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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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Consensual Violence: A Cultural Contradiction

open access: yes, 2015
In American culture, violence is typically understood as inherently negative; no one would want to be personally subjected to violence because violence by its very nature is undesirable. Thus, the idea of seeking out violence seems paradoxical.
Rivoli, Lisa R.
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The Politics of Truth: The Howard Government, HREOC, and Bringing Them Home

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the commencement of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. The Inquiry and its final report, Bringing Them Home, highlighted the traumatic impact and nationwide extent of child removal ...
Anne Maree Payne
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Ambiguous Amphibians: Feral Cows, People, and Place in Ukraine’s Danube Delta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper analyzes how a herd of feral cattle emerged in the core zone of Ukraine’s Danube Biosphere Reserve and why it still exists despite numerous challenges to the legality of its presence there.
Richardson, Tanya
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An Ordeal of Peoplehood: Indigenous Australians and the Debates over Sovereignty, Treaty, and Voice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The Australian government's 2009 commitment to the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples did not make Indigenous Australians a “people.” In 2017, in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Indigenous Australians asserted peoplehood and asked Australians to recognise this via a constitutional amendment that would have created ...
Murray Goot, Tim Rowse
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From criminal to enemy: the birth and development of the scientific police and criminal identification in Italy

open access: yesRevista Ítalo-Española de Derecho Procesal, 2020
The aim of this article is to briefly retrace the history of criminal identification tech- niques in Italy in order to shed new light on the legacy of criminal anthropology in policing and criminal justice in the delicate transition from liberal ...
Emilia Musumeci
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Making danger a calling: anthropology, violence and the dilemmas of participant observation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This paper contains reflections on the experience of fieldwork carried out in Nicaragua into urban gangs in Managua. It examines the dilemmas encountered by an anthropologist employing participant observation, in which he became accepted as a member of a
Rodgers, Dennis
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
wiley   +1 more source

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