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Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
wiley   +1 more source

Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

<i>Prontuário Compassivo</i>: Development and initial assessment of a palliative care digital platform in socially vulnerable contexts. [PDF]

open access: yesPalliat Care Soc Pract
Nascimento JS   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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