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An ‘urban legend’ remains an ‘urban legend’

SSM - Mental Health, 2022
George Dawson, Ronald W. Pies
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Local Legends : Syd Kitchen Tribute Festival

, 2011
The first page includes a list of lucky draw prizes for those attending the "Local Legends" event which is accompanied by an entry form for those interested in the competition.
Local Legends Festival
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Why do urban legends go viral?

, 2016
Urban legends are viral deceptive texts, in between credible and incredible.To be credible they mimic news articles while being incredible like a fairy tale.High level features: "who/where/when" of news, "emotional/readable" of fairy tales.Quantitative ...
Carlo Strapparava, Guerini, Marco, Strapparava, Carlo, Marco Guerini   +3 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Global Folklore - Urban Legends

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2010
Ivan Kovačević. 2009. Urbane legende. Ogledi iz američkog folklora. Beograd: Srpski genealoški centar i Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu. Etnološka biblioteka knj. 39. 154 strana. (Ivan Kovačević, Urban legends.
Ana Banić Grubišić
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

Cokelore (Fine and Best)

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
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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Urban Legends: Daugavpils.

, 2012
Edīte Ivanova Pilsētas stāsti (Daugavpils). – Bakalaura darbs. – Rīga, 2012. – 52 lpp. Šis darbs ir veltīts pilsētas stāstiem. Par izpētes materiāliem tika ņemti akadēmiskie izdevumi un Daugavpils pilsētā savāktie iedzīvotāju nostāsti, kas bija ...
Ivanova, Edīte
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
wiley   +1 more source