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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion (OA) in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion (OA) in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Making Camden History: local history and untold stories in a small community in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe Camden township is located 65 kilometres southwest of the Sydney CBD and, in recent years, has been absorbed by Sydney’s urban growth. The main streets are a mix of Victorian, Edwardian and interwar architecture comprising commercial, government and domestic buildings. The town site was originally the entry point into what became Governor…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Camden War Cemetery in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoCamden War Cemetery is located on the corner of Burragorang and Cawdor Roads, three kilometres south of the Camden Post Office. The cemetery is on a slight rise above the Nepean River floodplain, with a northerly aspect at an elevation of 75 metres. The cemetery contains the graves of 17 Royal Australian Air Force servicemen, four army personnel…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Refashioning Fable through the Baconian Essay: De sapientia veterum and Mythologies of the Early Modern Natural Philosopher in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoShortly after publishing the first edition of his Essays in 1597, Francis Bacon drafted De sapientia veterum, a series of unpublished essays designed to re-read classical mythology as indicative of political and scientific truths. An early, if partial, expression of Bacon’s project to facilitate mastery over the natural order, De sapientia has c…[Read more]
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Stephen Hewer deposited Epistemology of Translation: Erasing Viscountesses and Viscounts from High Medieval Legal Records, Selective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, and Teleology in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoBy applying translation theories and discourse analysis to the study of thirteenth-century English law, it is apparent that some of the terms used in secondary works and printed editions of primary sources are not based on the actual manuscript sources but instead modern biases (intersecting ethnicity and gender). The knock-on effect of this…[Read more]
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Stephen Hewer deposited Epistemology of Translation: Erasing Viscountesses and Viscounts from High Medieval Legal Records, Selective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, and Teleology in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoBy applying translation theories and discourse analysis to the study of thirteenth-century English law, it is apparent that some of the terms used in secondary works and printed editions of primary sources are not based on the actual manuscript sources but instead modern biases (intersecting ethnicity and gender). The knock-on effect of this…[Read more]
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Stephen Hewer deposited Epistemology of Translation: Erasing Viscountesses and Viscounts from High Medieval Legal Records, Selective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, and Teleology in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoBy applying translation theories and discourse analysis to the study of thirteenth-century English law, it is apparent that some of the terms used in secondary works and printed editions of primary sources are not based on the actual manuscript sources but instead modern biases (intersecting ethnicity and gender). The knock-on effect of this…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Unrestricted Analysis of the COVID Narrative in Africa: Emphasis on the Ghanaian Medical Context in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe COVID-19 pandemic with its concomitant lockdown policies exacerbated the worst living conditions in different regions of the world, Africa and Ghana in particular. The major discursive issues concerning the pandemic has glaringly or cunningly ignored the lack of emphasis on local dynamics concerning what ought to be or could have been done…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited किन्नौर में बहु-पति प्रथा : ‘मैं अपने दोनों बेटों को कहता हूं कि वे एक ही लड़की से विवाह करें’ in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoखूबसूरत प्राकृतिक दृश्यों से परिपूर्ण किन्नौर का समाज व संस्कृति शेष भारत से अलग है। यह बौद्ध धर्म का इलाका है, जिसे हिंदूवादी संस्कृति लीलती जा रही है। आर्थिक संपन्नता के आगमन से जाति-आधारित उत्पीड़न और भेदभाव कम हो रहा है। प्रमोद रंजन ने इस यात्रा संस्मरण में किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संस्कृति, बहु पत्नी प्रथा, वहां के समाज और राजनीति…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited “’Strange Serious Wantoning:’ Early Modern Chess Manuals and the Ethics of Virtuous Subterfuge in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis essay examines English Renaissance chess manuals in order to understand why chess, a game that encourages subterfuge and stratagem, was nonetheless figured as the paradigmatic example of a virtuous pastime. Particular attention is given to da Odenara Damiano’s The Pleasaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts (1564), Arthur Saul’s The Famous Gam…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Not a riot, Repression in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAnalysis of the communal violence that took place on September 14, 2011 in Gopalgarh town of Rajasthan
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Harald Pittel deposited No More Playing in the Dark: Assembly by Natasha Brown in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe pre-publication praise Natasha Brown received for her debut novel Assembly (2021) from renowned writers like Bernardine Evaristo or Ali Smith is quite remarkable. The author had been virtually unknown to the larger public before winning one of the London Writers Awards in the literary fiction category in 2019. As a young Black British woman of…[Read more]
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Alejandro Quintero deposited The Many Faces of God: Astrotheology of the Bible in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAngels, as mythical beings, appear and disappear suddenly throughout Biblical Texts, without any clear explanation of their origins or metaphysical ranks. Whether they are considered circumstantial theophanies or entities with granted self-existence and specific divine functions; such metaphysical entities have a vital presence in the religious…[Read more]
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Julien A. Raemy started the topic Characterising the IIIF and Linked Art communities – Online Survey in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDear all,
As part of my PhD in Digital Humanities, I have launched an online survey to find out the main practices and activities of the individuals involved in the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and/or the Linked Art communities.
Are you involved or have you already been in contact with the IIIF and/or the Linked Art…[Read more]
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Mohammed Gharioua deposited “ Abu Arwas poem ” by Mohammed Gharioua & Abd jlil ould hammouya in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe literary text is born with its criticism methodology and its criticizer. The creator
stretches his hands out to the reader/criticizer to take their first step towards the text
and remove any ambiguity, symbolism, or metaphors that may be present.
He extends bridges between him and the society that produced the text, or bluff to
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Linked Open Data on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Contemporary History of the Increasing Use of Traditional Medicine among the Asante of Ghana: A Focus on Afigya Kwabre South District in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoUsing a qualitative method of research, the study investigated the increasing use of traditional medicine in Ghana, focusing on Afigya Kwabre South District. Traditional medicine has gone through various stages since time immemorial, especially with regard to how its patronage has evolved over time. The period ranges from the pre-colonial era,…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Black QR code in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoBlack QR code * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-ND
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