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Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change 表演环境主义:表达文化与生态变化

IF 0.4 4区社会学

FOLKLORE Pub Date : 2022-09-21 DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2022.2100080

Katelan E Smith

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Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones and Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year 从托尔金到《权力的游戏》和19世纪英国文化中的中世纪传统:庆祝日历年，新中世纪主义、流行文化和学院

IF 0.4 4区社会学

FOLKLORE Pub Date : 2022-09-21 DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2115238

J. Wood.

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Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World 《画下月亮:古希腊罗马世界的魔法

IF 0.4 4区社会学

FOLKLORE Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2110717

Andrew Teverson

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Dressing With Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia 有目的的穿着:斯堪的纳维亚的归属感和抵抗

IF 0.4 4区社会学

FOLKLORE Pub Date : 2022-09-14 DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2022.2100070

Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe

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Dark Folklore 黑暗的民间传说