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The Medium in the Sociology of Niklas Luhmann: From Children to Human Beings
Educational Theory, Volume 73, Issue 6, Page 890-916, December 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, Christian Morgner provides a critical reading of Niklas Luhmann's thinking as ignoring human beings or even as antihumanist. Here, he presents an alternative view that centers on Luhmann's idea of the child or human being as a medium.
Christian Morgner
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023 In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 245-274, October 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia.
Chris Urwin +4 more
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L’image de la Chinoise « désexuée » sous le regard de Beauvoir : De la critique à l’idéalisation
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 315-326, August 2023., 2023 Résumé Dans La longue marche, essai sur la Chine (Gallimard, 1957), malgré son admiration pour le pays maoïste, Beauvoir aborde un phénomène social controversé qui est la « désexualisation » de la femme chinoise. La réception beauvoirienne, en cette matière, est assez particulière, car elle témoigne d’une rupture entre l’horizon d’attente et le présent.
Yangyang Liu
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History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 282-302, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay examines the information‐gathering practices of papal nuncios and legates to argue that they performed much of the same intelligence work, and in a similar manner, as other diplomatic agents in the early modern Europe. It focuses in particular on papal diplomats’ efforts to gather information regarding two areas that proved ...
CHARLES R. KEENAN
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The sailing performance of ancient Polynesian canoes and the early settlement of East Polynesia
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 74-90, April 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Scholarly estimates and opinions of the sailing performance of ancient Pacific canoes vary widely. This paper measures performance by testing real sails in a wind tunnel and hulls in a towing tank. The sails were three East Polynesian Oceanic spritsails of late eighteenth century type, held by the British Museum, collected from New Zealand ...
Geoffrey Irwin +3 more
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Of Signs: Matter and Revelation in the Liturgies of William Durand and John Calvin
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 190-206, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This article seeks to set aside what we might call Cartesian physics to revisit William Durand's conception of sign as set forth in the Rationale divinorum officiorum and John Calvin's as set forth in the Institutio christianae religionis. Reading the two works through the lens of medieval physics reveals commonalities – both held signs to be ...
Lee Palmer Wandel
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Aretino Jesuited: an English Translation of the Sette Salmi in Seventeenth‐Century Douai
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 292-313, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This article offers the first focused analysis of John Hawkins's 1635 English rendering of Pietro Aretino's Parafrasi sopra i sette salmi della penitenza di David, situating the translation within its Catholic and translingual context. Nearly a century after Thomas Wyatt's versified treatment of the Sette Salmi, a sequence of seven Psalms ...
Andrew S. Keener
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 6, Issue 1, January–December 2023., 2023 This paper examines how the “new decoration” of steel pipe furniture as “form” led to her particular “decoration” of interior spaces, by analyzing the intersection of the “Mingei (folk‐craft)” tradition experienced in Japan. Abstract This paper aims to clarify the process of the formation of Perriand's concept of “form” toward the “forme utile (useful ...
Shoichiro Sendai +2 more
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L’inférence dans les romans judiciaires d’Émile Gaboriau
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 77, Issue 6, Page 386-404, December 2022., 2022 Résumé L’injection de l’heuristique dans le romanesque est loin d’être un recours littéraire nouveau. Un certain nombre de romanciers (tels Voltaire, Balzac, Bernanos, Robbe‐Grillet ou Butor) ne se sont pas privés d’y toucher. Ceci dit, ce sont notamment les écrivains attitrés du genre policier qui s’y sont spécialisés.
Daniela Ventura
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