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Lot
Lot in the Book of Genesis, the son of Abraham's brother Haran. Lot settled in Sodom and received a warning of its destruction. As he fled with his family, his wife, disobeying God's orders, looked back at the city and was turned into a pillar of salt. In biblical ethnography, Lot is considered... Read more |
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Comic books
Comic Books While the comic book genre has traditionally been considered a form of children's entertainment, that distinction has almost never been entirely true. In fact, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the bulk of comic books produced in North America were aimed at an adolescent or... Read more |
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Reflexivity
REFLEXIVITY. Reflexivity first entered into anthropological discourse in the late 1970s in response to several problematics that had emerged in the previous decade, but its use in the humanities and in sociology has a longer history. In the words of Barbara Myerhoff and Jay Ruby, two of its... Read more |
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Jessie Carney Smith
Jessie Carney Smith 1930– Librarian, author Learned Importance of Values and Education Began Career at Fisk University Published First Book Selected works Sources A product of the segregated South, Jessie Carney Smith learned to turn oppression into opport... Read more |
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Art Buchwald
Art Buchwald American journalist Art Buchwald (1925–2007) was one of the most widely read newspaper columnists of the 20th century. Buchwald's satirical writings, filed first from the Paris offices of the New York Herald Tribune and then from Washington, D.C., entertained several... Read more |
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Donatism
Donatism , schismatic movement among Christians of N Africa (fl. 4th cent.), led by Donatus, bishop of Casae Nigrae (fl. 313), and the theologian Donatus the Great or Donatus Magnus (d. 355). The schism arose when certain Christians protested the election of the bishop of Carthage, charging that his... Read more |
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Linguistic Turn
LINGUISTIC TURN. "Where word breaks off no thing may be": this is the line from a poem by Stefan George repeatedly cited by Martin Heidegger to indicate his version of the linguistic turn, which affected many philosophers in the early twentieth century—literary scholars already having made... Read more |
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Bull Run
Bull Run small stream, NE Va., c.30 mi (50 km) SW of Washington, D.C. Two important battles of the Civil War were fought there: the first on July 21, 1861, and the second Aug. 29-30, 1862. Both battlefields are included in Manassas National Battlefield Park (est. 1940). First Battle of Bull Run... Read more |
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Sir Frank Dicksee
Dicksee, Sir Frank (b London, 27 Nov. 1853; d London, 17 Oct. 1928). British painter, the best-known member of a family of artists. He specialized in romantic historical scenes (often from his own imagination rather than based on a particular event or literary source) and—in the later part... Read more |
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