCE International Journal
In the German-language travelogues, the term Macedonia is mostly used almost exclusively as a geographical designation. The reasons for this lie in the author's perception, which is basically burdened by his own mission, cultural background and already (subtly) imposed stereotypes built on the basis of previous knowledge (information that is also ...
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