American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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In the shadow of the tree: The diagrammatics of relatedness in genealogy, anthropology, and genetics as epistemic, cultural, and political practice. [PDF]
Hist Human SciSommer M +3 more
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Achieving Gender Equality in a Plural Legal Context: Custom and Women\u27s Access to and Control of Land in Keny [PDF]
, 2000 Nyamu, Celestine Itumbi
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Anthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.Abstract This paper brings together two brilliant analysts of social encounters, Jane Austen and Erving Goffman. It proceeds by applying some of Goffman's terms for face‐to‐face interactions to several scenes from Austen's novels in which characters try to extract information from others while preventing others from extracting information from them. In
Richard Handler
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Four-year follow-up of CHARM2, an effective family planning intervention, on number and sex of births: Findings from an RCT in rural India. [PDF]
Dialogues HealthRaj A +5 more
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Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract This paper revisits the Tunisian 2010–2011 uprising and its ensuing decade of agrarian contention as a crisis of social reproduction stemming from the combined effects of depletion and dispossession. It traces the lineages of the grievances that continue to animate the Tunisian countryside to the multiple and often enmeshed labours—both ...
Dhouha Djerbi
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A study on early marriages and pregnancy health in the South-Eastern region of Türkiye. [PDF]
BMC Womens HealthYakit Ak E, Şen MA, Tandoğan Ö.
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Labour Abroad as a Struggle for Land: Young Migrants’ Dream of a Rural Return to Myanmar
Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines land struggles that take place outside of the land in question, in order to show that rural youth continue to have an interest in rural and agrarian life despite out‐migration. Through life‐story interviews and photovoices with young Myanmar migrants in Thailand's agriculture and tourism sectors, the article shows how ...
Sofie Mortensen
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Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education. [PDF]
CBE Life Sci EducDa Silva SM, Hubbard K.
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Women\u27s Legal Right of Access to Agricultural Resources in Africa: A Preliminary Inquiry [PDF]
, 1991 Butegwa, Florence
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