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Culture of Revenge: Analysing Blood Revenge in Pakistan's Tribal Areas

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Revenge is a widespread phenomenon present in every culture. It is defined as a motivated retaliation against an offense or wrongdoing perceived as harmful or a violation of moral norms. Previous psychological research views revenge as an expressive action done for personal satisfaction.
Muhammad Asif, Fayaz Muhammad, Matthew Light, Hina Fazal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The literary work of Ismail Abayev (Izmail-Bey) as a source for the ethnography of the Balkarians (based on the materials of the newspaper "Volny gorets")

Кавказология
The article examines ethnographic plots in the published, but previously unexplored literary works of the first, essentially, Balkar prose writer Ismail Kaitukovich Abaev, characterizing various aspects of the traditional everyday life of the Balkar ...
Khakim K. Gegrayev, Khakim K. Gegrayev
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Spartan Daily, October 2, 1990 [PDF]

, 1990
Volume 95, Issue 22https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/8022/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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What Can the State of Nature Justify?

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Feminism and Peacebuilding in Bangsamoro: Redefining Women's Empowerment Beyond Liberal Norms

Peace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Islamic feminism as a culturally grounded framework for women's empowerment and peacebuilding in post‐conflict Bangsamoro, Philippines. Global empowerment frameworks tend to prioritize individual autonomy and universal gender equality but often overlook the sociocultural and religious contexts shaping women's lived ...
Haironesah Domado
wiley   +1 more source

The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation [PDF]

, 2002
Transporting the passionate instinctual world of rural Andalusia onto the cold rational terrain of modern-day England would seem to be a feat fraught with difficulties.
Bennett, Karen
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Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime, Valeria Tapia Cruz, Mairi Cowan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book review – The Pathan Unarmed [PDF]

, 2017
Book review of The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition and Memory in the North West Frontier by Mukulika Banerjee from Oxford University Press 2001 238pp. This review is reproduced with permission from Bloomsbury Pakistan (www.bloomsburypakistan.org)
Lindholm, Charles
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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source

"عرب عہدِ جاہلیت میں ’’طلاق‘‘ کا تصور ۔۔۔ تحقیقی جائزہ A scholarly review of the Arab Conception of Divorce in the Days of ignorance "

الإيضاح, 2017
"Conjugal life is an important aspect of human society, on which a prosperous life depends. Almost every Culture, civilization and religion Legislate for family life.
Aurangzeb
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