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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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The Culture of Qalandar Pakhivas Community of Lahore: A Case of Marginalisation
IAFOR Journal of Cultural StudiesThe Qalandar Pakhivas, a native ethnic minority from central Punjab, Pakistan, is one of Lahore’s sixteen remaining Pakhivas (gypsy) communities. They are now confronted with discrimination from more affluent neighbourhoods and the urban authorities ...
Naeema Arch’ad
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Čávátka tachtěte suvel aneb lexikální romismy ve „světském“ argotu [PDF]
Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2018 An argot is a secret language used by various groups to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. Romani knowledge among non-Romani is very rare, so the Romani language, being incomprehensible to a person belonging to the majority ...
René Starhon
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Management of invasive Allee species [PDF]
, 2017 In this study, we use a discrete, two-patch population model of an Allee species to examine different methods in managing invasions. We first analytically examine the model to show the presence of the strong Allee effect, and then we numerically explore ...
Chan, David, Johnson, D. M., Kent, C. M.
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LTR-retrotransposons in R. exoculata and other crustaceans [PDF]
, 2013 Transposable elements are major constituents of eukaryote genomes and have a great impact on genome structure and stability. They can contribute to the genetic diversity and evolution of organisms. Knowledge of their distribution among several genomes is
Bonnivard, Eric +5 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Cabás, 2015 (ES) Si poca atención y publicaciones se han prestado al tema de la historia de los gitanos españoles, menos aún a la historia de su escolarización y educación en estos seis siglos de conciudadanía accidentada.
Jesús Salinas Catalá
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THE ‘OTHERS’ OF TENT CITIES: Reconstruction of Social Order Through Emotions
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Following the earthquakes in Türkiye on 6 February 2023, survivors continued their daily lives in tent cities, which emerged as a new heterotopic space where the boundaries between public and private spheres became intertwined. The transition from one's own ‘castle’ to a communal living space filled with uncertainties has heightened the ...
Handan Akyigit +4 more
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