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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Types of public art in the Macarthur Region in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoPublic art in all its forms is present across the Macarthur Region. The Camden, Campbelltown and Wollondilly Local Government Areas on Sydney’s southwest metropolitan fringe cover the Macarthur region.
Some of the Macarthur region’s public art is hidden in plain sight, and we pass it every day without a thought. This post examines the types of…[Read more] -
Ian Willis deposited Public art at Campbelltown brightens up the Queen Street precinct in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoKeep your eyes open in central Campbelltown for inspiring public art installations that brighten up dull spaces around the town.
The Campbelltown Arts Centre, in conjunction with Campbelltown City Council and the NSW Government, have a program to re-invigorate the city centre using public art. -
Christopher Griffin deposited Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act in the group
Queer Theory Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this short article I argue that the UK government’s decision not to update the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) is more than a missed opportunity. It weaponises the GRA, now an effective instrument of assimilation and containment. The failure to reform the GRA seems like a maintenance of the status quo, but given that the circumstances have s…[Read more]
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Christopher Griffin deposited Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this short article I argue that the UK government’s decision not to update the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) is more than a missed opportunity. It weaponises the GRA, now an effective instrument of assimilation and containment. The failure to reform the GRA seems like a maintenance of the status quo, but given that the circumstances have s…[Read more]
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Christopher Griffin deposited Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this short article I argue that the UK government’s decision not to update the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) is more than a missed opportunity. It weaponises the GRA, now an effective instrument of assimilation and containment. The failure to reform the GRA seems like a maintenance of the status quo, but given that the circumstances have s…[Read more]
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Hélène Huet started the topic FLDH 2023 Webinar Series: June Webinars in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoDear all, Please join the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) in June for the next three webinars, part of its 2023 Webinar Series: Latin America and Caribbean Edition. More information below:
Using Social Media to Explore Haitian History – Rendering Revolution
Friday, June 16, 2 p.m EDT
Dr. Siobhan Meï, Lecturer, Uni…[Read more]
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Mike Rifino started the topic New Issue: JITP No. 22! General Issue: Looking Again in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIssue Twenty-Two: General Issue: Looking Again
Issue Editors:
Courtney Dalton, Cornell University
Benjamin Miller, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Rifino, The Graduate Center, CUNY
We are thrilled to announce Issue 22, our latest published issue on CUNY’s instance of Manifold! Read peer-reviewed and open-access articles that feature new con…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited The Camden Fibro Cottage – a not so humble abode in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe humble fibro cottage in Camden in the 1950s and 1960s is integral to the town’s 20th-century history. The fibro house was representative of the baby-boomer era when drive-ins, Holdens, Chiko rolls, black & white TV, rock & roll and vinyl LPs were the norm. Fibro is evocative of long hot summer holidays by the beach with adolescent love, boogie…[Read more]
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Pork production in Yucatan, Mexico, and Merida’s export driven pork region: pigs and the global market in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis map was featured in Mexico’s La Jornada supplement, Ojarasca, in its 312th edition. See article: “Represión en la granja: los cerdos y el mercado mundial” For information regarding sources, please refer to the aforementioned article. You may also consult the article’s English version here: https://doi.org/10.17613/8c2v-j144
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Capital Farm: Pigs and the global economy. Repression in the Yucatan Peninsula in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article is a translation of “Represión en la granja: los cerdos y el mercado mundial,” published in Mexico’s La Jornada supplement, Ojarasca, in its 312th edition.
The impacts of pork production in the Yucatan Peninsula and its relationship to the “Mayan” Train, export driven economies, and Mayan communities protecting water and land. -
Albert R Haig deposited Dialectic as ostension towards the transcendent: Language and mystical intersubjectivity in Plotinus’ Enneads in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe theory of language that underlies Plotinus’ Enneads is considered in relation to his broader metaphysical vision. For Plotinus, language is neither univocal nor equivocal, but is something in-between, incapable of precisely describing reality, but nonetheless not completely useless. Propositional knowledge expressed discursively represents a…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited King of Brexitland in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoKing of Brexitland * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Henning Ohst deposited A Companion to Isidore of Seville, hg. v. Andrew Fear u. Jamie Wood (2020), Plekos 24, 2022, S. 65–77 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe Companion assembles a total of twenty chapters in English throughout, which – as explained in more detail in the Introduction by the two editors – are thematically divided into three sections (“parts”): “Isidore’s Contexts” (chapters 1-4, including the “Introduction”), “Themes in Isidore’s Works” (chapters 5-13), and “Transmission andReception…[Read more]
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Valiur Rahaman deposited Big Data Analytics in Cognitive Social Media and Literary Texts in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoHighlights recent research on the cognitive-social media and big data analytics Presents transdisciplinary research on big data analytics Provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and praxis of big data analytics
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Valiur Rahaman deposited Neurochemical Effect on Creativity of the Romantic Writers: A Theoretical Framework of Econeurochemical Critical Reading in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAll the living beings are neurobiologically driven beings. Creative writers and artists are no exception to it. We as literary critics, think that creative writers and artists are also living beings and they are mostly driven by neuro-chemical reactions in the brain. In the world of neurology, each body and the parts of the body are the cause of…[Read more]
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