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Applying Anthropology to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 195-205, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, we review how anthropologies from various subdisciplines, from social to evolutionary anthropology, are contributing to our understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). We focus on four key questions: What are the origins of FGM/C? What functions and meanings are linked to FGM/C?
Hannelore Van Bavel, Mhairi A. Gibson
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Suriye'de Aleviler (Nusayrîler)
Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies, 2019 M. C. Meşkûr ve H. Ğ. İsfahânî’nin tercümesini sunduğumuz “Suriye’de Alevîlik” isimli makalesi şu başlıklar ile konuyu ele almaktadır: Şiî Ricâl Eserlerinde Muhammed b.
Şahin Ahmetoğlu +1 more
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract The increased reliance on remote warfare by US‐led military coalitions presents us with questions of “what war is” and “how to know about war” in the 21st century. In this article we substantiate calls for an embodied epistemology of war by introducing a transdisciplinary research agenda to investigate the temporal and spatial civilian harm ...
Lauren Gould +3 more
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Pure‐istan: Gender and Genocide in Pakistan
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines the ongoing genocidal violence against the Baloch nation. It highlights how the Pakistani state has weaponized Islamic doctrine to construct a vision of a homogenized, “purer, more Islamic state” that excludes and others those deemed incompatible with its vision of purity. This logic of purification is deeply gendered.
Bramsh Khan
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Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how an inclusive public sphere was constructed at Erenler, a literary coffeehouse in 1980s Istanbul, amid Turkey's post‐coup authoritarian climate and deepening ideological fragmentation. In the aftermath of the military coup, a period marked by traumatic depoliticization and the suppression of public sphere, Erenler ...
Ahmet Uysal +2 more
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Reflecting on Prejudice Research: Considering Participants' Feedback
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Prejudice is a major worldwide problem fuelling discrimination and conflict in everyday life. In mainstream psychological and social science research, many prejudice researchers test theoretical propositions using standard (survey) questions.
Maykel Verkuyten
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The National Muslim Forum Nepal: Experiences of Conflict, Formations of Identity
, 2013 With Nepal\u27s recent transition to state secularism, the politicization of Muslim religious identity has emerged with increasing vitality. One particular pan-Nepali Muslim organization, the Rastriya Muslim Mane Nepal (National Muslim Forum Nepal ...
Instituto agrícola Murciano de San Isidro +1 more
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Religion and Official Politics in Contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT With increasing discussions on political deification and the official references to traditional religions in the People's Republic of China (PRC), recent debates on the PRC's alleged infiltration over Taiwan elections through the goddess Mazu, and the post‐Handover government's emphasis on filiality to China in Hong Kong, it is high time to ...
Ting Guo
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Journal Of Babylon Center For Humanities Studies, 2014 Thinkers study represents an important and essential element for understanding the history of peoples because of their relationship to various political, economic and social fields, the fact that some of these characters has visions of intellectual and ...
Marwa Salim Habib مروة سليم حبيب +1 more
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