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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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The Aesthetic Response: The Reader in Macbeth [PDF]
, 2012 This article seeks to explore the different strategies the Bard uses in order to evoke sympathy in the reader for Macbeth who is so persistent in the path of evil.
Salami, Ali
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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La melanconia delle streghe e delle possedute. Aspetti del dibattito medico-demonologico in Francia tra Cinquecento e Seicento [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2018 [The melancholy of witches and possessed women. Aspects of the medical-demonological debate in France between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries]. The numerous trials for witchcraft and demonic possession that took place in France between 1550 and ...
Cristina DESSI'
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How History Shaped Women\u27s Healthcare [PDF]
, 2016 At the beginnings of civilizations around the world, many of these inhabitants worshipped goddesses that connected them to the world and earth. However, invaders from male-dominated civilizations worked diligently to eliminate the faces and ideas of a ...
Rivera, Josephine M.
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2006 I shall attempt to interpret witches' zoopsychonavigations in the worlds of Croatian legends as (possible) aspects of shamanistic techniques of ecstasy (and trance), in the framework of which I shall be trying to designate the concept of ...
Suzana Marjanić
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Identification, classification and phylogenetic analysis of bZIP proteins from Theobroma cacao for subsequent studies of resistance to witches' broom disease : S01P02 [PDF]
, 2013 Biotic and abiotic stresses are a major factor in decreased production of various cultures around the world. The culture of cacao (Theobroma cacao) has been suffering for many years with one of the diseases that most affect their crops, the witches ...
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to develop a conceptual framework for examining how gender equity issues are co‐opted within CSR activities, focusing on empirical, business‐related studies. The authors investigate how companies navigate the co‐optation of gender equity, its subphenomena, underlying conditions, and employed strategies.
Larthia Gaspari, Marco Giuliani
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No Peace in the House: Witchcraft Accusations as an “Old Woman’s Problem” in Ghana
Anthropology & Aging, 2013 In Ghana, older women may be marginalized, abused, and even killed as witches. Media accounts imply this is common practice, mainly through stories of “witches camps” to which the accused may flee. Anthropological literature on aging and on witchcraft,
Alexandra Crampton
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