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The Amabie: A Japanese prophetic chimera and chronotope amid political monstrosities 阿玛比:一个日本预言的嵌合体和在政治怪物中的时计

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Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.21463/shima.163

C. Merli

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Exploring “Elsewhereland” — Places Desired, Remembered and Dwelled: Place experience of vacationers on Saaremaa Island, Estonia 探索“别处”——渴望、记忆和居住的地方:爱沙尼亚萨雷马岛度假者的地方体验

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Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.21463/shima.170

Jana Raadik Cottrell, S. Cottrell

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Boat Spirits, Sea Monsters and Seal Women: Fishermen and hidden aquatic dangers in the Faroe Islands 船魂，海怪和海豹女人:渔民和隐藏的水生危险在法罗群岛

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Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.21463/shima.162

Firouz Gaini

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Monster-producing Islands: Prospects for island detourning in contemporary times 造怪岛:当代岛屿绕道的前景

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Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.21463/shima.169

Virgilio A. Rivas

{"title":"Monster-producing Islands: Prospects for island detourning in contemporary times","authors":"Virgilio A. Rivas","doi":"10.21463/shima.169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.169","url":null,"abstract":"Colonialism produces monsters thriving in island ecologies, but without a structural/historical treatment of how island monsters are created, how the agential relation between colonisers and natives accentuates the dynamics of interpellation, the island would reveal nothing of its past, the reusable trace that can be interpellated in the present. In the modern-day Philippines, a former colonial object to three foreign aggressions (Spanish, American and Japanese) that spanned almost half a millennium, such reusable trace has recently entered the international streaming platform Netflix. Trese (2021), a Philippine-made anime, navigates the myth of aswang, one of the dominant features of Filipino folklore, which centres on the image of a female, vampire-like monster. This image traces its iterative root in the lost history of the babaylans (female shamans) amid the creation of folk Christianity and diffracted engagements with the Christian indoctrination of the islands. This article navigates this subject and how Trese, among other actants in this play of figuration, is itself interpellated by traces of historical, geographical, and non-human ecologies that, in turn, reflect the fundamental role of liquidity in monster-creation as a material-semiotic intervention. As the discussions expand on the two most essential concepts in Island Studies today, the archipelagic and the aquapelagic, the article deploys the concept of detourning, a critical rhetorical arc that binds the article’s multi-faceted discussions, connections, and combinations, from human to the non-human, thus completing its assessment of the dynamics of islands being interpellated by traces.","PeriodicalId":51896,"journal":{"name":"Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures","volume":"10 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88588309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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On the Borderline of the Worlds: Swamps in the mythopoetic world picture of the peoples of Russia 在世界的边缘:俄罗斯民族神话世界图景中的沼泽

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Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.21463/shima.168

O. Lavrenova

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From a Fishing Village to Tourist Destination: Hongjia Village in Northeastern China 从渔村到旅游胜地:东北红家村

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Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.21463/shima.173

H. Sa, M. Fabinyi

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Fantastic Marine Creatures From the Late Renaissance: Pietro Tacca’s fountains in Florence’s Piazza della Santissima Annunziata 来自文艺复兴晚期的神奇海洋生物:Pietro Tacca在佛罗伦萨广场della Santissima Annunziata的喷泉

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Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.21463/shima.165

G. Verdiani, Paolo Formaglini, Filippo Giansanti

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What’s in a Name? The Impact of Disasters on Islands’ Reputations: The cases of Giglio and Ustica 名字里有什么?灾难对岛屿声誉的影响:以吉利奥岛和乌斯提卡岛为例

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Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.21463/shima.171

Karl Agius, G. Baldacchino

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Of water and monsters 水和怪物

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Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.21463/shima.182

Polina Ignatova

{"title":"Of water and monsters","authors":"Polina Ignatova","doi":"10.21463/shima.182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.182","url":null,"abstract":"The work on the present volume of Shima commenced amidst the first waves of the COVID-1 9 pandemic. By that time I had been based at Lancaster University (UK) for five years and was well familiar with the Lancaster Canal. Originally designed to connect Westhoughton and Kendal, in the 1 9th century it was used to transport coal and chalk. Now navigated by a few private barges, the canal became a somehow abandoned place. One could jog or cycle along its bank down to the beautiful Lune Aqueduct, often haunted by the smell of weed, without encountering that many people except for bunches of hooded youths. Everything changed during the national lockdowns. Once we were allowed our walks outside, every day the whole town seemed to be drawn to the canal. I think the reason for this was that the still waters of the canal offered us some positive change, which our stagnant lives required. One could notice that the shade of water surface would be different each day reflecting the hues of the sky. In summer, it suddenly got covered by a thick carpet of bright-green algae and over the Christmas of 2020 the canal froze and everyone in possession of a stick would poke the ice to see how hard it was. And of course, there were monsters. The canal is extremely shallow, almost knee-deep, and it is surprising that it is even inhabited by tiny fish (as testified by a few anglers). Yet walking at dusk one would still see a floating log out of the corner of their eye, and turn around to get a proper look - ‘Funny, that looks like a crocodile’. With the lift of the lockdown measures and the re-opening of pubs, shops, and cinemas, the spell was broken, and the canal bank became empty again. © 2022,Shima. All Rights Reserved.","PeriodicalId":51896,"journal":{"name":"Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75293862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Historical Origin of the Atlantic Identity of the Islands of Macaronesia 马卡罗尼西亚群岛大西洋身份的历史起源

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Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Pub Date : 2022-05-30 DOI: 10.21463/shima.160

Javier Luis Álvarez Santos

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