Źródła antropologii Juliana Haynesa Stewarda by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…Steward claims that he is the only author of an anthropological approach called cultural ecology and no one affected him in the process of working out the concept. However, this essay shows that there are three main sources that influenced Steward: social and natural environment, family and educational background, and intellectual community. …”
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The man standing on the globe by M. A. Vishnyakova

“…The forthcoming 134th birthday of Nikolai Vavilov has in spired the editors to publish the essay The Man Standing on the Globe written by Dr. …”
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A Critical Study of Book of Historiography: An Introduction by Mohsen Morsalpour

“…In addition, writers have written about undergraduate essay writing tips that are useful for students. …”
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« Shots in mirrors » : Les jeux de miroir dans No Country For Old Men (Coen 2007) by Julie Assouly

“…In her essay Shots in the Mirror (2000), Nicole Rafter emphasized the appeal of including mirrors in thrillers. …”
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JUSTICE AS BEAUTY-IN-ACTION? INSIGHTS FROM HANS URS VON BALTHASAR’S AESTHETICS AND DRAMATICS by M.J. Havenga

“… This essay explores the relation between beauty and justice by turning to the thought of the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. …”
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Sofística e Retórica no Górgias de Platão by Daniel R. N. Lopes

“…This essay aims at elucidating the distinction between sophistry and rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias starting from Socrates’ enigmatic contention that “sophists and rhetors are mixed up in the same area and about the same thing, since they are so close to each other” (465c4-5; Irwin’s translation). …”
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Les juifs d’Algérie face aux nationalités française et algérienne (1940-1963) by Pierre-Jean Le Foll Luciani

“…This essay also uses this specific case to reveal the tensions that arose around the issue of nationality in colonial and postcolonial Algeria.…”
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Decoration, Deviation, and the Selected Edition: Some Poems of Lionel Johnson (1912) by Jeremy Valentine Freeman

“…This essay argues that this kind of strategic revision of late-Victorian lyricism, decoration, and ritualized poetics does not merely function in relation to decorative publishing practices of the fin de siècle or as a denial of Johnson’s aesthetic sensibilities but that it points to a broader cultural criticism of Victorian aesthetic excess and of mid- to late-Victorian aesthetic ideology.…”
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Les usages de la fin du monde : l’apocalypse et la post-apocalypse en tant que modes narratifs by Connor Pitetti

“…Through a broad survey of fictional, religious, philosophical, and political end-time narratives, this essay identifies two strategies for telling stories about the end of the world. …”
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Between the Teacher-Translator (TT) and the Officer-Translator (OT): The Useful but Elusive Handshake? by Tunde Ajiboye

“…The essay admits the classic definition of translation and puts its major plank of argument on the assumption that translation and interpretation are Siamese twins. …”
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Harmony versus Voicing. Modeling Local-Level Salience and Stability in Jazz after 1960 by Rich Pellegrin

“…In addition to investigating theoretical and analytical matters, the essay explores the creative potential of my approach. …”
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"The City’s Charms and Challenges" by P K Leung (translation) by Chris Song

“…In the essay, he also mapped out the early beginnings of Hong Kong literature, its intrinsic roots in Chinese literature, and how it has thrived amidst the socio-cultural and historical changes in Hong Kong in the last few decades. …”
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Looking Hip on the Square: Jazz, Cover Art, and the Rise of Creativity by Johannes Voelz

“…In particular, this essay focuses on the photographic and illustrative work artists like William Claxton and Andy Warhol created for the newly emerging format of the record cover. …”
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À l’intérieur des images by Joséphine Alida Jacquier

“…In a striking essay, Jean Seznec could show in how far the almost surrealist character of Flaubertʼs La Tentation de saint Antoine is grounded on scientific readings such as the Symbolism by Friedrich Creuzer. …”
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Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier’s Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Kirsten MacLeod

“…This essay considers the original Collier’s Weekly serialization of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) from a materialist and sociological perspective. …”
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“Just Fabric”: The Becoming Black of the (Post)Human in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) by Agnibha Banerjee

“…In Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021), Klara is an AF (Artificial Friend), one among a range of humanoid automatons manufactured with the objective of keeping affluent, genetically augmented teenagers company. As this essay argues, a disturbing historical parallel to the position of the AFs in the social hierarchy is that of slaves. …”
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On Display by Nitzan Zilberman

“…The focal point of this essay is the turn from the display of objects to the display of environments, a change that blurs the line between the body and the display, and arguably absorbs the subject into the object. …”
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The Public Gossip of Town Topics: The Journal of Society (1885-1937) by Katrin Horn

“…Drawing on Michael Warner’s concept of “a public,” this essay outlines how gossip, a private mode of communication, is used within the public sphere to create the impression of intimate exchange. …”
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Motorway architecture by Verdiana Peron

“…Moreover, the essay provides new insights into the stance of public policies and preservation procedures. …”
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Cibo e rifugiati nella città capitolina, tra pratiche di emergenza e tentativi di agentività by Donatella Schmidt, Giovanna Palutan

“…This essay aims to tie food practices to refugees and asylum seekers who live in temporary or emergency settings, focusing on two specific ethnographic cases located in the city of Rome. …”
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