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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 581-594, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
wiley   +1 more source

‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan's Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein's Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 609-634, September 2026.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
wiley   +1 more source

Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 635-689, September 2026.
Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime, Valeria Tapia Cruz, Mairi Cowan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deprivation of ecclesiastical funeral in the Code of Canon Law of 1983

Civilizar, 2015
The article presents the canonical legislation about ecclesiastical burial. It exposes the canonical provisions concerning the fact of a christian death, referring also to the liturgical ones.
Kryspin Dubiel
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Of cables and threads

American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 283-295, August 2026.
Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
wiley   +1 more source

“Caught in a Trap”: Everyday Peace and the Dilemma of Representation in Rio de Janeiro

City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Urban security interventions often seek legitimacy by changing how places associated with violence are publicly represented. Less attention has been paid to how grassroots organizations navigate these representational pressures as they pursue everyday peace.
Henry Staples, Sarah Vogelsanger
wiley   +1 more source

The evolution of a european ecclesiastical law to an ecclesiastical law of the Union : the contribution of the Orthodox Church

, 2013
Le phénomène du religieux joue un rôle important en Europe. Le droit ecclésiastique stipule les rapports juridiques entre l’Etat et les Eglises et les Religions. L’article 9 CEDH et son développement jurisprudentiel créent les conditions d’existence d’un droit ecclésiastique européen de facto.
openaire   +1 more source

Protections and Rights: An Intersectional and Diachronic Perspective on Women and the Law in Latin American History

History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In just a few decades, historiography on gender and law in Latin America has grown from foundational works establishing the dimensions of women's legal status in colonial compilations and later national codes to scholarship that considers the distinctions among different social groups of women and traces women as active agents in pluralistic ...
Sarah C. Chambers
wiley   +1 more source

Women, Crime, and Law in Latin America's Nineteenth Century

History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the literature on women as perpetrators of crime in 19th‐century Latin America, a topic largely overlooked in historical scholarship. While most studies focus on women as victims of domestic or sexual violence, this work explores women as perpetrators of crime, specifically reproductive crimes (abortion and infanticide ...
Reuben Zahler
wiley   +1 more source

Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
wiley   +1 more source