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The reality of rights. On horizontal and vertical relationships in law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A pesar de las novedades de las últimas décadas, el pensamiento jurídico todavía parece preso en la creencia positivista que sólo lo que es fortalecido por la sanción jurídica del Estado puede tener valor jurídico. Algunas reticencias acerca del soft law
Greco, Tommaso
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Standing upright here: critical disaster studies viewed from the Antipodes

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 2, Page 143-158, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This article seeks to reinvigorate disaster scholarship, given the disastrous times we find ourselves in. In order to do so, we extend the spatial and temporal horizons of disasters, and consider them as normal processes as well as aberrant events. Knowledge need not exclusively emanate from the metropolitan centres of the Global North.
Steve Matthewman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

«Assignment trips to the North» as an experience of «communitas»

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2019
The specific practice of assignment trips by teachers from large regional higher institutions to work in affiliated outposts operating in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the 1990s to the first half of the ...
Agapov M.G.
doaj   +1 more source

The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 1-18, February 2025.
Abstract This essay delves into the complex interplay between the sacred and the ludic, with a particular emphasis on allegorical origin stories from various religious and mythological traditions, highlighting their portrayal of games and the concept of play. The analysis includes the Judaeo‐Christian Book of Genesis and the Babylonian Enuma Elish.
Bo Kampmann Walther
wiley   +1 more source

Tensions in the practice of Marian Devotion between Clergy, Laity, and the Vatican: The maintenance of Catholic Social Structure in Gozo, Malta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In Gozo, Malta, tensions exist within the ritual system of Catholic Marian Devotion, observed through a disconnect between how laity practice Marian Devotion rituals and how the Vatican defines the practice of Marian Devotion.
Masso-Rivetti, Cella
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RELIGIOUS AFTERLIVES OF A REVOLUTION

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 27-54, February 2025.
ABSTRACT When do revolutions end? How do revolutions live on in embodied affects, relationships, and horizons of aspiration? This article describes the remaking of religion among upper‐middle‐class Egyptians who participated in the 2011 uprising.
AMIRA MITTERMAIER
wiley   +1 more source

Socio‐Healthcare for Older People in the Mediterranean Basin: An Integrative Review and Quality Appraisal

open access: yesPublic Health Nursing, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 564-578, January/February 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives The aging Mediterranean Basin population presents complex challenges for healthcare systems, which require innovative care approaches. The study aimed to critically assess 19 socio‐healthcare practices in the Mediterranean Basin that target the elderly population by analyzing their theoretical foundations, integration of care ...
Ana María Porcel‐Gálvez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review Article: Victor Turner, Liminality and Cultural Performance. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Victor Witter Turner (1920 – 1983), working with his wife Edith Turner, was an anthropologist deeply concerned with ritual both in tribal communities and in the contemporary developed world.
Bigger, Stephen
core   +1 more source

German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial: Emotions, encounters, and contested visions

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 400-418, December 2024.
Abstract Drawing on anthropological conceptions of pilgrimage, our ethnography of professional development at an Israeli Holocaust Memorial follows German teachers on journeys to Israel. Seeking transformative and transferable experiences to combat anti‐Semitism in schools, teachers experienced the voyage as a secular pilgrimage rooted in Christian ...
Lance Levenson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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