El Métraux haitiano. La construcción de una etnología religiosa by Fernando Giobellina Brumana

“…This paper highlights the theoretical and methodological innovations of Le vaudou haïtien, and its originality for the study of cults of African origin in the Americas. Métraux achieves several key theoretical and methodological innovations in this book: 1. the search for a kind of ritual syntax; 2. a focus on real practices instead of lettered formations of the cult; 3. an acknowledgement that voodoo is unmistakably Haitian and that its roots are European as much as African; 4. a rejection of the assumption that the Catholicism of voodoo adepts would be mere deception; 5. the identification of a narrative level where stories of the gods’ avatars are replaced by tales of their interventions in the life of humans. …”
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Charles Dickens et le « nouveau pittoresque » by Nathalie Vanfasse

“…The picturesque is an aesthetic ideal which became almost a cult between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. …”
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Nouvelles données sur l’agglomération antique d’Epomanduodurum (Mandeure et Mathay, Doubs) by Philippe Barral, David Billoin, Séverine Blin, Gilles Bossuet, Cédric Cramatte, Catherine Fruchart, Clément Laplaige, Antoine Mamie, Jacques Monnier, Pierre Mougin, Pierre Nouvel, Jean-François Piningre, Matthieu Thivet

“…In this second stage, alongside the ongoing in-depth investigations on cult and monumental area, the PCR (Collective Program Research) team intensified its different studies and researches on the ancient agglomeration and its microregional environment. …”
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« Le Paradis de Zahra » : le grand cimetière de Téhéran entre pratiques populaires et rationalité étatique by Sepideh Parsapajouh

“…Drawing on ethnographic data collected in the field over recent years, this article proposes a reflection on the complex articulations between the rationality of a modern state, albeit one that is religiously inspired, the ritual norms defined by religious scholars and scrupulously respected by a centralized funerary administration, and the daily practices of simple believers who, attached to the cult of the dead often observe with more passion than reason. …”
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The Power of Parody: Went With the Wind (1976), a Film Classic Revisited by The Carol Burnett Show (CBS, 1967-1978) by Taïna Tuhkunen

“…Rather than downplaying the over-romanticized Southern melodrama, the sketch proceeds through further exaggerations and distortions, seeking to shatter the cult text by spoofing, mocking, while paying a humorous homage to the evergreen background text. …”
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Wooden sculpture in Romanesque Iberian Peninsula: a wide and attractive panorama. Lines of research by Jordi Camps i Sòria

“…Other times, the spread of modalities confined to an area might well obey cult and pilgrimage reasons. Not all works, however, strictly follow one modality or another. …”
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MARCION OF SYNOPE’S RELEVANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD VIS-À-VIS RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE by G Andrade

“…In his attempt to cleanse Christianity of its Jewish elements, Marcion set the bases for a critique of the cult to a violent God and the divine inspirations of violence. …”
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Forest based data collection in MR-MC wireless sensor networks by Wei-ping ZHANG, Ya-hong GUO, Meng WANG, Lin-yu NI, Jin-bao LI

“…The limit of node itself and deployment environment of WSN result in the node was prone to failure and diffi-cult to maintain.In the tree-based data collection process,the node failure or lin congestion could result in higher com-munication delay,or even data loss.To solve this problem,a strategy for data collection was proposed which used forest as the routing structure.Firstly,an algorithm for the construction of forest was proposed,and then collect data through trees in the forest.Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that,the method could reduce the loss of data in the data collection process effectively,in the case of 25 fault nodes,the amount of data collected by forest routing structure of 3 trees compared to the amount of data collected from the connected dominating set is more than 55%,and reduce the la-tency of data collection.…”
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Des pieds de moutons dans la citerne du sanctuaire de Corent (Veyre-Monton, Puy-de-Dôme) : rejet détritique ou dépôt rituel ? by Sylvain Foucras

“…So it must be the comprehensive rejection of the lower legs of thirty sheep, with other anatomical parts discarded.This unusual ensemble seems to evoke rejects linked to butchering and cottage industry.Yet its disposal within the confines of a sacred place activity is not common.Simple rejection detrital or ritual deposit, the same choice of sheep, an animal that plays a central role in Arvernian ritual practices, raises questions about the purpose of this whole cult.…”
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Defensa de Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, actor de la Independencia mexicana by Marie-Cécile Bénassy-Berling

“…He knows the philosophers very well, yet he’s an authentic catholic as far as faith and cult are concerned. What he sees in Paris and Rome lead him to ignore completely the Church’s hierarchical aspects. …”
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L’insaisissable religion des Taïnos. Esquisse d’anthropologie historique by Giuseppe A. Samonà

“…In this article, these observers, who have too often been overlooked by contemporary anthropology, are revisited in an attempt to draw an outline of what might have been the « religious » thought of the Tainos, the primary characteristic of which is believed to be the cult of the zemis. More specifically, the author analyzes the eyewitness accounts of Columbus and Pané and underscores their genuinely ethnological quality, particularly in the case of the latter. …”
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On-board Multi-User Detection Algorithm Based on Conditional Neural Process by Yilun LIU, Liang JIN, Jiali LI, Lidong ZHU

