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The Family: Building Block or Anachronism

, 1980
Current concerns about whether the family is an anachronism in society are discussed from a systems perspective. Evidence indicates that the family has not turned its basic functions over to other institutions and that it may be assuming more, not less,
Shirley L. Zimmerman
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Anachronism as Aesthetic Device in Elizabethan Satire

, 2017
Largely ignored by theorists of satire, anachronism as a narrative and thematic device becomes particularly relevant to understand English satire produced during the 1590s and early 1600s.
Sivefors, Per,
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Dialectical images and anachronism in art history (according to Georges Didi-Huberman)

Revista Filosofía UIS, 2013
One of the main theoretical proposals by Georges Didi-Huberman is his intent of thinking art’s history as an anachronistic discipline. That is possible starting from Walter Benjamin concept of dialectical image as a method for historical research ...
Carlos Mario Fisgativa Sabogal
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Anachronistic Progress? User Notions of Lie Detection in the Juridical Field

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2020
In recent years, progress in the field of lie detection has been linked to technological advances from classic polygraphs to neuroscientific brain imaging. In our empirical investigation, however, we found different notions of progress that do not comply
Bettina Paul, Larissa Fischer, Torsten H. Voigt   +2 more
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Buying Greenland

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 5-7, January/March 2025.
Deborah Mabbett
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Las islas de Chiloe en el mundo global: poesia, identidad y territorio

Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2002
In many senses, until the nineteen seventies, the Archipelago of Chiloé (south of Chile) was an out of date territory when compared with Chilean history, chiefly Santiago, the Chilean capital. Chiloé was a true cultural anachronism.
Sergio Mansilla Torres
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Anachronisms in law, law as an anachronism

, 2022
Repeatability and a connection to longue durée are often identified as key features of law. The legal universe may, as a result, constitute an environment of theoretical experimentation around anachronism. This is the starting point for the two axes of reflection developed in this article.
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