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Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source

Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept

open access: yesLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This paper introduces the special issue of Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, entitled “Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept”, edited by Aimée Lahaussois, Julie Marsault and Yvonne Treis.
Julie Marsault   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Le « Rassemblement féminin » (1945-1951) : à la croisée des différents réseaux de Paulette Nardal

open access: yesFlamme, 2021
Cette étude exploratoire propose d’interroger l’interconnexion des différents réseaux dans lesquels les sœurs Nardal évoluent, en particulier l’aînée, Paulette Nardal : ceux « hérités » de sa mère Louise Nardal, ceux constitués à Paris dans l’entre-deux ...
Clara Palmiste
doaj   +1 more source

Nature's Ambiguous Sex: The Body as a Feminist Resource in German Naturism Around 1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While gender relations around 1900 were generally marked by sharp dichotomies grounded in nature and the body, the case of naturism appears paradoxical. An influential movement in Germany, it promoted a reform of the body according to natural principles.
Johannes Bosch
wiley   +1 more source

Le fait divers suicidaire dans les hebdomadaires populaires québécois (1927-1940) : un « crime » moins tabou qu’il n’y paraît

open access: yesCriminologie, 2018
Cet article documente les pratiques discursives à l’égard du geste suicidaire dans les premiers tabloïds hebdomadaires parus au Québec dans le second quart du 20e siècle.
Alexandre Pelletier-Audet
doaj   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
wiley   +1 more source

Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Technoscientific Internationalism: Hungarian Engineers, International Associations and the Global Cold War (1950s–80s)

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract From the mid‐1950s onward, Hungarian engineers became deeply involved in the rapidly expanding technoscientific internationalism of the period, notably through their participation in several international scholarly associations devoted to both scientific and technical disciplines.
Jules Siran
wiley   +1 more source

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