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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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When We Were Monsters: Ethnogenesis in Medieval Ireland 800-1366 [PDF]
, 2017 Ethnogenesis, or the process of identity construction occurred in medieval Ireland as a reaction to laws passed by the first centralized government on the island.
Seymour Klos, Dawn Adelaide
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Smoak: Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century [PDF]
, 2006 Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century Gregory E. Smoak Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006,302 pages, 3 illustrations, $44.95 (cloth)
Bucko, Raymond A
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Keep on walk: the role of migration in Linearbandkeramik life
Documenta Praehistorica, 2016 Migration played a central role throughout the LBK culture. After summarising the motivations for migration in the earliest LBK, the article outlines how some of these factors remained relevant in later phases. Beyond continued westand eastward expansion,
Daniela Hofmann
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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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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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To the Issue of the Early Ethnic History of Bargu-Buryat Community
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article presents versions and the hypothesis of early Barga - Buryat ethnogenesis and further branching of ethnic history. The study is based on ethnonym materials, as well as the latest research in the field of the history of these peoples.
B. Z. Nanzatov
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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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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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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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