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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
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Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
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Making Dementia Matter Through Sound

Voices
This paper investigates the working practices of the Genetic Choir and the “Stem&Luister” project, in which the ensemble uses voice, sound and improvisation to explore and develop ways of connecting with people with dementia, thereby seeking to improve ...
Marjolein Gysels, Chris Tonelli, Thomas Johannsen   +2 more
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Do's and Don'ts in Peace Negotiations: Learning From the Arab‐Israeli Peace Negotiations

Peace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article suggests practical information on the requirements for successful negotiations. Building on extensive research in archives and more than 100 in‐depth interviews with senior decision‐makers and negotiators who were involved in the Arab‐Israeli conflict, the article outlines the basic qualities that negotiators, mediators, and ...
Raphael Cohen‐Almagor
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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The hunger artist and academic migration: On political depression and relational poverty

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This autoethnography presents fragments of an invisible life, an ordinary body navigating the terrain of ‘academic migration’ (2009–2025), from rejection as a PhD applicant to recognition as a high‐achieving graduate. Provoked by my recent pursuit of Fulbright Postdoctoral Award in the United States, I draw on Kafka's figure of the hunger ...
Dave Yan
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The Art of Kobzar Ostap Veresai: from Mykola Lysenko’s Folklorе Recordings to Modern Representation and Interpretation

Вісник Київського національного університету культури і мистецтв. Серія: Музичне мистецтво
The purpose of the research is comprehensive research of the evolution of the artistic phenomenon of the Ukrainian kobzar Ostap Veresai – both in its original context and public presentation in the 19th century, as well as its subsequent influence on ...
Віолетта Дутчак
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Preference‐Based Representations for Collective Agency

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Computational accounts of learning and decision‐making in cognitive systems, and models thereof, such as reinforcement learning, typically assume that the behavior of individual agents is determined by an externally designated reward signal such that the agent's goal is the maximization of its expected accumulated reward under the state ...
Nadav Amir, Marieke van Vugt, Maia Fraser   +2 more
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