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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

La invención del lugar

open access: yesAnales del Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas "Mario J. Buschiazzo", 2014
La colonización de los nuevos suburbios de Buenos Aires durante la última década del siglo XX y la primera del nuevo siglo da lugar al desarrollo de una nueva modalidad de caracterización estilística dominada por los nuevos conceptos de “tematización” y
Fernando Diez
doaj  

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

El movimiento de pobladores en la ciudad de Los Andes: el caso de los primeros pobladores del campamento “Patria Nueva”, 1973 - 1977.

open access: yesRevueltas
En esta investigación se propone como objetivo general describir la trayectoria histórica del campamento Patria Nueva, ubicado en la ciudad de los Andes, Chile, desde 1973 hasta la erradicación de sus primeros pobladores en 1977.
enclave Danilo Herrera   +1 more
doaj  

Assigning conservation value and identifying hotspots of endemic rattan diversity in the Western Ghats, India

open access: yesPlant Diversity, 2017
Rattans, or canes, are one of the most important non-timber forest products supporting the livelihood of many forest-dwelling communities in South and North-eastern India.
Mukta Joshi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Radiometric Constraints on the Timing, Tempo, and Effects of Large Igneous Province Emplacement

open access: yesGeophysical Monograph Series, Page 27-82., 2021

Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact

An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jennifer Kasbohm   +2 more
wiley  

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Linguistic Enclaves and Enclave Communities In the Mediterranean

open access: yesLinguistic Exploration
A linguistic enclave is a restricted linguistic area where an X-speaking community is surrounded by a Y-speaking society. This article reviews some cases of Mediterranean enclave speech communities, while specific concern is devoted to Alghero (l’Alguer), a Catalan-speaking enclave in Sardinia, in the western Mediterranean.
openaire   +1 more source

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