“[Obeah] Ọbịa by Igbo Spelling” by Claudette A. Anderson

“…This article presents John Umeh’s After God is Dibịa: Igbo Cosmology, Divination & Sacred Science in Nigeria, Vols. 1 and 2 as performative texts that affirm traditional African Priesthood as honorable, valuable, and necessary, while negating the myth of a superior white male god and consequent female inferiority. …”
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LOS IMPERATIVOS DE BELLEZA Y EL DISPOSITIVO MÉDICO by Ma. Candelaria Ochoa Avalos, Martín Gabriel Reyes Pérez

“…En este artículo intentamos releer la tesis central del libro de Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women considerando las narraciones de algunas mujeres que entrevistamos en el marco de una investigación en curso. …”
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DECOLONIALITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND INTERCULTURAL “DAHLEZ” by N. T. Nurulla-Khodzhaeva

“…But it is important to understand that today's distancing from the topic in Central Asia; is not an ideological camouflage ala Soviet-style, but rather a preservation of the myth of Westphalia on the priority of national sovereignty. …”
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PAUL FEYERABEND ON THE SCIENTIFIC WORLDVIEW: TOWARDS QUESTIONING THE SCIENTIFIC UNIFORMITY by N. I. Petrunok

“…He accepts such unity only as a useful assumption or a myth. In one of his latest books, Conquest of Abundance, he calls it a “flag” for the “people doing science.” …”
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Analysis of the Discursive Logic of the Author-Narratorʼs Continuous Metatexts in the Shazdeh Hamam by Papoli Yazdi by Kayhan Saeedi, Sayyed Ahmad Parsa

“…Also, the model of Theo Van Leeuwenʼs legitimation which offers four strategies for accreditation, moral evaluation, rationalization, and myth-making, has been used in this article. The result shows that achieving the desired situation forms the core of the author-narrator discourse; a discourse that is based on the critique of the current situation. …”
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CAPITAL WITHOUT STATEHOOD: EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN STARAYA LADOGA, KASIMOV AND MYSHKIN by I. Y. Okunev, D. V. Basova

“…Besides, the authors give illustrative examples of the construction of the myth about "stolichnost" and describe the instruments of symbolic politics.…”
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Wiews of the nation's memories: A stereotyped vision of the Lithuanian history of the 20th century in Lithuanian documentary films by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…The current documentary material that is based on the understanding of history as a myth of the nation's history is not aimed at creating a new visual and verbal narration about the realities of the past, but rather at recognizing what has been said and made in the previous works. …”
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Acquiring practical competencies through an open online course by N. V. Kaygorodtseva, V. B. Luzgina

“…The obtained results disprove the myth of the insolvency of distance education provided that the basic principles of effective teaching are observed…”
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Who’s In and Who’s Out? War News from Mexico and the Framing of Evil by Alan Hirsch

“…Woodville’s awareness of his power (and impotence, as he could hardly stop slavery) helps explain the painting’s most idiosyncratic feature: a peacock feather attached to the black man’s hat. In the myth of Argus, the hundred-eyed giant wins the favor of Juno by using his hyper-optic capacity for her benefit. …”
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A qualitative study of motivations for non-suicidal self-injury in a sample of psychiatric outpatients in Singapore by Shazana Shahwan, Yunjue Zhang, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Say How Ong, Siow Ann Chong, Mythily Subramaniam

“…Conclusion: Committing NSSI solely for attention-seeking is a myth that perpetuates the stigma and hinders those in need of psychological care from seeking appropriate treatment. …”
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The phenomenon of queer strategy in female rock poetry of the 1990s (Based on the poetic texts by Diana Arbenina and Svetlana Surganova) by A.S. Afanasev

“…The duet was perceived as a queer due to the biographical myth that was created by both the musicians themselves and their fans. …”
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Wpływ nowożytnego antropocentryzmu na relację człowieka do przyrody. Część pierwsza by Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk

“…One can distinguish at least several stages of the process, which led to this crisis, namely: stage of Magic and Myth, Ancient Times, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. …”
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Starożytne źródła antropocentryzmu by Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk

“…One can distinguish at least several stages of the process, which led to this crisis, namely: stage of Magic and Myth, Ancient Times, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. …”
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„L’ uomo nuovo” nei testi di Virginie Despentes e Sandro Veronesi by Magdalena Lange-Henszke

“…The utopian myth of the new man is a concept present in all eras. …”
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Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres’ We the Animals by Marion Christina Rohrleitner

“…In ongoing limbo as an unincorporated territory of the United States, the legal condition of Puerto Rico always already queers the myth of an egalitarian, democratic nation. A queer coming of age/coming out narrative, We the Animals features a first person narrator, the youngest of three Puerto Rican brothers, who grows up in a working class home in upstate New York and emerges as someone who rejects the very values that strive to “normalize” queer life via assimilation into legally defined and sanctioned coupledom. …”
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SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE TYPOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHICAL-ANTHROPOLOGICAL MODELS (TO THE PROBLEM OF VALUE IDENTIFICATIONS OF UKRAINIANS) by V. V. Mudrakov, O. S. Polishchuk

“…They are based on the narrative of ideological myth and deprived of the projection of the complete development of a personality. …”
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Two Faces of Transcendental Empiricism: Gilles Deleuze and John McDowell by Danila A. Volkov, Maksim D. Evstigneev

“…It is motivated by Sellar’s critique of “the Myth of the Given” and McDowell’s attack on the “third dogma of empiricism”. …”
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Emily and Charlotte Brontë’s Re-reading of the Byronic hero by Cristina Ceron

“…Emily Brontë’s reading of Byron privileges this dark side of the literary myth, and her main focus is on the mysterious identity and Gothic aspects of the Byronic hero. …”
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Metamorfose do calouro: um estudo da evolução das expectativas acadêmicas de ingressantes em administração by Marcia Regina Muraoka, Jorge Alberto dos Santos

“…Ficou evidente na pesquisa que acontece não apenas a visão irrealista dos estudantes quando ingressam na universidade – que ficou conhecido na literatura com o termo ‘mito do calouro’- freshman myth – mas também uma transformação gradual deste estudante, o que aqui se denominou ‘metamorfose do calouro’. …”
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Średniowieczne źródła antropocentryzmu by Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk

“…One can distinguish at least several stages of the process, which led to this crisis, namely: stage of Magic and Myth, Ancient Times, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. …”
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