Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion by Birgit Meyer

“…Its usefulness pertains not only to the study of colonial settings in which scholarly knowledge aboutreligion in Africa took shape via the introduction of religion as a category,but also to the study of religious Birgit Meyer58plurality in contemporary European cities, which is here proposedto approach as new postcolonial frontier zones. …”
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Seven-Spot Ladybird Optimization: A Novel and Efficient Metaheuristic Algorithm for Numerical Optimization by Peng Wang, Zhouquan Zhu, Shuai Huang

“…In this paper, the performance of the SLO is compared with that of the genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, and artificial bee colony algorithms by using five numerical benchmark functions with multimodality. …”
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Le cas étrange de “Moreau” devient plus étrange by Robert M. Philmus

“…When I wrote in SFS #50 of Wells’s fairly radical revisions of Moreau subsequent to the book’s original publication, he did not know that the text in which Wells inscribed them (a copy of the "Colonial Edition’’ of 1896) was the basis of a French translation by Henry-D. …”
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Michel foucault y la colonialidad del poder by Santiago Castro-Gómez

“…Al contrario de gran parte de los planteamientos asociadas a corrientes de los estudios postcoloniales y a algunas vertientes del enfoque de la modernidad/colonialidad, en este artículo se argumenta la relevancia una teoría heterárquica del poder inspirada en las Lecciones del College de France menos conocidas de Foucault para comprender las articulaciones en diferentes planos del sistema mundo moderno colonial.…”
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Characterization of the growth-inhibitory and apoptosis-inducing activities of a triterpene saponin, securioside B against BAC1.2F5 macrophages by Satoru Yui, Tomoya Kudo, Kazumi Hodono, Yoshihiro Mimaki, Minpei Kuroda, Yutaka Sashida, Masatoshi Yamazaki

“…We previously reported that securiosides A and B, novel triterpene saponins, exerted macrophage-oriented cytotoxicity in the presence of a L-cell-conditioned medium containing macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), while the compounds did not exhibit an effect on macrophages in the absence of the growth-stimulating factors.…”
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Casta y raza en la Cuba de mitad del siglo xix by Amparo Sánchez Cobos

“…Through this, this article aims to demonstrate up to what point this author reproduced the typical racial theories of his time and how he perceived the colonial society.Cuba, 19th century, Caste, Race, Ramón de la Sagra…”
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Jean-Pierre Tardieu: Resistencia de los negros en el virreinato de México (siglos XVI-XVII), Madrid: Iberoamericana - Vervuert, 2017, 297 páginas by Manuel Ramírez

“…Identidades oscilantes y genealogías borrosas en los descendientes de la realeza inca”, nos traslada a una temática cercana a nuestra realidad hispanoamericana que nos permite volver a pensar sobre el proceso de mestizaje y sus consecuencias culturales en nuestro continente, haciendo de esta investigación del mundo colonial americano, un trabajo de reflexión histórica contemporánea. …”
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Enquêter sur la prostitution en Algérie. Souvenirs de Bou-Saâda by Ferhati Barkahoum

“…Based on personal experience as a researcher working on the margins, the social phenomena of the “tribal” prostitution of the Ouled Naïl in the Algerian Sahara, this field survey explores borders and taboos (prostitution, female celibacy), and some moral uncertainties concerning post-colonial society in Algeria.…”
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Ce que Charles Darwin doit à Joseph Banks by Le Guyader, Hervé

“…He actively intervened in acclimatization and varietal selection of plants and animals in Great Britain as in the future English colonies. Thus he built an intellectual environment which will promote the emergence of Charles Darwin’s thoughts.…”
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Les militantes yorubas se mettent en scène : la politisation du corps habillé à l’époque coloniale by Sara Panata

“…Between 1920 and 1960, in a period of significant political change, the dressed and staged body became a political tool in the hands of Yoruba female activists who used photography to deliver the messages they sought to spread. This article uses colonial photographs to analyse the cultural and political dynamics revealed by women’s poses and to understand how corporal codes were used to convey cultural, religious or political identities.…”
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Conflit autour du marché des montagnards Khmirs dans les années 1870 : communauté, immunités et revendications d’autonomie by Fatma Ben Slimane

“…This research deals with the conflict between the government of the beys of Tunis and the Khmir mountain tribe in the 1870s, concerning their weekly market, Sūq al-Ahad, which was threatened both by new tax burdens and by the French colonial expansion in eastern Algeria. The archives of this conflict make it possible to favor a local approach, centered on the claims of the resource constituted by the market-place and thus to better explore the mobilizations of the actors and the arguments they put forward to defend what they saw as their rights, as well as the way they negotiated them in an increasingly restrictive context.…”
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Subterranean Termites by P.G. Koehler, C.L. Tucker, T.J. Weissling

“…It explains the different castes within a termite colony, including workers, soldiers, and reproductives. …”
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¿Los últimos pacaguaras? by Diego Villar

“…Late Colonial documents about Bolivian Amazonia show us the ubiquity of «Pacaguara» Indians. …”
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Haggard’s Use of the Phoenician Analogy with Britain by John Coates

“…In the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, several writers voiced their apprehensions about the state of the British Empire and the dangers they thought it faced by making comparisons between Britain and the Phoenician city of Tyre and the greatest of Tyre’s colonies, Carthage. This paper compares Rider Haggard’s use of this analogy in his novel Elissa or the Doom of Zimbabwe with other writers of his time who compared Britain to the Phoenicians. …”
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Entre el retrato jurídico y la experiencia en el territorio by Darío G. Barriera

“…The purpose is to examine the regulatory treatment that the Habsburg monarchy gave the Oidores’ primary sociality for understanding the function key assigned to the distance (especially social) in the conception and execution of the colonial government during the Habsburg period.…”
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Imaginário afro-ameríndio e utopia política em Torto arado by Rejane Pivetta de Oliveira, Claudia Luiza Caimi

“…Argumentamos que la narrativa da forma a la violencia del pasado colonial brasileño, al tiempo que se constituye como una ficción política y utópica, utilizando sistemas simbólicos y cosmologías ancestrales como elementos de resistencia y fuerza de reconfiguración de la historia.…”
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Sociabilidades mercantiles y prácticas comerciales de los mercaderes vascos en el Buenos Aires virreinal by Elsa Caula

“…Having as observer Don Martin de Álzaga’s business house, we will explore the mechanisms that articulated the integrations of the business circuits of the River Plate area in the colonial economic system. Among them, the concrete deals carried out by the «bond agents» organized by the House’s boss within the familiar business constitution.…”
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Small Hive Beetle, Aethina tumida Murray (Insecta: Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) by James D. Ellis, Amanda Ellis

“…It describes this small beetle native to sub-Saharan Africa, which can cause considerable damage to colonies of European honey bees outside of its host range — distribution, description, life cycle, economic importance, and management. …”
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Taming the Sculptress: Roman Beauty and Marble Love in Alcott’s Art Tales by Daniela Daniele

“…Being victimized by a Puritan ideal of beauty that no living body could equal, Alcott’s feminized versions of The Marble Faun allude to the American colony of women sculptors led by the actress Charlotte Cushman, whose extraordinary accomplishments in the arts challenged the patriarchal demands of the male gaze.…”
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Violencia y conflicto en la Andalucía atlántica moderna by Juan José Iglesias Rodríguez

“…We aim to analyze the contexts and manifestations of conflicts and violence in a world deeply transformed by the colonial fact.…”
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