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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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The Mediterranean as a Borderland
, 2012 A useful paradigm for studying Mediterranean and world history is the concept behind a course I teach, “The Mediterranean as a Borderland.” The paradigm of the borderland was generated by policymakers and social scientists studying the American Southwest
Linda T. Darling
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
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RhyCycling – Fluid Borderland [PDF]
Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2013 The river Rhine as a flowing border area forms the boundaries of communities cantons and countries from its origin in Grison/Eastern Switzerland until its entrance into the sea in Rotterdam. It is water and power provider living and working space an ecologically socio economically and culturally diverse microcosm.
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Tewdwr: Eponymous Ancestor of the Tudor Dynasty
History, EarlyView.Abstract The standard derivation of the dynastic name Tudor from Welsh Tudur, surname of the grandfather of Henry VII, is problematic on phonological grounds, as well as the fact that Tudur was never used as a surname by Henry himself, being attributed to him only by his enemies with implication of lowly origins.
DAFYDD JOHNSTON
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Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 2020 The article discusses Polish borderlands as a creative phenomenon. It considers their cultural and historical importance and the research that has been conducted from 1940 till today.
Margreta Grigorova
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Anthropologists have long grappled with how to analyze the structural production of harm. Foundational formulations of structural violence demonstrated how social forces became embodied as disparities in health and survival but were difficult to operationalize across anthropological subdisciplines.
Meredith G. Marten +8 more
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Local Agency in Crop Booms and Busts: Insights from the Walnut Plantations of Southwest China
Mountain Research and DevelopmentCrop boom-and-bust cycles driven by agricultural commercialization trigger dramatic agrarian change in mountain areas. There is extensive literature considering the impact of short-term crop cycles on local communities, revealing the vulnerability of ...
Weijia Zhou, Jun He
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, 2020 In recent years, transit routes in Vietnam for drug trafficking networks in the Southeast Asia region and beyond have expanded considerably. Many international scholars are working on identifying destination and transit routes of drug trafficking ...
Luong, HT, Hai Thanh Luong
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
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