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La rinascita della tragedia dallo spirito del blues nel teatro di August Wilson
Le Simplegadi, 2020 Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August Wilson was the most prolific and represented African American playwright of the twentieth century. His Century Cycle, a series of ten plays that chronicle the lives of African Americans from the early ...
Valentina Rapetti
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Ruhuna Journal of Science, 2019 The population distribution of fingerprint minutiae is necessary to improve efficiency of fingerprints in identifying individuals in a population-specific manner. The objective of the study was to determine the distribution of different types of minutiae
U. U. Akpan +3 more
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Manifestations of Orí (Head) in Traditional Yorùbá Architecture
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2020 Yorùbá traditional architecture is not spontaneous. It is a product of a well-structured cultural and religious system. Every aspect from the choice of material, to the style of building, and even its construction system was designed with primary ...
Adeyemi Akande
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Harmonia Rosales: la realidad histórica a través del sincretismo religioso en The Harvest
Alejandría, 2022 The Afro-Cuban American artist Harmonia Rosales focuses her artwork on the reinterpretation of Renaissance masterpieces. Specifically, her paintings question the white Eurocentrism that continues to exert abuses of power today towards minorities since ...
Paula Martínez Bernal
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Reading Psalm 90 in the African (Yoruba) perspective
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020 Psalm 90 stands at a critical juncture in the overall scheme of the Psalter. It is also the first Psalm of the small collection which constitutes Book IV of the Psalter. Psalm 90 can be regarded as one of the magisterial Psalms.
David T. Adamo
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 2016 La sílaba de tono alto (HTS por sus siglas en inglés), un elemento en forma de vocal que aparece entre la frase nominal sujeto y la frase verbal en oraciones declarativas, es sin duda un elemento muy controvertido de la gramática del yoruba, dado que los
Boluwaji Oshodi
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