This chapter analyses the different contexts, performance techniques, and stylistic elements that characterise the flamenco complex. Moreover, it accounts for the multiple social processes, institutional interventions, and forms of cross-cultural and transnational exchange that have occurred throughout flamenco’s history. It considers identity processes and debates that flamenco has triggered since the mid-nineteenth century, particularly concerning the identity of the Roma/Gitanos, as well as groups that have mobilised flamenco for different political and cultural ends. The chapter also examines the effects of globalisation and particularly the impact that global flows and influences have had on the development of the tradition, and on the rise of contested notions of authenticity in flamenco. The chapter ends with a consideration of more recent processes of the heritagisation and the institutionalisation of flamenco especially against the backdrop of tourism and Andalusian identity formation since the Transition to Democracy in Spain, beginning in 1975.

The menstrual history is a key feature of a psychiatric assessment and must be approached with sensitivity, recognising that cultural beliefs surrounding menstruation and menopause may pose barriers to open discussion. A structured framework is outlined, including suggested questions, designed to simplify the process and support identification of links between hormonal fluctuations and psychiatric symptoms and to glean information about the practical management of menstruation. We suggest a culturally sensitive, trauma-informed approach to enquiring about female genital mutilation (FGM) and its psychological impact. By adopting a life-course approach and routinely incorporating menstrual history into psychiatric assessment, clinicians can provide more holistic, personalised care.

An anonymous seventeenth-century portrait of Pedro de Ribadeneyra at the Real Academia Española (Figure 2.1) reveals his legacy as the champion and biographer of Ignatius of Loyola – a legacy already firmly cemented in his later years or soon after his death.1 His celebration of Ignatius was, in word and image, seen in the likeness Ribadeneyra holds and in the pile of books nearby, which made his reputation as “witness and writer” (testis et scriptor). One is the Life of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Vida d[e] S[an] Ignacio d[e] Loy[ola]), which was discussed in Chapter 1, and the largest is the Flower of the Saints (Flos sanctorum). The painter not only emphasized Ribadeneyra’s devotion to the Society’s founder through the smaller image in the writer’s possession but also through his literary career, which promulgated the life of Ignatius.2

This chapter explores the interplay between common gynaecological conditions and mental health, focusing on polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), endometriosis and adenomyosis. It also examines the psychological impact of infertility, subfertility, miscarriage and baby loss: experiences that are often overlooked in psychiatric assessments but carry significant emotional weight. Drawing on the latest research, the chapter highlights the increased prevalence of mental illnesses in women with these reproductive health conditions. Designed for psychiatrists and mental health practitioners, this chapter provides evidence-based insights to support a comprehensive biopsychosocial approach to care. Each section concludes with practical, clinic-ready guidance to improve the support offered to women navigating both mental health challenges and gynaecological illness. Expert insights from individuals with lived experience are interwoven throughout, offering an authentic patient voice that underscores the psychological burden these conditions can impose. The goal is to deepen understanding and promote compassionate, integrated care in clinical practice.

In this chapter we focus on two important functions of complex analysis, which play a key role in the theory of composition operators:

The archaeology of Byzantium is the archaeology of an empire whose chronological bounds, broadly speaking, spanned the fourth through fifteenth century AD. The authors whose works are collected in this handbook examine methods and practice of Byzantine archaeology as well as the materials typically encountered in artifacts produced within the imperial boundaries. Byzantine archaeology is still a relatively young discipline, and, while vast in its scope and ambition, work in the field tends to be challenging to access. This volume aims to remedy this situation by providing current views of the nature of Byzantine archaeology, exploring crucial studies which elucidate salient features of the empire’s people, as well as offering glimpses of how things may develop in the near future.

The archaeology of Byzantium is the archaeology of an empire whose chronological bounds, broadly speaking, spanned the fourth through fifteenth century AD. The authors whose works are collected in this handbook examine methods and practice of Byzantine archaeology as well as the materials typically encountered in artifacts produced within the imperial boundaries. Byzantine archaeology is still a relatively young discipline, and, while vast in its scope and ambition, work in the field tends to be challenging to access. This volume aims to remedy this situation by providing current views of the nature of Byzantine archaeology, exploring crucial studies which elucidate salient features of the empire’s people, as well as offering glimpses of how things may develop in the near future.

Revolutionary theories were paradigms for transforming future modes of production, social relation, and cultural representation, and for assessing past and existing relations of inequality and unfreedom. In this light, revolutionary theory was its own form of speculative fiction. Contemporary speculative fiction and film by Indigenous and Latinx creatives is a continuation of this revolutionary theorizing. If 20th-century revolutionary movements “failed” Latin American, Latinx, and Indigenous subalterns, then speculative fiction responds to this failure with a 21st-century anti-colonial/decolonial hermeneutic for understanding social relations of power as legacies of colonialism, while the aesthetic conventions of speculative fiction reanimate the genre as a vision of future worlds. Latinx and Indigenous authors and directors of science fiction, neo-gothic, adventure and dystopic/utopic genres explore the legacies of colonialism, neocolonialism, dispossession, and extractivism by creating shared public visions for their audiences of these events, as well as visions of future worlds yet to come.

This chapter implicitly responds to other chapters’ examination of imperial ideologies of time as well as their insistence on alternative temporalities. It does so by addressing the meanings and lived experiences of empire and its waves of apocalypse from the point of view of early Native literary studies and contemporary Native literary studies. In this chapter, literary categories open up history and demand that we see and think about periodization itself. Through a brief survey of early and contemporary texts, the chapter introduces readers to early (North American) Native studies and contemporary US Native literary studies, showing how both these overlapping bodies of literature helps us to see and better understand empire and ongoing imperial formations.

This chapter characterizes the five central themes that emerged from and unite the contributions to this book. It clarifies how the contributors characterized a defining conundrum of Black poetry, traces its intellectual interventions and its communal sensibilites, identifies its innovative origins and emphasis on syncretism, and captures its artistic beauties. And it clarifies how the contributors characterize the growing influence of African American poets in determining the terms of literary value in US literary culture. It verifies the expertise by which these essays validate African American poetry as a distincitve tradition and as an aspect of a US national tradition which it both critiques and enhances.

Starting from the phonon density of states, we first derive the contribution of the lattice to the thermodynamic properties. Then we treat the response of the structure and energy to strains and thus derive the elastic constants tensor, as well as its associated properties. We explain the mass-dependent isotope fractionation starting from the analysis of the phonons.