Results 71 to 80 of about 281,742 (333)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Reimagining Education: The Open University and Social Mobility in Contemporary British Fiction
Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-BiałejThis study examines how the Open University (OU) is portrayed in modern British literature, focusing on its role in enabling social mobility. Through an analysis of novels, plays, and short stories published since 1970, the research explores the OU’s ...
Piotr Biegasiewicz
doaj +3 more sources
Mothering a nation : the gendered memory of Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion [PDF]
, 2015 textThis paper approaches fiction as a site of gendered history and memory and presents two pieces of literature by Kenyan authors - Passbook Number F.47927 by Muthoni Likimani and The Trial of Dedan Kimathi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo ...
Murimi, Wanjira
core +1 more source
Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley +1 more source
Scripta, 2020 I will read the fascination with collectors and collecting in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies (2012), and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) regarding at ...
Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá
doaj +1 more source
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
wiley +1 more source
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
wiley +1 more source
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2017 A ‘drowned’ or flooded village describes the destruction of a settlement or community to make way for a reservoir; as a practice, it most commonly occurred in Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the need for fresh water ...
Eileen Pollard
doaj +1 more source
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley +1 more source
The Deconstructed Arrow of Time: Returning to the Past in Contemporary British Fiction
Moderna Språk, 1994 -
Helena Bergmann
doaj +1 more source