This essay discusses the image and practice of cannibalism in a wide range of studies. It also presents the anthropological research on kuru which led to the proposal that cannibalism had enabled transmission of the infectious agent, as well as doubts about the hypothesis, and the assertion by some that cannibalism as a socially approved custom did not exist. The figure of the cannibal as an ic...

The socio-political context in Serbia is oversaturated with ideologically charged resources utilised the construction of populist identities, such as semiotic network around concept ‘fascism’. practices signifying a ‘fascist’ threat have become more complex surge multimodal digital platforms. media combine various expressive repertoires materialising multiplicity meaning. Thus, social semiotics...

The article argues that observing ‘the Nordic dimension’ as a metaspace in methodological terms harbors rich potential for qualifying educational research, policy, and debate. gathers critical mass through aggregating the of smaller spaces. five countries thus represent historical, linguistic, societal similarities produced similar values, albeit along different trajectories. Understood floatin...

The Indian village has often been seen as the ultimate signifier of " authentic native life " , a place where one could see or observe the " real " India and develop an understanding of the way local people organised their social life. Though it was during the colonial period that the Indian society was first essentialised as a land of 'village republics', the later traditions of scholarship to...

In Tarrying with the Negative, Slavoj Zizek discusses the fascinating image of the Romanian flag with its national emblem cut out as a most "salient index of the 'open' character of a historical situation in its becoming," which is characteristic of "that intermediate phase when the former Master-Signifier, although it has already lost the hegemonical power, has not yet been replaced by the new...

Colorectal cancers (CRC) express the WNT effector protein β-catenin in a heterogeneous subcellular pattern rather than uniformly in the nucleus. In this study, we investigated this important aspect of molecular heterogeneity in CRCs by analyzing its basis and relationship with tumor-initiating capability. CRC cells with the highest WNT levels showed only a marginal increase in tumor initiation ...