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The Social Burden of Witchcraft accusation and Its Victims: An Exercise in Philosophy
Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 The killing and burning of witches in contemporary era seem to be unabated. The contemporary minds have not succeeded in ‘scienticising’ belief in witchcraft.
Olusegun Stephen Taiwo
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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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Supernatural Agents of the Unconscious Mind: The Gothic Mode in Hamlet and Macbeth [PDF]
, 2002 Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej ...
Wiśniewska, Dorota J.
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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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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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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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Bulletin of popular information - Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University., 1916 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Variable‐Rate Texture Compression: Real‐Time Rendering with JPEG
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Although variable‐rate compressed image formats such as JPEG are widely used to efficiently encode images, they have not found their way into real‐time rendering due to special requirements such as random access to individual texels. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of variable‐rate texture compression on modern GPUs using the ...
Elias Kristmann +2 more
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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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MultiCOIN: Multi‐Modal COntrollable INbetweening
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Video inbetweening creates smooth transitions between two frames making it an indispensable tool for video editing and longform video synthesis. Existing methods struggle with large or complex motion and offer limited control over intermediate frames, often misaligning with user intent.
M. Tanveer +6 more
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