Beelouse, Braula coeca Nitzsch (Insecta: Diptera: Braulidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr., Malcolm T. Sanford

“… The beelouse, Braula coeca Nitzsch 1818, is a tiny commensalate wingless fly found in colonies of the honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, where it lives on the bodies of the bees and literally steals its food out of the mouth of its host. …”
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Seeking a preferential option for the rural poor in Chile by Edward Dew

“…From colonial times well into the twentieth century (and, unfortunately, even beyond) the man/land relationship in Latin America has been markedly unjust. …”
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Le bracelet de Taga by Elric Geraudie

“…Collected in 1904, during a colonial criminal case, Taga’s bracelet, a wooden piece from northern Vanuatu, became part of Louis Joseph Bouge’s collection, adding to its owner’s prestige. …”
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Des femmes et des gâteaux by Maria Leticia Mazzucchi Ferreira

“…This research approached the candies as a immaterial heritage.Classified as fine candies and fruit candies (colonial candies), the root of this know-how is in the late 19th century with the daughters of beef jerky producers, at a time of crisis in the saladeril activity.The interviews reveal that the candie makers had a memory linked to the body’s gestures, to the senses, whether through the olfactory memory (the know-how originated from the syrup scent), or through the visual memory (based on how the candy looks, to know if it is good or not).The learning of the candy maker profession is linked to the portuguese cuisine. …”
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Traduire He-Yin Zhen, perspectives sur la circulation des idées féministes by Léa Buatois

“…Can translation be a tool for the ongoing feminist struggles, or does it reinforce the colonial structures of knowledge?…”
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Beelouse, Braula coeca Nitzsch (Insecta: Diptera: Braulidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr., Malcolm T. Sanford

“… The beelouse, Braula coeca Nitzsch 1818, is a tiny commensalate wingless fly found in colonies of the honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, where it lives on the bodies of the bees and literally steals its food out of the mouth of its host. …”
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Les Offices du cinéma scolaire et éducateur à l’épreuve des publics by Pascal Laborderie

“…First of all, we examine the plans of action implemented by the Educational Cinema Offices as an answer to the multiplicity of the audiences, children and adults, men or women, working and middle classes, from rural or urban places, from mainland France or colonies. Then the interest of cinema as a matter of teaching in front of children is considered from speeches of teachers. …”
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« But in that room, in that presence, I was invertebrate » : la peur de l’autre dans The Beetle de Richard Marsh by Catherine Lanone

“…Although it has almost sunk into oblivion, The Beetle may have been deemed powerful in its time because it displays all the archetypal fears haunting the nineteen-nineties, from degeneracy to mesmerism, reverse colonialism or the New Woman. It creates scenes of utmost terror which are extremely effective, however badly written the novel may be in parts. …”
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SANCTIONS: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FORESHORTENING by I. D. Matskulyak, G. N. Bogacheva, B. A. Denisov

“…It has been substantiated, that the western states seek to substitute the colonial influence in the past for sanctions pressure in our days. …”
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Could the Mexica toztli have been a sun parakeet? Connecting Mexica featherwork to South America by Louise Deglin

“…The thorough study of two manuscripts written under the direction of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, the Primeros Memoriales and the Florentine Codex, has revealed an inconsistency between the way the toztli, or “yellow parrot,” has been described and depicted in the colonial sources, and its current identification as the Amazona oratrix. …”
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MISSIONARY STRATEGIES AND INDIGENOUS RESPONSE: THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE BISENI CLAN by JOHN OLUWABUKUNMI OLUWAJANA, OLAITAN OYEDELA, OLAOBA

“…Through an analysis of internal and external factors shaping indigenous responses, including social, political, and colonial influences, this paper sheds light on the nuanced and diverse ways in which the Biseni people engaged with the Christian message and its implications for their cultural identity. …”
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Les danses « orientales » en France du xixe siècle à nos jours : histoire d’images, regards d’histoire by Anne-Laure Garrec

“…How may have the dissolution of the European colonial system conditioned the radically different ways of looking at these two forms of danced expression?…”
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L’ayant droit : un droit de cité et d’être cité dans la vie villageoise en Kabylie by Hadibi Mohand Akli

“…The article attempts to answer questions around the notion of “entitled person” or “beneficiary”, a term frequently used in the legal literature of colonial ethnology. The analysis is based on public events that took place in a village of Kabylie Soummam, from 1993 to the present day, which enable us to study the social reconfigurations within the group. …”
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Prehispanic Settlement and Mobility in the Sama Valley, Tacna by Sarah I. Baitzel, Arturo F. Rivera Infante

“…Nestled between archaeological hotspots in southern Peru and northern Chile, the Sama Valley has only recently become the focus of intensive archaeological research, providing valuable context for the regional culture history and elucidating diachronic processes dating from the Archaic to the colonial period. This article synthesizes current research by the Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Valle de Sama in relation to earlier research conducted in the valley, highlighting the importance of complementary analytical scales and methodologies. …”
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I manoscritti etiopici della Biblioteca Statale di Montevergine a Mercogliano, Avellino by Alessandro Bausi

“…The first manuscript was apparently taken from the field tent of Rās Mangašā after the Battle of Saganayti, on 15 January 1895, and eventually donated on 27 November 1900 by Daǧāzmāč Mikāʾel to the Italian colonial officer Ilario Capomazza. …”
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Era Francia y no Italia. Conexiones, redes e influencias en la construcción del modelo turístico español (1880-1936) by Ana Moreno Garrido

“…Secondly, the geographical proximity that enabled all learning processes to take place in a fluid and natural throughout the three shared tourist borders: the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the colonial. And finally, the quantitative importance of their tourists. …”
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La « Montagne raciale » : et après ? Parcours identitaires dans deux romans ghanéens contemporains by Marie-Jeanne Gauffre

“…Afro-American poet Langston’s Hughes’s challenge to the "Negro artist" in 1926—to run away from "the race towards whiteness" and climb the "racial mountain" in order to "discover himself and his people" reverberated throughout the colonial and later postcolonial world. Echoes of his plea have long been found in West African literary works concerned with restoring a positive image of the black self, but other "mountains" to be conquered have more recently come into view, especially in women’s writings. …”
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La organización social de los mazahuas del Estado de México

“…This group posits their cosmological bases on a cultural matrix dating back to pre columbian and colonial times. Notwithstanding the presence of that cultural matrix, the communities manifest different kinds of social organization that the author perceives as having evolved as a consequence of the destructuration of the system of kinship. …”
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Assessing a Common Currency in Africa

“…The importance of African economies in global trade is not going to be judged by the power of each country’s individual economy, for there is none, so far, or by the stability provided by the benevolent hegemony of a colonial master. Rather, the power of African economies lies in the actual share of the proposed currency in world official foreign reserves, its liquidity in international trade, and its role as a competitor against the exorbitant U.S. dollar. …”
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“To us the war is a spectacle”: Domestic Consumption of the Crimean War in Victorian Britain by Alison Fletcher

“…Following the war, Mary Seacole a colonial subject from Jamaica, published a memoir of her experiences nursing sick soldiers in the Crimea. …”
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