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Imaginarios femeninos y mundos migrantes en “Woman Hollering Creek” de Sandra Cisneros: un análisis desde la teoría de los paisajes de Arjun Appadurai

La Palabra
Este artículo analiza “Woman Hollering Creek” de Sandra Cisneros desde los conceptos de mundos imaginados y paisajes del antropólogo Arjun Appadurai. Explora cómo los medios masivos influyen en las expectativas migratorias de Cleófilas, la protagonista,
Beatriz Jiménez Villanueva
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Between a Knife and the Law: Bureau‐Legal Engagement With Migrant Workers in Russia and Tajikistan

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among migration officials, this article explores the role of legal professionals and their work in migration bureaucracy in Tajikistan and Russia. It brings together the literature on the anthropology of bureaucracy and law to suggest lawyers in this bureaucracy attempt to maximize legal protection and promote ...
Malika Bahovadinova
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Arjun Appadurai, Banking on Words

Lectures, 2015
In David Cronenberg’s movie adaptation of Don De Lillo’s novella Cosmopolis, Eric Packer, a young billionaire prince of Wall Street, stands to lose his empire following a bad bet on currencies. Amid looming financial ruin and signs of social unrest, he inches across Manhattan in his white stretch limousine on a whimsical mission to get a haircut.
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?

History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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Muerte segura: Violencia étnica en la Era de la Globalización

Relaciones Internacionales, 2006
En el artículo, escrito en 1998, se revisan los estudios antropológicos sobre violencia étnica que se habían llevado a cabo desde 1990. En estos estudios se había identificado la incertidumbre  social como catalizador para este tipo de violencia ...
Arjun APPADURAI
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The Figure of the Knot and the Inertia of Hypermobile Territoriality

Population, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 6, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Contemporary spatialities shaped by mobility have often been conceptualised as open, fluid, and unstable—places, territories, or identities that risk dissolution in the primacy of process over form. However, this emphasis on relational flows has been criticised for overlooking the material and affective dimensions of space: its inertia ...
Brouck Jennifer
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THE 1951 DIPLOMATIC GIFT: THE ROLE OF A GERMAN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY HANUKKAH LAMP IN ISRAELI-AMERICAN RELATIONS

Art is on, 2018
A diplomatic gift in the form of a Hanukkah Lamp, given to President Harry Truman by the Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion in 1951 was selected for this occasion by museum personnel from the Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem and the Jewish Museum in ...
Shir Kochavi
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Nation‐states in a Prisoner's Dilemma with climate change: Applying Edith Stein's theory of the state

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 757-771, July 2025.
Abstract To get a better picture of the relation between nationalism and global environmental problems within the state‐dominated situation, I present the inherent logic of international environmental politics as a version of the famous Prisoner's Dilemma.
Minna‐Kerttu M Kekki
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DECOLONIZING THEORY AND CONCEPTS: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 265-280, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Until recently, most concepts and theories used in social sciences and the humanities were developed in the West. They were both provincial, as they were based on Western experience and designed to interpret these local experiences, and presumed universal. If they did not fit developments in the Global South, this was due not to the inadequacy
Margrit Pernau
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Dal salto associativo alla metaforizzazione dello spazio

apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania]
Questo articolo analizza le strategie letterarie attraverso cui viene avvicinato lo spazio storico-politico e socioculturale della Somalia al contesto della ricezione italiana in Fra-intendimenti (2010) e Dalmar.
Hanna Nohe
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