A bibliographical listing, including audio, video, etc., from the perspective of critical and cultural studies, on the 2020-2021 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic scare (Coronavirus, COVID-19). From ‘A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology’, 2021.

OPPRESS!ON * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

How could the ideal of a universal brotherhood of mankind be realized in an age of nationalism, colonialism and culture wars? “With God, for fatherland and humanity?” is the first comprehensive study of masonic internationalism. It explores, with a focus on England, France, Germany, and Italy, how European masonic associations promoted or opposed…[Read more]

MMQR * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Dissertations and theses with interactive digital components seldom fit neatly into the institutional format requirements designed for traditional humanities texts. This creates challenges for students, administrators, and librarians who are charged with preparing these works for library deposit. While disciplinary acceptance of digital…[Read more]

There are hundreds of alphabetic texts in Zapotec languages dating back to the 16th century. Today, however, Zapotec speakers are generally unable to read these texts, due to lack of access to the texts and an unfamiliarity with the orthographic practices. Moreover, significant changes have taken place in the grammar in the intervening centuries.…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Los paleantropólogos de Atapuerca van descubriendo más datos sobre la alimentación de los Homo heidelbergensis y Homo antecessor que habitaron la Península Ibérica antes del Homo sapiens y de los neandertales. Aquí reflexionamos sobre el componente de canibalismo en la dieta de estos y otros humanos primitivos… así como de alg…[Read more]

BLACK AND WHITE * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

H!PS * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Have you ever wanted to recruit hundreds of members of the public to assist with the task of making cultural heritage collections findable online? Or to connect with passionate volunteers who’ll share their discoveries with you?

Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage is a broad term for projects that ask the public to help with tasks that…[Read more]

Good Mourning, Burma! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC-BY-NC-SA

The aim of space archaeology is to understand the interaction of technology and human behaviour in off-Earth environments. This paper presents the methodology and results of the first archaeological study focused on human habitation in outer space. The International Space Station (ISS) is the only extant, continuously-occupied location in space,…[Read more]

Space archaeology is defined as the study of “the material culture relevant to space exploration that is found on Earth and in outer space (i.e., exoatmospheric material) and that is clearly the result of human behavior” (Gorman & O’Leary 2013: 409). The aim of space archaeology is to understand the interaction of technology and human behav…[Read more]

Presentation given as part of the session “Music encoding use-cases in US libraries: aims, pedagogy, and workflows” at the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held virtually on July 26-30, 2021.

ABSURDISTAN * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Hay en la Unión Europea, según los datos oficiales (nada aireados), muchos miles de muertos y muchos centenares de miles de enfermos por efectos negativos de las vacunas “de nueva tecnología” contra el Covid-19. No esperen oír esto en la tele ni leerlo en el periódico.

The first section of the text of the unusual 1533 volume published by both Giovanni Battista and Teofilo Folengo: dialogues and prose pieces, inclduing the first of the Psalms commentaries published, together with a translation into English and annotations.

Surprising volume of what looks like biblical commentary but is parody and erotica

Oversized volume of biblical commentary published in 1543 (and again in 1549, 1557, 1585, 1594) that is actually a parody which features the erotic lexicon popular in its day

This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]