Genealogy necessitates historical records, the majority of which derive from government sources, despite families’ “private” lives. State records weren’t intended to service future family historians, but were a means to state-formation and power. Consequently, records used by family historians reflect statist concerns, not state subject…[Read more]

Elodie Paillard, ‘Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances’, in E. Csapo, H.R. Goette, J. R. Green, B. Le Guen, E. Paillard, J. Stoop, P. Wilson, Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, De Gruyter, 2022

This journalistic essay can give Western readers insight into non-Western logic that the author has found in a long career in Japan. It is also informed by research on intercultural communication, bilingualism and biculturalism. The author teaches those subjects and has a Japanese family. This 2023 update includes the author’s photo taken in Osaka…[Read more]

This book explores the staging of non-élite characters in the seven extant tragedies of Sophocles and how they related to contemporary middling citizens. The structure of fifth-century Athenian society underwent deep changes between the early and late plays of Sophocles. The appearance and growing political importance of a middling…[Read more]

The incidence of diseases in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) shaped encounters between colonial officials and indigenous people, yet this subject has merited minimum attention in the Ghanaian historiography. This paper examines the colonial healthcare interventions to combat the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) in Asante and
how the presence…[Read more]

The act of circulating research through zines invites participants into the “gift economy” of zine culture, where knowledge is shared within a system of reciprocal generosity and pleasure in opposition to hierarchical and capitalist forms of knowledge exchange. As zines cut through the often strict and inaccessible boundaries of traditional, pee…[Read more]

हिमाचल प्रदेश के भाषा एवं संस्कृति विभाग की पत्रिका विपाशा का अप्रैल – अगस्त 2022 अंक हिमाचल की हिंदी कविता पर केंद्रित था। यह उस अंक की प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा लिखित समीक्षा है।

La Iglesia Católica en Cuba, guiada por los principios emanados desde la Santa Sede y la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia, desarrolla su acción social y de evangelización adaptada a las particularidades de la nación y su cultura. No obstante, se enfrenta a considerables desafíos en su labor comunicativa debido a la infraestructura limitada de Inte…[Read more]

Los autores del presente artículo presentan una síntesis analítica del tratamiento que en la Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe han recibido los campos científicos inclusión educativa y educación inclusiva, para lo que, se recurre al estudio bibliométrico como recurso metodológico, como parte del cual, se siguieron los siguientes pasos:…[Read more]

Does “authorship” still have a place in the study of the Hebrew Bible? Historical criticism has long sought to uncover the human authors behind the biblical texts. But how might the “death of the author,” so forcefully declared by Roland Barthes over fifty years ago, change the contours of this search? This volume brings together leading experts…[Read more]

This work provides new insights into the relationship between the Holiness legislation in Leviticus 17–26 and processes of cultic centralization in the Persian period. The author departs from the classical theory that Leviticus 17–26 merely presume, with minor modifications, a concept of centralization articulated in Deuteronomy. She shows how Lev…[Read more]