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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 21-37, March 2026.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Girmitiya nationalism: Lived cultures and diasporic bonding in a plural society
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1003-1017, October 2025.Abstract Nationalism studies tend to focus on a relatively closed and abstract nation. This paper addresses these features by analysing the case of Girmitiya nationalism, a nationalism in the Indian diaspora that broadens the exclusive focus on the nation.
Ruben Gowricharn
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Du caboclo à l’indigène : réflexions sur l’ethnogenèse au Brésil
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2009 From caboclo to native: reflections on ethnogenesis in Brazil. Practices and representations of caboclo populations from North and Northeast Brazil display significant homogeneity.
Florent Kohler
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 466-475, September 2025.ABSTRACT Mother tongue influence (MTI) is a widely used yet often underdefined term in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. “Mother tongue” is an unavoidable, yet fraught political category linked to sovereignty, education, region, and ethnicity.
Kristina Nielsen
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Borogon: Ethnonym and Ethnic History
МонголоведениеIntroduction. The article is devoted to the study of the origin and spread of the ethnonym Boroγon (in Russian spelling — Borogon), reflected in the names of administrative territorial units of various taxonomic levels in the territory of Yakutia during ...
Bair Z. Nanzatov, Vladimir V. Tishin
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 2, August 2025.Abstract This article examines linguistic shaming behaviors, focusing on the case of an Indian news media platform where newsreaders commented on and criticized a Muslim college lecturer for ‘errors’ in her handwritten resignation letter in English.
Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, M. Obaidul Hamid
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Maritime Indonesia and the Archipelagic Outlook; Some Reflections From a Multidisciplinary Perspective on Old Port Cities in Java [PDF]
, 2016 The present paper reflects on Indonesia\u27s status as an archipelagic state and a maritime nation from a historical perspective. It explores the background of a multi-year research project into Indonesia\u27s maritime past currently being undertaken at ...
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Religious authority in the urban mosque
American Ethnologist, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 159-170, May 2025.Abstract In Eastern Indonesia, young male Islamic activists articulate a notion of religious authority that reorients community life toward neighborhood mosques. By providing local communities with Qur'anic classes and religious services, these activists—affiliated with Indonesia's largest Salafi organization—have created a network of spaces in which ...
Chris Chaplin
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Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s [PDF]
, 2001 This article examines Kurdish historiography in Turkey in the 1990s. It centres on the question how the national community is historicised via central myths, especially for the pre-Islamic periods.
Hirschler, Konrad
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PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 1, May 2025.ABSTRACT Indonesians have witnessed the emergence of multiple populist narratives within their mainstream political discourse. This includes the rise of a majoritarianism, whose advocates aim to ascribe privileged rights to sections of the country's Sunni Muslim majority based on ideas of nostalgic cultural loss and of economic and political ...
Chris Chaplin
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