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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan [PDF]
, 2000 This is a preprint (author's original) version of an article published in the journal Public Culture in 2000. The final version of this article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-477 (login may be required)
Weller, Robert
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2009 Nye kulturstudier [New Cultural Studies] is the first introduction to cultural studies in Scandinavia and an impressive presentation of the subject. The book aims to explain how cultural studies emerged as an interdisciplinary field in humanities and ...
Gösta Arvastson
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Anthropology of music: Paradigms and perspectives [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Akademije Umetnosti, 2016 Music represents a relational category, in the sense that people write meaning into it, and later by the means of the same music they write the meaning into other people. Therefore, I regard music as a cultural construct. Music does not possess universal
Rašić Miloš
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On not knowing one’s place [PDF]
, 2000 Ethnographers have described many cultural worlds of the Pacific with subtlety and energy, but those worlds were and are always more complex than most standard forms of ethnography have recognized.
Goldsmith, Michael
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Brief Remarks on Paradigm Shifts in Japanese Anthropology during the 20th Century
Global Perspectives on Japan, 2017 Anthropological thinking has a long history in Japan and had already reached a rather high level during the Edo period. For these “roots”, I refer to the very compact and up to now the best review in a Western language by the founder of ...
Josef Kreiner
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CHURU-KOHO POTTERY OF LAM DONG PROVINCE IN RELATION TO CHAM POTTERY
Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Đà Lạt, 2023 This article examines Churu-Koho pottery in relation to Cham pottery in Central Vietnam and the Central Highlands. Research shows that Churu-Koho pottery (Lam Dong Province) is related to Cham pottery in Bau Truc (Ninh Thuan Province) and Binh Duc (Binh
Van Mon Truong
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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