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Travelling the Two‐Way Street: Disrupting Colonial History

New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using examples from the historical narratives about Kainai (Blackfoot Confederacy) painter Gerald Tailfeathers, this chapter challenges colonial narratives in Canadian history and historiography. Inspired by the author's participation in a Disrupting interview, the chapter explores both the author's personal history with colonial histories and
Kirk Niergarth
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Introduction : human rights and legal pluralism : four research agendas [PDF]

, 2017
In this volume, we interrogate how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in contexts of legal pluralism, and influence interactions that are subject to regulation by more than one normative regime.
Corradi, Giselle
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LAND AND GENDER IN MATRILINEAL TIMOR-LESTE [PDF]

, 2012
There are few groups’ followers of the matrilineal system in the world but they are present in all continents, except in Europe. In Timor-Leste, the matrilineal organization social system is found among 3 ethno-linguistic groups and seems that, in spite ...
Henriques, Pedro Damião de Sousa, Narciso, Vanda, Tilman, Mário   +2 more
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The Politics of Changes in Housing Supply and Tenure: Illustrations from Australia and the Netherlands

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Almost regardless of the welfare system and market context, the changing housing landscapes in Western countries show a number of similar trends. Households are confronted with decreasing access to homeownership and social renting, and increased reliance on private renting in combination with growing housing shortages and housing affordability
Marietta Haffner, Kath Hulse
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ART DECO PUBLIC GARDEN REHABILITATION

Sculpture, Monuments and Open Space, EarlyView.
Edward Hamm
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Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In coastal Bangladesh, ‘affective assemblages of kinship’ produce differential abilities for landless single mothers to migrate to brick kilns, the garment industry, and the Gulf. This group of women who return to their natal homes as a response to violence or abandonment is neglected by anthropologists of kinship and migration. Thinking of assemblages
Camelia Dewan
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LAND OWNERSHIP PATTERNS AND THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF WOMEN: A STUDY OF OZALLA COMMUNITY, EDO STATE, NIGERIA [PDF]

, 2009
This study was carried out in Ozalla community, Edo State, Nigeria, which is an area that is rural and agrarian and where the level of literacy is quite low.
Iruonagbe, C. T.
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Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries [PDF]

women, assets, gender inequality, marital regimes, inheritance, land, Latin America, Africa ...
Deere, Carmen Diana, Doss, Cheryl R.
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The economic position of Beti widows, past and present [PDF]

, 1979
African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Guyer, Jane I.
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