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ReligionsThis article conducts a thorough examination of the demographic structure, naming conventions, and anthropometric characteristics of the Muslim and Christian communities in Bilecik in 1843.
Halim Demiryürek +2 more
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The representative bureaucracy literature asserts that minority personnel in public organizations can promote their social group either through their own behavior or by influencing other staff members or focal citizens. However, these phenomena have not been examined in wartime settings in ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous organizations.
Maayan Davidovitz, Chen Schechter
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Creative Nonfiction: The Christian Dior woman
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract This work of creative nonfiction emerges from ethnographic research on Arab women's testimonies of their cancer experience conducted in 2016–2018. It focuses on the account of one Lebanese woman diagnosed with breast cancer and highlights her feelings, thoughts, and perceptions from the time of the initial medical examination through to final ...
Abir Hamdar
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Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article examines the making of a political register to denounce mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden. Nationally mandated since 1977, MTI is a state‐sponsored, curriculum‐stipulated subject for minority pupils of over 187 languages other than Swedish.
Scarlett Mannish, Linus Salö
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The Mozarabs in the kingdom of León: 8th-11th Centuries
Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 2011 The text is a summary of a research about Arabic onomastics which appears in the Leonese charters until 11th Century. The outcome of the analysis of the data is the existence of a Berber settlement in the Duero basin, although this explanation does not ...
Javier FERNÁNDEZ CONDE
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Christian Arabic Bibliography 1995-2000
, 2006 Contains fulltext : 39535.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Teule, H.G.B., Schepens, V.
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