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Technology Creating a New Human: The Alchemical Roots of Transhumanist Ideas 技术创造新人类:超人类主义思想的炼金术根源

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.KONSA

Kurmo Konsa

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引用次数: 1

Online Coping with the First Wave: Covid Humor and Rumor on Dutch Social Media (March – July 2020) 在线应对第一波浪潮:荷兰社交媒体上的新冠幽默和谣言(2020年3月至7月)

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.MEDER

T. Meder, Amsterdam Netherlands Meertens Instituut

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引用次数: 8

Early Days of the Novel Coronavirus: Public Response in Social Media during the First Month of the Outbreak 新型冠状病毒的早期:疫情爆发第一个月社交媒体上的公众反应

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.KUPERJANOV

Maris Kuperjanov

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引用次数: 2

The General, His Fandom, and a Participatory Pandemic 将军，他的粉丝圈，和参与性流行病

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.ILIEVA

A. Ilieva

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引用次数: 3

Vernacular Reactions to COVID-19 in Estonia: Crisis Folklore and Coping 爱沙尼亚对COVID-19的本土反应:危机民间传说和应对

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.ESTONIA

R. Hiiemäe, M. Kalda, M. Kõiva, Piret Voolaid

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引用次数: 3

Introduction into Health-Related Folklore and Its Research: From First-Hand Experiences to Second-Hand Narrating Models 健康民俗概论及其研究:从第一手经验到二手叙述模式

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.INTRODUCTION

R. Hiiemäe

引用次数: 1

From Nature Romanticism to Eco-Nationalism: The Development of the Concept of Estonians as a Forest Nation 从自然浪漫主义到生态民族主义:爱沙尼亚森林民族观念的发展

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.REMMEL_JONUKS

Atko Remmel, T. Jonuks

引用次数: 1

Faith in the Times of COVID-19: Integrating Religion in the Fight against COVID-19 in Tanzania 新冠肺炎时代的信仰:将宗教融入坦桑尼亚抗疫

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.TANZANIA

T. Ndaluka, Magolanga Shagembe, Jonas Kinanda, V. Simon

引用次数: 1

Sustaining and Substituting the Sacred: Coin Trees in Britain and Ireland 维持和取代神圣:英国和爱尔兰的硬币树

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.HOULBROOK

Ceri Houlbrook

引用次数: 0

Buried Alive: The Phenomenon of Apparent Death in Estonian Tradition 活埋:爱沙尼亚传统中明显死亡的现象

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.KALMRE

Eda Kalmre

引用次数: 0