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Les termes de référence de cette conférence ont rappelé l’importance majeure des cultures pérennes pour de nombreux pays en développement. Cette importance n’est pas seulement économique.
Charlery De La Masseliere Bernard
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Orientalism and the puzzle of the Aryan invasion theory [PDF]
The origin of the Aryan invasion theory (AIT) is generally located in the discovery of the Indo-European and Dravidian language families. However, these discoveries cannot account for the emergence of the AIT, because the postulation of the invasion ...
De Roover, Jakob, Keppens, Marianne
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Housing Since 1945: The Impact of Policy Change and Ideology
Abstract Housing policy in England has undergone significant reform on several occasions since 1945. Consensus approaches in the late 1940s and 50s to build large numbers of council houses and new private homes gave way to more ideologically driven policies in the 1970s and 80s.
Tony Travers
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Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris +4 more
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Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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Parcours (à la loupe) d’un artiste en perspective.
Marianne Le Blanc est maître de conférences en histoire de l’art à Paris 10 Nanterre, spécialiste de l’art français du 17 e siècle. Les Éditions du CNRS publient d’elle un ouvrage concernant l’aqua-fortiste protestant bien connu, Abraham Bosse, dont les ...
Yveline Lévy-Piarroux
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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925
Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
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