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Social Contradiction and Symbolic Resolution: Practical and Idealized Affines in Taiwan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is a publisher's version of an article published in the journal Ethnology in 1984. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence ...
Weller, Robert
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Mythogeographies of anthropological knowledge: writing over the lines and footsteps of history in Southwest China

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
wiley   +1 more source

Affines, Ambiguity, and Meaning in Hokkien Kin Terms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is a publisher's version of an article published in the journal Ethnology in 1981. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence ...
Weller, Robert
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Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bulharská postsocialistická etnologie [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2016
Main purpose of the text is to present specifics of development of contemporary Bulgarian ethnology which are potentially not well known in the Czech Republic.
Vladimir Penčev
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‘What Can They Criticise Us for, Loving Each Other Too Much?’: Visa Bans for Mixed Marriages Between Moroccan Soldiers and French Women After the Second World War

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule by engaging with how the French colonial state controlled the marriages permitted between French women and Moroccan soldiers who had fought in France during the Second World War.
Catherine Phipps
wiley   +1 more source

Upper Neches River Basin Caddo Ceramic Vessels from Anderson, Cherokee, and Henderson Counties in East Texas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH) has extensive collections of artifacts from ancestral Caddo sites in the Caddo area.
Perttula, Timothy K.
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Europäische Ethnologie. Diagnose und Prognose einer kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Volkskunde

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2004
As a discipline, European Ethnology draws inspiration both anthropology, interested in the non-European and ›foreign‹ and from folklore, which concerns itself with ›native‹ European culture.
Johanna Rolshoven
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Polygyny in Islamic Law and Pukhtun Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This is a postprint (accepted manuscript) version of the article published in Ethnology 47(3):181-93. The final version of the article can be found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25651559 (login required to access content).
Lindholm, Charles
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