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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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Activities of the “Ergenekon” organization
Studia Humanitatis, 2014 The article analyses a number of sources that mention the history and events related to the activities of the “Ergenekon” organization. Particular attention is paid to the coverage of this topic in press. It compares different points of view and bases on
Mamedov Zaur Imalverdi oglu
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On Free Will and No-Conspiracy
, 2013 1 Introduction2 Free Will in Bell's Theorem3 No-Conspiracy and Free Will4 What the Idea of Free Will Presupposes5 Cause-Statistics Link and Causal Explanation6 Temporal Order of Events and the Direction of Causation7 No Causal Influence at All8 ...
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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The activities of local gendarme bodies to ensure state and public security in the Privislinsky Territory of the Russian Empire (1870–1890s) [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношенияThe article examines the activities of local gendarme bodies of the Privislinsky Territory of the Russian Empire in the 1870–1890s. Listed are some police and political measures subsequently adopted by the executive authorities in ensuring state ...
Ananyev, Sergey Valeryevich
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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“A Conspiracy of Silence” [PDF]
Nature, 1888 THE Duke of Argyll can scarcely be congratulated upon his latest discovery of a new ground of attack upon geologists. In the year 1862 a very eminent physicist, whose loss we all so deeply deplore, made the somewhat rash suggestion that flint implements are found deep down in the drift, owing to their high density as compared with that of the matrix in
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