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Urban Legends – American and/or Global Folklore
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2007 Development of modern technology, foremostly that of the internet, has made feasible an, up to now, unimaginable reciprocity in the field of anthropological research.
Ivan Kovačević
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Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2009 Studying urban legends, the French folklorist Véronique Campion-Vincent posed the question of whether some of the more recent legends preach tolerance. The "elevator incident" or "swallowed ticket" legends display a different attitude to Others from that
Ivan Kovačević
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The transformation of contemporary analyses of oral folklore: Fairy tale versus fantasy [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2010 The study focuses on contemporary forms of folklore and their relationship to literary forms like Fantasy, Sci-fi, Horror and Fantasy Game. The first problem is the specification of the terms and the classification of the internal structure of these ...
Otčenášek Jaroslav
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The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 2022 The poem seeks to express the tension within the Black community to be authentic and true to your family/friends without misleading others. The frequency of misinformation being perpetuated in minority communities happens all too frequently to the ...
Michelle E. Jones
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Statistical Traffic State Analysis in Large-scale Transportation Networks Using Locality-Preserving Non-negative Matrix Factorization [PDF]
, 2012 Statistical traffic data analysis is a hot topic in traffic management and control. In this field, current research progresses focus on analyzing traffic flows of individual links or local regions in a transportation network.
Han, Yufei, Moutarde, Fabien
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2008 Urban legends as a part of folklore frequently refer to large corporations creating what is known as the „mercantile legends“. „Coca-cola“ as one of those companies that has drawn the biggest attention of the folklore thought, for whose staple product ...
Ivan Kovačević
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El terror, una nueva dimensión de la literatura realista
Amerika, 2023 The article highlights a new trend of political terror in the narratives of Enríquez, Schweblin, Bazterrica and Lamberti. They cross horror with gothic literature, the sensual and the political violence, folkloric myths and urban legends.
Sergio Olguín
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The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, Accepted Article., 2022 Abstract Hypertension guidelines recommend measuring blood pressure (BP) in both arms at least once. However, this is seldom done due to uncertainties regarding measurement procedure and the implications of finding a clinically important inter‐arm BP difference (IAD).
Gurpreet S. Wander +19 more
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Threats hidden in stories. Urban legends and security issues: analysis, challenges and perspectives.
Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-BiałejThis paper presents an introduction to the issue of urban legends in the context of security. For a long time, urban legends have been an integral part of urban culture, playing a role not only in terms of entertainment, but also in shaping perceptions ...
Marcin Biernat
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Symbolic Interactionism, Mass Panics and Urban Legends
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2010 The constructionist approach to social problems has developed a thesis about mass panics and urban legends as „unconstructed social problems“. This thesis, advanced by the American sociologist Joel Best, and his analysis of the urban legend of Halloween ...
Ivan Kovačević
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