Evangelical Christianity and Criminal Rehabilitation by Wesley Cohoon

“…The article specifically utilizes elements of symbolic interactionism to explore how identity, religious conversion, and community impact ex-felons. …”
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Implications, actors, and geopolitical levers of tourism. Israel / Palestine: what religious places tell us by Caroline Rozenholc-Escobar

“…It responds to this by looking at the places that contribute to producing this form of tourism; and the physical flows and symbolic movements of which these places are the objectives. …”
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Cançó en llengua minoritzada i revitalització by Eric Fraj

“…Despite its undeniable advances, especially on the symbolic level, the song is insufficient in terms of the effective revitalization of a minority language. …”
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"One Hundred False Starts" : l’espace fitzgéraldien ou la quête d’un ailleurs impossible by Pascal Bardet

“…In Scott Fitzgerald’s fiction, departures become drifts.This article is, therefore, an invitation to explore the symbolic landscapes of his works and should allow the reader to better perceive the different components of Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s imaginary world and sense of place.…”
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Latin American decolonial feminisms: theoretical perspectives and challenges by Bárbara Martínez-Cairo, Emanuela Buscemi

“…Decolonial feminisms are, thus, investigated as a form of theoretical and praxical response to the aforementioned critiques, generated in relation to the discursive and actual perpetuation of the material and symbolic legacies of colonialism. It is here argued that decolonial feminisms employ this alternative perspective as a de facto standpoint, by rooting their principles in anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist narratives, and with some strong established goals, such as social and environmental justice, the rights of indigenous people, and the decolonization of knowledge.…”
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Cinéma et urbanité à Tunis sous le protectorat français by Morgan Corriou

“…But neither the social influence of the local cinema nor the symbolic frontiers dividing the city could confine movie lovers. …”
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Preservation of Yoruba Indigenous Drumming Heritage by Olusegun Adebolu Oladosu

“…The behavior, beliefs, values, and symbols that the Yorùbá accept are represented through culture. …”
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Entre « chic » et « chien » : les séductions de la Parisienne, de Jean-Jacques Rousseau à Yves Saint-Laurent by Emmanuelle Rétaillaud-Bajac

“…Elaborated in the context of a monarchist society opening up to modern capitalism, this portrait became more complex and visible in the following century as the city itself changed very fast along with the explosion of the popular press and shifts in symbolic and aesthetic regimes. Today, though the image and reputation of « la Parisienne » are still used in the advertisement business and as a journalistic cliché, they have largely lost their subversive and erotic character due to the « sexual revolution » of the 1960’s and the homogenisation of behaviour in western societies.…”
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Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen by Salvatore D’Onofrio

“…Ayoreo warfare – compelled in order to be effective to inscribe itself within a symbolic horizon – is modelled on the basis of the logic of predation, as has been emphasized in several recent works, but confirms – above all through the analysis of substances and gestures – its possible conversion into an exchange relationship.…”
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Transformation, theology and the public university in South Africa by R. Venter

“…It also emphasises the distinctive theological task of theology at a public university – the articulation of transcendence and the construal of a non-naturalistic symbolic interpretation of reality. …”
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Entre convergences et divergences : la communauté haïtienne de Montréal by Ariane Cyr

“…As regards the elements of discourse gathered during individual interviews conducted with the members of the first generation of Haitian immigrants, an identity pattern can be observed, matching two different and yet complementary systems of functioning: detachment and symbolic recognition…”
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Is All Discourse Official? On the Poetics of Gifting and Gossiping by Pierre-Héli Monot

“…This, in turn, suggests that the interpretation of literary texts remains dependent on a correct understanding of the material and symbolic economies they participate in.…”
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Exú's Work – The Agency of Ritual Objects in Southeast Brazilian Umbanda by Eleonora A. Lundell

“…The central claim in this article is that diverse material and immaterial objects through which Exús interact and materialise, are not primarily symbolic nor representative, but are re-configurative.…”
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Narrating Cultural Heritage by Ulf Palmenfelt

“…The interplay between several individual narratives in a local community and the collective elements takes the form of a joint negotiating process, generating agreements and discrepancies, shared ‘truths’ and contested disagreements, the acceptance of shared local symbols and the forgetting of less captivating material. …”
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Reorganization of urban spaces in a mountain resort by Émeline Hatt

“…These restrictions strain relations between the functional and symbolic rationale of the purpose-built resorts of the 1960-70s. …”
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Wilde’s French Salomé by Emily Eells

“…His aesthetic objective was to produce a work belonging to the school of French decadentism and adhering to its principles of symbolism. He uses the French language as if it were a system of signs divorced from their semantic meaning, creating as pure a musical notation as verbal language can allow. …”
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La etnología chiriguano de Alfred Métraux by Federico Bossert, Diego Villar

“…We pursue our analysis across diverse aspects of Métraux’s work, including: his treatment of religion and prophetism among the Tupinamba; his participation in the pioneer project that created the Ethnology Institute in Tucuman; the manifestation of ideology, inherited prejudice and esthetic values in his gathering of material culture collections; the singularities of Métraux’s fieldwork and its impact on his relationship with the Chiriguano; his thesis that Chiriguano pottery reflected particular mixtures of Andean, Chaco and Amazonian influences; and, finally, the significant link he found between mythic symbolism and the feminine universe.…”
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Rêver la forêt, cultiver les arbres by Alan Guillou

“…By working on the aesthetic and symbolic aspects of trees, these pupils have adopted an old heritage, a long cultural affiliation of their profession to the forest. …”
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Autonomie versus autorité : idéal éducatif ou nouvelle forme de domination ? by Pierre Périer

“…Students' submission to the symbolic authority of knowledge and to the educational authority of teachers who are charged to hand on it is declining. …”
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Le massacre des Innocents ou comment réécrire l’histoire by Édith Parmentier

“…In modern times, these mechanisms have enabled the symbolic reinvestment by the collective memory of a massacre that never took place.…”
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