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[Review of] Leslie W. Dunbar, ed. Minority Report: What Has Happened to Blacks, Hispanics. American Indians, and Other Minorities in the Eighties [PDF]

, 1987
Six years since President Reagan took office, public policies related to the needs of the poor have been established which set back the gains of the Civil Rights movement. Although gains have been made, at least on the surface, the current administration\
Ortega, Carlos F.
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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‘We Do Not Forget, We Do Not Forgive’: Anti‐Feminicide Collages and the Commemorative Politics of Care in Urban Space

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the commemorative practices of two feminist collectives engaging in anti‐feminicide collages in the cities of Paris and Montreuil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, it examines how these activist interventions, as temporary urban memorials, intersect memory‐work and care‐work in urban space ...
Morgane Rudaz
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Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther

Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
In ancient Hebrew, the word for “hand” can also refer metaphorically to personal power—or be innuendo for the phallus. This observation serves as a key to the many appearances of “hands” in the book of Esther, from the king’s superlative “hand” to the ...
Esther Brownsmith
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Euphemization of Death Conceptual Domain in Old English

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Euphemisation is a popular research topic in linguistics. However, no reliable classification has appeared for the study of cryptolalic euphemisms because the adjacent position of this concept in the terminology of euphemisms remains understudied.
Sofya A. Lunina
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Euphemism

The communicator uses an implicit reference rather than explicitly referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
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Talking Emotional Safety: School Leaders and Language in a Chicago School Safety Reform

Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ways that school leaders used buzzwords when speaking about youth “emotional safety,” in a Chicago Public Schools safety reform aimed at reexamining the role of school policing. Drawing on observations from pandemic‐era virtual school council meetings, we suggest a recognizable register of speech developed around the ...
Uma Blanchard, Alexander Koenig, Micere Keels   +2 more
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Euphemisms

, 2015
Tekst Euphemisms jest adresowany do osób zainteresowanych tematyką uniwersalnych zjawisk i zmian zachodzących w języku w zakresie semantyki i użycia konkretnych pojęć w języku. Przykłady zaczerpnięte zostały z języka angielskiego.
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Displaced Impacts: Visibility, Care, and Humanitarian Filmmaking in Iran

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 297-307, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Socially oriented documentary films are increasingly expected to articulate “impact” goals to gain international distribution, yet what counts as impact for those represented remains contested. This article examines how narratives about working and displaced youth in Iran are produced and circulated through social filmmaking.
Nat Nesvaderani
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The Ocean Container by Patrik Sampler [PDF]

, 2019
Review of Patrik Sampler\u27s The Ocean ...
Abdou, Angie
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