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Laterality: a sideways look at ritual

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 727-744, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Much study of ritual has focused on demarcated spaces and times of performance, and the often spectacular features of such collective behaviour provide rich resources for analysis of formal, symbolically dense action. This article shifts attention to dimensions of ritual events that entail zones of ambiguous, diffuse, or limited engagement ...
Simon Coleman
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnographic closeness: methodological reflections on the interplay of engagement and detachment in immersive ethnographic research

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 820-839, December 2023., 2023
Abstract With the reflexive turn in the social sciences, emotional engagement is an inevitable and crucial part of data‐gathering and analysis. However, there is a glaring gap in methodological discussions to this end. Presenting ethnographic research into end of life with people living at home in England with heart failure, we argue for a ...
Caitlin Pilbeam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Counting the ‘Cavaliers’: Two Contemporary Analyses of the Political Wing of the Scots Jacobite Underground in the Union Parliament1

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 309-347, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Underground movements are understandably reluctant to record the names and numbers of their adherents because any such compilation is manifestly a hostage to fortune. Hence very few lists of politically active Jacobites actually compiled by the Jacobites themselves have survived to the present day. In the French foreign ministry archives at La
Daniel Szechi, Christopher A. Whatley
wiley   +1 more source

Renewable energies and biodiversity: Impact of ground‐mounted solar photovoltaic sites on bat activity

open access: yesJournal of Applied Ecology, Volume 60, Issue 9, Page 1752-1762, September 2023., 2023
Ground‐mounted solar photovoltaic developments have a significant negative effect on bat activity, and should be considered in appropriate planning legislation and policy. Solar photovoltaic developments should be screened in Environmental Impact Assessments for ecological impacts, and appropriate mitigation (e.g.
Elizabeth Tinsley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aporetic differences? Equality entitlements, religious schools, and contours of protection

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 402-420, June 2023., 2023
Abstract The requirement for schools in England to implement equality education has led religious conservative minorities to voice a conflict between legally protected characteristics of religion and sexual orientation. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic engagement with Jewish orthodoxies in England, the article critiques these apparent aporetic ...
Ben Kasstan
wiley   +1 more source

‘The King's Other Islands of the Sea’: The Channel Islands in the Plantagenet Realm, 1254–1341

open access: yesHistory, Volume 107, Issue 376, Page 453-483, June 2022., 2022
Abstract This article examines the relationship between the Plantagenet kings of England and the Channel Islands from 1254–1341. Notwithstanding a rich volume of accessible record material to consult, the history of the Channel Islands has been omitted from studies of the Plantagenet kings of England and in comparative studies of their wider ‘dominions’
Alexander Kelleher
wiley   +1 more source

Ecriture et identité féminines. Giustiniana Wynne Orsini v. Rosenberg: Economie relationnelle et formation d’identité de femme auteur dans ses correspondances

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 223-237, June 2022., 2022
Abstract The Anglo‐Venetian Giustiniana Wynne, Countess of Rosenberg Orsini, best known for her novel Les Morlaques (1788), had epistolary relations with friends from the Veneto as well as across Europe and is therefore part of the network of the European Republic of Letters.
Rotraud von Kulessa
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the senses: perception, the environment, and vision impairment

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 285-302, June 2021., 2021
Abstract The ‘sensory turn’ in anthropology has generated a significant literature on sensory perception and experience. Whilst much of this literature is critical of the compartmentalization of particular ‘senses’, there has been limited exploration of how anthropologists might examine sensory perception beyond ‘the senses’.
Karis Jade Petty
wiley   +1 more source

Le sort de la francophonie aux États-Unis [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
Les données tirées de l’Enquête sur le revenu et la scolarité, effectuée aux États-Unis en 1976, démontrent que les principales concentrations de groupes francophones se composent en majorité de personnes avancées en âge.
Veltman, Calvin J.
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Symbiotics of history and social psychology understanding social representations of history in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
COST Action IS1205 aims at advancing knowledge and promoting networking among historians and social psychologists to analyse the role played by social representations of history in Europe. Social representations of history are central to the identity
Azzopardi, Simone   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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