The article examined the features of archetypal foundations political myth, defined functions outlined ways its transmission and conceptualization in modern society, ñonsidering manipulative effects hidden ideological influence. Based on analysis works C. G. Jung, J. Durand, M. Eliade, R. Barthes, E. Cassirer, N. Frye others content components myth are specified. author emphasizes narrative tem...

The core hypothesis in this text is that oral tradition, too, as a signi cant component of cultural identity and the main determinant of the folkloristic profession, is a continuous –– historical and contemporary –– process of multi-layered interpretation of repetitive procedures and symbols in the human community, and not an inherited cluster of unquestionable facts, spiritual values and comp...

This study uses a cross-country panel to examine the determinants of corruption, paying particular attention to political institutions that increase accountability. Even though the theoretical literature has stressed the importance of political institutions in determining corruption, the empirical literature is relatively scarce. Our results confirm the role of political institutions in determi...

Farhad Assarzadegan, Atoosa Gharib, Shirin Behbahani, Meysam Ebrahimi-Abyaneh 1 Department of Neurology, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Pathology, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Neurosurgery, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Scienc...

In this article, I explore the development of modern cremation and cremation events in Norway. I focus on the multiple ontologies of cremation events and the relationships between the living mourners and the dead during the gradual transformation of the social person within Christian, secular as well as Hindu traditions in Norway. Within Christian tradition, this is a linear process that I inte...

At the annual 2016 Spring Congress of the NVVC, the Durrer prizes were awarded to the authors of two of the best original articles published in the year 2015, one paper being more basically oriented and one paper being more clinically oriented. This annual tradition has existed since the year 2006.

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...

Department of Gastroenterology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Pathology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Scie...