De l’« efficacité » symbolique des interdits à leur fonctionnalité écologique by Hélène Artaud

“…Which place can occupy, in conservation strategies, complex symbolic systems? What changes, this unprecedented practical requirement implies in terms of anthropological reflection? …”
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Gestes et images du voyage en Orient by Monique Sicard

“…These large negatives, that result in a symbolic and effective link with the book, are not to be confused with the use of photo-cards that later led Flaubert to reject photographic objects. …”
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Money Talks: Language, Work and Authorship from The Music of Chance to Sunset Park by Aliki Varvogli

“…In earlier works, the material aspect was often de-emphasised in favour of the symbolic or metaphorical, but more recent work has sought to bring the two plains of representation into closer alignment. …”
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Steganalysis for stegotext based on text redundancy by LUO Gang, SUN Xing-ming

“…Targeted at the text steganography with mimic model,a steganalysis method based on source redundancy for stegotexts was proposed.This method processed the text and the words in it as the m-order Markov source and the source symbols respectively,then computed the redundancy of the source.Through analyzing the relationship between the re-dundancy and the size of the text,the existence of hidden information could be determined.With testing of 8 000 ste-gotexts produced by the four main softwares NiceText,Texto,Stego and Sams Big Play Maker,and 2 400 normal texts randomly sampled from innocuous texts downloaded from the Internet,the results show that the false positive rate of our steganalysis method is 0.5% and the false negative rate is 3.9%.Experiments and analyzing results indicate that the steganalysis method can effectively detect stegotexts based on natural language processing with mimic model.…”
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L’ayahuasca et son ombre. L’apprentissage de la possession dans un centre chamanique d’Amazonie péruvienne by David Dupuis

“…Then, based on the ethnographic description of a participant’s ritual journey, he tries to shed light on the underpinnings of the appropriation of these motifs and its implications, both in terms of symbolic recomposition of identity and the dynamics of cultural transmission.…”
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L’Espagne et l’Europe communautaire : une vieille histoire de famille ? Du rêve d’union au mariage de raison by Isabelle Renaudet

“…Its entrance into the European Community, which seemed essential on the political plan, and necessary on the diplomatic plan, thus took on a highly symbolic dimension for the Spanish society during the period of the transition. …”
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The Picture of Dorian Gray : la passion du réel/la passion du semblant by Annie Ramel

“…Dorian’s passion is not so much for beauty and art, but for the decomposing portrait, its grey and amorphous matter, the « palpitating life substance prior to symbolic mortification » from which he derives exquisite enjoyment.…”
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Du crime à l’œuvre : la symbolique de la cage chez Kate Millett by Marie-Dominique Gil

“…Her work created an organic link with the symbolic system fostered by this apparatus devoted to confinement. …”
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Del alimento al guiso : fiesta y alimentación entre los yoremes de Sinaloa, México by Hugo E. López Aceves

“…Within Mexico´s Native Northern Sinaloan Yoremes (or mayos), ceremonial activities allow us a glimpse into the symbolic value of food as it relates to ritual life and religious practice. …”
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Interdisciplinary theology as public theology by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen

“…This opens up the possibility for converging arguments, from both theology and paleoanthropology, that ever since prehistory symbolic behavior in Homo sapiens has always included religious awareness. …”
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État de droit et droits indigènes dans le contexte d’une post-dictature : portrait de la criminalisation du mouvement mapuche dans un Chili démocratique by Fabien Le Bonniec

“…The state violence which results from this confrontation is not a recent phenomenon, it's part of a secular relationship of domination/subordination between Chilean and indigenous societies, based on obsolete national ideologies that the Mapuche are questioning today in order to free themselves both physically and symbolically.…”
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La forêt et son imaginaire social : quels enjeux pour l’avenir ? by Yves Luginbühl

“…After describing the main features of this symbolic history of the forest in several European countries, the article examines more closely the relationships between the landscape, the forest, and the economy with as the main criterion the sense of well-being or unease experienced by people living close to forests.…”
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Les clusters culturels sous le paradigme créatif : des espaces de ruptures pour l’économie culturelle locale by Bruno Lefèvre

“…At the same time, these urban areas have been physically and symbolically transformed and redeveloped, both through urban renewal policies and from projects stemming from creative city initiatives. …”
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La ciudad escenográfica: centro y margen en Buenos Aires by Agnese Codebò

“…It was as such that the city would manifest itself in its reading as a continuous entity promoted by the oligarchic elite during the urban modernization, which, on the one hand, produced the elegant Avenida de Mayo, and on the other, the aporias of urban poverty symbolized by the Barrio de las Ranas. These attempts to promote a homogeneous and disciplined vision of the city collided, however, with the urban space understood as a perennially contested and plurally-constituted territory.…”
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Le nahualli-tlahuipuchtli dans le monde nahuatl by Roberto Martínez González

“…In the last section of this work, we define its symbolism in order to evaluate if the belief in bloodsucking witches existed in pre-hispanic times.…”
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Jesus and "the Daniel code" by G. Thom

“… It is suggested that Jesus, who understood his Messianic calling in the light of the OT prophecies, utilized their symbolic apocalyptic language in his prophetic discourse. …”
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L’apport de la sculpture à la compréhension des fonctions liturgiques by Pascale Chevalier

“…Rich in information for the researcher, the loquacious pieces of furniture bore symbolic visual messages. The forms of the vestiges and the traces of their layout mapped out functional guidelines or dividing lines. …”
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The Artificial Mountain: a New Form of “Artialization” of Nature? by Claire Portal

“…Artificial mountains are artefacts, real or imaginary, whose identification is based on landscape models associated with natural mountains: whatever its origin, the mountain symbolizes duration and constitutes an unmovable and unchanging element. …”
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Exhiber le crime vaincu : les fourches patibulaires et la justice criminelle sous l’Ancien Régime by Christophe Regina

“…To study the gallows is to study primarily the story of power and its representations, the symbolic staging of the latter and physical anchoring in space and time. …”
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Rhythm, contagion, "cosmic race” by Lorena Grigoletto

“…Una teoría del ritmo (1921), the Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos carries out an interesting rereading of ancient Pythagoreanism to reorient the symbolic-abstract direction of Western thought, which seems to pave a new line of genealogical exploration of the question of mimesis in a postcolonial context. …”
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