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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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The genealogy of the king of Scots as charter and panegyric [PDF]
, 2019 When we think of genealogies in medieval Scotland our minds might turn at once to Gaelic, the Celtic language that was spoken in the Middle Ages from the southern tip of Ireland to the northernmost coast of Scotland. This is not unnatural.
Broun, Dauvit
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Tree-valued Fleming-Viot dynamics with mutation and selection
, 2012 The Fleming-Viot measure-valued diffusion is a Markov process describing the evolution of (allelic) types under mutation, selection and random reproduction.
Depperschmidt, Andrej +2 more
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Human Rights and Biopolitics between Sovereign Power, Domination and Genealogies [PDF]
, 2017 In Homo Sacer Agamben proposes a vision of politics as biopolitics since its Greek origins. While this new awareness becomes the conceptual domain in which re-interpret some political categories, at the same time it shows how sovereign power, in this ...
Castellani, Domenico
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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma +2 more
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Rashid al-Din. Shu’ab-i panjganah. 2. The Mongols and Turks (1) » [PDF]
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2016 Research objectives and materials: The “Shu’ab-i panjganah” is a Persian manuscript of Rashid al-Din’s works – the medieval historian who lived in Persia and worked at the Ilkhanid court at the end of the 13th – beginning of the 14th centuries.
Chulpan I. Khamidova
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KINSHIP AND HISTORY: TRIBES, GENEALOGIES, AND SOCIAL CHANGE AMONG THE BEDOUIN OF THE EASTERN ARAB WORLD [PDF]
, 2019 Most scholars of tribal organization among the Bedouin of the eastern Arab world utilize a two-dimensional, hierarchical model of Bedouin kinship that represents only relations of descent and affinity. This model resembles a genealogy and shows how small
Young, William C
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'Genealogical misfortunes': Achille Mbembe's (re-)writing of postcolonial Africa [PDF]
, 2012 In his latest work, Sortir de la grande nuit, the Cameroonian social theorist, Achille Mbembe nuances his description of the ontological status of the postcolonial African subject, which he had theorized extensively in his best-known text, On the ...
Derrida Jacques +6 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
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O Método Genealógico Nietzschiano e sua aplicabilidade para a Ciência do Direito
Revista Interdisciplinar de Direito, 2017 This research aims to show the genealogical method by Nietzsche as a propose of overcoming of the classic positivism method, because this method still has important application in Brazilian Law.The genealogical method allows to analyze historical basis ...
Thiago Rodrigues Pereira
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