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Whisperers, feasts and Florence Nightingales : a collection of narrative literary journalism
Whisperers, Feasts and Florence Nightingales: A Collection of Narrative LiteraryJournalism comprises three pieces of narrative literary journalism and one essay oftheoretical analysis.
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Spectacular feasts: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the mise-en-scene of consumption
The production style of English actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree embodied the mechanisms of conspicuous consumption. Producing spectacular Shakespeare, lavish historical melodramas, and high society dramas for English bourgeois audiences at the turn of the century, Tree filled his stage with …
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Feasts of Change: Food and History in the Cook Islands, 1825-1975
… began to take a toll on Islanders' well-being. 'Feasts of Change' examines the story of food in Cook Islands history, which revolved around religion, gender, land use, and trade. For generations food functioned as social contract and currency for Cook Islanders, in addition to shaping their …
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Translocating Devotion to Female Saints in England through Liturgical Prescription and Practice, c. 1330–1500
… most especially the bishops who promoted their feasts, the monasteries that adopted them, and the laity who participated in their celebration. Historians often discuss saint veneration in terms of their cults’ geographical influence, often expressed in binary divisions between the cults of …
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Regional Affiliation: An Examination of Rio Viejo Middens as Evidence for Scaled-up Practice at Surrounding Sites.
… by Dietler and Hayden for the analysis of feasts do not seem to apply well to the middens analyzed here. Although I argue that evidence from Rio Viejo's middens does not dispute the viability of previous arguments regarding Terminal Formative Río Viejo ritual authorities', potentially …
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Food habits and patterns of the Multiracial Population of Cape Town
… - cooking methods - traditional foods - taboos, feasts and fasts In the introduction the discussion will focus on the origin of food habits and patterns and the influencing factors in a wider context.
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It is Time: Theology of Time in the Book of Revelation as Reflected in the Interpretation of Scripture and the Temple Cult
… such as the descriptions of annually recurring feasts linked to the climatological patterns and farming and gathering of crops, point to the observation that the first-century CE Mediterranean concept of time appears to have been far more cyclical than merely linear. These annual feasts …
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Dynamic aggregation and dispersal of Escherichia coli under cycles of feast and famine
… feast. By varying the frequency and amplitude of feasts we find a strong dependence of the maximum planktonic growth rate on both variables. We find that these transiently high planktonic population growth rates do not result from cell division, but from patterns of aggregation and dispersal from …
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Music, mind, and mouth : exploring the interaction between music and flavor perception
… the history of multisensory experiences - in feasts, in everyday cooking, and in community rituals. I conducted a series of experiments to measure the effect of music on flavor perception, and designed a series of novel eating experiences that make use of congruencies between multiple senses, …
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Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature
… instances of plums and memorialized moveable feasts in the early twentieth century to present-day preoccupations with overdetermined foods and bodies, food scenes in literature help develop character, play out cultural or social dynamics, or dramatize appetite and desire. In many instances, …
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The biblical background of Paul's understanding of faith as obedience
… it centered around the same conception. The feasts are reinterpreted in Judaism as memorials of God's acts in history. [TRUNCATED]
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Hilltop Archaeology: Ceremony and Ritual at the Site of Cerro Santa Rita, Chao Valley, Peru
… practices demonstrate that public ceremony and feasts provided the social cohesion on a local level that was required in the outlying valleys, such as the Chao. This was necessary if Gallinazo, Moche and Chimú power centers to the north were going to maintain access to and influence over trade …
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A case study of three pupils at Wandering Spirit Native Survival School in Toronto
… at Winchester Public School; Sacred Circle feasts; and recess. Pupil seatwork was collected and studied. Additional information was obtained through interviews with the three Subjects and with the director.The study was conducted over a period of ten weeks and totalled ninety-seven hours …
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The steps of kings: terraced landscapes in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, México
… a ritual center, an imperial treasury, and for feasts and expeditions (RM 2008: page) This thesis incorporates recent archaeological investigation, including full coverage settlement pattern survey, geoarchaeology, and remote sensing/ARCGIS, which documented patterns of settlements, confirmed …
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Celebrations everywhere: How social movements enact emotional culture to advance an ideology of local production
… the availability of local food. Starting with feasts in 2004 that drew attention to the issue, movement members began making active use of events to attract external audiences to local food initiatives. After 2007, the movement's focus went from generating awareness to building infrastructure. …
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Rethinking Indigenous Christianity in Northwest Canada: perspectives from the Nuu-chah-nulth
The Nuu-chah-nulth origin myths, potlatches, feasts and ceremonies such as the tlooqwah-nah offer a view of their social and religious structure. This research focusses on the form of Indigenous Christianity from Northwest Canada and attempts to represent the perspective of Nuu-chah-nulth people. …
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Antonius Scandellus, the Third Kantor of the Lutheran Church at the Saxon Electoral Court Chapel in Dresden: His Liturgical Music With an Emphasis on the Motets
… and figuraliter (polyphonic) singing on High Feasts and other occasions. For these, Scandellus composed Latin pieces---Masses, Magnificats, and motets, and German---a Passion (the first of its kind in Germany), a Resurrection History (the first known setting of this text), and more motets. The …
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Community and memory at the Late Valdivia site of Buen Suceso, Ecuador
… of their members, both at large scales such as feasts, and in smaller contexts of bodily practices. This emphasis on the process and practice involved in community formation and maintenance means that archaeologists examine instances of community, rather than external or pre-existing bounded …
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From Bendinelli to Arban: Styles of Articulation Within Selected Trumpet Method Books
… the triumph of the victors; in games and in feasts it applauds by its fanfares the victory of those who receive the crowns.<sup>3 </sup></p>
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Pilgrimage and the construction of Cahokia: a view from the emerald site
… renewal of the primary mound, large-scale feasts, and the special structures at the site show that these journeys linked pilgrims to the moon, Earth Mother deity, Under World, mythical narratives, and notions of renewal, abundance, and fertility. The relationships that were forged during …
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