szkoła-i-dom: Cultural depictions of cats

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The cultural depiction of cats and their relationship to humans is old and stretches back over 9,500 years. Cats are featured in the history of many nations, are the subject of legend, and are a favourite subject of artists and writers.

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Depiction of hairstyle, reflection of identity? Some considerations concerning Neolithic depictions of hairstyles in the Anzabegovo – Vršnik and Velušina – Porodin cultural milieu. The phenomenon of Neolithic figurines and other anthropomorphic representations depicting humans with styled hair is an issue that has been generally overlooked in research. Their occurrence in Neolithic contexts all around Southeast Europe is fascinating in itself, and the same holds for the territory of the Anzabegovo – Vršnik and Velušina – Porodin cultural milieus, which is the case study presented in this article.

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Depictions of Childbirth in Rabbinic Literature: The Innovation of a Genizah Midrashic Text. This chapter analyses an early medieval midrashic text, Midrash had shenati , which is unique in its depiction of childbirth. It looks at rabbinic texts that marginalize women's experience of childbirth in which midrash grants subjectivity to the physical experience of the labouring mother through its depiction of Rebekah's birthing of Jacob and Esau. It also reframes Rebekah's birth story and transforms it from its common cultural signification of the nation of Israel and its eternal struggle with the Other. The chapter demonstrates a mothers' physical pain during labour and childbirth, making the…

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The domestication of the cat can be traced back to Near Eastern and Egyptian populations of the African wildcat, Felis lybica, from which emerged the domestic cat (F. catus). Both belong to the Felis lineage of the family Felidae, which is thought to have first diversified around 13 to 12 million years ago. Several investigations have shown that all domestic varieties of cats come from a single lineage of F. lybica, although early interactions between wildcats and Neolithic human settlements occurred across a broad geographic range. Originating in the Near East, the first domestic cats spread from the ancient Mediterranean world via maritime trade as well as the Silk Road, and later worldwi…