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Matricidal Magistrates and Gambling Gods: Weak States and Strong Spirits in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is a publisher's version of an article published in Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs in 1995. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence ...
Weller, Robert
core   +1 more source

Food security in Nigeria: challenges and threats

open access: yesActa Politica Polonica
Nigeria is currently grappling with a variety of security threats that are undermining its sovereignty. These threats encompass communal and religious conflicts, urban violence, arms smuggling, kidnapping, human trafficking, cybercrime, armed robbery ...
Olagoke Awotayo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 249-258, June 2026.
ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Central African Republic: Back to War Again? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Over the last week, armed skirmishes around the small city of Bossangoa in the northwest of the Central African Republic (CAR) led to the death of up to 100 people and the destruction of a number of properties.
Marchal, Roland
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On account of doomsday

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 159-170, May 2026.
Abstract In recent years, Berlin has emerged as an epicenter of climate activism in Germany. There, a range of groups have mobilized in opposition to the role of the German state and the EU in accelerating the climate crisis. Many activists now see conventional political responses as exhausted and have turned to increasingly radical forms of civil ...
Max Jack
wiley   +1 more source

Covid-19, Global Crisis and the Challenges of Human Security Management in Nigeria

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Advocacy and Legal Services, 2022
As Nigeria reels under the security challenges causes by the insurgency of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, and Islamic State West African Province, ISWAP in the North East region, as well as banditry, armed robbery, kidnappings for ransom, ritual killings ...
Nduka Lucas Oluka
doaj   +1 more source

Appropriation, Indigenous knowledge, and generative AI

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 125-127, May 2026.
Abstract This commentary examines the relationship between First Nations’ knowledge, AI, and cultural appropriation from the perspective of an Indigenous scholar and journal editor. The author highlights the potential conflicts between who controls AI and First Nations sovereignty.
Charles Menzies (hagwil hayetsk)
wiley   +1 more source

Mali: how bad can it get? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
From dusk till late evening, you can find small groups of young people sitting on street corners, in front of houses, or in courtyards across West Africa. There will inevitably be a little radio, playing music and broadcasting news.
Lecocq, Baz, Mann, Gregory
core   +1 more source

Collective grief, liminality, and redressive action in Black fans' embodied engagement with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
wiley   +1 more source

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