“…With the characteristics of all-terrain, all-weather and seamless coverage, satellite communications have become a potentially important part of 6G.An important prerequisite for achieving satellite intelligence is that the satellite have on-board processing capabilities.Multi-user detection (MUD) is a classic method of suppressing multiple access interference (MAI) in wireless communication, such as MMSE, Gaussian processregression (GPR) and other algorithms.Due to the inverse matrix required in the detection process, the algorithm complexity is usually cubic, and it is diff cult to directly apply to satellite platforms because of its limited processing capabilities.The conditional neural process combined the characteristics of the low complexity of the neural network and the data-eff cient of the Gaussian process.The neural network was used to parameterized the Gaussian process to avoided the inversion of the matrix, thereby reduced the computational complexity.The application of conditional neural process in MUD was studied.The simulation results showed that, while reduced complexity, conditional neural process also greatly improved the performance of bit error rate (BER).…”
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D’une histoire des choses vues à l’histoire de l’image by Juliana Gendron

“…The eagle, omnipresent in the iconography of Roman power, was given a new lease of life with the emergence of the imperial cult. Alongside the image of the pyre, the image of the bird of prey was also a popular form of plastic commemoration during the consecration ceremony. …”
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Dasaĩ and dual power among the Yakthumba by Philippe Sagant

“…Dasaĩ is a Yakthumba popular festival. The cult of Durgā legitimates the authority of the political headmen, the subbā, who appeared after the Gurkha conquest (having been delegated by the “kings”, called hang). …”
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Hagiographie liturgique et construction identitaire dans un néo-diocèse (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles). Le Proprium Sanctorum dans les bréviaires des diocèses français créés sous Louis XIV... by Philippe Castagnetti

“…The choice criterions of these saints and the litterary schemas used in matins for the biographical pieces reveal how the Church wants to keep the spirit of Counter Reformation alive by remembering the sacral mission of the king of France, increasing the conversion enterprise of the Huguenots and magnifying the cult of relics. Liturgical hagiography allows the constituting of an official religious memory in the clergy of each diocese and makes the idealization and standardization process of holiness easier. …”
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Zanim zabłysło światło wiary Chrystusowej. Słowianie w orbicie wiary i kultury pogańskiej / Before the light of Christ’s faith shone. The Slavs in the orbit of pagan faith and cult... by Olga Osadczy, Aleksandra Osadczy-Kępka

“…The article introduces the currently little popular subject of Slavic mythology, and presents the pantheon of the most important Slavic deities as well as the beliefs, cults and rituals of the Slavs living mainly in the eastern territories. …”
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Spatial Network Resource Scheduling Based on Joint MPTCP with SDN for SDN/NFV Architecture by Min JIA, Jia GUO, Meilin XU, Qing GUO, Xuemai GU

“…The space network is mainly composed of satellite networks of various architectures with many network nodes.Compared with the ground network,the nodes in the satellite network are diff cult to observe and control,and the network equipment is extremely expensive.The rapid increase in the number of users has brought a great burden to the network,and at the same time caused the network resources to be unreasonably used.The application of traditional network architecture to large-scale satellite networks results in the inability to fl exibly confi gure the network and uneven resource allocation.Aim to the above problems,a space network resource scheduling system based on SDN(software defi ned network)/NFV(network function virtualization) architecture was proposed to realized real-time monitoring of space network resources.At the same time,it combined MPTCP (multipath TCP) and SDN to completed the fl exible confi guration of the space network and the rational use of its resources.It improved the throughput of the network.…”
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Myra Breckinridge et le passager clandestin. Kitsch, camp et inconscient hollywoodien by Grégoire Halbout

“…It was later rehabilitated as a cult movie thanks to a cultural reevaluation which has considered this narrative experimentation as a pioneering camp film of mainstream culture. …”
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A transforming body: A post-exilic reading of Psalms 50 and 51 in the light of social norms communicated through the Leviticus sacrificial system and body imagery by L. Sutton

“… Although Psalms 50 and 51 do not share the same superscription (a Psalm of Asaph and a Psalm of David), they do share multiple images relating to the body and the cult. Situated between a collection of Korahite (42-49) and Davidic psalms (51-70[51-72]) in Book II of the Psalter (42- 72), Psalm 50 is considered to be part of the liturgy with a prophetic character. …”
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Camping it out in the Never Never: Subverting Hegemonic Masculinity in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994) by Anne Le Guellec-Minel

“…The critical and popular success of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994) helped to put the Australian film industry on the world map and made Stephan Elliott’s feature a cult film in its own right. The article explores how the aesthetics and politics of kitsch, which allow the film to balance subversion and conservatism, may have been the recipe for success. …”
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