“I’m Just a Cowboy”: Transnational Identities of the Borderlands in Tommy Lee Jones’ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. by Matthew Carter

“…As a problematic in-between space of racial antagonisms, liminal identities, and violence, the borderlands of the American Southwest prove fertile grounds for scrutinising Anglo-America’s national frontier mythology and, therefore, its own sense of history and cultural identity. …”
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Escrevendo-se na cidade: ExueoGuia afetivoda periferia, de Marcus Vinicius Faustini by Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho

“…With this performativemovement, the author contrasts the common tendency to divide the urban spacein center x periphery, city x slum, hill x asphalt. Using the mythology of Afro-Brazilian religions, I analyze how the narrator/actor ofGuia Afetivo da Periferiaincorporates features of the Orixá Exú and consubstantiates the cityphenomenologically.…”
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Strike And Power(Lessness) Of The Union by Zoran Stojiljković

“…The aim of this paper is to identify, on the basis of an analysis of the causes, the course and effects of strikes in Serbia over the last three decades, the mechanisms by which society and trade unions have moved from self-management mythology to the defense of whatever wages and “decent, dignified work” as the maximum goal. …”
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Criminological principles of transitional justice for Ukraine: zones of criminogenic risks by Y. V. Orlov, L. V. Dundych

“…Accent has been placed on the criminogenic significance of competing victimhood, the mythology of postmemory, the desynchronized elements of criminal justice and criminological policy. …”
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Le « marché aux putains » : économies sexuelles et dynamiques spatiales du Palais-Royal dans le Paris révolutionnaire by Clyde Plumauzille

“…The Palais-Royal enjoys a special place in the urban mythology of the Paris Galant, capital of pleasure and debauchery for European elites in the eighteenth-century. …”
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« Jules Crevaux, l’explorateur aux pieds nus ». Un mythe géographique amazonien by Emmanuel Lézy

“…Nevertheless, the carefull observation of the feet of an amazonian explorer, Jules Crevaux (1847-1882), reveals structures which are common to the covered territory and to a modern mythology. This structures give an unexpected confirmation of the efficiency of the anthropologist’s analyses.…”
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Huculszczyzna w II Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej. Romantyczny mit „Nowej Arkadii” w racjonalnym społeczeństwie/ Hutsul Region in the Second Republic of Poland. The Romantic Myth of the... by Włodzimierz Osadczy

“…In the Second Republic of Poland, the Hutsul region was shown as a semi-wild, picturesque land, shrouded in folk mythology and magic. It was perceived as a center of life unspoiled by civilization, possessing great energy and spontaneity. …”
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« Spirit of the dead, rise up! […] and claim your story ». Représentation de l’esclavage et esthétique de la résistance dans Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Sankofa (1993) was his first important critical and commercial success. The film used Akan mythology—in particular the sankofa bird symbolizing the need for every person to turn to the past in order to face their future—to broach the issue of resistance to oppression. …”
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Berta Gleizer Ribeiro e as artes das vidas amazônicas by Lúcia Hussak van Velthem, Bianca Luiza Freire de Castro França, José Ribamar Bessa Freire

“…The reflections that follow focus on the approaches to which the anthropologist paid special attention, such as those connected to the study of everyday objects, to Amazonian aesthetics, to the mythology of the indigenous peoples of the upper Rio Negro, and also to ecological issues. …”
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De la nuit et de l’obscurité : une étude icono-épigraphique maya by Cédric Becquey

“…In this article, we will see that this approach allows us to get a sense of the great complexity of this concept, which can only be understood by diving into Maya cosmovision and mythology. In fact, it is particularly in its relation with the underworld or the primordial night that this “night” acquires a central place in the power legitimisation strategies of Maya elites.…”
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"Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi by Michel Dufour

“…Minimalist and conceptual, the Yeatsian mountain is reduced to archetypal forms related to the geometry described in A Vision, Yeats’s metaphysical treatise. Rooted in Irish mythology, and rising into a spiritualist ethereal world, the mountain conjoins different symbolic strata, allowing an intellectual and spiritual ascent. …”
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(Recovering) China’s Urban Rivers as Public Space by Kelly Shannon, Chen Yiyong

“…This article focuses on the revered role rivers in China once held – in cartography, history, mythology, festivals, cities, and everyday life. It reviews and summarizes ‘hydraulic civilization’, taking cognizance of feng shui as it does so. …”
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Deucalion et les os de la mère by Aline Magnien

“…Even though materials possess objective characteristics, they also contain a whole part of mythology in the meaning given to this term by Roland Barthes or Roger Caillois, for the stone. …”
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The Beliefs, Myths, and Reality Surrounding the Word Hema (Blood) from Homer to the Present by John Meletis, Kostas Konstantopoulos

“…All ancient nations hinged their beliefs about hema (blood) on their religious dogmas as related to mythology or the origins of religion. The Hellenes (Greeks) especially have always known hema as the well-known red fluid of the human body. …”
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“A good deal about California does not, on its own preferred terms, add up”: Joan Didion between Dawning Apocalypse and Retrogressive Utopia by Eva-Sabine Zehelein

“…Identity and landscape fuse into an auto-psychoanalysis, which at the same time reveals a great deal about the American condition, its constantly strained relationship between rhetoric or auto-mythology and lived reality. This article draws primarily on Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and Where I Was From (2003), but also on After Henry (1992) and The White Album (1979), to illustrate these points.…”
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The Resurrected Youth and the Sorrowing Mother: Walter Pater’s Uses of the Myths of Dionysus and Demeter by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…In the mid-1870s, Walter Pater wrote two essays on Greek mythology, ‘A Study of Dionysus’ and ‘Demeter and Persephone’, in which he wondered about the relevance of Greek myths to the modern mind and advocated empathy with the primitive mind. …”
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un mythe de la culture moyenne dans les hebdomadaires des années 1950 by Marie-Astrid Charlier

“…Using the American-style news magazine while retaining the devices of the small press of the 19th century and then of the interwar period, the four weeklies created a "Saint-Germain-des-Prés" mythology for middlebrow culture, which was also fed by a large number of novels and films.…”
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De l’État au citoyen, redistribution des cartes : éléments d’une histoire de la cartographie by Élisabeth Habert

“…They illustrate information about the use of land, the mythology, the local customs, the know-how, the rituals, often difficult to include and analyze in a geo-referenced database.…”
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Od kulturowego pojmowania przestrzeni ku rozważaniom o wieczności. Dyskurs przestrzenny w powieści Brisbane Jewgienija Wodołazkina by Monika Sidor

“…Successive parts of the research are devoted to lieux de mémoire in autobiographical fiction, cultural understanding of the space of the home and places which traditionally create the image of Kiev and the individual mythology of this city. Space perceived in the way modified by culture is a certain frame in which both the hero of Vodolazkin lives and a receiver reads the novel. …”
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Dispersion of the Yorùbá to the Americas: A Fatalist Hermeneutics of Orí in the Yorùbá Cosmos – Reading from Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen by Emmanuel Adeniyi

“…I used metaphysical fatalism as a theoretical model to interrogate prognostications about dispersion of the Yorùbá from their matrix as expressed in their mythology. Being a predestining agent, I examined the role of orí (destiny) within the context of rigid fatalism and its textualisation in Prince Justice’s Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen. …”
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