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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Pseudo-science"”.
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Stories of Miscegenation: Fact and Fiction of Interracial Life and Art
… whose gaze is unconsciously informed by the same pseudo-science that is in dialogue with American literature, wonders what is real and looks to the biographical for comparison to the imaginary of literature. What she finds is a landscape of images and counterimages that suggest that the real of …
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Figures in air : multiplicity and aurality as social architecture
… studies, multiplicity, animal communication, pseudo-science, correlationism, theories of body, sound art, learning, everythingism, form, musicology, philosophy, poetry, philosophy of science These texts can also be understood in relation to productions documented on the Internet's World Wide …
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Frontier Pedagogies: The Rhetorics of Expansion and Reform in Antebellum America
… of the Public Land Survey System and the ""pseudo-science"" of phrenology; the second traces the rhetoric of citizen mobility in the ""weltering styles"" of Catherine Beecher and Margaret Fuller; and the third addresses the national work of both symbolic and physical disease in frontier …
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William H. Sheldon's constitutional psychology: the somatotype as fiction
… stereotyping, that had marked the science, or pseudo-science, of physiognomy. An integral aspect of physiognomy had been biological hierarchy and distinction, which had undergirded both the ancient and the European class systems, and which had provided a palpable benchmark for …
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Sight and blindness as an index of character in Luke-Acts and its cultural milieu.
… in terms of "physiognomics." Physiognomy is a pseudo-science that claims that the inner, moral character of a person can be known by studying the outward, physical features. That is, it was believed that there was a direct correlation between appearance and character such that the body …
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Natural Disorder: The Animal Image in French and British Art before Darwin, c. 1790-1859
… was especially malleable during this period when science and pseudo-science both confronted the possibility that species were susceptible to gradual change over time rather than fixed in form since the biblical moment of creation. In this series of chronologically-ordered case studies, I explore …
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Inside the Incelosphere: Tracing the Origins and Navigating the Contradictions
… demographics of Incels.Co members, the use of pseudo-science and views on sexuality and race provided an essential framework to understand better the four central themes developed through this research. The four themes are: (1) Masculinities; (2) Views on Women; (3) Masculinity and Violence; …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… its 1920s engagement with conservation, natural sciences (e.g. biology), and other environmental themes. Newsome wrote on topics unusual—even radical—for African Americans at the time: birdwatching, entomology, ethology (animal psychology), and other forms of amateur nature study. What Barbara …