Applying Anthropology to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we review how anthropologies from various subdisciplines, from social to evolutionary anthropology, are contributing to our understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). We focus on four key questions: What are the origins of FGM/C? What functions and meanings are linked to FGM/C?
Hannelore Van Bavel, Mhairi A. Gibson
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African Christian diaspora religion and/or spirituality: A concept analysis and reinterpretation [PDF]
, 2019 Victor Counted
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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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Kazakh and Russian borrowings in the language of the Turkish Diaspora of the Republic of Kazakhstan
, 2019 А.Е. Abdrassimova, B.S. Zhiyembay
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
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“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies
Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti‐apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predominantly revolved around themes of civil rights, cross‐racial dialogue, and integration.
Ida Danewid
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Armenia: What drives first movers and how can their efforts be scaled up? [PDF]
The paper examines ways to expand the contribution of the Armenian diaspora to Armenia’s long-term development agenda. It identifies factors that could explain the involvement and dynamics of a small group of entrepreneurs from the diaspora who have been
Freinkman, Lev, Minoian, Victoria
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Jewish Philosophy and Education: Thinking Argentina?s Diaspora from the theology of Franz Rozenzweig [PDF]
, 2015 Latin American Jewish philosophy requires us to rethink the categories of Philosophy and Judaism. In order to articulate these two dimensions it is necessary to understand that Jewish philosophy must start from the attributes of the Jewish tradition ...
Taub, Emmanuel
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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«DIASPORA NETWORK» AS AN EXPERIENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION
, 2021 Леся Біловус +2 more
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