Les calebasses nka’a kügha : du contexte d’origine à la mise en exposition en Europe by Ninon Arbez-Gindre

“…The jawbones of enemies killed by the Bamum were hung from these calabashes. These symbols of victory were the used for rituals and considered the dynasty’s regalia. …”
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Gliding down the slopes by Michaël Attali, Natalia Bazoge, Sandrine Jamain-Samson, Jean Saint-Martin

“…Skiing advocates used stereotypical symbols linked to femininity to promote the sport with the belief that as early as the 1930s, women had to develop technical skills, perform and develop a kind of excellence that young girls could identify with. …”
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Valorisation touristique de l’olivier à Saint-Rémy de Provence : entre requalification symbolique et détournement de valeurs patrimoniales by Julie Deramond, Pauline Grison, Eric Triquet

“…En étudiant l’ensemble du discours iconique fondé sur l’utilisation d’images liées au patrimoine oléicole, il vise à examiner l’hypothèse selon laquelle l’olive, l’huile d’olive et l’olivier, ont avant tout une valeur emblématique en tant que symboles de la Provence. Notre propos est de montrer qu’ils sont utilisés principalement à des fins commerciales et touristiques, ainsi que comme témoins d’une identité culturelle revendiquée.…”
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Trinitariese verbeelding en post-apartheid Suider-Afrika: fragmente oor dogmatisering en dosering by R. Venter

“…The dogmatician linguistically constructs a symbolic universe that exerts an ethical impact. The notion of a “trinitarian imagination” is espoused to articulate the entire Christian vision from the reality of God’s trinitarian identity. …”
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De l’enjeu de conservation au projet de territoire : Le saumon atlantique au coeur des débats by Olivier Thomas, Marie-Anne Germaine

“…The implementation of actions in favour of the conservation or of the restoration of the biodiversity often leans on the highlit of symbolic species attached to a biotope regularly presented as a heritage. …”
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En attendant Bouteflika. Le président et la crise de sens en Algérie by Thomas Serres

“…A review of the political temporalities that surround the figure of the Algerian president allows us a better apprehension of the scope and limits of symbolic state power. The article begins with a review of the origins of the epistemological crisis, from the war of independence to the civil war. …”
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Transforming the Role of Women Farmers and of Refugees: Two Italian Experiences of Social Innovation in Mountain Areas by Elisa Ravazzoli, Cristina Dalla Torre, Thomas Streifeneder

“…The results show that social innovation has transformed the meaning of cultural symbols and the socio-economic roles of the target groups, leading to an improvement of the whole community’s wellbeing.…”
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Youth and the politics of generational memories: The Soweto uprising in South Africa by Sandrine Gukelberger

“…The diverse ways of experiencing and remembering Soweto not only structured pathways for specific actors, but became part of the symbolic repertoire of politics as such in South Africa.…”
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A narrativa mediada e a permanência da tradição: percurso de um anti-herói brasileiro by Luiz Gonzaga Motta

“…The second objetive tests whether the mediated narrative still keeps an identity with the universal cycle of the hero and the symbolic nature of traditional narratives. The article concludes that mediated narratives are not less authentic: they have been reincorporated into new contexts and re-anchored in new communication supports. …”
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Masculin/féminin dans la culture étrusque : un cas limite by Sophie Pérard

“…The system of ornaments is not only symbolic, but also an active dynamic system: not only does it signal a status, whatever it is, but it also legitimizes and sanctions it. …”
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When Objects Go Wandering by Helena Motoh

“…The findings highlight the symbolic roles these “wandering objects” played in reinforcing social ties and cultural identity. …”
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Antropologia dell’apprendimento come esperienza applicata by Roberta Bonetti

“…More specifically, the students addressed the very sensitive issue of the balance between legal and illegal, permitted and illicit spaces, and how territorial and symbolic boundaries affect our perception of urban spaces but also of human behavior. …”
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Ecological combustion: the atmospherics of the bushfire as choreography by Rachel Fensham

“…Drawing upon Bachelard’s analysis of the phenomenology of fire leads to an appreciation of its substance and symbolic volatility, that is interlaced with an understanding of fire’s place in the Australian environment from both settler and indigenous perspectives. …”
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Les implications éthiques de l’accompagnement doctoral by Maryvonne Charmillot

“…This perspective makes accompaniment a particular relationship based on the symbolic value of sharing (Paul, 2009). Talking about doctoral accompaniment thus marks a strong conceptual positioning. …”
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“Living the Dying Inside”: Writing Violence in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy by Claudine Raynaud

“…Florens’s dream “dreams back”: the awakening at the heart of her dream is the very site of trauma (Caruth). Symbolically, like the Native American ritual corn-husk dolls, a faceless daughter faces an inaudible mother. …”
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Le Parc Méric à Montpellier : représentations sociales d’un parc public entre campagne, jardin et nature sauvage by Gaëlle Aggéri

“…Motivated by the desire to use ecological engineering methods and of offering city dwellers a variety of green spaces ranging from the traditional sophisticated garden to “wild” open spaces, the directors of municipal parks and green spaces have experimented with what is called in France “La gestion différenciée” or “the differentiated management” of green spaces.Parallel with this essentially technical approach, the evolution of the idea of “urban nature”, demanded by the directors of municipal parks and green spaces, brought about the creation of alternative public parks, whose image and use refer strongly to the pastoral and “the wild”.This study investigates the physical and symbolic construction of this new type of nature, in particular with the example of the design and the social representations of the “Parc Méric” in Montpellier, a former bourgeois rural estate. …”
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Музыка в романе Евгения Водолазкина Брисбен by Tatiana Kopac

“…Music in the novel expresses the hero’s inner state, his relationship to the world, and symbolizes the metaphysical breakthrough experienced by the hero: from love and sound, to silence and eternity. …”
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“Fazer artesanato para fazer a roça”: práticas sociotécnicas na Comunidade Quilombola da Serra das Viúvas by Fanny Longa Romero

“…Such practices are addressed from the inter-relationship of various skills, tech- niques, stories and symbolic actions of (human and nonhuman) beings that are potentiated through the “engagement” of practical experience and constructed in social interaction. …”
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A Geocritical Reading of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders by Dilek İnan

“…Theorists such as Edward Soja, Fredric Jameson and David Harvey have observed that place has a discursive/symbolic meaning beyond that of mere location. Spatial thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Yi-Fu Tuan, Marc Augé, and Edward Relph have defined a set of vocabulary related to space which will be helpful to explore the ways in which Defoe’s characters have depicted the human condition and its relation to space. …”
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Norway Reimagined by Ratilainen Saara

“…My analysis shows how Norway and its positioning in the world provides an important symbolic resource for further discussions on identity and belonging. …”
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