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De la peregrinación medieval al viaje imaginario: la evolución literaria y estética de un género como prefiguración del hecho turístico

open access: yesCuadernos de Turismo, 2011
El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar algunas fuentes escritas relacionadas con las peregrinaciones medievales con el objetivo de detectar aquellos pasajes que, recreándose en el detalle visual y estético, podrían trascender el carácter práctico y ...
Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre
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Nosotros, vosotros, ellos: relatos de viajeros judíos del siglo XV a la luz del concepto de alteridad

open access: yesSefarad : Revista de Estudios Hebraicos y Sefardíes, 2015
La literatura de viajes podría considerarse el nexo de multitud de tipos de textos dentro del genero de la narrativa. Sin embargo, los datos que ofrece desde el punto de vista histórico, geográfico o sociológico, entre otros, hacen de ella un registro ...
María José Cano Pérez   +1 more
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Postales y radiografías en los ensayos de Marius de Zayas: Nueva York y el viaje

open access: yesKáñina, 2020
La presente lectura de los ensayos de Marius de Zayas, en torno a Estados Unidos y su cultura, busca caracterizar la presencia del kitsch y la extranjería como dos de las principales nociones que atraviesan los textos comprendidos bajo el título "La ...
Daniel Rojas Pachas
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Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 566-580, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race‐based typologies since the mid‐20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing
Iris Clever, Lisette Jong
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Irregularized Transits to the South: A Social Force in the Cross‐Border Spatial Dispute in South America

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines Venezuelan irregularized transits in South America, focusing on the dynamics of mobility and control that shape the southern corridor—a transnational space linking the Andean Region (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia) to the Southern Cone, particularly Chile.
Soledad Álvarez Velasco   +1 more
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Beyond 4 × 4: Paramotoring a novel approach to accelerate plant exploration in challenging environments

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 87-104, January 2025.
Addressing the burning environmental crisis, we explore how the ‘extreme sport’ of paramotoring can enhance and accelerate scientific exploration with minimal environmental impact compared to off‐road vehicles. Our study demonstrates the scientific potential of paramotoring to access fragile desert ecosystems and investigate unrecorded habitats and ...
Justin Moat   +13 more
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Marguerite Yourcenar: from spatial to interior banishment

open access: yesRevista de Filología Románica, 2012
Marguerite Yourcenar was born in Europe (1903) but spent most of her life in the United States (1939-2007). Is this living abroad, because of the Second World War, enough to consider her a banished person in the strict sense of the word?
Jean-Pierre Castellani
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Sex‐Specific Variation in Foraging Behavior is Related to Telomere Length in a Long‐Lived Seabird

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2024.
Foraging during breeding is energetically demanding, intimately linked to breeding investment, and possibly constrained by individual condition. Telomere length, the protective nucleoproteins located at the ends of the chromosomes, is considered a trait reflecting somatic maintenance and individual quality. We found that brown booby females with longer
Mauricio Guillen‐Parra   +5 more
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Old genres, new media: Collective witnessing and social memory‐making on Argentine Twitter

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 470-492, December 2024.
Abstract Through a linguistic anthropological lens of interdiscursivity, this article analyzes the semiotic and historical development of the testimonio genre of #Cuéntalo (“tell it [your story]”), a 2018 Twitter movement that began in Spain to protest sexual violence and evolved when the hashtag traveled to Argentina.
Samantha A. Martin
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El viaje renacentista y la visión estética del otro: Una aproximación a la belleza y fealdad de la otredad en El primer viaje alrededor del mundo de Antonio Pigafetta (s. XVI)

open access: yesRevista de Historia, 2018
En este artículo analizamos la visión estética de la otredad en los viajes de Antonio Pigafetta (s. XVI). En primer lugar, revisamos la noción de la estética en el humanismo renacentista, examinando casos de intelectuales y artistas como parte de su ...
Pablo Castro Hernández
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